VOTE SMART PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT?
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Bobby Jindal (Governor)
REPUBLICA, Louisiana governor
Abortion: He opposes all abortions without exception
Education: Jindal has proposed budgets that impose cuts on higher education
Environment: Jindal has issued an executive order increasing office recycling programs
Same Sex Marriage: Jindal opposes the legalization of same-sex marriage.
Guns: Jindal has stated his support of the Second Amendment's right to bear arms ( opposed efforts to restrict gun rights )
Healthcare: He opposes a federal government run, single-payer system, but supports state efforts to reduce the uninsured population.
Immigration: As a son of immigrants, Jindal has stated that legal immigration brings many benefits to the United States
Capital Punishment: Supports the death penalty
Jeb bush ( former Governor)
Education: Favors vouchers for parents who choose to send their kids to private schools
Same-Sex Marriage: supports gay marriage
Capital Punishment: An advocate of capital punishment.
Climate Change: Bush believes the country should make changes to improve the environment.
Social Security: Jeb Bush made an argument against privatization.
marijuana: Mandatory prison sentences for drug offenses.
Donald trump( businessman)
security/liberties: “I don’t like people like (Edward Snowden) because there could be a national security concern, and there probably is,” he said
Social Security: Let people invest their own retirement funds
Trade He strongly opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, calling it “an attack on America’s business”
Abortion: he is very "pro-life"
Capital punishment: he thinks that Capital punishment isn’t uncivilized;
marijuana Supports medical marijuana
Environment He is less outspoken on other environmental issues,
Immigration issues He opposes efforts to grant legal status to undocumented immigrants, calling that a “suicide mission” for Republicans because “every one of those 11 million people will be voting Democratic.”
Joe Biden ( Vice President)
As vice president, Biden has focused largely on economic and foreign policies issues
- supports strong measures to increase border security
- supports legalization of the sex marriage
in 1965, he graduates from the university of Delaware with a double major in history and political science
At the age 29 he became one of the youngest people elected to the united states senate
Abortion: Pro-choice;
Guns: Supports gun control
Healthcare: Senator Biden supported the interests of the American Public Health Association
Capital Punishment: Supports capital punishment
Climate Change: believes There is a need
Marijuana: advocates to be used as a medicine
Hillary Clinton ( US Secretary Of State)
(Born October 26, 1947) Secretary of State. Former New York Senator and candidate for president. Democrat
Abortion: NASAL Pro-Choice America in political action to oppose restrictions on abortion and expand access to abortion.
Education: encourage fringe groups to demand government cash to run their schools. Source
Capital punishment: Advocates the death penalty.
Health care: She supported the interests of the American Public Health Association
Gun control:: Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Minimum wage: Favors increasing the minimum wage
Social Security: In her address to the 2000 Democratic National Convention on August 14, 2000, she stressed her support for the social programs such as Social Security and Medicare
Marijuana: Does not favor legalizing medical marijuana at this point.
Climate Change: Clinton supports cap-and-trade
Bernie Sanders (US Senator )
· US Senate after winning re-election in 2012 with 71 percent of the vote.
· Sanders previously served as mayor of Vermont’s largest city for eight years
· He lives in Burlington, Vermont with his wife Jane and has four children and seven grandchildren.
· a Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), officer in the 1960s
March 2010 · U.S. Senate after winning re-election in 2012 with 71 percent of the vote.Obama signs into law the Affordable Care Act with a major Sanders provision to expand federally qualified community health centers.
JULY 2010 Sanders works to pass a measure as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill to audit the Federal Reserve, revealing how the independent agency gave $16 trillion in near zero-interest loans to big banks and businesses after the 2008 economic collapse.
DECEMBER 2012 Sanders becomes chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee.Sanders, backed by seniors, women, veterans, labor unions and disabled Americans leads a successful effort to stop a “chained-CPI”
Immigration: Generally opposes immigrant workers entering the US