2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senatorial race: debates and news coverage


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Abortion     Raphael Warnock: Pro-choice: focused on infant and maternal mortality.     Doug Collins: Co-sponsored bill giving legal protections to unborn.     Kelly Loeffler: Co-sponsored four bills to protect the unborn.     Raphael Warnock: A decision between a woman and her doctor.     Allen Buckley: No regulations or funding regarding abortion.     Kelly Loeffler: Fierce opponent of abortion.     Kelly Loeffler: Would support legislation to limit abortions.     Derrick Grayson: Life begins at conception.     Derrick Grayson: Will fight any taxpayer funding, let charity pay for it.     Matt Lieberman: In campaign announcement, came out as pro-choice.     Tom Price: Co-sponsored Right to Life Act, protecting zygotes.     Tom Price: For Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.     Tom Price: Opposed to free birth control on religious grounds.     Tom Price: Would allow firing workers for birth control, abortion.

Budget & Economy     Kelly Loeffler: COVID: Brought $47 billion to help Georgia jobs, businesses.     Raphael Warnock: Need to invest in infrastructure, green energy jobs.     Raphael Warnock: All Americans deserve prosperity.     Kelly Loeffler: COVID: We need to reopen our economy.     Kelly Loeffler: COVID: No bailout to "blue states" for socialist policies.     Kelly Loeffler: Cut regulations; encourage investment; lower taxes.     Raphael Warnock: Social safety net is unique work of government.     Raphael Warnock: A stimulus package must help working people, not just rich.     Kelly Loeffler: Support record economic growth, job creation under Trump.     Tom Price: Stimulus package favors Democratic projects.     Tom Price: Deficits created by stimulus threatens economic stability.

Civil Rights     Doug Collins: Against Equality Act (discrimination by sexual orientation).     Kelly Loeffler: Allow discrimination against LGBTQ for religious reasons.     Raphael Warnock: Protect LGBTQ+ from housing, financial, job discrimination.     Raphael Warnock: Fraud almost nonexistent; really about voter suppression.     Kelly Loeffler: Black Lives Matter is "anti-Semitic" and anti-family.     Kelly Loeffler: Anger over Floyd murder justifiable; destruction is not.     Raphael Warnock: Nexus of taken a wrecking ball to African Americans.     Kelly Loeffler: Supports religious liberty policy seen as discriminatory.     Derrick Grayson: Government should be involved in marriage, civil unions.     Matt Lieberman: Supports same-day voter registration & Election Day holiday.     Matt Lieberman: Concerned with "problems" in voting.     Matt Lieberman: We need a Voting Rights Act for the 21st century.     Tom Price: Against LGBT rights, same-sex marriage.     Tom Price: Would allow LGBT discrimination under civil rights laws.     Michelle Nunn: Equality, ending gender-based violence can transform world.     Tom Price: Supports football coaches proselytizing at high school.

Corporations     Valencia Stovall: Lower corporate taxes; and COVD bailout for businesses.

Crime     Kelly Loeffler: No place for racism, but fighting for well-funded police.     Raphael Warnock: You can affirm what officers do; hold them accountable.     Doug Collins: Opposes defunding or "wholesale condemnation" of police.     Kelly Loeffler: Co-sponsored "Back the Blue" resolutions, opposes defunding.     Raphael Warnock: Police accountability and bias training, against defunding.     Kelly Loeffler: Got to address lawlessness overtaking America's streets.     Raphael Warnock: We have to continue to push back against police brutality.     Kelly Loeffler: Cut highway dollars to any state reducing police funding.     Raphael Warnock: Mass incarceration a scar on the soul of America.     Raphael Warnock: Reform is personal, older brother sentenced to life.     Raphael Warnock: Mass incarceration about segregation, loss of voting rights.     Ed Tarver: Tough on violent drug dealers and fraudsters.

Drugs     Doug Collins: Marijuana: let states legalize, against federal legalization.     Kelly Loeffler: Marijuana: concerned about negative effects of legalization.     Raphael Warnock: Marijuana: wants to decriminalize.     Kelly Loeffler: Stiffer penalties for deceptively trafficking in fentanyl.     Ed Tarver: Against long prison terms for nonviolent, addicted prisoners.     Tom Price: Criticized for comments on opioid addiction treatment.     Tom Price: Opposes needle exchange programs.     Allen Buckley: End Federal illicit drug regulations.     Tom Price: Co-signs support letter to free states to act on marijuana.

Education     Kelly Loeffler: Make sure that we protect school choice.     Doug Collins: Voted for DC voucher program for private schools.     Doug Collins: Co-sponsored education bill eliminating loan forgiveness.     Kelly Loeffler: Funding for low-income students for public, private schools.     Raphael Warnock: Fully fund Pell Grants, strengthen loan forgiveness.     Derrick Grayson: Taking God out of schools eliminated moral compass for many.     Tom Price: Allow state agencies to control Head Start funding.

Energy & Oil     Doug Collins: Co-sponsored bills to end EPA renewable fuel program.     Raphael Warnock: Climate change is here, way past time to get serious.     Valencia Stovall: Federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.     Kelly Loeffler: Insidious socialism like Green New Deal attacks liberty.     Matt Lieberman: Net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Environment     Doug Collins: Co-sponsored Stopping EPA Overreach Act.     Raphael Warnock: Environmental justice is on the ballot.     Valencia Stovall: Global Stewardship for sustainable practices.     Allen Buckley: Preserve the EPA within bounds of statutory rights.

Foreign Policy     Kelly Loeffler: Supported moving US Embassy to Jerusalem.     Doug Collins: Going to stand with America against China.     Matt Lieberman: Strong supporter of Israel & two-state solution.     Matt Lieberman: We should be sticking by our allies.     Matt Lieberman: Will abide by ethics rules concerning father's lobbying work.

Free Trade     Valencia Stovall: Remove tariffs and quotas, but focus on fair trade.     Kelly Loeffler: Co-sponsored the BEAT CHINA Act on medical manufacturing.     Kelly Loeffler: Hopes trade war challenges can be resolved soon.     Michelle Nunn: Trade impacting international cooperation on other issues.

Government Reform     Kelly Loeffler: Issues in the election; Georgians must trust process.     Kelly Loeffler: Denounce violence; hold election officials accountable.     Kelly Loeffler: Trump has right to challenge election results.     Raphael Warnock: Voter suppression happens all across the country.     Raphael Warnock: Four greatest words in democracy: "The people have spoken".     Raphael Warnock: Will work to pass John Lewis Voting Rights Act.     Doug Collins: Opposed voting rights bill as unconstitutional.     Kelly Loeffler: Raise penalties for voter fraud, ballot harvesting.     Raphael Warnock: Restore oversight provisions of Voting Rights Act.     Valencia Stovall: Federal education standards; our system is outdated.     Kelly Loeffler: Condemned Pelosi for Commission on President Capacity.     Raphael Warnock: Restore Federal election oversight under Voting Rights Act.     Matt Lieberman: Protect voters whose rights are endangered by local laws.     Tom Price: Healthcare regulation leading some to leave the field.     Tom Price: Regulators should be teammates and allies to business.

Gun Control     Doug Collins: Allow concealed firearm carry across state lines.     Kelly Loeffler: Sponsored bill barring national firearm database.     Raphael Warnock: Answer to gun violence isn't masses of people carrying guns.     Raphael Warnock: Guns not allowed in Capitol, but allowed in our schools?     Valencia Stovall: Right to own guns, but not high powered weapons.     Allen Buckley: Uphold the Second Amendment with background checks.     Kelly Loeffler: Defend the Second Amendment.     Matt Lieberman: In campaign announcement, came out as pro-gun control.     Matt Lieberman: For assault rifle ban & background checks.     Tom Price: Gun ownership protects those at scene of crime.     Jason Carter: Let local communities decide if teachers can be armed.

Health Care     Raphael Warnock: Arrested in 2014 when GA refused to expand Medicaid.     Raphael Warnock: AdWatch: Don't get rid of healthcare in middle of a pandemic.     Doug Collins: Voted more than 50 times to repeal the ACA.     Doug Collins: COVID: Trump saved lives, getting our economy back.     Kelly Loeffler: End ACA: Medicare for All is an attack on liberty.     Kelly Loeffler: COVID: Trump took threat seriously from the beginning.     Raphael Warnock: Protect, improve, build upon the Affordable Care Act.     Raphael Warnock: COVID: We need leadership that believes in science.     Valencia Stovall: Supports ObamaCare, and bailouts during public health crises.     Kelly Loeffler: Against Medicare for All, use free market solutions.     Kelly Loeffler: Reduce regulation, increase competition, cut waste.     Kelly Loeffler: For nursing homes, we need tort reform & to cut regulations.     Raphael Warnock: Expand Medicaid, protect Medicare.     Raphael Warnock: Allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices.     Raphael Warnock: Expand Medicaid to help with long-term care services.     Raphael Warnock: COVID: Crisis handled like country with no resources at all.     Kelly Loeffler: Insidious socialism like Medicare-for-All attacks liberty.     Kelly Loeffler: Supports overhaul of Medicaid in Georgia.     Matt Lieberman: Expand ObamaCare; add public option.     Tom Price: Forced out of HHS for travel expenses.     Allen Buckley: Eliminate premiums; raise coinsurance contribution.     Jason Carter: ObamaCare a "mess" that needs fixing.

Homeland Security     Kelly Loeffler: Voted for Defense bill renaming bases honoring Confederates.     Valencia Stovall: Increase defense spending with accountability.     Allen Buckley: Reduce excessive foreign military bases.

Immigration     Doug Collins: Co-sponsored Build the Wall, Enforce the Law Act.     Kelly Loeffler: Co-sponsored Asylum Abuse Reduction Act.     Raphael Warnock: Jesus was an "undocumented immigrant".     Valencia Stovall: Construct wall on Mexican border; then rolling legalization.     Kelly Loeffler: Supports building border wall.     Michelle Nunn: Un-American travel ban hurts refugees & US standing in world.

Jobs     Doug Collins: Co-sponsored National Right-to-Work Act.     Doug Collins: Voted against raising the minimum wage to $15.     Kelly Loeffler: Co-sponsored National Right-to-Work Act.     Raphael Warnock: Supports pay equity with honest wages, fair overtime.     Raphael Warnock: $7.25 an hour "is not a living wage".

Principles & Values     Kelly Loeffler: First in my family to graduate from college.     Kelly Loeffler: I'm a Christian: a person of deep faith.     Kelly Loeffler: Conservative values matter: uphold the Constitution.     Raphael Warnock: My whole life is about service; Senate would continue that.     Raphael Warnock: Washington is not focused on ordinary people.     Raphael Warnock: Have a moral foundation for everything that we do.     Raphael Warnock: I'm a Matthew 25 Christian: love your neighbor.     Kelly Loeffler: WNBA players endorsing opponent is "cancel culture".     Kelly Loeffler: Donated maximum $2800 to Trump recount fund.     Kelly Loeffler: Atlanta's "most expensive real estate transaction ever".     Kelly Loeffler: Endorsed QAnon candidate for fighting "radical left".     Raphael Warnock: America at its highest: equal voting, health care, education.     Matt Lieberman: Don't wait for a miracle; we must make changes.     Allen Buckley: Absolute separation of church and state.     Raphael Warnock: 2008: Joined black pastors defending controversial sermons.     Ed Tarver: In the Army, it was about serving "one nation".     Doug Collins: Impeachment smeared a president who put America first.     Kelly Loeffler: Will abide by Senate ethics rules, won't address conflicts.     Doug Collins: Impeachment started with tears in Brooklyn in 2016.     Matt Lieberman: Will "err on the side of propriety".     Jason Carter: Comfortable talking about his religious faith.

Social Security     Kelly Loeffler: Don't privatize, but address long-term solvency.     Raphael Warnock: Opposes raising retirement age or privatizing benefits.     Tom Price: Supports major cutbacks to Social Security.     Allen Buckley: Raise retirement to age 70 to save Social Security.

Tax Reform     Jason Carter: Step up investment in pursuing tax cheats.     Jason Carter: Discuss regional sales tax to deal with local issues.

Technology     Kelly Loeffler: We can figure out getting broadband to rural areas.

War & Peace     Doug Collins: Claimed Democrats "in love with terrorists," then apologized.     Matt Lieberman: Against rejoining Iran Deal until better deal made.     Matt Lieberman: Iran nuclear deal could have been better.     Allen Buckley: Involvement in Iraq hurt the US domestically.

Welfare & Poverty     Raphael Warnock: Created community financial literacy center.     Raphael Warnock: COVID exacerbates inequality in economics & health care.

Click for quotations from other sources by: Allen Buckley Libertarian Senate challenger Georgia Derrick Grayson Republican Senate candidate Georgia Doug Collins Republican challenger for 2-year special election Georgia Ed Tarver Democratic GA-2 Senate Challenger Georgia Jason Carter Georgia Democratic Gubernatorial Challenger Kelly Loeffler Republican Jr Senator Georgia Matt Lieberman Democratic challenger for 2-year special election Georgia Michelle Nunn Former Democratic Challenger Georgia Raphael Warnock Democratic Challenger Georgia Tom Price Georgia Secretary of Health and Human Services-2017 Valencia Stovall Independent challenger for 2-year special election Georgia