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Chelsea Manning: Expand healthcare to include prisoners & transgenders

"Health-care is something that prisoners have a right to," Manning said, when asked why taxpayers should cover the cost of hormone therapy, going on to explain that "trans health-care is necessary because if we don't get our treatment, we die."
Source: The Daily Beast on 2018 Maryland Senate race May 16, 2017

Joe Biden: Supports national mask mandate

[In his ABC Town Hall interview, president Trump was asked about a national mask mandate; then Joe Biden responded by Twitter]:

TRUMP: They said at the Democrat convention they're going to do a national mandate. They never did it, because they've checked out and they didn't do it. And a good question is, you ask why Joe Biden--they said we're going to do a national mandate on masks. But he didn't do it. He never did it.

BIDEN (on Twitter): "To be clear: I am not currently president."

Source: Daily Beast/Twitter posting on ABC This Week 2020 Town Hall Sep 15, 2020

Mike Pence: Smoking doesn't kill; 90% of smokers don't get lung cancer

On public health: "Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill. In fact, two out of every three smokers do not die from a smoking-related illness and nine out of 10 smokers do not contract lung cancer," Pence said in 2000. Additionally, Pence has advocated teaching creationism in American public schools and, as governor of Indiana, had an HIV outbreak explode on his watch because he moved too slowly on approving needle exchanges.
Source: The Daily Beast on 2020 Veepstakes Feb 26, 2020

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Carly Fiorina(CA)
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Sen.Lindsey Graham(SC)
Gov.Mike Huckabee(AR)
Gov.Bobby Jindal(LA)
Gov.John Kasich(OH)
Gov.Sarah Palin(AK)
Gov.George Pataki(NY)
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Donald Trump(NY)
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Secy.Hillary Clinton(NY)
V.P.Joe Biden(DE)
Gov.Martin O`Malley(MD)
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Sen.Elizabeth Warren(MA)
Sen.Jim Webb(VA)

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Gov.Gary Johnson(L-NM)
Roseanne Barr(PF-HI)
Robert Steele(L-NY)
Dr.Jill Stein(G,MA)
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