Media coverage of nationwide 2020s political races in The Washington Post


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Abortion     Tiffany Smiley: Keeping your child shouldn't be a ticket to poverty.     Glenn Youngkin: Protect the life of every Virginia child born and unborn.     Glenn Youngkin: My religion teaches me protect life before and after.

Budget & Economy     Alex Padilla: These aren't stimulus checks; they're basic survival checks.     Lee Carter: Put economic power into the hands of working people.

Civil Rights     Joe Biden: 1970s: Desegregating society ok, but not via school busing.     John B. King: Great-grandfather enslaved; must grapple with racial equity.

Crime     Joe Biden: 1990s: Supported tough-on-crime; 2019:considers those racist.     Ketanji Brown Jackson: Pushed to commute uncle's sentence under "three strikes" law.

Education     Joe Biden: 1970s: outspoken Senate critic of school desegregation.     John B. King: Expand education access; seek universal preschool.

Environment     Scott Pruitt: As state AG sued to block Obama's Clean Power Plan.

Families & Children     Elizabeth Warren: Real money into schools & housing, to fight child poverty.     Joe Biden: Focus on our children, to address child poverty.     Ketanji Brown Jackson: 2018: Keep Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program.     Scott Parkinson: Focus on parental rights in education.

Foreign Policy     Joe Biden: $750M to Central America to address root cause of migration.     Joe Biden: Revive Alliance for Prosperity with Central America.

Government Reform     Alex Padilla: Yes to expanding Supreme Court; not sure on term limits.     Bernie Sanders: Wealthy donors turn their backs on working families.     David Perdue: OpEd: Refusal to debate seemed lordly and dismissive.     Elizabeth Warren: FactCheck: prolific past presence with high-dollar donors.     Kristi Noem: Summoned employee who denied daughter's license.     Val Demings: Members of extremist groups shouldn't be in police, military.     Jennifer McClellan: Worked to create Virginia Voting Rights Act.     Justin Fairfax: Opponents accepted "false" accusation, no due process.     Amanda Chase: If Trump not made president, declare martial law.

Gun Control     Creigh Deeds: Postpone ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.     Ralph Northam: Ban assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines.     Terry McAuliffe: Promises to ban assault rifles and high-capacity magazines.     Glenn Youngkin: Against red flag laws, universal background checks.

Health Care     Alex Padilla: We've got to better support our health care infrastructure.     Howard Schultz: Single-payer health care is a false promise.     Justin Fairfax: Cast tiebreaking vote for Medicaid expansion.

Immigration     Howard Schultz: Hire 10,000 refugees from Trump's Muslim-ban countries.     Joe Biden: Focus on refugee asylum seekers at home in Northern Triangle.

Principles & Values     Alex Lasry: Being on the right side of history isn't bad for business.     Alex Padilla: What drives my public service passion are issues of equity.     Bill Weld: All states should hold primaries, not just re-nominate Trump.     Danielle Allen: Will bring experience from academia to governing.     Jeff Flake: Without principled fidelity to truth, democracy won't last.     Jeff Flake: Today's GOP: where there's no greater offense than honesty.     Jeff Flake: We did not become a great nation by espousing nonsense.     Joe Walsh: All states should hold primaries, not just re-nominate Trump.     Justin Amash: Father immigrated as Palestinian refugee.     Justin Amash: I've disenchanted and frightened by hyperpartisanship.     Justin Amash: Leaving the Republican Party to avoid partisan death spiral.     Mark Sanford: All states should hold primaries, not just re-nominate Trump.     Pete Buttigieg: Supports religious values and separation of church and state.     Val Demings: Being unified nation doesn't mean giving up beliefs.     Jennifer Carroll Foy: I don't have to empathize, because I understand.     Ronald Reagan: 1965: Far right Birchers infiltrated by "lunatic fringe".     Angela Alsobrooks: Endorsed by EMILY's list for pro-choice women.

Tax Reform     JD Vance:  Eliminate SALT deduction: it's massively redistributive.

Technology     Mike Pence: Adversaries have weaponized space; solution is Space Force.

Welfare & Poverty     Amy Klobuchar: Eradicate child poverty in a generation.     Andrew Yang: Disentangle economic value and human value.     Ketanji Brown Jackson: Continue pandemic-related eviction moratorium.     Pete Buttigieg: Dow Jones doesn't measure performance of economy.     Tom Steyer: Think much more ambitiously about poverty and how to end it.

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