"If you are over the age of 18, it’s time to start thinking about who you’re going the be voting for in this upcoming 2020 election."
-Shayna Barzell- Weber
The 2020 presidential election is expected to be pretty heated and there are many candidates to choose from, Twenty are from the democratic party, and two from the republican party. Out of the 22 people running for president, we’ll only be talking about seven of the most popular democratic candidates.
First, running for president is democrat, Bernie Sanders. He ran for the 2016 election in the democratic party, but did not get elected. Within the first few weeks of his campaign, he raised $18 million from over 500,000 donors. Some goals that Sander’s strives to achieve are to raise minimum wage to $15 and to make college tuition free. He also wants to raise estate tax, which could be beneficial for some and bad for others. Sanders has fought for women's rights to their own bodies. When asked by Martha MacCallum if he thinks “that a woman should be able to terminate a pregnancy up until the moment of birth” Sanders said, “The decision over abortion belongs to a woman and her physician -- not the federal government, not the state government, and not the local government.” There are few foul things to say about him, but in the past there have been allegations of some of his male staff sexual harrassing his female staff, in an article by the New York Times some women said that their attempts to report these incidents went ignored by the campaign officials. He strives to never let anything like that happen again. In a tweet Sanders says, “To the women on my 2016 campaign who were harassed or mistreated, thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for speaking out. I apologize. We can't just talk about ending sexism and discrimination. It must be a reality in our daily lives. That was clearly not the case in 2016.”
Also running for president is democrat, Kamala Harris, who is also currently the first senator of Jamaican or Indian descent and a former San Francisco district attorney. More and more people seem to start supporting her everyday. In the first few weeks of her campaign she raised $12 million from over 140,000 donors. Two goals she strives to achieve are to legalize marijuana and to enforce the LIFT act. This act would pay out about $500,000 a month to working-class families. Harris says this would be paid for by ending Trump’s “giveaways to big corporations and the top one percent.” She also wants to raise the average teachers salary by $13,500, which would could about $315 billion over 10 years, and she wants to decriminalize sex workers. "we can't criminalize consensual behavior as long as no one is being harmed." Harris told the root.
Another woman running for president is democrat, Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts senator. So far she has raised about $6 million dollars from about 135,000 donors. Warren has been, and will continue, trying to make life easier for working people. Before becoming senator she made the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to make sure no one was being treated unfairly financially. The purpose of the opening of this Bureau was to implement and enforce federal consumer financial laws consistently to ensure that all consumers have access to markets for consumer financial products and services. Warren wants to change the financial inequality in America by enforcing an annual wealth tax on ultra millionaires. This proposal got over 60% support and would raise over $2.75 trillion over 10 years.
Next, there is democrat, Beto O’Rourke, a former Congressman. The main thing he strives for is to address climate change. In april Beto proposed a $5 trillion detailed plan to address climate change. In a tweet he says, “The greatest threat we face is climate change. But by showing up to meet with, listen to, and learn from thousands of Americans on the ground in communities across this country, we’ve put together a bold, ambitious, historic plan to meet this challenge with everything we’ve got.” When he was younger, Beto founded a software company and played in a punk band, until he decided to fulfill politics. So far he has raised about $9.4 million from about 280,000 donors. Other things he wants to do as as president is to decriminalize and expunge criminal records on cannabis related offenses and make stricter gun control laws.
Another candidate is democrat, Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend. He began serving in the US Navy Reserve in 2009 and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2014. He supports universal background checks before being able to get a gun and he wants to completely ban guns in schools. Buttigieg also thinks that abortion should be a women’s choice. "Abortion is a question that is almost unknowable ... a moral question that is not going to be settled by science. So the best way for it to be settled in practice is by the person who actually faces the choice." Buttigieg said on Meet The Press. He speaks many languages, including French, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian, Maltese, Arabic and Dari, which could all be very helpful as president when communicating with other countries. In March, Buttigieg was voted the top candidate for only 1% of voters, but he has become much more popular since then and he has raised about $7 million from about 160,000 donors.
Last, but not least of these seven candidates running for president is democrat, Joe Biden. Being a former vice president to Barack Obama has helped make him popular with voters for this upcoming election. Biden’s advocacy for action on climate change goes back over 30 years, introducing the first climate change bill in 1986. Biden’s views on abortion are different then many of the democratic presidential candidates for this election, being that he doesn’t completely support abortion. At the 2012 vice presidential debate Biden said, “My religion defines who I am. And I've been a practicing Catholic my whole life. And it has particularly informed my social doctrine. Catholic social doctrine talks about taking care of those who can't take care of themselves, people who need help. With regard to abortion, I accept my church's position that life begins at conception. That's the church's judgment. I accept it in my personal life. But I refuse to impose it on equally devout Christians and Muslims and Jews and--I just refuse to impose that on others, unlike my friend here, the congressman. I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people that women can't control their body. It's a decision between them and their doctor, in my view. And the Supreme Court--I'm not going to interfere with that.” More recent quotes from Biden shows that now, in 2019, he still has very similar political views. Biden has had recent scandals with people claiming he “inappropriately” touched them. “I’m not sorry for any of my intentions. I’m not sorry for anything that I have ever done. I have never been disrespectful intentionally to a man or a woman. So that’s not the reputation I’ve had since I was in high school, for God’s sakes.” Biden said to reporters. In an article on Rolling Stone they said, “His recent run of form has only fed into the perception that Biden is out of the step with the politics of the moment.”
If you are over the age of 18, it’s time to start thinking about who you’re going the be voting for in this upcoming 2020 election. Besides the people talked about in this article, there are many more qualified candidates that you should also be thinking about.
First, running for president is democrat, Bernie Sanders. He ran for the 2016 election in the democratic party, but did not get elected. Within the first few weeks of his campaign, he raised $18 million from over 500,000 donors. Some goals that Sander’s strives to achieve are to raise minimum wage to $15 and to make college tuition free. He also wants to raise estate tax, which could be beneficial for some and bad for others. Sanders has fought for women's rights to their own bodies. When asked by Martha MacCallum if he thinks “that a woman should be able to terminate a pregnancy up until the moment of birth” Sanders said, “The decision over abortion belongs to a woman and her physician -- not the federal government, not the state government, and not the local government.” There are few foul things to say about him, but in the past there have been allegations of some of his male staff sexual harrassing his female staff, in an article by the New York Times some women said that their attempts to report these incidents went ignored by the campaign officials. He strives to never let anything like that happen again. In a tweet Sanders says, “To the women on my 2016 campaign who were harassed or mistreated, thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for speaking out. I apologize. We can't just talk about ending sexism and discrimination. It must be a reality in our daily lives. That was clearly not the case in 2016.”
Also running for president is democrat, Kamala Harris, who is also currently the first senator of Jamaican or Indian descent and a former San Francisco district attorney. More and more people seem to start supporting her everyday. In the first few weeks of her campaign she raised $12 million from over 140,000 donors. Two goals she strives to achieve are to legalize marijuana and to enforce the LIFT act. This act would pay out about $500,000 a month to working-class families. Harris says this would be paid for by ending Trump’s “giveaways to big corporations and the top one percent.” She also wants to raise the average teachers salary by $13,500, which would could about $315 billion over 10 years, and she wants to decriminalize sex workers. "we can't criminalize consensual behavior as long as no one is being harmed." Harris told the root.
Another woman running for president is democrat, Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts senator. So far she has raised about $6 million dollars from about 135,000 donors. Warren has been, and will continue, trying to make life easier for working people. Before becoming senator she made the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to make sure no one was being treated unfairly financially. The purpose of the opening of this Bureau was to implement and enforce federal consumer financial laws consistently to ensure that all consumers have access to markets for consumer financial products and services. Warren wants to change the financial inequality in America by enforcing an annual wealth tax on ultra millionaires. This proposal got over 60% support and would raise over $2.75 trillion over 10 years.
Next, there is democrat, Beto O’Rourke, a former Congressman. The main thing he strives for is to address climate change. In april Beto proposed a $5 trillion detailed plan to address climate change. In a tweet he says, “The greatest threat we face is climate change. But by showing up to meet with, listen to, and learn from thousands of Americans on the ground in communities across this country, we’ve put together a bold, ambitious, historic plan to meet this challenge with everything we’ve got.” When he was younger, Beto founded a software company and played in a punk band, until he decided to fulfill politics. So far he has raised about $9.4 million from about 280,000 donors. Other things he wants to do as as president is to decriminalize and expunge criminal records on cannabis related offenses and make stricter gun control laws.
Another candidate is democrat, Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend. He began serving in the US Navy Reserve in 2009 and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2014. He supports universal background checks before being able to get a gun and he wants to completely ban guns in schools. Buttigieg also thinks that abortion should be a women’s choice. "Abortion is a question that is almost unknowable ... a moral question that is not going to be settled by science. So the best way for it to be settled in practice is by the person who actually faces the choice." Buttigieg said on Meet The Press. He speaks many languages, including French, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian, Maltese, Arabic and Dari, which could all be very helpful as president when communicating with other countries. In March, Buttigieg was voted the top candidate for only 1% of voters, but he has become much more popular since then and he has raised about $7 million from about 160,000 donors.
Last, but not least of these seven candidates running for president is democrat, Joe Biden. Being a former vice president to Barack Obama has helped make him popular with voters for this upcoming election. Biden’s advocacy for action on climate change goes back over 30 years, introducing the first climate change bill in 1986. Biden’s views on abortion are different then many of the democratic presidential candidates for this election, being that he doesn’t completely support abortion. At the 2012 vice presidential debate Biden said, “My religion defines who I am. And I've been a practicing Catholic my whole life. And it has particularly informed my social doctrine. Catholic social doctrine talks about taking care of those who can't take care of themselves, people who need help. With regard to abortion, I accept my church's position that life begins at conception. That's the church's judgment. I accept it in my personal life. But I refuse to impose it on equally devout Christians and Muslims and Jews and--I just refuse to impose that on others, unlike my friend here, the congressman. I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people that women can't control their body. It's a decision between them and their doctor, in my view. And the Supreme Court--I'm not going to interfere with that.” More recent quotes from Biden shows that now, in 2019, he still has very similar political views. Biden has had recent scandals with people claiming he “inappropriately” touched them. “I’m not sorry for any of my intentions. I’m not sorry for anything that I have ever done. I have never been disrespectful intentionally to a man or a woman. So that’s not the reputation I’ve had since I was in high school, for God’s sakes.” Biden said to reporters. In an article on Rolling Stone they said, “His recent run of form has only fed into the perception that Biden is out of the step with the politics of the moment.”
If you are over the age of 18, it’s time to start thinking about who you’re going the be voting for in this upcoming 2020 election. Besides the people talked about in this article, there are many more qualified candidates that you should also be thinking about.
