Comparing Presidential Candidates
Comparing and contrasting candidate positions in the 2020 Presidential election:
Biden - Harris positions on key issues
Here are some of the Biden - Harris positions on key issues, including immigration law enforcement.
Joe Biden Told Voters the Second Amendment DOES NOT Protect an Individual Right, NRL-ILA, September 21, 2020:
During a September 2019 “townhall” hosted by New Hampshire ABC affiliate WMUR, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden made clear that he does not believe the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms and that the U.S. Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller was incorrect....
Biden responded in part, “If I were on the court I wouldn’t have made the same ruling. OK, that’s number one.”...
Aside from his denunciation of Heller and denial that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms, Biden also displayed a fundamental misunderstanding of the Bill of Rights. The Second Amendment was not “given as a right”by the U.S. Constitution. Rather, as the U.S. Supreme Court made clear in Heller, the Second Amendment protects a right that pre-existed the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights....
Such recognition of the Second Amendment was conspicuously absent from the 2016 and 2020 versions of the platform. ...
From Trump and Biden on immigration: nearly opposite, but not quite, La Times, August 17, 2020:
- Joe Biden’s proposed immigration platform aims to undo Trump’s “misguided policies” by taking an opposing position on just about every one of the president’s efforts to curb immigration...
- Biden would expand protections for immigrants [illegal aliens] and restore many of the Obama-era policies overturned by Trump.
- Biden has said that during his first 100 days in office he would end Trump’s national emergency declaration, which has rerouted billions in federal funds to the border wall...
- He’s promised that in his first 100 days he would prioritize family reunifications, reinstate the DACA program and rescind the Trump administration’s travel ban on many Muslim-majority countries...
- Biden promises to work with Congress to increase the number of employment-based immigration visas and triple the number of U visas granted to victims of human trafficking and certain other crimes. He’s also vowed to raise the annual refugee admissions to 125,000...
- He proposes a four-year, $4-billion regional plan that, in collaboration with leaders in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, would target corruption... To pay for the United States’ investment in the plan, Biden would use funds from the Department of Homeland Security’s budget for the detention of migrants...
- In July, the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Forces, a combination of supporters of Biden and his former primary rival Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, offered platform recommendations that included protecting the parents of Dreamers under the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, or DAPA...
- Biden expressed remorse for the millions of deportations the Obama administration carried out, calling the policies a “big mistake.”...
- Biden has said healthcare coverage should be available for everyone, no matter their legal status. His campaign said he supports allowing immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally [illegal aliens] to buy unsubsidized coverage...
- The Biden-Sanders task forces recommend extending Affordable Care Act coverage to DACA recipients...
The Biden Plan for Securing Our Values as a Nation of Immigrants, September 7, 2020:
- ... Biden will forcefully pursue policies that... Take urgent action to undo Trump’s damage...
- As Vice President, Biden championed the creation and expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program; the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) progra...
- Immediately reverse the Trump Administration’s cruel and senseless policies that separate parents from their children at our border...
- End the mismanagement of the asylum system, which fuels violence and chaos at the border. Trump’s disastrous policy of “metering” — limiting the number of asylum applications accepted each day ...
- Reverse Trump’s public charge rule...
- End the so-called National Emergency that siphons federal dollars from the Department of Defense to build a wall....
- Protect Dreamers and their families...
- Rescind the un-American travel and refugee bans, also referred to as “Muslim bans.”...
- Creates a roadmap to citizenship for the nearly 11 million [a significantly low estimate] people [illegal aliens] who have been living in and strengthening our country for years...
- Provides a path to legalization [amnesty] for agricultural workers who have worked for years on U.S. farms...
- Preserves preferences for diversity in the current system. Trump has set his sights on abolishing the Diversity Visa lottery....
- Increases the number of visas offered for permanent, work-based immigration [H-1b visas]...
- Increase the number of refugees we welcome into the country...
From Joe Biden’s Agenda for the Indian American Community, September 7, 2020:
- Biden will rescind Trump’s “Muslim ban” on day one and reverse the detrimental asylum policies that are causing chaos and a humanitarian crisis at our border. He will immediately begin working with Congress to pass legislative immigration reform that modernizes our system, with a priority on keeping families together by providing a roadmap to citizenship for nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants [illegal aliens]....
- Biden will support family-based immigration and preserve family unification as a core principle of our immigration system, which includes reducing the family visa backlog. He will increase the number of visas offered for permanent, work-based immigration...
- Biden will support family-based immigration and preserve family unification as a core principle of our immigration system, which includes reducing the family visa backlog. He will increase the number of visas offered for permanent, work-based immigration...
- He will also work with Congress to establish a minimum admissions number of 95,000 refugees annually. Biden will remove the uncertainty for Dreamers by reinstating the DACA program...
- ... he will nominate and appoint federal officials and judges who look like America, including from the Indian American community. ..
From Joe Biden’s Jobs and Economic Recovery Plan for Working Families, September 7, 2020:
- ... he will pursue a dedicated agenda to close the racial wealth gap, to expand affordable housing, to invest in Black, Latino, and Native American entrepreneurs and communities, to advance policing and criminal justice reform, and to make real the promise of educational opportunity regardless of race or zip code....
- ... a decent wage, at least $15 per hour...
- ... Joe Biden will make new, bold investments and speed up the timetable for many of the 10-year investments he has already announced. He will pay for the ongoing costs of the plan by reversing some of Trump’s tax cuts for corporations and imposing common-sense tax reforms that finally make sure the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share. ...
From The Biden Plan to Build Back Better by Advancing Racial Equity Across the American Economy, September 7, 2020:
- Spur more than $50 billion in additional public-private venture capital to Black and Brown entrepreneurs...
- Expand access to $100 billion in low-interest business loans by funding state, local, tribal and non-profit lending programs in Black and Brown communities...
- ... requiring U.S. corporations with over $1 billion in revenues that receive federal financing or incentives for their global business to publicize data on their use of firms owned by Black and Brown Americans in their supply chains;...
- ... Eliminate local and state housing regulations that perpetuate discrimination. Exclusionary zoning has for decades been strategically used to keep Black and Brown people and low-income families out of certain communities. Among other steps, Biden will enact legislation requiring any state receiving federal dollars through the Community Development Block Grants or Surface Transportation Block Grants to develop a strategy for inclusionary zoning, as proposed in the HOME Act of 2019 by Majority Whip Jim Clyburn and Senator Cory Booker.... See Joe Biden’s full housing plan.
- Make public colleges and universities, as well as private HBCUs and MSIs, tuition-free for all families with incomes below $125,000.
- Guarantee up to 12 weeks paid family and medical leave for all workers and up to seven days of paid sick, family, and safe leave.
- Eliminate cash bail.
From The Biden Plan to End Our Gun Violence Epidemic, September 7, 2020:
- Hold gun manufacturers accountable....
- Ban the manufacture and sale of assault [meaning non-military] and high-capacity [meaning standard capacity] magazines...
- Regulate possession of existing assault [meaning non-military] weapons under the National Firearms Act....
- Biden supports legislation restricting the number of firearms an individual may purchase per month to one....
- Reinstate the Obama-Biden policy to keep guns out of the hands of certain people unable to manage their affairs for mental reasons, which President Trump reversed....
- End the online sale of firearms and ammunitions. ...
- Incentivize state “extreme risk” laws. Extreme risk laws, also called “red flag” laws...
- Put America on the path to ensuring that 100% of firearms sold in America are smart guns....
- Require gun owners to safely store their weapons....
From The Biden Plan for Mobilizing American Talent and Heart to Create a 21st Century Caregiving and Education Workforce, September 7, 2020:
- The [economic recovery] plan will cost $775 billion over 10 years and will be paid for by rolling back unproductive and unequal tax breaks for real estate investors with incomes over $400,000 and taking steps to increase tax compliance for high-income earners.
From The Biden Plan to Build a Modern, Sustainable Infrastructure and an Equitable Clean Energy Future, September 7, 2020:
- Ensure that environmental justice is a key consideration in where, how, and with whom we build...
- Require that companies receiving procurement contracts are using taxpayer dollars to support good American jobs, including a commitment to pay at least $15 per hour, provide paid leave, maintain fair overtime and scheduling practices, and guarantee a choice to join a union and bargain collectively.
- Biden will ensure these jobs are filled by diverse, local, well-trained workers – including women and people of color – by requiring federally funded projects to prioritize Project Labor and Community Workforce Agreements and employ workers trained in registered apprenticeship programs.
- Make major public investments in automobile infrastructure — including in 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations
- Create a new Advanced Research Projects Agency on Climate
- Biden has a comprehensive environmental justice plan,
From The Biden Agenda for Women, September 7, 2020:
- Biden will work to codify Roe v. Wade, and his Justice Department will do everything in its power to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate Roe v. Wade.
- Restore federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
- Restore the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate in place before the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision.
From Biden's Authoritarian America, American Thinker, September 26, 2020:
- Biden has promised to sign the Equality Act into law if it is passed by the Senate.... the Equality Act would force religious individuals and organizations to speak messages and act in ways that violate their beliefs, under the threat of punishment.
- Biden will restore the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"), forcing religious ministries and schools, along with businesses operated by religiously devout owners, to cover the insurance cost of birth control drugs that can cause abortions.
- Biden will require taxpayers to fund abortions...
- Biden will restore Obama's guidance for college tribunals on sexual misconduct....
- Biden will reinstate Obama's heavy-handed transgender "bathroom directive."...
- Biden said he would shut down the country if necessary in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus, even though the direct oversight of public health is not a power delegated to the president or the federal government. Only the states have the power, under the 10th Amendment...
- He will also establish an "Environmental and Climate Justice Division" in order to further consolidate federal power by using, in his words, an "all-of-government approach."...
- Finally, under Joe Biden, the federal government will extend its tentacles to local neighborhoods by regulating zoning. His administration will end single-family zoning in many suburbs and create "little downtowns" in these communities by building high-density, low-income housing....
Joe Biden Says He Supports 8-Year-Olds Changing Gender: 'I Will Flat Out Just Change The Law'', Information Liberation, October 15, 2020: Biden said. "And what's happening is, too many transgender women of color are being murdered. They're being murdered." Watch.
Biden Supreme Court candidates
Joe Biden won't provide a list of Supreme Court candidates as President Trump has done. The reason, presumably, is that it would scare the heck out of the Smerican people.
Article III project has provided a Biden Short list of most likely Supreme Court candidates to be supported by Joe Biden.
Stacey Abrams
Brigitte Amiri
Xavier Becerra
James Forman, Jr.
Rochelle Garza
Deepak Gupta
Sherrilyn Ifill
Pam Karlan
Leah Litman
Melissa Murray
Judge Cornelia
“Nina” Pillard
Biden - Harris positions on Second Amendment
Note that in the debate video in the above article, both Biden and Harris are intent upon issuing an "assault weapons" ban.
An assult weapon is a weapon used by the military that when you press the trigger, the weapon goes bang, bang, bang... until you release the trigger or you run out of ammunition. This is termed automatic fire. Assault weapons are already restricted to civilians.
A standard carbine, such as an AR-15 or AK-47, when sold to civilians, will go bang only one time each time you press the trigger. This is termed semi-automatic fire.
Biden - Harris intend to ban standard, non-military weapons from civilian ownership. Notice the duplicitous use of terminology. As Biden says in the second video, "Bingo!"
Related
7 Gun Control Policies Kamala Harris Has Endorsed, Breitbart, October 26, 2020.
Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force Recommendations
On or about July 7, 2020, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders released a consolidated platform in a 110 page report called the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force Recommendations.
Here are key items from the platform:
9 Radical Ideas in the Biden-Sanders ‘Unity’ Platform, Brietbart, July 9, 2020:
1. “Rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement … on Day One.”...
2. Shift the entire “fleet of 500,000 school buses to American-made, zero-emission alternatives” in five years....
3. “End cash bail.” ...
4. “Stop the practice of arresting children for behavior that ought to be handled in the principal’s office.”...
5. “We will repeal so-called ‘right to work’ laws.”...
6. “Democrats will recognize unions with majority sign-up—via so-called ‘card check’ processes.” ...
7. “Oppose private school vouchers.”...
8. Provide a “public option” toward universal health care....
9. End the border wall and “provide a roadmap to citizenship for the millions of undocumented workers.”... [That is, issue mass amnesty to the 20 million to 38 million illegal aliens residing in Amerrica.]
Joe Biden Joins Forces with Bernie Sanders and AOC in New Platform, The Heartland Institute, July 9, 2020:
On July 6, just two days after Americans celebrated the nation’s 244th birthday, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said, “We have an incredible opportunity to not just dig out of this crisis, but to fundamentally transform the country.”
Two days later, Biden released his plan to transform America in the form of a 110-page document titled “Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force Recommendations.” Shortly after the document was released, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Joe Biden would be “the most progressive president since FDR.” That is quite a statement....
Below is a brief summary....
“Combating the Climate Crisis and Pursuing Environmental Justice”: This section is basically a rehash of the Green New Deal....
“Protecting Communities by Reforming Our Criminal Justice System”... To accomplish their goal of overhauling the system, the task force says, “We must start by preventing people from entering the criminal justice system in the first place.” In other words, we should stop arresting criminals....
This section also advises that we must “reimagine policing.” As stated, this reimagination would also include severe cuts to police departments, which parallels the ridiculous “Defund the Police” movement....
“Building A Stronger, Fairer Economy”: This section could easily be mistaken for The Communist Manifesto....
“Providing A World-Class Education in Every Zip Code”... ;By vital investments they mean, give teachers unions more money. There is not one mention of school choice in the entire document, except for eliminating vouchers and other education choice initiatives....
“Health Care Unity Task Force Recommendations”: In a nutshell, “The Task Force recommends Democrats meet this moment by guaranteeing free or low-cost health care coverage for every American, including by expanding Medicaid... “As a Task Force and as Democrats, we fundamentally believe health care is a right for all, not a privilege for the few. That is why we will also remove barriers to allow states to access federal funds to implement models that move toward universal health care.”
“Immigration Unity Task Force Recommendations”: Last but not least, the task force recommends, “We will work with Congress to reform our immigration system to provide a roadmap to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented... [That is, issue mass amnesty to the 20 million to 38 million illegal aliens residing in Amerrica.]
Mark Levin breaks down the Bernie Sanders-Joe Biden 'manifesto', Fox News, August 20, 2020. Transcript. Video (ignore ads at beginning).
Trump administration immigration accomplishments
View President Trump's administration immigration accomplishments thru August, 2018 (pdf document). Quite a lot has been accomplished. Report prepared by FAIR.
Trump’s list: 289 accomplishments in just 20 months
Here are key excerpts from the article Trump’s list: 289 accomplishments in just 20 months, ‘relentless’ promise-keeping, by Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner, October 30, 2018:
The Trump administration’s often overlooked list of achievements has surpassed those of former President Ronald Reagan at this time and more than doubled since the last tally of accomplishments after his first year in office...
... the administration has counted up 289 accomplishments in 18 categories, capped by the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
They include 173 major wins, such as adding more than 4 million jobs, and another 116 smaller victories, some with outsize importance, such as the 83 percent one-year increase in arrests of MS-13 gang members...
Border Security and Immigration
Secured $1.6 billion for border wall construction in the March 2018 omnibus bill.
Construction of a 14-mile section of border wall began near San Diego.
Worked to protect American communities from the threat posed by the vile MS-13 gang.
- ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations division arrested 796 MS-13 members and associates in FY 2017, an 83 percent increase from the prior year.
- Justice worked with partners in Central America to secure criminal charges against more than 4,000 MS-13 members.
- Border Patrol agents arrested 228 illegal aliens affiliated with MS-13 in FY 2017.
Fighting to stop the scourge of illegal drugs at our border.
- ICE HSI seized more than 980,000 pounds of narcotics in FY 2017, including 2,370 pounds of fentanyl and 6,967 pounds of heroin.
- ICE HSI dedicated nearly 630,000 investigative hours towards halting the illegal import of fentanyl.
- ICE HSI made 11,691 narcotics-related arrests in FY 2017.
- Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand introduced new measures to keep dangerous drugs out the United States.
- Signed the INTERDICT Act into law, enhancing efforts to detect and intercept synthetic opioids.
- DOJ secured its first-ever indictments against Chinese fentanyl manufacturers.
- DOJ launched their Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement (J-CODE) team, aimed at disrupting online illicit opioid sales.
Released an immigration framework that includes the resources required to secure our borders and close legal loopholes, and repeatedly called on Congress to fix our broken immigration laws.
Authorized the deployment of the National Guard to help secure the border.
Enhanced vetting of individuals entering the U.S. from countries that don’t meet security standards, helping to ensure individuals who pose a threat to our country are identified before they enter.
These procedures were upheld in a June 2018 Supreme Court hearing.
ICE removed over 226,000 illegal aliens from the United States in 2017.
- ICE rescued or identified over 500 human trafficking victims and over 900 child exploitation victims in 2017 alone.
In 2017, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested more than 127,000 aliens with criminal convictions or charges, responsible for
- Over 76,000 with dangerous drug offenses.
- More than 48,000 with assault offenses.
- More than 11,000 with weapons offenses.
- More than 5,000 with sexual assault offenses.
- More than 2,000 with kidnapping offenses.
- Over 1,800 with homicide offenses.
Created the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office in order to support the victims and families affected by illegal alien crime.
More than doubled the number of counties participating in the 287(g) program, which allows jails to detain criminal aliens until they are transferred to ICE custody....
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Economic Growth
4.2 percent growth in the second quarter of 2018.
For the first time in more than a decade, growth is projected to exceed 3 percent over the calendar year.
Jobs
4 million new jobs have been created since the election, and more than 3.5 million since Trump took office....
African-American, Hispanic, and Asian-American unemployment rates have all recently reached record lows.
- African-American unemployment hit a record low of 5.9 percent in May 2018.
- Hispanic unemployment at 4.5 percent.
- Asian-American unemployment at record low of 2 percent....
American Income
Median household income rose to $61,372 in 2017, a post-recession high....
American Business
Investment is flooding back into the United States due to the tax cuts. ...
Deregulation
Achieved massive deregulation at a rapid pace, completing 22 deregulatory actions to every one regulatory action during his first year in office....
Tax Cuts
Biggest tax cuts and reforms in American history by signing the Tax Cuts and Jobs act into law ...
Worker Development
Established a National Council for the American Worker to develop a national strategy for training and retraining America’s workers for high-demand industries....
Domestic Infrastructure
Proposed infrastructure plan would utilize $200 billion in Federal funds to spur at least $1.5 trillion in infrastructure investment across the country....
Health Care
Signed an executive order to help minimize the financial burden felt by American households...
Combating Opioids
Chaired meeting the 73rd General Session of the United Nations discussing the worldwide drug problem with international leaders....
Law and Order
More U.S. Circuit Court judges confirmed in the first year in office than ever...
Followed through on the promise to nominate judges to the Supreme Court who will adhere to the Constitution
Nominated and confirmed Justice Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court...
Trade
Negotiating and renegotiating better trade deals, achieving free, fair, and reciprocal trade for the United States...
See the original article for the complete list of President Trump's 289 accomplishments in just 20 months.
Trump Secures Third Historic Middle East Peace Deal, This Time With Sudan
Trump important accomplishments
Selected significant Trump accomplishments are listed below:
Trump, Netanyahu Driving Mideast Peace Train, Breitbart, September 15, 2020. President Trump makes history: Trump has accomplished what no preisdent since Clinton has been able to achieve. Donald Trump Previews Five Additional Arab Countries to Sign Abraham Accords Deal with Israel.
Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Successes - How Trump's paradigm-shift ended a long string of failures under both parties, by Bruce Thornton, FrontPage Mag, September 16, 2020. An excellent analysis of the peace agreement and the historical background of the Mideast.
In short, he [Trump] has nullified the seven-decade-long foreign policy narrative that, with few exceptions like the cold peace with Egypt and Jordan, brought nothing but terrorist violence to Israel, concessions without reciprocity, and incessant calumny from the “community of nations” that demonize the only liberal-democratic, religiously tolerant, economically dynamic nation in the region.
White House helps broker peace deal between Serbia, Kosovo, One American News Network, September 4, 2020;:
The Trump administration has successfully brokered another historic peace deal. On Friday, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Kosovar Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti signed an agreement at the White House, which will establish their new economic relations....
Kosovo, a near 96% Muslim state, also announced it will establish relations with the Jewish state of Israel....
Serbia, which has a majority Serbian orthodox Christian population, will also move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Trump’s Historical and Miraculous Accomplishments Three Years Into His Presidency
From the article: President Trump’s Historical and Miraculous Accomplishments Three Years Into His Presidency, by Joe Hoft, Gateway Pundit, January 20, 2020:
... Not only has the DOW skyrocketed since Donald Trump was elected President, the market's rise is record breaking. Since the 2016 election, the DOW has closed at new record all-time highs more than 100 times! The markets have now reached 131 new all time closing highs since the 2016 election and 114 since President Trump’s inauguration....
GDP and Debt...
Job numbers through the end of December 2019 show an increase of 7 million jobs since President Trump won the 2016 election and America now has an unemployment rate of 3.5 percent. The current unemployment rate of 3.5% is the lowest it’s been in 50 years!... An Increase in Annual Income of $5,000 per Family...
President Trump vowed to destroy ISIS. Despite President Obama saying that ISIS will be around for a generation, these murderers and terrorists in the Middle East were decimated in a very short period of time. Both Syria and Iraq declared victory over ISIS due to President Trump’s resolve. Terrorist leaders of ISIS and Iran have been killed. The world is a safer place....
On President Trump’s successful trip to Asia in 2017 he bundled an estimated $300 billion in deals for the US. He met with Asian leaders and was the first US President and foreign leader to dine in China’s Forbidden City since the founding of modern China....
5 Things Trump Did for the Left That They Refused to Thank Him For
From the article 5 Things Trump Did for the Left That They Refused to Thank Him For, Breitbart, December 13, 2020:
President Donald Trump was vilified by the media and the left as a would-be fascist, and a divisive leader. Yet he did things that the left claimed it had wanted for years, and that Democratic presidents had never done...
1. Ending the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and replacing NAFTA....
2. Criminal Justice Reform....
3. Ending wars in the Middle East....
4. Lowest black poverty and unemployment rates ever....
5. Elevating women and minorities....
Biden Calls For Nation-Busting Amnesty In Final Debate
... Joe Biden also made a critical error when he claimed that he never supported a fracking ban, when we have it on video that he did.
Biden’s Immigration Plan Will Fundamentally Change America
Election Alert: Biden’s plan for America’s suburbs
Fact Check: 19 False Claims in Barack Obama’s Speech for Joe Biden in Florida
President Barack Obama delivered a speech in Florida on behalf of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign on Saturday, in the course of which he stated at least nineteen false claims about President Donald Trump and his record.
From the transcript:
1. “He doesn’t have a plan” for coronavirus. ...the president did, in fact, specifically mention Operation Warp Speed, his plan to develop and distribute a coronavirus vaccine quickly.
2. Trump couldn’t answer Leslie Stahl of 60 Minutes when she asked, “What’s your priority in your second term?” In fact, Trump answered her: “The priority now is to get back to normal, get back to where we were, to have the economy rage and be great with jobs and everybody be happy. And that’s where we’re going and that’s where we’re heading.”
3. “He doesn’t even acknowledge that there’s a problem” (i.e. coronavirus). This is obviously not true, and provably so. Trump even talked about coronavirus in his State of the Union address, which Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) ripped in two.
4. Trump said “if you put some bleach in you, that might clean things up.” Trump never said that....
5. “America created 1.5 million more jobs in the last year of the Obama-Biden administration than in the first three years of the Trump-Pence administration.” Obama seems to be saying that more jobs were created in 2016 than in 2017, 2018, and 2019 combined, which is demonstrably untrue...
6. Black unemployment went down, but “not because Donald Trump did anything.” It is possible to credit several Trump policies with lowering black unemployment, especially immigration enforcement...
7. “The only people truly better off than they were four years ago are the billionaires who got Trump tax cuts.” A Gallup poll recently found that 56% of registered voters said they were better off than they were four years ago, which is a record high....
8. “He barely pays income taxes.” In fact, Trump pays tens of millions of dollars in taxes, despite losses in some years.
9. Trump has “secret Chinese bank accounts.” The Trump hotel chain used a legal bank account to pay taxes in China when it made licensing deals....
10. “His first year in the White House he only paid $750 in federal income tax.” Trump paid over seven million dollars in taxes in 2017...
11. Trump has no plan “when it comes to preexisting conditions.” The president... issued an executive order laying out his plan in September.
12. Trump “drove up costs” under Obamacare. Actually, Obamacare premiums have been falling under Trump.
13. Trump said: “We hope the Supreme Court takes your health insurance away.” Trump never said that...
14. Trump is “MIA” when “Russia puts bounties on the heads of our brave soldiers in Afghanistan.” The Pentagon said that there was never “corroborating evidence” of a supposed Russian program to pay bounties for killing U.S. soldiers.
15. “Joe Biden would never call the men and women of our military suckers and losers.” Neither would Trump, because it never happened. Biden did call U.S. troops “stupid bastards,” however....
16. Trump asked if we could “nuke hurricanes.” Even Snopes.com regards this claim as “unproven.”...
17. Trump “cannot call out or even criticize white supremacists.” This divisive, false claim is also easily disproven.
18. Trump “threatens people with jail for just criticizing him.” This does not appear to have ever happened. Trump did threaten a reporter with prison time — after he defied instructions not to photograph a classified letter from Jim Kong-un. It was the Obama administration, that tried to prosecute journalist James Risen of the New York Times, and which jailed an obscure filmmaker after it blamed an obscure anti-Islamic YouTube video for the Benghazi terror attack in September 2012.
19. The EPA is “giving polluters free reign to dump unlimited poison into our air and water.” Demonstrably untrue....
Related
Fact Check: Kamala Harris Repeats Lies About Trump and Racism in Nevada, Breitbart, October 28, 2020.
Fact Check: Kamala Harris Lies 4 Times About Trump and Racism on ’60 Minutes’, Breitbart, October 25, 2020.
Fact Check: 19 Lies in Barack Obama's Speech for Joe Biden in Florida, Breitbart, October 24, 2020.
Fiscal impact of Biden and Trump plans: compare and contrast
The following article compares and contrasts the fiscal impact of Biden and Trump plans. The article is extensive. The introduction is included below:
Biden And Trump Promises: Compare And Contrast by Hugo Erken, Philip Marey, Hidde Sevinga and Michiel van der Veen of Rabobank, ZeroHedge, October 25, 2020:
- While both Trump and Biden want to boost economic growth and reduce unemployment, their approaches are radically different.
- Trump wants to grow the economy by reducing taxes and regulation, whereas Biden seeks to achieve this through increased government spending and investment
- In this report, we try to assess the impact of their policy plans on a range of macroeconomic variables, such as GDP, real income, public debt and trade
- A second term for President Trump would leave our baseline scenario for US GDP growth and the public debt largely unchanged. The upward effect on GDP growth from additional Trump tax cuts would be offset by the cuts in government spending aimed at stabilizing the public debt to GDP ratio
- The tax relief in the Trump administration’s plans results in a rapid pickup of real personal disposable income in the aftermath of the corona crisis from $43,350 per capita by the end of this year to roughly $47,000 in 2025, which is $1,000 more than in our baseline
- Unemployment and trade under Trump would roughly follow the same trajectory as in our baseline
- The Biden plan would boost GDP growth, but also the trajectory of public debt to GDP. In the long run, we expect the US economy to be larger by 3.8% to 4.6% due to the Biden plan tapping into the endogenous growth potential of the economy. However, we expect public debt to arrive at somewhere between 164% and 170% of GDP, which is much higher than the 147% in our baseline scenario
- As Biden imposes higher taxes, by 2025 we project real disposable personal income to barely touch $46,000 per capita, which is even slightly below our baseline. However, as the impact of tax policies start to peter out, we expect a rapid pickup in income after 2025, which is directly related to productivity-enhancing policies which prop up economic growth. Ultimately, we expect real income to be 2.2% to 3.3% higher
- US trade is expected to rise significantly under Biden. As US export do not rise in tandem, this will also result in a widening trade deficit in the long run
- In the short term, Biden’s policy packages push unemployment below levels in our baseline, as positive employment effects of additional government spending outweighs the negative impact of a higher minimum wage. However, mid- decade unemployment is expected to rise above the baseline, partly related to higher corporate taxes and a pickup in labor-saving technological change
Here Are 11 of Joe Biden’s Biggest Debate Lies
President Trump trounced Joe Biden during their final debate Thursday night in Tennessee. It wasn’t even close...
Last night, Trump was forced to defend his record, to explain it… And because he has a very good record as president, he was able to.
Because Joe Biden has a terrible record, he was forced to lie… To tell 11 bald-faced whoppers, and here they are… All of Biden’s quotes below come directly from last night’s debate. [emphasis mine throughout]
1. No One Lost Their Insurance Under ObamaCare...
FACT: Up to six million people lost their private health insurance plan after Obamacare became the law of the land, and the reason people lost their private health insurance is the most immoral things about Obamacare… Obamacare outlawed — actually made it illegal, for private insurance to offer private plans that did not live up to Obamacare’s lofty and ridiculous standards...
2. America was Cozy with Hitler...
FACT: ... at no time was Roosevelt fooled by Hitler. He certainly tried to stop and stay out of the European war, but Hitler’s aggression towards our allies and Hitler’s own hatred of America… This is such a stupid lie....
3. I Never Opposed Fracking...
FACT: ...Biden spent the entire primary opposing fracking...
4. I Didn’t Oppose Trump’s China Travel Ban...
FACT: Here are Biden’s own tweets attacking the China travel ban as xenophobic: We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science — not Donald Trump’s record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering. He is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency. — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) February 1, 2020...
5. Illegal Aliens Show Up For Asylum Hearings After Being Caught and Released...
FACT: Catch and release is America’s gobsmackingly stupid policy of catching illegal aliens in our country and then releasing them back into our country with a notice to show up for an asylum hearing. Yes, we release illegals into our own country after we have caught them. ...
6. Raising the Minimum Wage Does Not Hurt Anyone...
FACT: ... The idea that mandating a raise in the minimum wage hurts businesses and workers is not even controversial. Everyone knows it does....
7. No One Brought Up Biden’s Troubling Ukraine Conflicts of Interest During Impeachment...
FACT: Again, we have the video tape proving this is a lie. A whole lot of people involved with impeachment were concerned with Hunter Biden looting Ukraine while his dad, the vice president, was the Obama administration’s point person there....
8. Trump Never Told Putin to Stop Meddling in American Elections...
FACT: Oh, isn’t China Joe, whose family received $3.5 million from the former mayor of Moscow, precious when he says to the “best of my knowledge.” He knows damn well Trump has told Putin to butt out — plenty of times....
9. Hunter’s Emails are Part of a “Russian Plan”...
FACT: The evidence that the Hunter Biden emails exposing Joe Biden as the head of a crime family trading off his role as vice president to get rich continue to be verified — and done so on-the-record,...
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Joe Biden’s Gun Agenda Could Cost AR-15 Owners $3.6 Billion in Taxes for Guns They Already Own
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Joe Biden’s Gun Policy Could Tax Gun Owners $200 for Every ‘High-Capacity’ Magazine They Own, Breitbart, October 19, 2020: Standard capacity magazines will be reclassified as "high capacity magazines".
Kamala Harris: Racism Begins at Home
During an early Democrat Presidential candidates’ debate, Kamala Harris painted an ugly picture of American racism, recounting her alleged experience as a young student on a school bus in progressive Berkeley, CA’s public-school integration program...
Yet, when Gopalan entered a “love marriage” in 1963 and had children with a mixed-race Jamaican student she met while studying a UC Berkeley, she tainted her family’s carefully reserved bloodline...
Perhaps it was when young Kamala sprouted an Afro that Gopalan first understood her daughters would never pass for Brahmins and would face harsh racial discrimination in her native India... To protect them—and herself—she made a conscious decision to abandon racist India and raise her daughters as Blacks in far more tolerant North America...
In recent years, Kamala has created a narrative that portrays her privileged Brahmin relatives as mainstream Progressives, including characterizing her mother as a “civil rights activist.”...
As with other first-generation Americans descended from non-White foreigners who chose to emigrate to the US (the most notable being President Obama) Kamala and her sister Maya (Hindi for Illusion) have made “American racism” i.e. anti-white agitation their central cause by expanding African-American descendants-of-slaves’ issues to include themselves, “People of Color”, even if they have just arrived in the US....
On Donald Trump’s Extraordinary Achievements
Second Presidential debate - a calm, masterful Donald Trump made mincemeat of Joe Biden
Here's Why Trump's Final Debate Was a Game-Changer, by Larry O'Connor, October 23, 2020.
Study: Biden Will Raise Taxes On 80 Percent Of Americans, Cut Annual Income $6,500 Per Household
A new study shows that Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden’s proposed economic plan would significantly hurt the long-term American economy if implemented.
While many mainstream media outlets claim Biden’s plan will target the wealthy and save the middle-class money, the 50-page study released by the Hoover Institution shows different results.
The study conducted by a group of financial and economic experts including Mulligan, former Chief Economist of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and Kevin Hassett, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers since 2017, demonstrates how Biden’s plan will hurt everyone.
“We conclude that, in the long run, Vice President Biden’s full agenda reduces full-time equivalent employment per person by about 3 percent, the capital stock per person by about 15 percent, real GDP per capita by more than 8 percent, and real consumption per household by about 7 percent,” the report stated....
Trump Confirms More Federal Judges in First Term than Any President in 40 Years
... As of October 5, according to the Heritage Foundation, Trump has confirmed 218 judges to Article III courts — that is, the “Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. courts of appeals, the U.S. district courts and the U.S. Court of International Trade.”
Trump Nominated for His 4th Nobel Peace Prize — This Time For His Work in Ending the Era of Endless Wars
Trump endorsers
235 Senior Military Leaders ENDORSE President Donald J. Trump, Geller Report, September 14, 2020. "Another bombshell news story the media will censor, scrub, and maliciously ignore."
Nearly 800 Military Family Members Sign Open Letter in Support of Trump, Breitbart, September 17, 2020.
What Joe Biden’s presidency might mean for H-1B visas and Indian immigration to the US
Article by Scroll in, September 7, 2020:
America Is Not A Nation Of Immigrants, Daily Caller, August 4, 2015.
Video: A nation of immigrants, by Michelle Malkin, PragerU, August 20, 2018.
VP Debate Post-Mortem: Pence Trounces "Gaffe Machine" Harris
This article presents a fairly solid analysis of the Vice Presidential debate on October 7, 2020: VP Debate Post-Mortem: Pence Trounces "Gaffe Machine" Harris, Zero Hedge, October 8, 2020.
6 Highlights From the Pence-Harris Debate, Daily Signal, October 8, 2020.
Pence effectively went after Harris — and a very biased moderator, New York Post, October 8, 2020.
Pence wins VP debate -- Harris proves she's not ready to be president, Fox News, October 8, 2020.
Study: Joe Biden Migration Plan Could Bring 52 Million Foreign Nationals to U.S.
Senate Report's Explosive Hunter Biden Report
From the September 23, 2020 Geller Report, Senate Report's Explosive Hunter Biden Report: Millions in Shady Transactions Inc. Moscow Mayor’s Wife, Paid For Sex Trafficked Women By Russian Mob:
Who Will Tell the Truth About Joe Biden?
The inability of the mainstream media to accurately cover any of Joe Biden’s foibles is truly astonishing. If it was not already obvious by now, there is simply nothing Biden can say or do, no matter how incoherent, offensive, or alarming that would cause the current crop of “objective journalists” in the mainstream media, to even consider asking whether or not he has the mental capacity to be president of the United States....
The mainstream media finds Trump so morally and ethically repugnant that they would rather risk losing whatever credibility they have left, than to even suggest that a stumbling and often confused Biden has any businesses determining the U.S. tax code or holding China accountable for unleashing the Wuhan virus on the entire world. Instead of reporting on what should be fairly obvious to anyone with eyes or ears, the media seems to believe their main job is not only to protect Biden, but to prop him up by making him look as coherent and effective a leader as possible.....
Anyone who has watched Biden speak over the last several months knows that this is not the same Biden who served in the Senate for thirty-six years and then subsequently as vice president for another eight years. This might not even be the same Biden who we saw on the debate stage during the Democratic primaries last year. The one who said in response to a question about the legacy of slavery, “The teachers are -- I’m married to a teacher, my deceased wife is a teacher... It’s not that they don’t want to help, they don’t know what to play the radio, make sure the television -- excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night, the -- make sure that kids hear words.”...
Last week at an event in Delaware, Biden stood at the podium, while his staffers called on preselected journalists. One could be forgiven for wondering if these were reporters or Biden campaign officials who were asking him the questions. Biden, who was often caught glancing down at his notes on the podium, with prepared answers to the “questions,” should not have had to use them....
... we are left with fawning reporters who cover for Biden’s declining cognitive skills and provide him every opportunity to attack Trump. They are complicit in one of the greatest coverups ever orchestrated by the mainstream media.
Joe Biden Isn’t Running For President, His Teleprompter Is - Joe Biden has regressed to the point of reading cues out loud, giving hand signals to scroll up the text, and botching words as they appear on the screen, The Federalist, September 22, 2020.
Trump campaign 1 minute video ad: Joe's Teleprompter, September 16, 2020:
Joe Biden quotes: Joe Biden continues to lose notes, mind, Boston Herald, September 12, 2020.
Joe Biden Delivers 9 Gaffes, Lies, and Awkward Moments in Third Primary Debate, Breitbart, September 13, 2020.
How Long Can The Media Cover For Biden’s Racial Gaffes?, Townhall, August 7, 2020.
The 18 Times Joe Biden 'Forgot' Important Information During His Presidential Run (So Far), Townhall, April 25, 2020.
Video: Joe Biden reads from a teleprompter at almost all of his events... and he can barely do that sometimes, Tritter, September 8, 2020.
The Top 22 Biden Gaffes of the 2020 Campaign... So Far, by Matt Margolis, PJ Media, November 12, 2019.
Video: Best 13 Biden Gaffes Of All Time (Part 2), May 7, 2020:
Joe Biden's presidential hopes under pressure, April 4, 2020:
A New Book Warns of the Imminent Danger of a Kamala Harris Presidency