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Books by and about 2020 presidential candidates |
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Crippled America,
by Donald J. Trump (2015) |
Fire and Fury,
by Michael Wolff (2018) |
Trump Revealed,
by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher (2016) |
The Making of Donald Trump,
by David Cay Johnston (2016) |
Promise Me, Dad ,
by Joe Biden (2017) |
The Book of Joe ,
by Jeff Wilser (2019; biography of Joe Biden) |
The Truths We Hold,
by Kamala Harris (2019) |
Smart on Crime,
by Kamala Harris (2010) |
Guide to Political Revolution,
by Bernie Sanders (2017) |
Where We Go From Here,
by Bernie Sanders (2018) |
Our Revolution,
by Bernie Sanders (2016) |
This Fight Is Our Fight,
by Elizabeth Warren (2017) |
United,
by Cory Booker (2016) |
Conscience of a Conservative,
by Jeff Flake (2017) |
Two Paths,
by Gov. John Kasich (2017) |
Every Other Monday,
by Rep. John Kasich (2010) |
Courage is Contagious,
by John Kasich (1998) |
Shortest Way Home,
by Pete Buttigieg (2019) |
Becoming,
by Michelle Obama (2018) |
Higher Loyalty,
by James Comey (2018) |
The Making of Donald Trump,
by David Cay Johnston (2017) |
Trump vs. Hillary On The Issues ,
by Jesse Gordon (2016) |
Outsider in the White House,
by Bernie Sanders (2015) |
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Book Reviews |
(from Amazon.com) |
(click a book cover for a review or other books by or about the presidency from Amazon.com)
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Feb. 7, 2020- Democratic Debate (8th Debate)
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from 8th Democratic Primary Debate (number of quotes indicated):
- Amy Klobuchar (11) Minnesota Democratic candidate for President; Minnesota Senator
- Andrew Yang (9) Democratic candidate for President; CEO
- Bernie Sanders (18) Democratic Presidential candidate
- Elizabeth Warren (13) Massachusetts Senator
- Joe Biden (17) Democratic V.P.
- Pete Buttigieg (15) Indiana Democratic candidate for President; Mayor of South Bend, IN
- Tom Steyer (10) Possible Democratic candidate for President from California
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Eighth Democratic primary debate, with seven candidates, at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire, on the Friday before the N.H. primary.
- This debate was sponsored by ABC news, WMUR-TV (Manchester NH), and Apple News, but they chose not to transcribe this debate -- every prior debate was transcribed by the sponsor.
- Hence we excerpted from three non-transcript sources (which necessarily include some "selection bias")...
- CNBC, "Highlights from the 2020 Democratic debate in New Hampshire", by Kevin Breuninger, Jacob Pramuk, and Yelena Dzhanova
- Washington Post, "Democratic debate highlights: Debate wraps with answers on child poverty"", by Michelle Lee, Annie Linskey, Sean Sullivan, Amy Wang, and Isaac Stanley-Becker.
- FactCheck.org, "FactChecking the New Hampshire Democratic Debate," by Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, D'Angelo Gore, Jessica McDonald, Saranac Hale Spencer, Angelo Fichera, and Isabella Fertel
- Eventually, a civic-minded organization transcribed the debate; we excerpted those too (OnTheIssues does transcribe, but hours of debates takes days of work!)
| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details)
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Abortion
Elizabeth Warren: National law to protect the right of a woman's choice.
Amy Klobuchar: Make right to choose the law of the land.
Bernie Sanders: Appoint only justices who support Roe & Planned Parenthood.
Joe Biden: Has guarded right to choose for years with SCOTUS votes.
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Budget & Economy
Andrew Yang: Way forward is a new human-centered capitalism.
Tom Steyer: Take Trump down on the economy.
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Civil Rights
Andrew Yang: You can't regulate away racism with race-specific laws.
Andrew Yang: Provide buying power to black and brown communities.
Bernie Sanders: We have a racist society from top to bottom.
Tom Steyer: Tell the story of slavery and injustice, leading to policy.
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Crime
Bernie Sanders: End cash bail; unfair to poor.
Elizabeth Warren: Need to rework the entire criminal justice system.
Pete Buttigieg: Systemic racism has penetrated into police departments.
Pete Buttigieg: Legalize pot and help those incarcerated unfairly.
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Drugs
Pete Buttigieg: Fewer arrests than US, but more black arrests for pot.
Amy Klobuchar: I sent drug users to jail, but the only answer is treatment.
Amy Klobuchar: Two-cent per milligram tax on opioids to fund treatment.
Andrew Yang: Take opioid profits and funnel them into treatment.
Andrew Yang: Safe injection centers & safe treatment centers for opioids.
Joe Biden: I got drug courts signed into law.
Pete Buttigieg: Accountability for drug producers; treatment for users.
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Families & Children
Elizabeth Warren: Real money into schools & housing, to fight child poverty.
Joe Biden: Focus on our children, to address child poverty.
Amy Klobuchar: Investment in childcare and pre-school.
Andrew Yang: Disentangle economic value and human value.
Bernie Sanders: My priority is working class families, not the rich.
Elizabeth Warren: The best investment we can make is in our children.
Joe Biden: Kids are our future and health of US depends on them.
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Foreign Policy
Amy Klobuchar: We must work with allies, isolationism does not work.
Joe Biden: NATO will crumble if Trump wins a second term.
Joe Biden: We must keep our commitments when we make them, like NATO.
Tom Steyer: We abandoned diplomacy & allies in favor of military complex.
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Free Trade
Amy Klobuchar: Voted yes for USMCA due to trade improvements.
Bernie Sanders: Not one word in USMCA that deals with climate change.
Elizabeth Warren: USMCA makes things somewhat better for workers.
Tom Steyer: Unilateral action does not lead to a climate treaty.
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Government Reform
Bernie Sanders: Wealthy donors turn their backs on working families.
Elizabeth Warren: FactCheck: prolific past presence with high-dollar donors.
Amy Klobuchar: Automatic voter registration stops racist voter suppression.
Amy Klobuchar: Overturn Citizens United.
Elizabeth Warren: Now, our government is corrupt, works for rich only.
Joe Biden: Cannot allow laws restricting black voters to stand.
Pete Buttigieg: End political battlefield of Supreme Court nominations.
Tom Steyer: GOP is stacking courts, need Dem win to stop it.
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Gun Control
Bernie Sanders: 2005: Allow suing gun manufacturers for negligence.
Bernie Sanders: Changed views on gun control due to epidemic of gun violence.
Elizabeth Warren: Approach gun violence as a public health emergency.
Joe Biden: I pushed Brady Bill when other Dems voted against it.
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Health Care
Amy Klobuchar: Medicare-for-All will kick 149 million off their insurance.
Bernie Sanders: Health care industry last year made $100 billion in profit.
Bernie Sanders: FactCheck: US pays twice OECD average, but not every country.
Joe Biden: Of course Medicare-for-All will require raising taxes.
Pete Buttigieg: 2018: Medicare-for-All; 2020: only for those who want it.
Amy Klobuchar: Medicare-for-All will kick 149 million off their insurance.
Bernie Sanders: Bring America together:end international shame of healthcare.
Bernie Sanders: Bring America together:end international shame of healthcare.
Elizabeth Warren: Reduce the cost of commonly-used prescription drugs.
Joe Biden: My Medicare if you want it plan is affordable.
Pete Buttigieg: Don't command, it should be Medicare for those who want it.
Pete Buttigieg: Don't command, it should be Medicare for those who want it.
Pete Buttigieg: 2018: favored single-payer Medicare-for-All.
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Homeland Security
Bernie Sanders: FactCheck: $1.8 trillion on all military, not just weapons.
Bernie Sanders: We spend $1.8T on collective military; spend it on climate.
Tom Steyer: Need to change world view from war to climate change.
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Jobs
Andrew Yang: Trump is the symptom of the disease of job loss.
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Principles & Values
Bernie Sanders: Trump acquittal will lead to more abuse of power.
Elizabeth Warren: Re-establish the rule of law: investigate government.
Joe Biden: Amend constitution to allow only public money in elections.
Pete Buttigieg: This is a time for belonging, not exclusion.
Tom Steyer: Developed countries don't jail former presidents.
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Tax Reform
Elizabeth Warren: FactCheck: "2% wealth tax" is 6% on wealthiest billionaires.
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War & Peace
Joe Biden: FactCheck: removed troops from Iraq, but they went back.
Tom Steyer: Obama got Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions.
Bernie Sanders: Killing bad leaders leads to international anarchy.
Bernie Sanders: I listened about Iraq; they were lying thru their teeth.
Elizabeth Warren: Nobody sees solutions in Afghanistan, so end the endless war.
Joe Biden: Assassinations in Iran make America stand alone.
Joe Biden: Only deal with terrorism in Afghanistan, not nation-building.
Joe Biden: I made a mistake; Bush said he wouldn't go into Iraq.
Joe Biden: I made a mistake; Bush said he wouldn't go into Iraq.
Pete Buttigieg: Taking out a bad guy is not always a good idea.
Pete Buttigieg: Biden made wrong decision on Iraq War.
Pete Buttigieg: Biden made wrong decision on Iraq War.
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Welfare & Poverty
Amy Klobuchar: Eradicate child poverty in a generation.
Andrew Yang: Disentangle economic value and human value.
Elizabeth Warren: Need race-conscious laws to overcome housing discrimination.
Pete Buttigieg: Dow Jones doesn't measure performance of economy.
Tom Steyer: Think much more ambitiously about poverty and how to end it.
Andrew Yang: If no action taken, minority wealth will be zer0 by 2053.
Bernie Sanders: Whites should not do so much better than blacks.
Joe Biden: I first got involved in politics to fight red-lining.
Pete Buttigieg: Measure economy by poverty levels, not by Dow Jones.
Tom Steyer: Racism is not in the past so we need reparations to fix it.
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Click for quotations from other sources by:
- Amy Klobuchar Minnesota Democratic candidate for President; Minnesota Senator
- Andrew Yang Democratic candidate for President; CEO
- Bernie Sanders Democratic Presidential candidate
- Elizabeth Warren Massachusetts Senator
- Joe Biden Democratic V.P.
- Pete Buttigieg Indiana Democratic candidate for President; Mayor of South Bend, IN
- Tom Steyer Possible Democratic candidate for President from California
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The above quotations are from Feb. 7, 2020- Democratic Debate (8th Debate).
Debates and Surveys in the 2020 Democratic Primary:
- 11th Democratic Debate, one-on-one between Biden and Sanders, March 15, 2020
- 10th Democratic Debate, between South Carolina primary and Super Tuesday, Feb. 25 2020
- Feb. 2020 Democratic Debate (9th Debate) on eve of the Nevada caucus, Feb. 19 2020
- February Democratic candidates debate in N.H., (Feb. 7, 2020)
- CNN New Hampshire Town Halls (Feb. 5-6, 2020)
- January Democratic candidates debate in Des Moines, (Jan. 14, 2020)
- December Democratic candidates debate at UCLA, (Dec. 19, 2019)
- November Democratic candidates debate in Atlanta, (Nov. 20, 2019)
- October Democratic candidates debate in Ohio, (Oct. 15, 2019)
- CNN LGBT Town Hall (Oct. 10, 2019)
- Business Insider Republican candidates debate, (Sept. 24, 2019)
- September Democratic candidates debate in Houston, (Sept. 12, 2019)
- CNN Climate Town Hall (Sept. 4, 2019)
- July Democratic candidates debate in Detroit (July 30-31, 2019)
- June Democratic candidates debate in Miami, (June 26-27, 2019)
- CNN Town Halls (April-May, 2019)
Surveys and other coverage of the Democratic Primary:
- Survey of 2020 Presidential campaign websites
- Politico 2020Dems Presidential survey
- NPR Morning Edition 2020 Presidential survey
- CNN Kfile, investigative reporting on presidential contenders
- Jacobin Magazine, socialist perspectives on presidential contenders
- CNN Town Halls, with presidential contenders
- Fox Town Halls, with presidential contenders
- 2020 Presidential Hopefuls by OnTheIssues.org
Books by 2020 Presidential hopefuls:
- The Truths We Hold, by Kamala Harris (2019)
- Shortest Way Home, by Pete Buttigieg (2019)
- The Mueller Report, investigation and commentary (2019)
- From the Ground Up, by Howard Schultz (2019)
- Where We Go From Here, by Bernie Sanders (2018)
- The Right Answer, by John Delaney (2018)
- An Unlikely Journey, by Julian Castro (2018)
- Healing the Soul of America, by Marianne Williamson (2018)
- Promise Me, Dad, by Joe Biden (2017)
- This Fight Is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren (2017)
- The Making of Donald Trump by David Cay Johnston (2017)
- United, by Cory Booker (2016)
- The Opposite of Woe, by John Hickenlooper (2016)
- The Senator Next Door, by Amy Klobuchar (2015)
- Off the Sidelines, Kirsten Gillibrand (2014)
- Dealing Death and Drugs, by Beto O'Rourke (2011)
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