Political positions of Joe Biden
Biden is a member of the Democratic Party. He served as Vice President from 2009 to 2017 and in the United States Senate from 1973 until 2009. He made his second presidential run in 2008, later being announced as Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s running mate in 2008. Biden has been described as center-left and has described himself as such. His policies emphasize the needs of middle-class and working-class Americans.
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Biden is a member of the Democratic Party. He served as Vice President from 2009 to 2017 and in the United States Senate from 1973 until 2009. He made his second presidential run in 2008, later being announced as Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s running mate in 2008. Biden has been described as center-left and has described himself as such. His policies emphasize the needs of middle-class and working-class Americans and have drawn political support from those groups. Biden supports building upon the Affordable Care Act through a public health insurance option instead of a single-payer system. He supports decriminalizing cannabis at the federal level and the right for states to legalize it. He also supports the Roe v. Wade decision and since 2019 has been in favor of repealing the Hyde Amendment. In April 2019, Biden announced his 2020 presidential campaign. He became the presumptive Democratic nominee in April 2020, was formally nominated by the Democratic party in August 2020, and defeated Republican incumbent Donald Trump in the November 2020 election. In the mid-1970s, Biden was one of the Senate’s leading opponents of race-integration busing. His Delaware constituents strongly opposed it, and such opposition nationwide later led his party to mostly abandon school integration policies. In his first Senate campaign, Biden expressed support for busing to remedy de jure segregation, as in the South. In 2003, Biden voted for the \”Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003\”. In 2007, he opposed the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of Gonzales v.
Carhart which upheld the Partial-Birth abortion Ban Act. In 1982, he voted against the same failed constitutional amendment allowing states to overturn Roe, and in 2006, he stated in an interview that \”I do not view abortion as a choice and a right. I think it’s always a tragedy\” He now says he would consider codifying the Roe precedent into federal law in case the ruling is overturned by the Supreme Court. He pledged that he would appoint United States Supreme Court justices who shared his beliefs in upholding Roe. He was the highest-ranking U. S. official to voice support for same-sex marriage, preempting Obama on the subject. He said he would follow the cardinal rule of common sense and make it easier for other liberals to follow his opposition to other liberals. In 1975, he supported a proposal that would have prevented the Department of Health and Human Services from cutting federal funds to districts that refused to integrate. This led him to align himself with anti-busing senators. In May 1974, Biden vote to table a proposal containing anti-desegregation clauses but later voted for a modified version containing a version that would weaken the 5th and 14th Amendment. Later, Biden told a meeting of Delaware parents that his position on busing was evolving, emphasizing that he was emphasizing that his opinion was in his opinion beyond court restrictions. He now supports the Mexico City policy, but now supports repealing it. In June 2019, he reversed his support and now supports repeal the Hyde amendment.
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