2020 Georgia US Senate Runoff Voters Guide
Kelly Loeffler (R) vs Raphael Warnock (D)
The Candidates
No. Supports lawsuit to end ACA. Calls Medicare for All insidious attack on liberty.
Yes. Would “protect, improve, and build upon the Affordable Care Act.”
No climate change position found. Her company previously lobbied for cap and trade when they’d likely have gotten contracts to administer it.
Yes. “Trump and his administration have taken the threat of COVID-19 seriously from the beginning.” Senate and Justice Department cleared Loeffler of insider trading following early COVID briefings.
Introduced bills to protect reopening businesses from liability if employees or customers are infected, to make stop-gap “short-term health plans a permanent solution,” and to get U.S. medical supply companies to relocate from China to U.S.
Yes. Let states send federal funds for low-income students to both public and private schools.
No position found
Unclear, but general anti-regulatory stance. Wants to “look at what we’re doing with regard to the economy and the environment collectively.”
Loosen. Co-sponsored bills to eliminate “unnecessary” regulations, and to delay banking regulations. “Phase out all federal regulations that have been waived during the COVID-19 crisis.”
No position found.
No. “Strong Second Amendment supporter.” Sponsored bill barring national firearm database.
Yes. “The answer to America’s gun violence isn’t to encourage masses of people to carry guns.”
Yes. Co-sponsored Asylum Abuse Reduction Act. Undocumented should not get free health care.
No. Immigration is “desperately broken.” Cites Jesus as an “undocumented immigrant.”
No. Wants to “hold illegal immigrants accountable.” Co-sponsored bills to stop states from issuing driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants and set fines for aliens in the U.S. improperly.
Yes. “People need a dignified path to citizenship.” About DACA, “You have no right to celebrate the dream if you will not liberate the dreamers.”
No. “This impeachment sham is an attack on what was a free and fair election.” Advertises her “100% Trump voting record [as] the most conservative senator in America.”
No position found.
Yes. Co-sponsored National Right-to-Work Act, establishing right to work on a national basis.
No. Supports “pay equity” with “honest wages, protected retirement, and fair overtime compensation.” Endorsed by Georgia AFL-CIO.
Ban. “Unapologetically pro-life.” Has co-sponsored “four bills to protect the unborn.”
Legal. Supports “a woman’s right to choose …, a decision between her and her doctor.”
Not if it interferes with religious faith. “People of faith should be protected.”
Yes. Will “protect members of the LGBTQ+ community from housing, financial, and employment discrimination.”
Ban. Is “concerned about the negative effects that legalizing marijuana would have.”
Legal. Wants to decriminalize marijuana.
No position found.
Yes. $7.25 an hour “is not a living wage.” Will “fight to raise the minimum to a livable wage.”
No. Called for investigating Planned Parenthood for receiving taxpayer funds under the Paycheck Protection Program.
Yes. Opposes “all partisan attacks defunding health care providers like Planned Parenthood.”
No. Co-sponsored resolutions supporting “Back the Blue” and opposing calls to defund. Critics failing “to support law enforcement at a time when they need it most.”
Yes. Wants increased accountability and bias training and a uniform standard for the use of force. Does not support defunding.
Yes. Introduced bill to raise penalties for voter fraud and illegal ballot harvesting.
No. Supports restoring oversight provisions of Voting Rights Act, which made voting restrictions harder to enact.
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