2021 Georgia US Senate #1 Runoff Voters Guide
Jon Ossoff (D) vs David Perdue (R)
The Candidates
Yes. “Climate change is a major threat to our prosperity and our security,” part of “a broader environmental and ecological crisis.”
No. “The scientific community is not in total agreement” about human cause. Supports Trump withdrawal from Paris Agreement.
Mostly no. Opposed Obama’s Clean Power Plan and limits on offshore drilling. Supports biomass investment.
No. Calls the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic “gross incompetence.”
Yes. Trump and Pence are “taking the coronavirus very seriously.” “We’ve done everything we could.”
No position found. Focuses on increasing teacher pay and strengthening public schools.
Yes. Supports “school choice,” including charter and private schools.
Opposes. “Baseless” attempt “to attack the voting rights of Black Georgians.”
Tighten. Will work to reverse Trump “rollbacks of clean air, clean water, and fuel economy standards.”
Mostly loosen. Roll back “stifling Obama-era regulations.” Against reducing waste and emissions. Reduce plastic waste in oceans.
Tighten. Seeks more regulation of the banking system, reinstating Glass-Steagall Act.
Loosen. Supports “rollback of federal banking regulations.” Calls Consumer Financial Protection Bureau “rogue agency.”
Yes. “DREAMers are Americans … here to stay.” Supports “path to legal status for undocumented immigrants.” “Strong border security doesn’t require” sacrificing “our moral principles.”
Mixed. Supports Trump proposal for DACA path to citizenship tied to cutbacks in legal immigration and funding for wall. DACA brings “chain migration.” Supported limiting visas to “create a merit-based immigration system.”
No position found, although opposed Trump withdrawal from Iran nuclear treaty.
No. Opposed bill to require approval. Supported 2020 attack; “justice has been served.”
Yes. “If Trump pressured a foreign power to smear his political opponent … he should be impeached.”
No on both. Called impeachment “a partisan political weapon … aimed at overturning the 2016 election.”
No position found. Has been endorsed by United Auto Workers.
Yes. Co-sponsored National Right-to-Work Act.
Ban. “Will continue fighting to protect the unborn.” Backed ban on most abortions after six weeks that the courts overturned.
Yes. Supports LGBTQ Rights, and Equality Act against discrimination for gender or orientation.
No. Sees marriage as “between one man and one woman.” In legalizing same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court “overstepped” its role.
Medical yes. Supports access to medical marijuana. As of 2014, opposed recreational.
No recent position. In 2014 said if “increase the minimum wage, you will kill jobs.”
Yes. Will defend Planned Parenthood’s “essential preventative and reproductive health care services.”
No. Co-sponsored bill to end any federal funding of Planned Parenthood.
Yes. Reject “regime that executes political dissidents, executes people for their sexuality and brutally murders journalists.”
No. Voted in U.S. Senate against resolution blocking Saudi arms sales.
Yes. Supports debt forgiveness and making public college, state school, or trade school education “debt-free.”
No. Promises of free tuition are what “the Soviets did in Russia, the Germans did in ’33,” and what the Cubans and Venezuelans did.
No. Criticizes “major purges” of voter rolls and “mass disenfranchisement.” Need a new Voting Rights Act.
No position found. On chaotic GA primary, “more than 150 counties didn’t have any problem. In a few we did. … This idea of voter suppression is a lie right out of the pit of hell.”