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Budget & Economy     Donald Trump: Brush with bankruptcy: $700M loss in debt restructuring.

Civil Rights     Hillary Clinton: Op-ed: Sponsored flag-burning bill for centrist credential.     Pete Buttigieg: For LGBT rights, but doesn't presume to speak for everyone.     Sally Yates: Religious freedom is a defining, founding principle of US.

Corporations     Tom Steyer: Big-money interests are committed to stopping progress.

Crime     Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Lower crime with violence-interruption programs, summer jobs.     Mike Bloomberg: Lock them up and throw away key, but no death penalty.     Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: JFK assassination and coverup with CIA involvement.     Bernie Sanders: I support police reform; not "defunding the police".

Education     Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Biden should pursue student-loan cancellation.     Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: They're replacing history with white-nationalist propaganda.

Environment     Bill Weld: 1996 River Protection Act: 9,000 miles of land use rules.     Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: End toxic polarization: only environmentalist on Fox News.

Foreign Policy     Anthony Kennedy: Using foreign law is inevitable with an interconnected world.     Antonin Scalia: Foreign laws ought to be rejected out of hand.     Stephen Breyer: Supreme Court can learn from foreign laws.     Cornel West: Pro-Palestinians are accused of being anti-Semitic or naive.

Government Reform     Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Attacks on right to vote puts our democracy at risk.     Doug Mastriano: Supported lawsuits, alternate electors after 2020 election.     Pete Buttigieg: Get rid of the Electoral College.     Xi Jinping: Ended presidential term limits, consolidating power.     Xi Jinping: Most serious challenge since the end of the Cold War.

Health Care     Pete Buttigieg: His generation not put off by claims of "socialism".

Immigration     Richard Ojeda: Taking benefits from illegal immigrants sounds good.     Sally Yates: Muslim travel ban violates religious freedom.

Jobs     Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: I believe in labor unions & a robust middle class.

Principles & Values     Donald Trump: Trump Tower glitz: Italian marble 80-foot waterfall.     Doug Mastriano: Prayed that God would influence Capitol election protest.     Hillary Clinton: Hillary's paradox: she's not as liberal as people think.     Howard Dean: DNC pursuing a 50-state strategy to take back the House.     Howie Hawkins: Danger of Trump doesn't mean electing "any damned Democrat".     John F. Kennedy: JFKs's Addison disease kept secret for decades.     Sally Yates: AG should say no to president in order to obey the law.     Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: America without censorship: I'm not a cancel-culture guy.     Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Congress is a sh-t show, scandalizing every single day.

Technology     Paul Ryan: Within government limits are things like infrastructure.

War & Peace     James Mattis: Keep U.S. troops in Syria indefinitely to defeat ISIS.     James Mattis: Keep U.S. troops in Syria indefinitely to defeat ISIS.     Wesley Clark: Bush used 9/11 as a pretext to implement Iraq invasion plan.     Wesley Clark: Supported Iraq war while we were at war.     Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Supports Minsk accord: Independent Donbas & annexed Crimea.

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