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Books by and about 2024 presidential candidates |
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Hillbilly Elegy,
by JD Vance (2017) |
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) |
Becoming,
by Michelle Obama (2018) |
Higher Loyalty,
by James Comey (2018) |
The Making of Donald Trump,
by David Cay Johnston (2017) |
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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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| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details)
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Abortion
Jaime Harrison: NARAL: Harrison "outspoken champion of reproductive freedom".
Jaime Harrison: Should be between a woman, her doctor, her God.
Jay Stamper: Limiting abortion isn't limited-government conservatism.
Krystle Matthews: We must codify a woman's right to choose.
Lee Bright: Human life begins at conception.
Lindsey Graham: Eliminate abortion on demand at 20 weeks.
Thomas Dixon: Women choose what is best for their bodies.
Thomas Ravenel: Hired abortion activist as campaign Communications Director.
Tim Scott: Human life begins at conception.
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Budget & Economy
Gloria Bromell Tinubu: Economic justice is the number one issue.
Gloria Bromell Tinubu: Raise minimum wage to $15/hour if not higher.
Lee Bright: Free enterprise is the key to national prosperity.
Lindsey Graham: Dollar-for-dollar offset: cut spending to raise debt ceiling.
Lindsey Graham: Won't shut country down; getting back to business.
Nancy Mace: Restore some accountability in the budgeting process.
Rick Wade: AdWatch: 5 years in Washington on failed $787B stimulus.
Thomas Ravenel: Federal spending is headed for a doomsday scenario.
Tim Scott: Address fiscal cliff with sequestration & tax cut extension.
Tim Scott: Free enterprise is the key to national prosperity.
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Civil Rights
Brad Hutto: Equal pay for equal work is the next women's milestone.
Jaime Harrison: Encourage voter drives among unregistered African Americans.
Jaime Harrison: Opposes voters having to provide Social Security numbers.
Jaime Harrison: HRC: Harrison among strongest advocate for LGBTQ equality.
Jay Stamper: Asked by Party to exit race after supporting gay marriage.
Krystle Matthews: Opposed transgender sports law, leave transgender kids alone.
Lee Bright: Government shouldn't redefine marriage.
Rick Wade: First all-black U.S. Senate race in recent memory.
Thomas Ravenel: Government should stay out of our bedrooms &our boardrooms.
Thomas Ravenel: Stay out of marriage, but if not, treat gays equally.
Tim Scott: Government shouldn't redefine marriage.
Krystle Matthews: Criticized Tim Scott for claiming America isn't racist.
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Corporations
Jay Stamper: Stop giving away millions in corporate welfare.
Lindsey Graham: 1997: Created trucking logistics company with 100 employees.
Lindsey Graham: AdWatch: Hero of the taxpayer & guardian of small business.
Rick Wade: Served in Obama's U.S. Commerce Department.
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Crime
Jaime Harrison: Done with racial profiling, bias, and over-policing.
Jaime Harrison: Bring police and community together to address problems.
Jay Stamper: Pleaded guilty to three white-collar felony charges in 2006.
Krystle Matthews: We do need to reimagine the way we do policing.
Lindsey Graham: Capital punishment for child rapists.
Lindsey Graham: I believe in reform but cops need our support more than ever.
Thomas Dixon: Ban the box: let ex-cons get jobs.
Lindsey Graham: Pardoning attackers of police sends the wrong signal .
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Drugs
Jaime Harrison: Legalize, regulate, and tax marijuana like alcohol, tobacco.
Krystle Matthews: South Carolina should be ready to support medical marijuana.
Lindsey Graham: For medical legalization; opposes recreational legalization.
Thomas Dixon: Self-described former alcoholic and drug addict.
Thomas Ravenel: In favor of ending the war on drugs.
Thomas Ravenel: End the war on drugs; it's federal overreach & unsuccessful.
Tim Scott: Marijuana is unhealthy, but states' rights are important too.
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Education
Jaime Harrison: Losing a whole generation of teachers because of low pay.
Jaime Harrison: We need 50-state strategy to open up schools: testing, masks.
Jaime Harrison: Reduce college tuition, address student loan crisis.
Krystle Matthews: Frustrated with SC's consistent inadequacy with education.
Lee Bright: Advocates abolishing the Department of Education.
Lee Bright: Real choice including private schools and home-schooling.
Lee Bright: Oppose nationwide Common Core standards.
Lindsey Graham: Sex education about abstinence, not contraception.
Nancy Mace: Strongly supports educational choice.
Rick Wade: All 6 siblings attended public schools.
Rick Wade: Vision for S.C. focused on education and jobs.
Thomas Dixon: Entitlement to quality education, including college.
Thomas Ravenel: Charter schools' success prove point of local empowerment.
Tim Scott: Oppose nationwide Common Core standards.
Tim Scott: COVID: direct some relief funding to school choice programs.
Tim Scott: In America a good education is the closest thing to magic.
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Energy & Oil
Jaime Harrison: Green New Deal too expensive, but must reduce emissions.
Jaime Harrison: Offshore oil spill would destroy jobs, harm environment.
Joyce Dickerson: Open the Savannah River Site nuclear reactor fuel project.
Lee Bright: Deal with waste, to remove obstacles to new nuclear plants.
Lee Bright: No subsidies for wind and solar.
Lindsey Graham: Green New Deal is crazy; would destroy economy.
Rett Newton: There's strong bipartisan opposition to offshore drilling.
Rick Wade: V.P. of GreenTech Automotive, the "green car" company.
Thomas Dixon: Climate change is real and we must prepare for its effects.
Tim Scott: No subsidies for wind and solar.
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Environment
Lindsey Graham: Green diesel regulations cost $367 per truck per year.
Rett Newton: As mayor of coastal town has made clean water a priority.
Thomas Dixon: Make sure our planet is habitable for future generations.
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Families & Children
Jaime Harrison: How do I tell my black sons that this could be them?
Lindsey Graham: Support traditional families & right to pray.
Thomas Ravenel: Let churches provide for families in need, not state.
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Foreign Policy
Brad Hutto: Focus on state's needs, not foreign conflicts.
Brad Hutto: We should not act as the world's policeman.
Jay Stamper: Trillions on foreign engagements isn't fiscal conservatism.
Lee Bright: Remove Russia from G-8 over Ukraine invasion.
Lindsey Graham: Create a democratic noose around Putin's Russia.
Nancy Mace: No foreign aid to Egypt & countries who are our enemies.
Thomas Dixon: Lead by example and be a good actor.
Thomas Ravenel: Opposed to foreign interventions.
Lindsey Graham: Iran's ayatollah is a religious Nazi who wants purify Islam.
Lindsey Graham: I have legislation that will crush the Russian economy.
Lindsey Graham: Destroy Russian economy if Putin won't end war.
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Free Trade
Lindsey Graham: NAFTA drained away textile trade from Upstate SC.
Richard Burr: Oppose preferential trade for China & others that bend rules.
Rick Wade: Envoy to China, to get investment via EB-5 visas.
Thomas Dixon: Look at how trade impacts our own workforce.
Tim Scott: Opposes currency manipulation as trade negotiation topic.
Tim Scott: Yes to trade adjustment; Yes to fast-track.
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Government Reform
Jaime Harrison: Overturn Citizens United, end decade of Dark Money.
Krystle Matthews: Grassroots effort to register 150,000 new voters.
Krystle Matthews: Provide transparency between citizens and state government.
Lee Bright: Photo ID for voting.
Nancy Mace: Term limits are the only way to stop the ruling elitists.
Nancy Mace: Term limits of 12 years for Senate; 6 years for House.
Rick Wade: Washington is broken.
Thomas Dixon: Voting rights need to be protected from attack.
Tim Scott: Photo ID for voting.
Tim Scott: Jim Crow 2.0 exaggerates compared to historical Jim Crow.
Lindsey Graham: Third term for Trump: Trump 2028; I hope this never ends.
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Gun Control
Jaime Harrison: Endorsed by Everytown for Gun Safety for gun-sense majority.
Joyce Dickerson: Right to guns, but address issues of gun violence.
Krystle Matthews: Gun owner, strong advocate for gun reform laws.
Lee Bright: Opposes more gun restrictions.
Richard Burr: Hunter and sportsman; teach heritage & respect for firearms.
Thomas Dixon: Close the gun show loophole and the Charleston Loophole.
Tim Scott: Don't rush to judgment on gun control after school shootings.
Tim Scott: Opposes more gun restrictions.
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Health Care
Gloria Bromell Tinubu: Work toward making health care more affordable.
Jaime Harrison: Lower access to care "ripping a heart out of a community".
Jaime Harrison: COVID: Put blame on how we handled it, I take it seriously.
Lee Bright: Full implementation of ObamaCare ends self-governance.
Lee Bright: Repeal ObamaCare; it's not a government responsibility.
Lindsey Graham: Let ObamaCare show itself as a continuing debacle.
Lindsey Graham: Opposed ObamaCare from day one.
Lindsey Graham: COVID: no one attacked Wilson when he got Spanish flu.
Nancy Mace: ObamaCare will be the undoing of our American way of life.
Rick Wade: ObamaCare addresses closing health care disparities.
Thomas Dixon: ObamaCare needs to be protected and expanded.
Thomas Ravenel: Against ObamaCare.
Thomas Ravenel: Tort reform will reduce medical liability.
Tim Scott: Repeal ObamaCare; it's not a government responsibility.
Lindsey Graham: I am not going to vote to extend the ACA subsidies.
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Homeland Security
Jack Reed: Don't over-react to Benghazi; situation was confused.
Jay Stamper: NSA domestic spying included innocent U.S. citizens.
Joyce Dickerson: I'm mad as heel about delays in veterans' care.
Lee Bright: Maintain a superior nuclear arsenal.
Lindsey Graham: NSA domestic spying only targets terrorism suspects.
Lindsey Graham: NSA leaker Edward Snowden is a felon, not a hero.
Lindsey Graham: President did not do enough to protect Benghazi embassy.
Lindsey Graham: Cuts to military systems will leave us with a hollow force.
Lindsey Graham: Doing nothing about Benghazi leads to a more dangerous world.
Rett Newton: Served 28 years in Air Force including post 9/11 air patrols.
Thomas Ravenel: I want a military that defends America, not Germany or Japan.
Thomas Ravenel: We absolutely must have the world's strongest military.
Thomas Ravenel: We need bold leadership combating terrorists & terror states.
Thomas Ravenel: No NSA snooping; defend the Fourth Amendment.
Thomas Ravenel: No more blood & treasure on 'nation-building' in Iraq.
Tim Scott: Maintain a superior nuclear arsenal.
Tim Scott: Require stronger evidence for FISA electronic surveillance.
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Immigration
Jaime Harrison: Congress should enact DACA into law with DREAM Act.
Lee Bright: Secure the border first; but no amnesty.
Lee Bright: Protect the borders; prevent illegal entry.
Lindsey Graham: Secure border now in place with comprehensive immigration.
Lindsey Graham: New amnesty is tough and ends incoming illegals.
Thomas Ravenel: Robust worker visa program, plus anything else reasonable.
Tim Scott: Protect the borders; prevent illegal entry.
Lindsey Graham: Congress needs to appropriate money for more ICE agents.
Lindsey Graham: Introduced bill to end birthright citizenship years ago.
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Jobs
Gloria Bromell Tinubu: Economic freedom includes federal minimum wage increase.
Jaime Harrison: Current job protections the hard work of unions.
Joyce Dickerson: Equal pay for women, and higher minimum wage.
Lee Bright: It's just a myth that government can create jobs.
Lindsey Graham: Biggest business headache is worker's compensation system.
Thomas Dixon: Raise minimum wage to $15 per hour.
Tim Scott: Opportunity Zone jobs have seen up to 8% wage increase.
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Principles & Values
Gloria Bromell Tinubu: Dropped Senate bid; endorses Jaime Harrison.
Jaime Harrison: Helping others: cooking dinners, sharing campaign donations.
Jaime Harrison: Not political issues: about doing what is right.
Jaime Harrison: I will never lie to you; won't go back on my word.
Jaime Harrison: First step working with other side is not to call them nuts.
Joyce Dickerson: For various reasons, I won't campaign for Hillary in 2016.
Krystle Matthews: Can work with Republicans but confront them when needed.
Krystle Matthews: Not easily swayed without information, will read everything.
Lee Bright: I live all aspects of my life based on Biblical principles.
Lee Bright: Judeo-Christian values established our government framework.
Lindsey Graham: Big choice election: capitalism versus socialism.
Nancy Mace: Give a conservative voice to the people of South Carolina.
Rett Newton: Pursuing doctorate while serving as mayor.
Rick Wade: Commitment to listen to the people, not special interests.
Rick Wade: Ran unsuccessfully for secretary of state in 2002.
Rick Wade: Withdraws from race, citing too-late entrance.
Thomas Ravenel: Fiscally conservative and socially moderate libertarian.
Thomas Ravenel: Values taught by church, not enforced by mandate.
Tim Scott: Served in public office for 18 years, with 2 terms in House.
Tim Scott: OpEd: Dems call Scott "senator for the Heritage Foundation".
Tim Scott: Grew up poor in a black community in North Charleston.
Tim Scott: Judeo-Christian values established our government framework.
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Social Security
Jaime Harrison: Social Security and Medicare are more than a promise.
Lindsey Graham: Link size of cost of living increases to income.
Richard Burr: Protect retiree benefits & protect Trust Fund.
Thomas Ravenel: Voluntary personal accounts for younger workers.
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Tax Reform
Jaime Harrison: Repeal 2017 tax cuts which were for the wealthy.
Krystle Matthews: Exempt feminine hygiene products from state sales tax.
Lee Bright: Supports the FairTax to simplify taxes.
Thomas Ravenel: Tax cuts lead to growing economy with higher revenues.
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Technology
Jaime Harrison: Our infrastructure in this state sucks.
Joyce Dickerson: Ensure the county has reliable public transportation.
Joyce Dickerson: Serves on COMET transit system board of directors.
Lee Bright: Dredge the Port of Charleston to a 50-foot depth.
Lindsey Graham: $10 billion proposal for rural high speed internet.
Rick Wade: Infrastructure investment in the poorest areas of S.C.
Thomas Ravenel: Government doesn't belong in your email inbox.
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War & Peace
Jay Stamper: Don't go on "war footing" against Russia over Ukraine.
Lee Bright: Intervention in Syria would help the Muslim Brotherhood.
Lindsey Graham: Intervention in Syria to degrade Assad's chemical weapons.
Lindsey Graham: Getting Syria wrong leads to Iranian nukes & war with Israel.
Lindsey Graham: Support the Syrian rebels against Assad & Iran.
Lindsey Graham: Syria: Assad must go, and small arms won't do it.
Lindsey Graham: Slow Afghan withdrawal, with 15,000 US troops left behind.
Lindsey Graham: Get involved in Syria to protect against al Qaeda and Iran.
Lindsey Graham: Obama "screams loudly & carries no stick," in Russia & Syria.
Lindsey Graham: More intervention in Iraq avoids an American city in flames.
Nancy Mace: Intervention in Syria would bolster al-Qaida.
Newt Gingrich: Obama "screams loudly & carries no stick," in Russia & Syria.
Thomas Ravenel: Republicans are pro-invading this or that country.
Thomas Ravenel: U.S. military is over-involved overseas.
Thomas Ravenel: Intervention in Iraq based on same nonsense as in past.
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Welfare & Poverty
Thomas Ravenel: New Deal & Great Society are examples of federal overreach.
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