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Abortion
Allen Glines: Can't control reproductive rights yet oppose govt. overreach.
Craig Bowden: No late-term abortion except for maternal life.
Jenny Wilson: Abortion rights are best left in the hands of the courts.
Jenny Wilson: Opposes requiring a 72-hour waiting period for abortions.
Jonathan Swinton: I don't want federal funds to pay for abortions.
Misty Snow: Only a woman and her doctors have a say on pregnancy.
Evan McMullin: We've got to stand up to extremes tearing the country apart.
Brad Wilson: Fighting to protect our children, including the unborn.
Caroline Gleich: Staunch supporter of the right to choose.
Caroline Gleich: No place for the government in intimate, personal decisions.
Misty Snow: Don't interfere with private medical decisions of women.
Trent Staggs: Abortion until 14 weeks; exceptions for rape, incest, & life.
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Budget & Economy
Austin Searle: Supports Universal Basic Income: $1200 a month.
Craig Bowden: No stimulus; market forces tell us where money should go.
Dan Liljenquist: TARP (bank bailout) was wasteful spending.
Evan McMullin: Pass balanced budget legislation.
Orrin Hatch: My 36 years in Senate could make me Finance Committee chair.
Orrin Hatch: My balanced budget bill failed by only one vote.
Orrin Hatch: OpEd: Federal debt increased rapidly on his watch.
Orrin Hatch: Re-elect me and I'll chair the Senate Finance Committee.
Orrin Hatch: Accused of "fiscal child abuse" by leaving debt for future.
Brad Wilson: We make sure that our spending can't get out of control.
Trent Staggs: Pass a balanced budget amendment; oppose omnibus bills.
Caroline Gleich: Focuses on job creation, economic growth, needs of workforce.
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Civil Rights
Allen Glines: Forbid discrimination against LGBTQIA+ individuals.
Austin Searle: Pass the Personal Privacy Act; stop sharing of personal data.
Craig Bowden: Same-sex marriage isn't my business to restrict.
Evan McMullin: Condemn bigotry including based on sexual orientation.
Jenny Wilson: Fight to get same-sex benefits.
Jenny Wilson: Supports bill honoring women's suffrage and women's rights.
Jenny Wilson: Let's keep MLK's dream alive.
Misty Snow: Protect rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans* people.
Misty Snow: Ratify treaty on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.
Orrin Hatch: 1977: No gay teachers; 2018: No LGBT discrimination.
Brad Wilson: Appointed anti-trans activist to trans sports commission .
Brad Wilson: Signed Compact on Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
Caroline Gleich: Hateful rhetoric on immigrants, LGBTQ+ doesn't reflect Utah.
Trent Staggs: No taxpayer funding for gender transition services.
Trent Staggs: Disagrees with Critical Race Theory (CRT) .
John Curtis: As the mayor of Provo I prioritized inclusion and love.
John Curtis: Opposed Equality Act for not protecting religious liberty.
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Corporations
Jenny Wilson: Tax cut: Xmas present to corporations; lump of coal for poor.
Jonathan Swinton: Make loans as easy for small business as for large ones.
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Crime
Allen Glines: Reported illegal gambling sites and had them shut down.
Allen Glines: Ban private prisons, cash bail, and civil forfeiture.
Allen Glines: Increased penalties for facilities, persons for elder abuse.
Austin Searle: Police should only carry tasers, not guns.
Craig Bowden: Rehabilitation instead of punishment.
Evan McMullin: Our criminal justice system must treat everyone equally.
Jenny Wilson: Beef up laws to address targeted hate crimes.
Misty Snow: End private prisons; end profit in incarceration.
Misty Snow: Why so many people in prison? Why so many minorities?
Trent Staggs: Crime is running amok on American streets.
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Drugs
Allen Glines: Phase out penalties for marijuana at the federal level.
Craig Bowden: Marijuana is not a gateway drug; prescriptions are.
Jenny Wilson: More funding for opioid treatment for victims.
Jenny Wilson: Supports legalized medical marijuana; it has helped so many.
Misty Snow: Get feds out of the way of states on marijuana policy.
John Curtis: Rated C- by NORML: medical marijuana is a state issue.
Mitt Romney: Rated D+ by NORML on marijuana reform.
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Education
Allen Glines: Gradually lower tuition, allow student loan forgiveness.
Craig Bowden: Vouchers are a good step towardending public schools.
Jon Huntsman: 2007: statewide vouchers, "Parent Choice in Education Act.
Jonathan Swinton: Reduce size of federal Dept. of Ed.; shift to local schools.
Caroline Gleich: Provide quality and equitable opportunities for all students.
Brad Wilson: Provide parents full transparency into children's classrooms.
Trent Staggs: Parents must have options to meet their child's unique needs.
John Curtis: Decisions about education should be made at the local level.
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Energy & Oil
Allen Glines: Support Green New Deal, but no harm to economy.
Austin Searle: Improving energy efficiency impacts climate change.
Austin Searle: Infrastructure investments can reduce emissions.
Craig Bowden: No subsidies for green energy; don't pick winners & losers.
Jenny Wilson: Promote clean air and clean energy.
Misty Snow: Directly tax coal, to fund solar and wind.
Brad Wilson: Expand production: nuclear, natural gas, oil, solar, wind.
Brad Wilson: Our coal is significantly cleaner than the coal in China.
Trent Staggs: No American should accept the crippling of domestic energy.
John Curtis: 2021: Founded the Conservative Climate Caucus.
Caroline Gleich: Supports transition to clean, renewable energy sources.
Caroline Gleich: Reduce or eliminate subsidies for fossil fuels.
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Environment
Allen Glines: Ban puppy mills; make animal cruelty a felony.
Austin Searle: Ban euthanizing at animal shelters.
Austin Searle: Why no vote on clean water infrastructure bill?
Craig Bowden: EPA should only advise; enforcement is over-reach.
Dan Liljenquist: States' right to control public land.
Evan McMullin: Develop water conservation practices and infrastructure.
Jenny Wilson: Why are our parks and canyons receiving so little?
Jenny Wilson: Build bikeways instead of just freeways.
Misty Snow: Keep public lands open: federal control instead of state.
John Curtis: Ban Natural Asset Companies from "ecological performance".
Caroline Gleich: Lobbied EPA to cut emissions from coal plants.
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Families & Children
Allen Glines: Worked to build awareness of missing children's cases.
Allen Glines: Protect domestic violence victims; punish abusers.
Allen Glines: For paid maternity leave up to 16 weeks.
Caroline Gleich: More resources for childcare and elder care.
Trent Staggs: Raised in middle-class family of 10 children; has 2 kids.
Trent Staggs: Marriage is a God-ordained union of one man and one woman.
Caroline Gleich: Expand child care subsidies for those who need them.
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Foreign Policy
Allen Glines: Called for an end to US embargo of Cuba.
Craig Bowden: Prefer American opportunities to American exceptionalism.
Evan McMullin: Strengthen our alliances with other free nations.
Mitt Romney: Reject philosophy of national decline in all of its variants.
Trent Staggs: America stands with Israel; stop UN funding allies of Hamas.
Caroline Gleich: Important to support our allies and protect democracy.
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Free Trade
Craig Bowden: Free Trade.
Mike Lee: Power over foreign trade as little as over interstate tr.
Mike Lee: Power over foreign trade as little as over interstate tr.
Orrin Hatch: Supports USMCA trade agreement to replace NAFTA.
Brad Wilson: There's a lot of opportunity for us to partner with Taiwan.
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Government Reform
Allen Glines: Protect voting rights; expand vote by mail options.
Allen Glines: Rollback any change made to USPS during Trump.
Austin Searle: For term limits for Congress & Supreme Court.
Austin Searle: Ranked-choice voting should be a human right.
Craig Bowden: Supports mail-in voting and ranked-choice voting.
Dan Liljenquist: Congress should pass regulations, not executive agencies.
Dan Liljenquist: Sprinklers in every house are out-of-hand regulation.
Evan McMullin: Oppose the intentional disenfranchisement of voters.
Evan McMullin: We support sensible and limited regulation.
Jenny Wilson: Focus on voter suppression and gerrymandering.
Jonathan Swinton: Limit congressional terms & campaign donations.
Jonathan Swinton: Term limits for members of Congress.
Mike Lee: Reclaim right to constitutionally limited government.
Misty Snow: There is too much money in politics: it's legalized bribery.
Pete Ashdown: Refuses any money from political action committees.
Mike Lee: Voted to certify 2020 election after questioning it.
Mike Lee: Only role on Jan. 6 is counting electoral ballots.
Brad Wilson: Opposes unnecessary or burdensome cryptocurrency regulation.
Brad Wilson: For procedures to improve and verify results of balloting.
Trent Staggs: The ruling elite have created a regulatory state run amok.
Trent Staggs: Would prefer to have only paper ballots with photo ID.
Mitt Romney: 2021: remove Trump from office; 2024: he's not fit to lead.
Caroline Gleich: Opposed to partisan gerrymandering from both sides.
Allen Glines: End Citizens United; reform Federal Elections Commission.
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Gun Control
Austin Searle: Require licensing, registration, training.
Craig Bowden: No gun restrictions except on convicted felons.
Misty Snow: More background checks; no guns to violent criminals.
Mitt Romney: Prevent school shootings with state and local action.
Brad Wilson: Led the fight to bring Constitutional Carry to Utah.
Trent Staggs: Those wanting to take guns are responsible for crime wave.
Allen Glines: Ban assault weapons; pass universal background checks.
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Health Care
Allen Glines: Support Affordable Care Act; develop universal healthcare.
Allen Glines: Streamline process for accommodations for disabilities.
Austin Searle: Replace employer-paid insurance with Medicare for All.
Craig Bowden: ObamaCare only benefits the insurance companies.
Dan Liljenquist: No 5-year wait for child health insurance for immigrants.
Evan McMullin: Negotiate lower drug prices, expand telemedicine.
Jenny Wilson: Medicaid money can fight opioid crisis.
Jenny Wilson: Keep ObamaCare individual insurance mandate.
Misty Snow: Healthcare is a human right; insure the 33M uninsured.
Misty Snow: ObamaCare is a good start, but goal is single payer.
Orrin Hatch: ObamaCare is an "atrocious" act; repeal & replace.
Scott Howell: Improve ObamaCare rather than kill it.
Caroline Gleich: Ensure affordable and quality healthcare for all.
Trent Staggs: Consistently pro-liberty during the COVID lockdowns.
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Homeland Security
Allen Glines: Seek to end homelessness among veterans.
Craig Bowden: Full audit of military, then many cuts.
Mike Lee: Keep "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" for troop morale.
Orrin Hatch: I fight every year to save Hill Air Force Base.
Sam Granato: Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"; an affront to gay soldiers.
Mike Lee: Don't let important PATRIOT Act provisions expire.
Trent Staggs: Maintain the air superiority making us world's "Top Gun".
Caroline Gleich: Advocate policies that support veterans' rights & healthcare.
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Immigration
Craig Bowden: Streamline the process to make it easier to come legally.
Evan McMullin: We are committed to a pluralistic society, diverse nation.
Jenny Wilson: Against tearing up families.
Jenny Wilson: It's not chain migration; it's family-based immigration.
Mike Lee: Enforce job laws and illegal immigrants will go home.
Misty Snow: Treat undocumented people as human beings.
Mitt Romney: Poverty level of aspiring immigrant's nation is irrelevant.
Mitt Romney: Welcome legal immigrants, instead of message of exclusion.
Orrin Hatch: Introduced bipartisan DREAM Act.
Sam Granato: Don't rip apart families; support the DREAM Act.
Brad Wilson: Stop illegals, drugs, and terrorists coming into our country.
Trent Staggs: American hating globalists support illegal immigration.
Caroline Gleich: Help support vetted immigrants coming here who want to work.
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Jobs
Allen Glines: Find best course to raise minimum wage to $15.
Austin Searle: Funding business start-ups creates jobs, economic growth.
Austin Searle: Raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Craig Bowden: Free market instead of affirmative action.
Misty Snow: Raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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Principles & Values
Allen Glines: Condemn white supremacy & far right nationalism.
Allen Glines: Parents of eight children, four of them quadruplets.
Craig Bowden: Work for all Utahns, regardless of religious beliefs.
Dan Liljenquist: Holds "debate" against opponent's video clips.
Evan McMullin: Political extremes don't represent the majority.
Evan McMullin: Uphold Constitution as inviolable and collective contract.
Misty Snow: I describe myself as a libertarian-leaning progressive.
Mitt Romney: Bring Utah's values and Utah's lessons to Washington.
Orrin Hatch: 1976: What do you call 2-term incumbents? Call him home!
Orrin Hatch: Debates are a time-worn campaign tactic for free press.
Orrin Hatch: I work with both Republicans and Democrats, out of necessity.
Orrin Hatch: 36 years of seniority means I can finally enact change.
Orrin Hatch: I'm running to help Mitt Romney and to be Committee Chairman.
Orrin Hatch: 2012 will be my last election, after 6 terms.
Pete Ashdown: Dems should be bold and different, not Republican light.
Sam Granato: Utahns choice is mainstream candidate vs. extreme candidate.
Scott Howell: Electing the same people get the same results.
Scott Howell: I learned bipartisanship as minority party in state Senate.
Scott Howell: Reach out the hand of fellowship in compromise to GOP.
Evan McMullin: AdWatch: Some Republicans are racist, but not all.
Evan McMullin: I'll maintain my independence, not caucus with either side.
Mike Lee: FactCheck: worked to overturn Electoral College votes.
Brad Wilson: Need to restore the values that have made our country great.
Trent Staggs: Jesus Christ at the center of their family of two children.
Trent Staggs: Wokeness is a false religion with no business in government.
Trent Staggs: We need leaders who will put America first!
Mitt Romney: Time for new generation of leaders excluding Biden AND Trump.
Caroline Gleich: Family loss led to becoming a professional ski mountaineer.
Misty Snow: Spiritually, I value love and compassion for all people.
Mitt Romney: I don't want Trump for President, but I won't endorse Kamala.
John Curtis: I really like to align myself with core Utah values.
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Social Security
Allen Glines: Ensure solvency of Social Security & Medicare.
Austin Searle: Maximize benefits, lower retirement age to 52.
Craig Bowden: Voluntary phase out for younger generations.
Evan McMullin: Favors cuts, means testing, raising retirement age.
Jonathan Swinton: Reduce Social Security taxes on entrepreneurs.
Mike Lee: Raise the retirement age to save Social Security.
Misty Snow: Remove cap on Social Security withholdings.
Mitt Romney: Bipartisan effort with Mitt Romney to shore up entitlements.
Sam Granato: Keep the retirement age but protect Social Security.
Caroline Gleich: Close billionaire, corporate loopholes to keep benefits.
John Curtis: Make sure its sustainable for future generations.
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Tax Reform
Austin Searle: Big tech should either pay for our data or subsidize housing.
Craig Bowden: Lower taxes for everyone.
Jenny Wilson: Reform tax code to narrow income gap, not benefit top 1%.
Orrin Hatch: You can't argue with math: tax cuts for vast majority.
Brad Wilson: Led the fight in Utah to cut taxes by more than $1 billion.
Trent Staggs: Fought to lower every tax and fee I can get my hands on.
Caroline Gleich: Consider a federal tax credit for first-time homebuyers.
Caroline Gleich: Giant corporations and ultra-wealthy should pay fair share.
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Technology
Allen Glines: Reinstate net neutrality; expand broadband access.
Allen Glines: Prosecute entities conducting phone scams.
Austin Searle: Called out TikTok for trending "National Rape Day".
Misty Snow: Tax gasoline to support public transportation.
Caroline Gleich: Revise Patriot Act to enhance digital privacy protections.
Trent Staggs: Prioritized broadband infrastructure as mayor.
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War & Peace
Craig Bowden: Exit the Mideast & support non-intervention.
Mitt Romney: Abandonment of Kurds a "bloodstain" on American history.
John Curtis: Gaza peace is possible, like Israel-Egypt in 1979.
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Welfare & Poverty
Allen Glines: Ban payday loans; incentivize affordable housing.
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