125+ Reasons You Should Not Vote for Joe Biden

USA Today

Despite being propped up by the Democratic establishment, dirty money, and association with Barack Obama, Joe Biden’s grip on the presidential nomination is finally slipping.

Quite simply, a Biden nomination would spell disaster. His electability is a myth, and even if he could beat Donald Trump, Biden would offer no substantial departure from the grim status quo that is rapidly destroying both our nation and the planet. In fact, over the past 50 years, he has been a key architect of the dreadful governance that got us here.

If we are to have any hope of progress, we must do all that we can to ensure Biden does not become the Democratic nominee. Here are over 125 reasons, all linked to sources, that you can send to the Boomers in your life to show them why. [This will be updated throughout the remainder of the primary.]

TABLE OF CONTENTS

- Healthcare, Social Security, Etc.
- Race
- Immigration
- Foreign Policy
- Criminal Justice and Drugs
- LGBTQ+ and Women’s Issues
- Economy, Class, and Wealth
- Climate Crisis
- Campaigning and Electability
- Corruption
- Education
- Labor, Trade, and Business
- Other

HEALTHCARE, SOCIAL SECURITY, ETC.

• Keeps trying over and over and over and over to cut Social Security and Medicare, raise the retirement age, and gut welfare, all while lying about it and absurdly claiming the video evidence of this is “doctored.” [Expanded 3/16]
• Opposes Medicare for All while he and his campaign lie about it what it would entail and cost multiple times. [Expanded 3/15]
• Originally claimed he “doesn’t have time” to propose his own healthcare plan, then proposed one that would kill 125,000 Americans and leave over 10 million uninsured (which he’s lied about) in a rollout sponsored by Big Pharma.
• His health plan lets his corporate donors cancel your coverage, change your plan, and block you from using your preferred doctor.
• Wants to bring back penalizing those who can’t afford to pay for private insurance.
• Continues to praise Big Pharma to his ultra-wealthy donors, but is the only candidate to refuse to meet with disabled healthcare activist Ady Barkan.
• Accepts Big Pharma lobbyist money.
• Even his own wife admits he’s not good on healthcare, and he’s accidentally let slip the reality that you’ll be paying for a bad deal.
• Has basically said he would veto Medicare for All if the bill arrived on his desk as President even while children die from Coronavirus because they don’t have healthcare. [Added 3/9, Expanded 3/27]
• Erskine Bowles (famous for leading the commission to raise the retirement age, cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and disabled veterans’ benefits, and lower taxes on billionaires) is bundling for him, meaning he’s collecting dark money from secret donors that are not disclosed.
• Personally fought to make cancer medication unaffordable for patients in developing nations.
• Was the only senator to vote against expanding a childcare tax credit.
• Sided with Republicans and Big Pharma to kill a bill that would’ve stopped drug companies from price-gouging and profiteering with public research, such as vaccines. [Added 3/2]
• Biden proposed and defended up until 2012 the law that Trump is using to kick poor people off of food stamps, even though Biden himself admits it is “morally bankrupt” and would let children “fall through the cracks.” [Added 3/15]
• Backed fraudulent private health care company Theranos. [Added 3/18]
• In the middle of a pandemic Biden still does not want anyone under the age of 60 to be able to buy into Medicare, a plan somehow even worse than Hillary’s planned Medicare age of eligibility of 55. [Added 4/9]
• Opposes healthcare policies that would provide masks to ever American during the pandemic, but still wants to require they be worn anyway. [Added 7/2]
• Used the pandemic crisis in Italy as a false attack on single payer healthcare, blaming their system for their deaths, while the US vastly outpaced their rate of infection and death due to our lack of single payer healthcare to the point where Italy had to send us half a million tests. [Added 8/23]

RACE

• Led the fight against desegregating schools and continued it years after it had been proven a success and was even being defended by Republicans, claiming perpetuating school segregation would preserve “black pride.” His bill to stop busing was so unpopular even a Senator who was a leader in the KKK opposed it. [Expanded 7/2]
• As part of his crusade against desegregating schools he was the only member of the Senate Judiciary Committee to block two black appointees to the Department of Justice.
• Chooses to work with and passionately support many of the worst racists and segregationists in America. [Expanded 1/30]
• Called Strom Thurmond, one of the most notoriously racist segregationists in Congress, his “closest friend” and delivered an impassioned eulogy at his funeral. [Expanded 7/2]
• Praised segregationist Senator John Stennis by positively comparing him to Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. [Added 7/2]
• Continues to lie about marching in the Civil Rights movement and participating in sit-ins at least 31 times, despite admitting this was not true in 1987. Also seems to lie about attending an HBCU. [Expanded 1/30, 2/23, 8/23]
• Has a very, very, very long history of racist comments. [Expanded 3/15]
• Says you’re not black if you don’t vote for him. [Added 7/2]
• Generally has no understanding of racism in America.
• Told black voters to “reject” Jesse Jackson, whom he condescendingly referred to as “that boy,” despite being younger than him, a common racist tactic. [Added 3/8]
• When Nina Turner called out his wealthy white surrogate Hilary Rosen’s attempt to intentionally misrepresent MLK’s words, Rosen said she had no standing to speak to MLK. When forced to apologize she referred to those upset as “angry black women.” [Added 4/8]
• Despite rampant racism and brutality amongst police resulting in widespread black-led protests to defund the police, Biden, who as VP secured over $1 billion in increased police funding and oversaw billions more in military-grade weaponry be transferred to local police forces than under Bush, continues to call for an increase of at least $300 million in police funding. [Added 7/2]
• In response to racist police brutally beating Rodney King, Biden repeatedly pushed a bill that would make it more difficult to investigate police for misconduct. [Added 7/2]
• Seems to awkwardly downplay Martin Luther King Jr.’s death during the George Floyd protests. [Added 7/2]
• He is polling worse with Hispanics than Hillary did in large part because he is openly ignoring them and their votes. [Added 7/3]
• On Holocaust Remembrance Day one of his surrogates used a racial slur against Romani people, who were systematically slaughtered alongside Jewish people by the nazis, to describe supporters of Bernie, a Jewish man. [Added 7/3]

IMMIGRATION

• Voted to expand deportations and indefinite detention multiple times and opposed amnesty for immigrants.
• As VP his administration deported more people than any other in American history, deporting people at a higher rate than Trump’s administration even according to ICE themselves.
• As VP his administration built the inhumane concentration camps in which children separated from their families are still illegally caged, beginning the practice which Trump has now continued.
• As VP his administration’s inhumane treatment of detained migrants led to the ongoing lawsuit claiming that ICE is violating the Flores Agreement by not providing basics like toothpaste and soap.
• As VP he expanded the anti-immigrant system Trump now uses by 3,600%.
• Voted to build border walls and supported sending military to the border long before Trump.
• Voted to ban immigrants with HIV, locking up Haitian refugees in Guantanamo Bay.
• Spearheaded the Alliance for Prosperity, which increased deportations, border militarization, privatization, and oil pipelines for American exploitation while worsening the refugee crisis.
• Supports the Republican talking point of requiring immigrants to learn English.
• He still refuses to answer for his record and has told immigration activists to vote for Trump and called the police on others for passing out flyers.

FOREIGN POLICY

• Voted for the disastrous Iraq War, openly admits he knowingly lied there being no “Weapons of Mass Destruction,” told Bush he deserved the Nobel Prize for the invasion, and then helped to continue escalating it years later. [Expanded 3/10, 3/18]
• He now lies about this Iraq War vote quite often yet still also says he’d “do it again.”
• As VP under Obama he oversaw a 10x increase in drone strikes over Bush, dropping 26,171 bombs in 2016 alone (an average of 72 a day) and killing at least 4 US citizens. [Added 8/23]
• Because Obama/Biden drone strike victims were at times as high as at least 90% civilians, often illegally hitting medical personnel and funerals, if they were to apologize for 1 civilian drone death a day it would take 3 years. [Added 8/23]
• His foreign policy adviser helped Bush orchestrate the Iraq War before joining a lobbying firm for the military-industrial complex.
• Lied about getting shot down in Iraq and experiences in Afghanistan.
• Refuses to even acknowledge that Trump’s illegal and unjust assassination of an Iranian general was an assassination.
• Supports Israel’s right-wing regime and apartheid in Palestine purely to protect US interests. A self-described Zionist, he blames Palestinians for multiple US-backed Israeli massacres, including an attack that killed 9 peace activists.
• Calls BDS “anti-semitic” and has a 100% rating from AIPAC. He believes holding Israel accountable for its crimes lets Palestine “off the hook for their choices.” [Expanded 7/2]
• His campaign has made Islamophobic attacks towards Women’s March organizer and Palestinian human rights activist Linda Sarsour. [Added 8/26]
• Lies about protesting the Vietnam War. [Added 1/30]
• Fought to keep Vietnamese refugees who aided America during the war from coming to the US. [Added 3/15]
• Supports the Trump-backed right-wing opposition leader attempting a coup in Venezuela, despite not knowing where the nation is.
• Tacitly supports Bolivia’s violent fascist insurrection that’s backed by Trump, despite not knowing where the nation is.
• Architected Plan Colombia, internationalizing the War On Drugs resulting in mass death, displacement, and destruction of food crops, while opening the country to US business interests.
• Falsely compares Trump’s far-right governance to socialist governments that Trump is actively trying to overthrow in an attempt to skew US imperialism in the global south as an anti-Trump pursuit. [Added 7/2]
• Personally tried to prevent Ecuador from providing asylum for Edward Snowden.
• Recklessly threatens nuclear war with North Korea and seems to think Kim Jong Un is from South Korea and that they’ve met when they haven’t.
• Says the CIA torture report is not a “black stain on this country” but a “badge of honor.”
• Voted to authorize invasion of the Netherlands if an American is tried for war crimes by the International Court of Justice in The Hague, refusal to participate in UN peacekeeping unless the US obtains immunity, and withdrawal of aid to countries that ratify ICC treaty.
• Is so hawkish he even stood alone in calling for the US to invade Sudan in 2007.
• Orchestrated the 1999 Serbian bombings that helped the nation’s dictator overthrow the local pro-democracy movement.
• Continues to lie multiple times about having been arrested in apartheid South Africa. [Added 2/23]
• His Muslim Outreach Coordinator supports genocide of Muslims. [Added 3/3]
• Wants to invade foreign countries to fight the War on Drugs. [Added 3/8]
• The Defense Secretary from the Obama/Biden administration says Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” When asked if Biden would be an effective Commander in Chief he responded, “I don’t know.” [Added 3/18]

CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND DRUGS

• Wrote the racist Crime Bill that intentionally led to record-breaking mass incarceration. He still defends the legislation, championing it as his signature achievement and positioning himself to the right of even Reagan and Bush. [Expanded 7/2]
• Worked with segregationists to allow for the execution of drug dealers convicted of homicide and expand civil asset forfeiture, allowing the government to take property from people who aren’t even charged nor convicted of a crime. [Added 3/10]
• Supports denying incarcerated people the right to vote, defending Jim Crow laws that were enacted specifically to keep black Americans from voting.
• Led the disastrous War on Drugs, yet two of his children escaped consequences for drug use.
• Somehow still opposes cannabis legalization, while simultaneously trying to destroy the growing industry by handing it over to the Big Pharma.
• Pushed to expand death penalty, even to those on drug charges. He expanded the death penalty to apply to 53 different offenses, bragging, “We do everything but hang people for jaywalking in this bill.” [Expanded 8/26]
• Worsened the opioid epidemic and made it harder to treat.
• Wants to make up reasons to jail anyone associated with a rave and literally bulldoze them down, while his RAVE legislation lets kids die from preventable drug overdoses.
• One of his big fundraisers is a Republican donor who is a major player in the for-profit prison industry.
• Dishonestly took credit for stopping Michael Bloomberg’s racist stop-and-frisk policies. [Added 2/20]
• Wants to dump $300 million into more cops inevitably arresting nonviolent drug offenders. [Added 4/8]

LGBTQ+ AND WOMEN’S ISSUES

• Allegedly raped his staffer Tara Reade and then retaliated against her until she quit. He refuses to release his Senate files that could exonerate him if innocent, even though they are usually made public, and his top advisor has deleted her #MeToo tweets to avoid seeming inconsistent in her support for her rapist boss. [Added 4/8, Expanded 7/2]
• Says if you believe women you “probably shouldn’t vote for me, I wouldn’t vote for me if I believe Tara Reade,” while his staff and advisers smear her as a liar. [Added 7/2]
• Long history of creepily/patronizingly groping/sniffing/kissing/grabbing and intimidating/insulting to women and young girls just so many, many, many times, continuing even after his non-apology. [Expanded 2/12, 4/12]
• Has at least eight sexual harassment allegations against him. [Added 3/2]
• Opposed equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community even very recently, only eventually coming around just 8 short years ago, and is still awkward at best on the issue.
• Opposed Roe v Wade, voted to allow states to overturn it like they are doing now, does “not view abortion as a choice and a right,” and repeatedly opposes federal funding for it even during this election.
• Worked to undermine the ACA’s coverage of birth control.
• Horribly mistreated Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas sexual harassment hearing.
• His top advisor / de facto campaign manager did pro bono damage control PR work for disgraced sexual predator Harvey Weinstein and her firm appears to have blocked the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund from assisting a woman Biden allegedly sexually assaulted. [Added 3/2, Expanded 3/15, 3/25]
• He swims nude in front of his female Secret Service agents even though he know it makes them uncomfortable. [Added 7/3]
• Chris Dodd, who sexually assaulted a woman while a Senator, is helping Biden pick which woman will be his VP candidate. [Added 7/3]
• Accepted the endorsement of Alan Dershowitz, the millionaire fellow plagiarist on Trump’s legal defense team who is accused of taking part in Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex ring, after Biden’s son ensured a similar billionaire pedophile avoided prison after raping his own toddler. [Expanded 8/23]
• The largest donor to one of his Super PACs, who donated $1.5 million, also rehabbed Jeffrey Epstein’s public image and put the child molester in contact with others for fundraising purposes after he had been charged with sex crimes. [Added 7/3]

ECONOMY, CLASS, AND WEALTH

• Defends billionaires hoarding wealth and promises that “nothing will fundamentally change.”
• Sided with banks to overturn Glass-Steagall and deregulate, leading to the financial crisis.
• Led the disastrous Bankruptcy Bill and opposition to predatory lending, resulting in increased debt, which he continues to defend.
• Voted to slash the top income tax rate and cripple the estate tax, resulting in $83 billion lost annually.
• Has dishonestly tried to take credit for the formation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, despite actually helping strip state consumer protection.
• Regularly demonizes the poor with racist dogwhistles.
• Lies about having been poor for sympathy though he made over four times the median income at the time in question.
• His tax returns revealed an $11 million increase in income in his first year out of office alone, an amount that is higher than the entire net worth of every other candidate polling in double digits.
• Worked with Mitch McConnell to extend Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy while average Americans suffered during the recession. [Added 3/3]
• Wants to tax billionaires like Michael Bloomberg even less than Michael Bloomberg himself was proposing we tax billionaires. [Added 3/7]
• Brags about getting ovations from wealthy people. [Added 3/16]
• Called those who support universal basic income “clueless.” UBI currently has support from 66% of voters, including 52% of Republicans. [Added 7/2]

CLIMATE CRISIS

• He is graded F- by leading climate group the Sunrise Movement. [Added 3/3]
• He still supports fracking, oil and gas exportation, and the building of new fossil fuel infrastructure. He supports fracking so ardently his campaign is actually calling out the Trump campaign for claiming he opposes it. [Expanded 8/26]
• Opposes meaningful action on the climate crisis like the Green New Deal and lies about it, instead pursuing the “middle ground” while his campaign attacks publications for accurately reporting this.
• Plagiarized fossil fuel groups’ language in his woefully inadequate climate crisis plan.
• One of his climate advisors made $1 million from one natural gas company alone, while many others have ties to the industry as well.
• Broke his own pledge to not accept fossil fuel money by attending a fundraiser hosted by his former advisor and current oil corporation co-founder/owner Andrew Goldman, and lied about it twice.
• He is often rude and condescending towards young climate activists and those asking about the issue, even making uncomfortable physical contact with one woman.
• His campaign shot down the proposed climate debate and skipped MSNBC’s climate forum.
• Instead of supporting job placement for affected fossil fuel workers during the transition to a green economy like the Green New Deal does, he dismissively tells coal miners to just learn to code instead.
• Appears to lie about his work with China on climate. [Added 2/26]
• Wants to pay Brazil $20 billion to stop burning the Amazon? [Added 3/18]
• The firm running his campaign lobbied for the Keystone XL pipeline. [Added 3/18]

CAMPAIGNING AND ELECTABILITY

• Biden is so disliked that 62% of his own supporters say they would not be voting for him, but rather against Trump. This is drastically worse than the 44% of Hillary voters who did not support her but were only voting to stop Trump, and she lost. [Added 7/2]
• His shocking lack of the mental capacity to campaign has resulted in him going missing in an unknown location for a week and counting during the Coronavirus crisis. He is incapable of speaking without a teleprompter and earpiece if he is coherent enough to speak at all, which he often isn’t. [Added 3/23, Expanded 3/24, 4/8]
• Has a history of aggressively threatening, lashing out at, and insulting voters many, many, many times. [Expanded 2/12, 3/10, 3/18]
• Has an infamous propensity for awkward “gaffes,” and shocking mental lapses including many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many in this election cycle alone. [Expanded 2/25, 2/29, 3/2, 3/4, 3/6, 3/8, 3/10, 3/18, 3/24, 4/8, 7/2, 7/4, 8/23]
• Has A-fib cardiac issues that lead to confusion, trouble remembering, learning new things, concentrating, and making routine decisions. It causes “silent strokes” and increased risk of stroke. He refuses to take a cognitive function test and there is serious discussion of his cognitive decline that makes him a massive liability. [Added 3/5, Expanded 3/7]
• In other health-related areas, he’s suffered a burst blood vessel in his eye, loose dentures, and even undergone brain surgery and experienced multiple brain aneurysms. [Expanded 3/9]
• In part because of his decreased physical and mental abilities he is literally unable to campaign and is currently skipping major party events, hiding from the press and everyone else, faking live streams, and holding only between a quarter and half as many public events as other candidates. Amidst the pandemic and civil rights protests he disappeared for 90 days! [Expanded 3/7, 4/8, 7/2, 8/23]
• A Biden matchup against Trump would truly be a disaster, as all of Biden’s weaknesses play directly into Trump’s strengths.
• He has questionable electability based on receiving less than 0.22% in 3 previous Democratic primary elections.
• Dropped out of the 1988 race in disgrace after it was revealed he had lied about his academic record and plagiarized law school papers and campaign speeches including one in which he lied about having coal miner roots.
• Has next to no voter enthusiasm, with a recent poll showing just 8% of respondents feel Biden is “exciting,” consistently showing much lower levels of enthusiasm than Trump and Hillary. [Expanded 4/8]
• Has so little volunteer enthusiasm he has to post public job listings for paid canvassing positions. [Added 2/3]
• Has less college-age support than Trump and is consistently one of the lowest with those under 35, which is the country’s largest voting bloc (Obama won young voters and they carried him to a general election victory, whereas Clinton’s failure with youth saw her lose to Trump). [Added 1/30]
• His anti-progressive campaign surrogate Ed Rendell is a sexist, pro-fracking, pro-AIPAC Fox News supporter who approved bombing a black neighborhood in Philadelphia, killing 5 children and 6 adults.
• Broke his own pledge to take over 2x more money than Trump from lobbyists and special interests, including at least 44 billionaires. His billionaire donors have now grown to at least 106, 13 more than Trump. [Expanded 7/2]
• Has the same general donor base as Trump and even Trump himself has donated to him.
• He is still openly courting Republican billionaires for donations, including John Catsimatidis, who’s compared taxing the wealthy to Nazi persecution of Jews.
• Despite his supposed frontrunner status he is a distant 5th in both small-dollar donations and individual donors, trailing both Bernie and Trump by some distance. [Expanded 4/8]
• Flip-flopped on his initial opposition to using Super PACs and established one with military industrial complex and private healthcare lobbyists, taking half a million from Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital alone, even after admitting “You shouldn’t accept any money from a Super PAC, because people can’t possibly trust you” just one year prior. [Expanded 4/8, 7/2]
• Is now backed by another Super PAC launched by hundreds of George W. Bush officials. [Added 7/2]
• His campaign is abusing his non-unionized staff and forcing them to work in unsafe conditions.
• Seems to have found a loophole to avoid paying his interns.
• More voters say they will never vote for him under any circumstances than any other candidate.
• Used Charlottesville as a prop in his campaign video despite never even visiting once.
• Campaigns on America being able to achieve anything while also telling us we can’t even achieve common basics like universal healthcare coverage.
• Unconvincingly co-opted Bernie’s slogan, and a Biden PAC plagiarized Kamala Harris’ slogan for its name.
• His surrogate, delegate, and outreach coordinator was fired by Pennsylvania Young Democrats for anti-semitism directed at Bernie, but kept on the campaign and allowed to defend Biden’s racist lies, praise the MAGA movement on Ben Shapiro’s show, and smear his alleged rape victim. [Added 3/7, Expanded 7/2]
• Is basically admitting he can’t even handle two terms. [Added 3/3]
• Is considering picking a Republican or a Blue Cross Blue Shield heiress to be his VP. [Expanded 4/8]
• The firm running his campaign is owned by one of Trump’s advisors. [Added 3/18]
• Jokes about how he “prostitutes” himself to big money donors. [Added 3/18]
• Says he doesn’t want to take a fight to Trump, seems completely unequipped for the competitiveness of a general election, and has turned down requests to debate. [Added 3/27, Expanded 7/2]
• He praises Trump’s rising approval ratings and calls him “strong,” and his own advisors seem unwilling to even criticize Trump while he mishandles a crisis. [Added 3/25, Expanded 4/8]
• He is simply woefully unequipped to deal with this. I mean, come on. [Added 3/20]
• Directly opposed CDC and WHO mandates to send people to their deaths by voting in the Wisconsin primary in the midst of a pandemic, even while they reduced polling places by over 92%, forcing more people to unsafely cram into fewer locations. [Added 4/8]
• Required tens of thousands of dollars for people to tune in to listen to him speak during a pandemic that caused millions to lose their only source of income. [Added 4/8]
• He has been propelled through the primaries largely by old, white, conservative voters in red states he has no hope of winning in a general, and the voters themselves often have no intention of voting Democrat beyond ensuring the party picks the most conservative candidate. [Added 7/2]
• He is being advised by Rahm Emanuel, who, among other things, covered up police shooting an unarmed black teenager in the back 16 times. [Added 7/2]
• Polls show voters trust Biden even less than they trust Trump to handle the economy, jobs, national security, immigration, and gun policy, and are more uneasy than confident in his ability to handle international crisis, economic recession, and the coronavirus outbreak. [Added 7/2]
• He is polling worse against Trump than Hillary did in battleground states she went on to lose and swing states in general. [Added 7/2, Expanded 8/24]
• More than a third of voters want the Democratic Party to drop Biden from the ticket due to the credible rape accusations against him. [Added 7/2]
• Polls show him doing worse than Hillary was at the same points in the campaign. [Added 8/23]
• Polls show him with net favorability ratings even lower than those that sank Hillary’s campaign in 2016, with lower favorables and higher unfavorables than Trump himself. [Added 7/2, Expanded 8/23]
• He is losing independents — America’s largest voting bloc — by even more than Hillary did. [Added 8/24, Expanded 8/30]
• He’s currently polling worse with Republicans — the group he’s based his entire campaign strategy around courting — than the Democratic nominee did in the previous three elections. [Added 8/26]
• Invited anti-labor, anti-environment, anti-social program, and anti-choice Republicans and war criminals like Colin Powell and John Kasich to represent his campaign at the DNC, emblematic of the kind of politics he seeks to promote if elected. [Added 8/26]

CORRUPTION

• Is illegally bribing political rivals with cabinet positions in exchange for their endorsement. [Added 3/24]
• Won’t admit his son’s shady dealings in Ukraine were wrong, lies about being warned about it, and freaks out and attacks voters when they ask him about this topic, showing no ability to handle the issue in a general election against Trump.
• Says he will defy a subpoena to testify in Trump’s trial, which presents guilty optics at best.
• Voted to deregulate the credit card industry while a credit card company hired his son and was his top donor from 1989–2000.
• Appears to have gotten his brother an EVP role at a construction firm the Obama/Biden administration then awarded a $1.5 billion contract to to build houses in Iraq, despite his brother having no prior residential construction experience.
• Helped his brother secure funding and contracts to build upper class developments in Jamaica and Costa Rican rainforests, as well as sketchy lobbyist ties to land in the Virgin Islands.
• Granted his son-in-law’s health consulting company D.C. and White House access.
• His son is somehow conveniently getting away with not paying child support that is owed.
• Has a long history of generally Trump-esque nepotism that he refuses to address.
• Very openly partakes in general corruption while lying and condescending about this.
• His brother’s healthcare ventures have led to an FBI raid after it was revealed he was trading on Biden’s name. [Added 3/15]

EDUCATION

• Has not proposed any plans to make public college tuition free or to abolish student debt.
• Specifically fought to make student loan debt more difficult to live with before dismissing the plight of Millennials who are now the most indebted generation ever and laughing about it.
• Accepts student lender lobbyist money.
• Lied about his own student debt multiple times, his own scholarship and his own academic achievements.
• Plagiarized law school papers, the discovery of which forced him to drop out of the 1988 race in disgrace.
• Says the education issues in black communities are caused because black people “can’t read or write.” [Added 3/15]

LABOR, TRADE, AND BUSINESS

• Voted against enhancing labor protection enforcements.
• Voted for NAFTA, supports TPP, is generally to the right of Trump on trade, and argued against the prediction that China would become an economic competitor
• Voted for Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China that led to massive job losses in battleground states including 112,000 in Michigan, 137,000 in Pennsylvania, and 89,000 in Wisconsin. [Added 3/18]
• Works with and is backed by union-busters, voted to cut union pensions, continues to snub unions, and is generally bad for workers. [Expanded 2/24]
• Attorneys from union-busting law firms are bundling at minimum tens of thousands of secretly sourced dollars for his campaign. [Added 1/31]
• Consistently sides with special interests and corporations against antitrust regulation and voted for the first antitrust exemption since 1922.
• Helped kill legislation that “would have stopped corporations from ‘judge-shopping’ and going to the most-friendly venues for their bankruptcy case.” [Added 3/10]
• The firm running his campaign works for Amazon, Uber, Lyft, and others to prevent gig economy workers from receiving labor rights. [Added 3/7]

OTHER

• In the middle of the Coronavirus crisis he is telling people that isolating in our homes per CDC guidelines is “unfair to all of us and it’s unnecessary for all of us.” [Added 3/25]
• Polls show people trust even Trump more to handle the Coronavirus pandemic. [Added 4/8]
• Praised Reagan’s disastrous handling of the AIDS crisis that killed thousands. [Added 4/8]
• After his wife and daughter were tragically killed in a traffic accident in which the other driver had the right of way, he publicly falsely accused the other driver of drunk driving to garner more sympathy for himself. Despite the driver’s family begging him to stop smearing an innocent man as a murderer, he has never publicly apologized, and waited until the driver died to privately apologize to the family via phone 37 years later. [Added 7/2]
• Took a $200,000 bribe to help anti-abortion Republican and Trump ally Fred Upton, who led the fight to repeal the ACA and replace it with Trump Care and was ranked the #1 “biggest enemy of the Earth” due to his anti-environment record, beat a Democrat challenger in one of the closest districts in the swing state of Michigan. [Expanded 3/16]
• Supported the NRA in passing massive anti-gun control legislation, and repeatedly blames videos games for mass shootings.
• Threatened to shoot Obama if he tried to take his multiple guns.
• Tells voters, including literal mothers of victims of gun violence, to buy double-barreled shotguns and fire them outside their homes for protection. [Added 3/18]
• Driving force behind the Patriot Act, supports warrantless wiretaps / mass surveillance while his son partially owns the Chinese government’s Islamophobic mass surveillance system.
• Voted against abolishing the electoral college that went on to undemocratically elect Bush and Trump.
• Voted for the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that deregulated the media industry, helping just six monopolies, including Fox, gain control over 90% of all US media.
• His Senate chief of staff is now running Fox News’ lobbying operation.
• Opposes net neutrality.
• Has no plan to reform the court system or counter its Republican takeover, and is fine with Kavanaugh remaining on the Supreme Court for life.
• Has proposed re-nominating the failed Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, a nearly 70 year-old “moderate” who has opposed human rights for Guantanamo detainees and voting rights.
• Voted to confirm Reagan’s Supreme Court nomination, Antonin Scalia, who claimed the Constitution did not prohibit gender or sexual orientation discrimination, opposed gay rights and compared homosexuality to bestiality, opposed Roe v Wade, said black people needed to attend “slower track schools,” was a leader in supporting the death penalty, opposed the Affordable Care Act, and more. [Added 3/15]
• His housing plan makes no mention of public housing, does not guarantee housing, and he dismissed, insulted, and lied to a woman of color who was evicted due to her cancer diagnosis. [Added 3/8]
• Has a long history of supporting, praising, and awarding so many of the worst Republicans like George and Jeb Bush, Cheney, and Pence.
• Republicans like Strom Thurmond, John Bolton, Meghan and the McCain family, Karl Rove, Ann Coulter, Dave Rubin, and Carly Fiorina have endorsed and/or boosted him because of his conservative views. [Expanded 3/5, 7/2]
• Ideologically, he admits, “A lot of us sit around thinking up ways to vote conservative just so we don’t come out with a liberal rating. I’m really quite conservative…” and has spent much of his career touting his rating as “one of the Senate’s most conservative Democrats.” [Expanded 3/3]
• He wants people to stay Republican instead of becoming Democrats, doesn’t want the Republican Party to lose power, and doesn’t want the Democratic Party to become too powerful.
• He wants to fill his cabinet with people like Michael Bloomberg, the racist Stop-and-Frisk orchestrator with 64 sexual harassment allegations against him, and Jamie Dimon, the chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase who blamed the people he evicted for the housing crash. [Added 3/9]
• Is gullible enough to trust Kellyanne Conway. [Added 4/8]
• The worst part? He’s still not sorry for any of this (but wants a black man to apologize to him).

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