I think it's always a tragedy" He now says he would consider codifying the Roe precedent into federal law in case the United States Supreme Court overturns the ruling. In 1982, he voted against the same failed constitutional amendment allowing states to overturn Roe, and in 2006, he stated in an interview that "I do not view abortion as a choice and a right. In 1981, he voted for a failed constitutional amendment allowing states to overturn Roe v. Wade is the law of the land and should not be overturned". Wade was wrongly decided, but now "firmly believes that Roe v. In a 2019 article about Biden's record on abortion, his press secretary Jamal Brown said that when Biden arrived in the Senate in 1973 he thought Roe v. Wade decision and since 2019 has been in favor of repealing the Hyde Amendment. official to voice support for same-sex marriage, preempting Obama on the subject. Biden has been publicly in favor of same-sex marriage since 2012 when he became the highest-ranking U.S. He supports decriminalizing cannabis at the federal level and the right for states to legalize it. He supports building upon the Affordable Care Act through a public health insurance option instead of a single-payer system. īiden has supported campaign finance reform including the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act and overturning Citizens United the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 student tax credits carbon emissions cap and trade the increased infrastructure spending proposed by the Obama administration mass transit renewable energy subsidies student loan forgiveness and reversals of Republican tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. Biden's policies emphasize the needs of middle-class and working-class Americans and have drawn political support from those groups. Figures farther to the left such as Bernie Sanders have criticized Biden for not embracing Medicare for All or the Green New Deal.
Biden has been described as center to center-left and has described himself as the latter. Over his career, Biden has generally been regarded as belonging to the mainstream of the Democratic Party. He became the presumptive Democratic nominee in April 2020, was formally nominated by the Democratic Party in August 2020, and defeated Republican incumbent Donald Trump in the November 2020 election. In April 2019, Biden announced his 2020 presidential campaign. He was elected Vice President in 2008 and re-elected in 2012. A member of the Democratic Party, he made his second presidential run in 2008, later being announced as Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's running mate in 2008. Joe Biden, President of the United States, served as Vice President from 2009 to 2017 and in the United States Senate from 1973 until 2009.
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