BY ALAINA INOUYE AND BELLA TRINKO
STAFF WRITERS
Candidate Platforms
Mask Mandate Nationwide?
Trump: No, Trump opposes a national mask mandate. He left it up to the states to decide what to do and support his previous decisions.
Biden: Biden does support a national mask mandate. He has said he would call for all governors to enact a mask mandate.
Affordable Care Act?
Trump: No, he wants to overturn the Affordable Care Act. He says he has a new plan but has not yet told the American people what this plan is.
Biden: Biden supports the Affordable Care Act.
Lowering mandatory minimum prison sentences?
Trump: Yes, he supports this. He signed the First Step Act. The First Step Act aimed to lessen long-standing disparities in incarceration by reducing prison sentences.
Biden: Biden agrees with ending mandatory prison sentences.
Death penalty?
Trump: Yes, he does support the death penalty. He has made this very clear over his candidacy.
Biden: Biden does not support the death penalty.
Support defunding the police?
Trump: No, he does not support defunding the police. He says that most in law enforcement are “doing an incredible job.”
Biden: No, he does not support defunding the police. He wants to spend an additional 300 million(a year) on community policing initiatives and using existing funding on reforms.
Legalization of recreational marijuana?
Trump: He does not support the legalization of recreational marijuana. He believes that it should be left up to the states.
Biden: Biden supports decriminalizing recreational marijuana. He wishes to have further research done on the effects and would expunge prior convictions.
Support for ‘Zero tolerance’ policy that led to family separations at the border?
Donald Trump: He does support this policy.
Biden: He does not support this policy.
Supports cross-examination of accusers of sexual assault at colleges and universities?
Donald Trump: Yes, he has activated the rights of the accused.
Biden: No, he says he strongly disagrees with this.
Supports a federal assault weapons ban?
Trump: No, he does not agree with this ban.
Biden: He does support this, he supports a ban that would buy the assault weapons back.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/trump-policies-vs-biden-policies/