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The DC logo is a trademark of DC Comics. dailyplanetdc.com @DailyPlanetDC | 2 News October 30, 2020 The right to vote is State and local govern- something to cherish, as ments may be approach- many people across the ing Election Day different- planet do not get a chance ly as they try to juggle to elect the officials who their responsibilities to govern their countries. make voting accessible to The right to vote and all while simultaneously participate in a represen- keeping voters safe during tative government should the pandemic. Voters can never be taken for grant- do their part by taking the Democratic Presidential Candidate ed. necessary steps prior to Republican Presidential Candidate By voting, citizens can the Nov. 3, 2020 Election Joe Biden make their voices heard. Day. Donald Trump However, there are many The Daily Planet did not “That is all that Donald Trump and the other ways people can get receive any monetary en- involved –– voting is just dorsements from candi- “We want our sons and daughters to Republicans offer: Backward-looking one way to get engaged. dates nor did we receive know the truth: America is the greatest politics that will harm the environment, Like many days that any political statements and most exceptional nation in the his- make communities less healthy, and came before it in 2020, from either party. All in- tory of the world! Our country wasn’t hold back economic progress while Election Day figures to be formation was gathered built by cancel culture, speech codes, other countries race ahead. It’s a mind- unique this year. The glob- through thorough re- and soul-crushing conformity. We are set that doesn’t have any faith in the al COVID-19 pandemic has search and from public changed many aspects of remarks made by both not a nation of timid spirits. We are a capacity of the American people to life as people know it, and main party candidates. All nation of fierce, proud, and indepen- compete, to innovate, and to win. And it it figures to change how information provided is will extract a deadly cost. I know better. they vote this fall as well. factual. dent American Patriots.” And I know you do, as well.” –Donald Trump (Aug. 2020) –Joe Biden (July 2020) Stance’s on top priority issues Donald Trump is the from the ravages of other Joe Biden is the former Black woman to appear on 45th and current president countries making our Democratic vice president a major party’s ticket in of the United States. He products, stealing our of the United States. He the United States. assumed office on Jan. 20, companies, and destroy- announced that he was Biden framed his cam- 2017, and filed to run ing our jobs.” running for president on paign as a challenge to for re-election on the Key policy initiatives April 25, 2019. P r e s i d e n t D o n a l d same day. He crossed the during Trump’s first term With the plurality of Trump (R). “I believe histo- delegate threshold neces- include the United States pledged delegates, Biden ry will look back on four sary to win the Republican withdrawing from the Iran became the presumptive years of this president and Climate Change nomination — 1,276 dele- nuclear deal, the passage Democratic nominee on all he embraces as an gates — on March 17, 2020. of the Tax Cuts and Jobs A p r i l 8 , 2 0 2 0 , a f t e r aberrant moment in time. Biden proposes $2 trillion President Trump has re- He was formally nominat- Act of 2017 and First Step Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) But if we give Donald in spending over the first jected mainstream science ed at the Republican Na- Act in 2018, reducing the suspended his presidential Trump eight years in the four-year term and aims to and said in April, “Our car- tional Convention on Aug. size of the ISIS caliphate, campaign. Biden crossed White House, he will forev- achieve 100 percent clean bon, our atmosphere, our – 24, 2020. a n d e s t a b l i s h i n g t h e the delegate threshold er and fundamentally alter electricity by 2035, heed- the level of environmental Trump’s running mate is Space Force as an inde- necessary to win the nom- the character of this na- ing calls from Democratic cleanliness is at it’s all-time Vice President Mike Pence. p e n d e n t m i l i t a r y ination on June 5, 2020, tion—who we are—and I progressives for a faster best right now.” This is in- Trump’s re-election cam- branch. Trump has made and was formally nomi- c a n n o t s t a n d by a n d transition away from fossil correct according to a ma- paign has focused on the more than 200 federal ju- nated at the 2020 Democ- watch that happen,” he fuels. jority of scientists. Trump economy, jobs, immigra- dicial appointments, in- r a t i c N a t i o n a l said. has also pulled the US tion and foreign policy. He cluding two U.S. Supreme Convention on August 18, He represented Del- from the Parr’s Climate described his platform, Court justices. 2020. aware in the U.S. Senate Accords. which he named America Trump is heavily criti- Biden announced U.S. from 1973 to 2009 before First, during his inaugural cized for his delayed re- Sen. Kamala Harris (D) as serving as vice president address: “Every decision on sponse to the Coronavirus his running mate Aug. 11, under President Barack Climate Change trade, on taxes, on immi- (COVID-19) and his han- 2020. He called her “a fear- Obama (D) from 2009 to gration, on foreign affairs, dling of recent civil unrest less fighter for the little 2017. Biden wants to eliminate Trump sent federal law en- will be made to benefit due to racial inequality guy, and one of the coun- If elected, Biden will the death penalty, solitary forcement to arrest and American workers and across the United States. t r y ’ s fi n e s t p u b l i c serve as the oldest Presi- confinement and jailing harass Black Lives Matter American families. We His disbelief that climate servants.” Harris is the first dent in US history. accused criminals until protesters –– most notably must protect our borders change is a legitimate they pay a cash bail. Biden in Portland, Oregon. He pledged $20 billion in also pushed for separate Notable Endorsements grants for states to reduce deployments in other Notable Endorsements social ills like literacy and cities to broader efforts to ▪ AFL-CIO child abuse in exchange escalate policing in re- ▪ David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux ▪ Rep.