The 10 Worst Candidates Running This Year | Washington Monthly

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% :Leavitt's nostalgia for musty right-wing obsessions extends to Social Security.
54% : But Vega, a Salvadoran American whose Hispanic outreach has been impressive, may win the title for one of the most alarming comments on abortion among active candidates.
43% : Asked by WMUR-TV for her climate views, she responded, "The alleged 'existential threat of climate change is a manufactured crisis by the Democrat Party to frighten the American people into supporting the passage of the Green New Deal, which is a socialist takeover of our economy and society."
43% : She told WMUR-TV, "The privatization of Social Security, while grandfathering in those who have already paid into the system, including myself, I think is a solution that should be looked at very closely."On abortion, Leavitt has insisted she won't touch the issue in Congress, saying, "I will not support restrictions on the federal level, because I believe this is an issue that should be left to our states."
41% : Michels is also an unreconstructed social conservative who has repeatedly expressed support for Wisconsin's 19th-century law -- now in effect -- banning abortion except to save the mother's life.
36% : And in a 2021 podcast, she argued that abortion "is not about women's reproductive rights, it is not about women's health.

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