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Bernie Moreno's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Bernie Moreno did not provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2024 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.

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Issue Positions

For Presidential and Congressional candidates who refuse to provide voters with their positions, Vote Smart has researched their public records to determine their likely responses. These issue positions are from 2024.

  • "If we cannot stand up for life than we cannot stand up for anything. Any person seeking to represent Americans, born and unborn, should uphold that virtue." (twitter.com)
  • "Today starts the 50th year of abortion in the country. Today is a sad day in history, but there is hope. Millions of Americans recognize that Roe v. Wade is outdated and that science and medicine, morality and common sense demand we revisit it. Pro family, pro mom, pro-life." (twitter.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "In­di­vid­ual in­come tax collections up 29%, pay­roll taxes up by 13%, and cor­corporate in­come taxes up 14% in fiscal 2021. Over­all, Federal government collected 21% more in taxes for a record $4.9 tril­lion. Despite this, Democrats want to tax more and spend even more!" (x.com)
  • "Joe Biden gets to use YOUR tax dollars to fund his relentless spending while his son gets tax breaks for this… #TeamMoreno" (twitter.com)
  • "The US government collected more in taxes (by $700 billion) in 2020 than at any time in history. The Federal deficit doesn’t have a tax collection problem, it has an out of control spending problem." (x.com)
  • "Joe Biden gets to use YOUR tax dollars to fund his relentless spending while his son gets tax breaks for this… #TeamMoreno" (twitter.com)
  • "In­di­vid­ual in­come tax collections up 29%, pay­roll taxes up by 13%, and cor­corporate in­come taxes up 14% in fiscal 2021. Over­all, Federal government collected 21% more in taxes for a record $4.9 tril­lion. Despite this, Democrats want to tax more and spend even more!" (x.com)
  • "Wow. @elonmusk has paid $1.5 million in income taxes for *everyday* he has been in America, but that’s not enough for a guy who has spent his entire life living off a government paycheck. Hey @TimRyan, get a job in the private sector and see what you can do with your talent!" (x.com)
  • "If political candidates are serious about reducing the influence of corporate/union money in politics and rant against "woke corporations," why do they take their money? I vowed when I launched this campaign to reject corporate and Union PAC money. Others in the #OHSen race?" (twitter.com)
  • "These dark money "charities" that are really money laundering operations for the extreme left should not be given non profit status. They are stealing tax dollars from hard working Americans to fund billionaire social experiments!" (twitter.com)
  • "Empower local law enforcement to ensure Safe Communities" (berniemoreno.com)
  • "It was always been about demoralizing the police. The radical left sees local law enforcement as an obstacle for their take over of our justice system." (twitter.com)
  • "Today is Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. The reality is that we should appreciate what law enforcement does for us every day." (twitter.com)
  • "We’ve seen what happens when our law enforcement officers are taken for granted in communities across the country. I’m grateful for the service of our police officers in keeping Ohioans safe and will always SUPPORT law and order. #NationalPoliceWeek" (twitter.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Joe Biden and Sherrod Brown have OBLITERATED the middle class in America thanks to their radical tax-and-spend policies. We know that career politicians won’t keep their word, but Bernie is a true OUTSIDER who will follow through with keeping his promise to Ohioans. That's why he's signed the @taxreformer pledge to NEVER raise your taxes as Senator" (twitter.com)
  • "Joe Biden gets to use YOUR tax dollars to fund his relentless spending while his son gets tax breaks for this… #TeamMoreno" (twitter.com)
  • "Massively reduce anti-growth regulations, cut government spending, and end inflation" (berniemoreno.com)
  • "We need to cut government spending. Do you know who is not going to cut government spending? Career politicians. There’s not one career politician who can point to a time when they cut spending. That’s why we need outsiders and business people in Washington" (twitter.com)
  • "Liberal nonsense at its best. Public housing is not an investment. It's a trap. How about we have policies that eliminate the need for public housing? How about we open schools for in person learning and give struggling families the choice of where to send their kids, like you?" (twitter.com)
  • "We don’t know that and that’s the core of the issue. Compassion starts at home with our inner cities, our vets, and our homeless. We cannot solve the problem of poverty around the world." (twitter.com)
  • "Massively reduce anti-growth regulations, cut government spending, and end inflation" (berniemoreno.com)
  • "A visual reminder of what democrats’ view of a "green future" looks like: destruction of water supplies to vulnerable communities in South America. The "inflation reduction act" calls for this kind of mining to happen in America. Hard pass." (x.com)
  • "In a grotesque irony, Senate Democrats will push the "The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022" by *increasing* government spending, continuing to attack fossil fuels, and by incentivizing US corporations to move overseas. All of that makes inflation dramatically worse." (x.com)
  • "Students leave college with debt because *cost* of college has gotten out of control. Bloated administrations, professors that don’t teach full class schedules, overpriced books, lack of counseling, and government incentives which have made cost cutting unnecessary. Fix that." (x.com)
  • "Republicans in DC should immediately introduce an amendment to 2003 HR1412 to delete the words "or national emergency." Put the democrats like @TimRyan on the record as to how they actually vote for the student loan scam vs what they say about it." (x.com)
  • "Cubans are risking their lives by waving American flags on the streets and demanding freedom. Texas Democrat politicians are flying to DC on a private jet to have a social media moment for their courage to fight against (check notes) voter ID laws and calling it a sacrifice." (twitter.com)
  • "We need election integrity or we lose our democracy." (x.com)
  • "Without election integrity, we cannot sustain a democracy. We need smart people on these boards of elections who aren’t partisan hacks. Transparency in audits and election results must be the norm. Easy to vote, hard to cheat. Ohio has it figured out." (x.com)
  • "We need to unleash American energy, and not with more government spending." (x.com)
  • "A visual reminder of what democrats’ view of a "green future" looks like: destruction of water supplies to vulnerable communities in South America. The "inflation reduction act" calls for this kind of mining to happen in America. Hard pass." (x.com)
  • "There’s definitely a group within the @JoeBiden administration that want insane high gas prices so that they can make the "urgent" case for electric cars and "green energy"! It won’t affect their friends in Martha’s Vineyard and they don’t care about desalinating middle class." (x.com)
  • "Begging OPEC for oil while preventing Americans from working to drill for our own. In @JoeBiden’s twisted world, this somehow makes sense. In the real world, it’s insane." (twitter.com)
  • "Career politicians like Matt Dolan want to hose Ohio families by fighting to raise the gas tax. @berniemoreno wants to drill at home, end reliance on bad actors for oil, and unleash the American economy." (twitter.com)
  • "It’s time for @JoeBiden to lead. Restart the Keystone pipeline, release permits for new drilling, temporarily eliminate the gas tax, and encourage American energy companies to increase U.S. production." (x.com)
  • "The Biden ATF pistol brace rule is a blatantly unconstitutional backdoor gun ban for millions of law-abiding American citizens. If the ATF is going to keep spending its time trying to turn America into Venezuela - instead of fighting criminals - It should be abolished. Enough!!!" (x.com)
  • Rated 92% by National Rifle Association (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • "As James Madison warned in Federalist 46, an armed citizenry "forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition." As I warned last year, Covid opened the door to lots of "ambitious" leaders and a willing media. America without the second amendment would be Australia today." (x.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Mexico is facilitating the invasion of our Republic and allowing Chinese funded drug cartels to kill tens of thousands of Americans. Close the border NOW!" (twitter.com)
  • "President Trump, JD Vance, Jim Jordan, and other conservative warriors have endorsed me because they know that no one will stand for strong border security more than I will." (twitter.com)
  • "Secure America’s borders, stop amnesty and destroy the Mexican Drug Cartels" (berniemoreno.com)
  • "We will put America First and stop the invasion at our border, unleash American energy, put parents back in charge of public schools, end the war in Ukraine, and stand up to China." (twitter.com)
  • "Secure America’s borders, stop amnesty and destroy the Mexican Drug Cartels" (berniemoreno.com)
  • "Finish the wall. Secure the border. Deport all illegals. Make America Safe Again!" (twitter.com)
  • "During tonight’s debate career politicians are ducking and dodging from their record of supporting amnesty for illegals. @berniemoreno's position is clear: deport anyone here illegally." (twitter.com)
  • "We’ve had 8.5 million people cross into this country illegally. We’ve seen a full scale invasion of our border. We have to deport these people. Deport anyone who is here illegally." (twitter.com)
  • "Now is not the time for Republicans to cave to the left with a clean CR or more funding for Ukraine." (x.com)
  • "Retake Bagram. Bomb Taliban targets. Put sanctions on any Country or business doing business with Afghanistan. Get our people out. Get our equipment out. And then get our troops out. Send the military to the Southern Border and seal it immediately. This is what needs to be done!" (x.com)
  • "Unimaginable that @JoeBiden is about to capitulate to Iran, giving them access to $100 billion in frozen assets, lifting sanctions on senior officials responsible for terrorist attacks which have killed Americans, and place Iranian nuclear material in Putin's hands." (x.com)
  • "@JoeBiden will send 8,500 of our best to defend the Ukrainian border (at a cost of about $12,200 per soldier, just to move them into harms way). He and the media obsess over the territorial integrity of Ukraine, and ignore the invasion at our border. Put America First!" (x.com)
  • "Now is not the time for Republicans to cave to the left with a clean CR or more funding for Ukraine." (x.com)
  • "We’re trillions in debt and millions of illegals are flooding into our nation because Joe Biden refuses to secure our southern border. Instead of sending billions more to Ukraine, Republicans should demand we finish Trump's wall and secure the border as part of any spending deal." (x.com)
  • "Hold Big Tech accountable and break up big media" (berniemoreno.com)
  • "The Chinese Communist Party controls ⁦@tiktok_usnand has a long term plan to undermine American culture and society. This is not by accident." (x.com)
  • "We now have definitive proof that the Biden administration colluded with Twitter to control the free speech rights of a private citizen. If conservatives in DC want to fix "big tech" censorship, they should pass a law to make this kind of collusion a felony." (x.com)

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