Cualificaciones: ¿Qué formación, experiencia y características te cualifican para este puesto?
Democracia: ¿Qué es necesario hacer, si es que hay algo, para proteger nuestra democracia y restaurar la confianza en nuestras instituciones?
Inmigración: ¿Qué cambios de políticas son necesarios para que el sistema de inmigración de EE. UU. sea eficaz y humano?
Relaciones Internacionales: ¿Cuál es el papel de Estados Unidos en la protección de la democracia en todo el mundo y cómo podemos equilibrar esa posición con nuestros intereses económicos?
Cambio climático: ¿Qué medidas, si las hubiera, deben adoptarse a nivel federal para abordar los impactos del cambio climático?
Stream the Democrat Primary Voters Guide
A. "Robert" Hassan
The Senate must be able to communicate effectively with a variety of people, including colleagues, staff, constituents, and the media. I am most capable of working well under pressure.
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American democracy is at a dangerous inflection point. The moment requires a step-change in strategy and support. Without such momentum, the country faces a democratic setback. Many Americans view this moment with concern with worthy measure. America’s system is creaky, but the world’s oldest democracy has strong institutions and will pull through.
Since the end of the Cold War, most democratic failure globally has been caused by elected governments using legal methods, such technical rule changes, to derail democracy. Their destructions of their own democracies have been supported by pluralities or majorities of their citizenries, whose polarization leads them to back policies that harm democracy to ensure their side prevails.
Many of the laws that form institutional guardrails were written poorly in the aftermath of the Civil War, with loopholes that are easily challenged given a lack of precedent. Moreover, the country’s age means that much of what are presumed to be laws and institutions are, in fact, simply norms. These norms are eroding quickly.
In America, many states have been flooded with laws to alter voting. The worst of these maneuvers have occurred in a dozen states that have passed laws transferring power to more partisan electoral bodies and/or criminalizing their election administrations. These antidemocratic legal moves cannot be overcome by turnout. In turn, effecting all climate change policy measures.
