Don Blankenship's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Don Blankenship has failed to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2024 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.
Issue Positions
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- "Any country (State) that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion." (x.com)
- "By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems." (x.com)
- "The recent Supreme Court decision did not ban abortion it simply returned to the States the right to have their own abortion laws. But the ruling has led to much discussion about abortion. Hopefully each State in America that will now debate what their abortion law will say will consider what Mother Teresa said about abortion which I have paraphrased in the following tweets. Mother Teresa said: Abortion has portrayed the greatest of gifts -- a child -- as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience." (x.com)
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- "If @LeaderMcConnell & @foxnews had not lied about me during the 2018 US Senate primary in WV, I would have defeated @Sen_JoeManchin. He wouldnât have passed the huge tax increase, green new deal spending bill today. Trump should have supported me instead of the loser" (x.com)
- "Joe Manchin voted with his boss liberal Chuck Schumer against tax cuts for hardworking West Virginians. Manchin votes against President Trump's agenda too often. I will support President Trump and work to make the tax cuts permanent." (x.com)
- "Joe Manchin voted with his boss liberal Chuck Schumer against tax cuts for hardworking West Virginians. Manchin votes against President Trump's agenda too often. I will support President Trump and work to make the tax cuts permanent." (x.com)
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- "Iâll work to end the corruption in DC, focus on creating jobs for West Virginia families, and how we need to cut government spending." (x.com)
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- "If @LeaderMcConnell & @foxnews had not lied about me during the 2018 US Senate primary in WV, I would have defeated @Sen_JoeManchin. He wouldnât have passed the huge tax increase, green new deal spending bill today. Trump should have supported me instead of the loser" (x.com)
- "Wanna see what summers will be like once the Biden-Harris administration passes the Sanders-AOC Green New Deal? Just look at the blackouts in California." (x.com)
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- "Making guns illegal means disarming millions of honest hard working Americans who may need a gun to protect themselves against the criminals which our government makes no real effort to control." (x.com)
- "This week we lost 19 children and 2 adults to a insane school shooter in Texas. Understandably this means lots of news about gun control, political hyperbole, and public outcry." (x.com)
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- "Illegal means illegal. I support @realDonaldTrump and believe we need to build a wall along our border" (x.com)
- "There are 12 million illegal immigrants in America that cost taxpayers over $100 billion annually. I will stand with President Trump and vote to build the border wall." (x.com)
- "We had also hoped to end illegal immigrant sanctuary cities but instead we are planning criminal sanctuary cities. Many cities that have long been sanctuaries for birds may soon become sanctuaries for jailbirds" (x.com)
- "Illegal means illegal. I support @realDonaldTrump and believe we need to build a wall along our border" (x.com)
- "We had also hoped to end illegal immigrant sanctuary cities but instead we are planning criminal sanctuary cities. Many cities that have long been sanctuaries for birds may soon become sanctuaries for jailbirds" (x.com)
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- "Congress giving billions to Ukraine, considering lowering tariffs on China products, and trying to govern policies of other countries, all while American businesses struggle to survive. If Congress has extra money or plans to print more, give it to Americans and no one else." (x.com)
- "What a country we live in. Borrowing money from China to give to Ukraine, ten thousand opiate deaths a month, 200,000 illegal immigrants a month" (x.com)
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