# Political positions of the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primary candidates

The Democratic candidates in the 2016 United States presidential election hold a wide variety of stances on issues related to domestic and foreign policy and their political ideological views.

## Domestic policy

| | Jeff Boss | Harry Braun | Lincoln Chafee (Suspended campaign) | Hillary Clinton | Paul T. Farrell Jr. | Keith Judd | Lawrence Lessig (Suspended campaign) | David Mills | Martin O'Malley (Suspended campaign) | Bernie Sanders | Sam Sloan | Vermin Supreme | Jim Webb (Suspended campaign) | Robby Wells | Willie Wilson | John Wolfe, Jr. |
| $15 federal minimum wage | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | No | Un­known | Un­known |
| American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Cannabis legalization | Yes | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known |
| Capital punishment | No | Yes | No | Yes | Un­known | Yes | No | Un­known | No | No | Un­known | Yes | Yes | No | Un­known | Un­known |
| Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | No | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| DREAM Act | Un­known | No | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Equality Act of 2015 | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Expand Social security | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | No | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Federal ban on conversion therapy for minors on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Lifting the ban on military service for transgender Americans | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Maintain Obergefell v. Hodges | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | No | Yes | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Maintain Roe v. Wade | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | No | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | No | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Overturn Burwell v. Hobby Lobby | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Overturn Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Pro-choice | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Un­known | No | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Yes | Yes | No | Un­known | Un­known |
| Proposition 1 | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | No | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | No | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Reinstating Glass–Steagall Legislation | Un­known | Un­known | Yes (previously against until October 13, 2015) | No | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes |
| Religious Freedom Restoration Act | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | No | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | No | No | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Religious Liberty Accommodations Act | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | No | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | No | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Repeal of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008 | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | No | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Repeal of USA PATRIOT Act | Yes | Un­known | Yes (previously against until October 13, 2015) | No | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | No | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | No | Yes | Un­known | Un­known |
| Senate Bill 175 | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | No | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | No | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Single-payer health care | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | No | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes |
| Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2015 | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | No | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Tuition-free public college | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | No | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | No | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known |
| Update military service records of veterans dismissed due to their sexual orientation | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Supports same-sex marriage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (previously against) | Un­known | No | Yes | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | No | No | No |
| USA Freedom Act | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | No (previously supported until June 1, 2015) | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Universal background checks | No | No | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | No | Un­known | Un­known |

## Foreign policy

| | Jeff Boss | Harry Braun | Lincoln Chafee (Suspended campaign) | Hillary Clinton | Paul T. Farrell Jr. | Keith Judd | Lawrence Lessig (Suspended campaign) | David Mills | Martin O'Malley (Suspended campaign) | Bernie Sanders | Sam Sloan | Vermin Supreme | Jim Webb (Suspended campaign) | Robby Wells | Willie Wilson | John Wolfe, Jr. |
| Asylum for Syrian Civil War refugees | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Drone strikes on suspected enemy combatants | Yes | No | No | Yes | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Ending the United States embargo against Cuba | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Enlargement of NATO | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | No | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Iran Nuclear Deal | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Yes | Un­known | No | Un­known | Yes | Un­known |
| Keystone Pipeline System | Un­known | No | Un­known | No (previously undecided until September 22, 2015) | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | No | No | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Maintain some troops in Afghanistan | No | No | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Military intervention against ISIL | Un­known | Un­known | No | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Military funding for the Free Syrian Army | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | No | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| No-fly zone in Syria | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | No | No | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Paris Agreement | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | No | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Sanctions against Iran | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Trans-Pacific Partnership | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | No | Un­known | Un­known | No | Un­known | No | No | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |
| Two-state solution | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Yes | Yes | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known | Un­known |

## Political ideologies

Note that some of these terms are self-identifiers (in quotation marks): the views linked to may not adequately represent all of their policy stances.
| Jeff Boss | Harry Braun | Lincoln Chafee (Suspended campaign) | Hillary Clinton | Paul T. Farrell Jr. | Keith Judd | Lawrence Lessig (Suspended campaign) | David Mills | Martin O'Malley (Suspended campaign) | Bernie Sanders | Sam Sloan | Vermin Supreme | Jim Webb (Suspended campaign) | Robby Wells | Willie Wilson | John Wolfe, Jr. |
| truther | direct democrat | libertarian-leaning progressive | "progressive" | "conservative" | Un­known | "liberal" | "liberal" | "progressive" | "democratic socialist" | Un­known | "anarchist" | moderate liberal | "eaglist" | social liberal | "progressive" |