Doug Jones
Centrist
Democrat
N/A
Alabama
Current Position: Former Senator from Alabama
Running For: Governor
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- For implementing state lottery
- Against tariffs imposed by the Trump administration
Business & Labor
- Against privatization of the United States Postal Service
Health Care
- For protecting IVF and contraception
- For expanding Medicaid
- For abortion rights with exception of late-term abortion; supports Hyde Amendment
- Against the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (20-week abortion ban)
- Against repeal of the Affordable Care Act
- For reauthorization of the Children's Health Insurance Program
Environment
- Against the Green New Deal
Civil Rights
- For same-sex marriage
- For protections for transgender students and transgender troops
Voting Rights & Democracy
- For early voting
- Against straight-ticket ballot voting
Immigration & Foreign Affairs
- Against U.S. support for Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
- For offering pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients (Dreamers)
- Against withholding federal funding from sanctuary cities
Public Safety
- Against assault weapons ban
- For tighter background checks for gun sales and raising gun purchase age from 18 to 21
- For the First Step Act (criminal justice reform)
- For reversing mandatory three-strikes laws for nonviolent offenses