Indivisibles,
Over the last few months, Indivisible’s network of activists have
requested again and again a tool to evaluate the 2020 presidential
candidates. After a lot of work and consistent input from our Indivisible
group leaders, we’re excited to share our 2020 Presidential Candidate
Scorecard with the movement.
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Let’s be clear: we’re all in for whoever wins the primary. Every one of
the Democratic candidates is Abraham Lincoln compared to Donald Trump. We
launched the [ [link removed] ]We Are Indivisible 2020 Pledge earlier this year to commit
our movement to rally around whoever wins, because all of us need to be
all in to save our democracy. The first part of that pledge is to engage
in a constructive primary, and Indivisible's scorecard is an effort to do
exactly that.
How the scorecard evaluates candidates. In our scorecard, we’ve centered
certain issues and priorities the Indivisible movement has told us are
important. Those issues fall into three categories:
* Progressive Policy Stances: Indivisibles want a candidate who is
committed to enacting bold, popular, progressive policies across a
range of areas, including immigration, climate, economic justice,
health care, and other critical policy areas.
* Day-One Democracy Agenda: None of the policy reforms we want to see in
2021 are possible without a democracy that responds to the people.
Indivisibles want a candidate who is committed first and foremost to
ambitious reforms to save our democracy.
* Building Grassroots Power: Indivisibles know that national change
won’t come from any one leader -- it will take a movement.
Indivisibles want a candidate who is committed to building grassroots
power, as demonstrated by their fundraising, campaign strategy and
management, support for other progressive candidates, and their
engagement with Indivisible groups.
[ [link removed] ]Learn more about how the candidates stack up by clicking here to read
the full scorecard.
A months-long, in-depth process with the movement and candidates. We did
not throw darts at a wall to get here! Every candidate first had to take
the We Are Indivisible pledge. For those who did, we provided an in-depth
questionnaire with more than 80 questions about policy, priorities, and
strategy, which we put together with input from Indivisible group leaders
and national partners. Candidates who completed the questionnaire were
then invited to participate in a live interview last month. We’re
releasing details on all of this, which you can read about on the
scorecard site -- feel free to dive in and check our work!
The scorecard is a living project intended to be put to use. The scorecard
is not an endorsement and it’s not static: it’s living and evolving. Each
candidate is graded based on their current alignment with the movements’
values, and we will continue to invite the candidates to clarify or adjust
their priorities to reflect those of the grassroots. We were making
changes as recently as Sunday based on new information. We expect to see
the candidates’ scores change over time, hopefully improving as the months
go on.
We want candidates to try to out-democracy one another. We want them to
feel pressure from you and the broader Indivisible movement to take
stronger positions on the issues we care about. If they do, we’ll gladly
make changes to the scores to reflect their evolving positions. We would
be thrilled if every candidate had a 100% score by the Iowa caucuses.
You should think of these scorecards as a tool in your activism. If your
pick has a low score on an issue you care about, push them on it.
Indivisibles have spent much of the last three years building
relationships and power: making sure we’re pushing the candidates on our
top issues is a crucial way to spend that power, and the scorecard is a
tool to empower you to do that. That’s how we’ll get the strongest
candidate possible who will beat Trump.
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We’re so excited to be releasing this scorecard -- we hope you’ll take a
look!
- Indivisible Team
P.S. We know you may have questions about why candidates got particular
scores. Over the next few days, in addition to the information already on
the website, we’ll be delving into candidate scores more deeply on social
media -- follow us on [ [link removed] ]Twitter and like our [ [link removed] ]Facebook page.
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