Joe on the issues. Well, some of them.

Do not forget he led O into supporting gay marriage.

Biden on the Issues: Where He Stands and How He’s Changed

Mr. Biden has outlined a populist economic agenda focused on income inequality and workers’ rights. 

He endorsed a $15 minimum wage and free four-year public college in 2015; in a speech at the Brookings Institution in May 2018, he mentioned free college as one of five policies he said would help the middle class. 

(The other four were progressive tax reform, more worker protections, major infrastructure investments, and incentives for venture capitalists and other investors to spend outside of major cities.) 

He has called for a ban on noncompete agreements that prevent workers from taking jobs at competitors, and has advocated policies that would let workers discuss how much they are paid without retaliation.

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As one might expect from the man who famously told President Barack Obama just how big a deal the passage of the Affordable Care Act was, Mr. Biden supports that law and has been outspoken against Republicans’ efforts to repeal it, as well as against proposals to cut funding for programs like Social Security and Medicaid.

In an op-ed published in The Washington Post in 2017, he argued that health care should be “a right for all and not a privilege for the few.” 

That echoes language used by progressive candidates like Bernie Sanders and new Democratic stars like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but Mr. Biden has not endorsed “Medicare for all,” which has become an important dividing line among the 2020 candidates. 

The exact contours of his health care platform, and whether he would seek simply to preserve the Affordable Care Act or to go further, are not clear yet.

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Mr. Biden’s advocacy for government action on climate change goes back more than 30 years: He introduced the Senate’s first climate change bill in 1986. 

He has been outspoken about the urgency of action, including at a rally last year in Florida where he described climate change as “the greatest threat to our security,” citing briefings by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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Mr. Biden supports abortion rights and the Roe v. Wade decision, though he has gone back and forth on abortion in the past and has publicly struggled to reconcile his political positions with his Catholic faith. 

As recently as 2008, he said he believed life began at conception, though he emphasized that this was a personal view and that he did not think it was appropriate to impose it on others through abortion restrictions.