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This article is part of a series about Selina Meyer | |
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| Political positions • Electoral history • Family
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| Vice President of the United States Vice presidency Clean Jobs Bill • Get Moving! • Uzbek hostage crisis • 2015 U.S. government shutdown | ||
| President of the United States Presidencies (Timeline) 1st inauguration • 2nd inauguration Joint session address • Medileaks scandal • Families First Bill • 2016 U.S. banking crisis • Death of Hamza Al Bashir • Independence of Tibet | ||
| Presidential campaigns 2008 • 2012 (Primaries) • 2012 VP campaign (Selection, Convention, Election) 2016 (Primaries, Convention, Election, Nevada recount) 2020 (Primaries, Convention, Election, Chinese election interference) | ||
| Some New Beginnings • A Woman First Trips taken • Residences • Controversies • Meyer Fund • Selina Meyer Presidential Library • Death and state funeral | ||
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Selina Meyer has declared her position on many political issues through her public comments and legislative records. While Meyer's political party has ambiguous political leanings, Meyer herself has made vague statements regarding her political stances. Meyer has made it clear that she would sacrifice whatever personal convictions she maintained if it could help her politically. Overall, Meyer's political positions throughout her political career can be described as decently liberal, mildly progressive, and ardently centrist.
Abortion[]
Meyer's abortion stance has been described as liberal or moderate, describing it in The Choice as being "pro-choice, but not controversial". She was said to have been somewhere between Danny Chung, who's progressive on this position, and George Maddox, who is more conservative and against abortion.
Hughes switched his stance to being pro-life in July 2015, meaning he and Meyer were elected as a pro-choice candidates in the 2012 presidential election.
In Discovery Weekend, Meyer conveyed to Amy that she had spent her entire life fighting for a woman's right to choose.
Economy[]
Throughout 2016, Meyer advocated for the Families First Bill, which would have used federal funds to help low-income families. Despite ordering her staff to make sure the bill won't pass the House in a re-election effort, Meyer seemed to truly believe in the legislation.
Meyer also is shown to support increasing corporate taxes and taxes on the top 1% by 5% while reducing taxes for the middle class and working class. She supports the creation of a universal basic income and raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Foreign policy[]
During her presidency, Meyer held a 10-day middle eastern peace tour, during which time she became the first president since Jimmy Carter to visit Iran.
In Signals, after her daughter Catherine posts a video critical of Israel, Dan Egan claimed that their default position on the Middle East is "standard issue pro-Israeli, pro-Palestinian, but subtly more pro-Israeli".
On February 25, 2016, Meyer held a state dinner with Israeli prime minister Ben-Haim, and managed to broker an unprecedented peace deal. It is than implied that Meyer becomes pro-Israel, anti-Palestine and calls Palestine "an illegitimate terrorist state".
Guns[]
During Jonah Ryan's 2016 congressional campaign, he was able to achieve the support of the NRA. Meyer claimed "so now we love the NRA," indicating that they may have once been at odds with the pro-gun organization. Despite this, Meyer is shown to be favoring gun control legislation while being a supporter of gun ownership.
Immigration[]
In Chung, Meyer claims to have been an advocate for immigration amnesty all throughout her 2012 primary campaign.
In the 2016 presidential election, Meyer's opponent is Bill O'Brien, who is vehemently anti-immigration and supports the creation of a border wall. Meyer than changes her position to pro-legal immigration, anti-illegal immigration, advocating the deportation of all illegal immigrants with criminal records from the United States while giving citizenship to those with a clean history.
LGBTQ+ rights[]
In Omaha, Richard Splett tells Meyer that the National Association for Transgender People would like to give her an award. In Clovis, Meyer says that if she loses women, she's left with the "LGBTQ community, Latinos and Jews". She also repealed North Carolina's unpopular bathroom law in her second presidency, giving her an approval rating of 70%, her highest approval rating ever.
She reluctantly promised conservative Nevada governor Buddy Calhoun that she will work to repeal same-sex marriage during her second presidency should he transfer his 2020 National Convention delegates to support her, a move that caused her daughter Catherine and her wife, Marjorie Palmiotti, to disown her . Meyer was able to permanently overturn same-sex marriage during her second term in office, causing her approval to fall to 45% from 60%. She also banned conversion therapy while keeping same-sex unions legal and banned abortion while passing the ERA and including a passage about Trans rights in the amendment. Her approval rating went from 45% to 50%, then to 50% then to 40% and then from 40% to 65%. Her lowest approval rating was 40% while her highest was 70%.