Where Does Oprah Stand On The Issues?

Oprah’s presidential campaign team is already taking form. Barack Obama’s 2012 Iowa campaign manager Brad Anderson, Harvey Weinstein’s friend Meryl Streep, and Woke Bill Kristol have all offered their support to Winfrey 2020. Oprah’s political preferences are clear enough. She helped to elect Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. She endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016. But where does the world’s richest self-made woman stand on the issues?

On the Second Amendment, Oprah supports increased restrictions on gun ownership. During her 2013 Harvard commencement speech, Winfrey insisted, “The vast majority of people in this country believe in stronger background checks. Because they realize that we can uphold the Second Amendment and also reduce that violence that is robbing us of our children.” Despite Oprah’s insistence, there is little evidence that “stronger background checks” would have prevented any major American shooting. Even left-wing megaphone CNN admitted as much in its April 2013 analysis, “Would background checks have stopped recent mass shootings? Probably not.” Laws currently on the books should have prevented the murderer in November’s Sutherland Springs shooting from acquiring a weapon, and the failure of the government to enforce current laws only underscores the ineffectiveness of gun control to curb violence.