The biggest tech issues in the 2020 presidential election

As the 2020 presidential election heats up next year, big tech will be front and center as candidates and members of Congress grapple with questions touching online privacy, antitrust, access to broadband and more. While impeachment hearings have divided the country, when it comes to the big tech issues of the day, Republicans and Democrats actually agree on the basics: Large online platforms like Amazon, Google and Facebook are too powerful and need to be reined in. The digital divide between rural and urban America needs to be closed. And there should be some net neutrality protections to ensure everyone has equal access to the internet. But of course, the devil is in the details. And there's a broad spectrum of ideas and proposals, especially among Democrats running for president. 

An issue that Democrats and Republicans agree on is that something needs to be done to connect the millions of Americans living in rural areas who don't have access to high-speed internet service. It's created a great divide between the internet haves of the urban and suburban areas of the country and the rural have-nots. Given that this is an issue that affects a large number of Trump's base living in rural parts of the US, Democratic presidential candidates have taken notice.