My 2024 election decision is pretty straightforward for me. This election is too critical to consider a third party candidate. Both major candidates are close in age, so that’s not a factor. One is calm and compassionate, the other breeds chaos and hate. One plans to do what’s right for our country and future, and the other what’s right for himself. One attempts to maintain - or better - our foreign policy, healthcare, infrastructure, and promote a reasonable position on abortion, voters rights, and gun and climate control issues, economy and immigration (despite opposition from the other party, and at times factors beyond his control). The other promotes isolationism while fostering friendship with autocratic strongmen, fears science, speaks of law & order - but defies both, and who is the puppetmaster/ventriloquist to his cultist sycophants.
However, what scares me the most is the potential loss of our democracy - forever changed – if Trump wins (or refuses to concede a loss).
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Gary Simons
Oro Valley
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