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| Kamala Harris from 2024 |
Why I am voting for Vice President Kamala Harris:
1. Vice President Harris has a written and an evaluated plan to boost the US economy and according to the Wall Street Journal her plans are better for the USA than anything proffered by Trump.
2. Vice President Harris is mature, job-ready, experienced, and youthful with a clean medical record allowing her to be physically, intellectually, and socially fit to be president.
3. Vice President Harris has helped deliver the largest investment in public education in American history, provide nearly $170 billion in student debt relief for almost five million borrowers, and deliver record investments in HBCUs, Tribal Colleges, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and other minority-serving institutions.
4. Vice President Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest investment in climate action in history. This historic work is lowering household energy costs, creating hundreds of thousands of high-quality clean energy jobs, and building a thriving clean energy economy, all while ensuring America’s energy security and independence with record energy production.
5. I trust Vice President Kamala Harris to make informed decisions based on her work as attorney general, senator, and vice president.
6. Vice President Kamala Harris is pro-labor. Vice President Harris serves as the Chair of the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment. In doing so, she has helped advance dozens of policies to make it easier for workers to organize, to raise wages, and to strengthen workers’ bargaining power. As senator, Harris was the lead sponsor of legislation to strengthen Occupational Safety and Health Act protections against heat stress on the job. She also was the lead sponsor of legislation to establish a Domestic Worker Bill of Rights to provide domestic workers with basic protections and rights on the job, as well as legislation to strengthen whistleblower protections on the job. Labor historians generally concur that the Biden administration has the second-strongest labor-friendly record, after Franklin D. Roosevelt.
7. The AFL-CIO, the largest umbrella organization for U.S. unions, gave Harris a lifetime score of 98% on her Senate voting record. Walz got a 93% rating for his votes from the AFL-CIO when he served in the House of Representatives.
8. Vice President Harris has been vocal in her disagreement with the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed states to set their own policy on abortion legality. In stark contrast, Trump has repeatedly taken credit for the overturning of Roe and giving states decision-making authority on abortion because he appointed three conservative justices to the Supreme Court with the explicit goal of overturning Roe.
9. Since the Dobbs ruling, 14 states have banned abortion with very few exceptions and several other states have limited abortion availability to very early in pregnancy. Women are dying because of Trump's engineering the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
10. As Vice President Kamala Harris has led economic recovery bailing the country out after Trump's mishandling of the pandemic.
11. Vice President Harris has built a broad coalition of support. More than 200 Republicans who worked for former President George H.W. Bush, former President George W. Bush, Sen. John McCain and Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, saying democracy would be "irreparably jeopardized" by another Trump administration.
12. Vice President Harris has vowed to fight to cut taxes for more than 100 million working- and middle-class Americans.
13. Vice President Harris will provide first-time homebuyers with up to $25,000 to help with their down payments, with more generous support for first-generation homeowners.
14. Vice President Harris has set an ambitious goal of 25 million new business applications by the end of her first term — over 10 million more than Trump saw during his term.
15. Vice President Harris will expand the startup expense tax deduction for new businesses from $5,000 to $50,000.
16. Vice President Harris will protect Social Security and Medicare against relentless attacks from Donald Trump and his extreme allies. She will strengthen Social Security and Medicare for the long haul by making millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share in taxes.
17. Vice President Harris’ call for reproductive freedom includes access to contraception, and her support on this issue extends back to her time before she became Vice President. Since the Dobbs decision, the Biden-Harris Administration issued executive orders reiterating support for contraception and directing various federal agencies and regulators to assure that access to the full range of contraceptive services and supplies is safeguarded.
18. While in the Senate and as Vice President, Kamala Harris has been a champion on improving maternal health, with a particular focus on eliminating persistent racial and ethnic disparities. Recently, has called for insurance coverage of IVF.
19. After becoming Vice President, the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021, which the Administration supported, allowed states to extend postpartum coverage under Medicaid from 60 days to 12 months. Since it took effect, nearly all states have adopted the extension.
20. Vice President Harris is an excellent role model for children and adults alike. She is humble and truthful. She uplifts people, not tears them down. In a recent Pew poll, "64% of voters say “even-tempered” describes Harris very or fairly well. By comparison, only half as many (32%) say this about Trump." 53% also said Harris is a good role model.
21. Vice President Harris is a planner who is not afraid of working hard and does so.
22. Vice President Harris is working for our vote. She does not feel, or act entitled to our votes.
23. Vice President Harris supports the US in NATO. Harris centers relationship building, and promised in her Democratic National Convention acceptance speech to “stand strong” with NATO allies.
24. Vice President Harris supports Ukraine. She has pledged continued aid for the eastern European nation on the principle that Putin would continue marching into Europe if allies relent on Ukraine.
25. Vice President Harris loves the United States of America and understands its histories and promises. She has never proclaimed that she will be “a dictator from day 1” as Trump has done.
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| Donald Trump from 2024, Dallas. |
Why I will never vote for Donald Trump:
1. As president, Trump repeatedly failed to uphold his sworn duty to our Constitution.
2. As president, Trump incited an insurrection on January 6, 2021.
3. As president, Trump failed to support his own VP against a violent mob. When Trump was told by an aide of Pence’s evacuation, prosecutors say Trump responded: “So what?”
4. Two hundred ten defendants from 40 states and the District of Columbia who were charged for their participation in the January 6th insurrection have said they were answering Donald Trump’s calls when they traveled to Washington and joined the violent attack on the Capitol.
5. As president, Trump made up statistics about voter fraud to convince followers to storm the Capitol.
6. As president in a single year, Trump decimated reproductive rights and access to family planning in the U.S. and around the globe.
7. As president, Trump nominated three conservative Justices to the Supreme Court who all lied during their Senate confirmation hearings saying, "Roe was settled law," only to later overturn Roe.
8. While in office, Trump’s Administration rewrote the rules governing the federal Title X program, the federal family planning program that supports contraceptive access for people with lower incomes. Title X funds have never been used to pay for abortion services, but Trump’s Administration rewrote the regulations to disqualify family planning clinics from participating in the program if they also offered abortion services (with separate funding);
9. While in office, Trump’s Administration prohibited participating clinics from offering referrals to abortion services at other clinics to pregnant patients seeking abortion information. These changes resulted in a reduction of about 1,300 of the 4,000 sites participating in the network of clinics receiving federal support from the Title X program.
10. While in office, Trump’s Administration provided federal family planning funding through Title X funds to clinics that did not provide contraceptive methods, which had been a requirement of the program until that time. The Biden-Harris Administration reversed the Trump Administration changes to the program. Project 2025 calls for the restoration of the Trump-era rules and focusing the program on fertility-awareness based methods (FABM).
11. As president, Trump and his administration protected Brett Kavanaugh from facing a full FBI investigation in the wake of serious allegations that he sexually assaulted two women – once in high school and once in college – during his controversial 2018 Senate confirmation to become a supreme court justice.
12. As president, Trump and the FBI “misled the public and the Senate” about the scope of the investigation it did conduct into the sexual assault allegations by falsely claiming that the FBI had conducted its investigation thoroughly and “by the book”.
13. As president, Trump gave states the okay to defund Planned Parenthood.
14. As president, Trump’s Administration issued multiple regulations that placed restrictions on the availability of funding for contraception.
15. As president, Trump failed to unite the country after vowing to do so.
16. As president, Trump inherited a superb economy in 2017 when he took office and left office in January 2021 after a sharp contraction of economic activity and huge job losses.
17. As president, Trump divided the country increasing harm to minorities, LGBTQ, and women,
18. As president, Trump mismanaged the pandemic causing citizens to die.
19. As president, Trump told Americans the pandemic was not serious by asserting his “hunches” about data.
20. As president, Trump assured people that everyone would be tested even when there were very few tests available. During that time, he secretly sent COVID-19 tests to Putin.
21. As president, Trump told people that we are very close to a vaccine when it is was a year away.
22. As president, Trump mistakenly asserted that goods as well as people from Europe would be forbidden from entering the United States.
23. As president, Trump recklessly recommended citizens inject bleach into their bodies to kill COVID-19.
24. As president, after every presidential statement regarding COVID-19, “clarifications” were needed. He is unclear, untutored, and misinformed often.
25. As president, Trump gave a national address meant to calm the country in the face of COVID -19 that had the effect of taking the stock market down over 1,000 points.
26. As president, Trump's mismanagement of COVID -19 crisis led to a 14.8 percent unemployment rate in 2020. Biden-Harris reduced that rate to 4.1% by September 2024.
27. As president, Trump publicly supported dictator Putin over his own policy advisors.
28. As president, Trump's 2017 tax cut was expensive and eroded the U.S. revenue base.
29. As president, Trump's 2017 tax cut was skewed to the wealthy, ignoring the rest of America. According to the Center on Public and Policy Priorities "Households with incomes in the top 1 percent will receive an average tax cut of more than $60,000 in 2025, compared to an average tax cut of less than $500 for households in the bottom 60 percent, according to the Tax Policy Center (TPC)."
30. As president, Trump’s Prescription Drug Executive Order failed to help patients, unlike the Biden-Harris who negotiated the reduction in prescription costs. "...for the first time in history, my Administration is announcing that Medicare has reached agreements on new, lower prices with the manufacturers of all 10 drugs selected for the first round of drug price negotiation. When these lower prices go into effect, people on Medicare will save $1.5 billion in out-of-pocket costs for their prescription drugs and Medicare will save $6 billion in the first year alone. It’s a relief for the millions of seniors that take these drugs to treat everything from heart failure, blood clots, diabetes, arthritis, Crohn’s disease, and more – and it’s a relief for American taxpayers."
31. As president, Trump came to office having repeatedly refused to release his tax returns, even after a leak indicated that he may have paid no taxes for eighteen years. (ACLU)
32. Contrary to JD Vance's erroneous statements about Trump was a pacifist and there were no wars during his presidency, Trump was hawkish. "Trump massively escalated the country’s existing wars in multiple theaters, leading to skyrocketing casualties. In Afghanistan, he substantially upped the amount of airstrikes, leading to a 330 percent increase in civilian deaths. In Yemen, he escalated both U.S. counterterrorism activities and support for the devastating Saudi-led war against the Houthis. According to the United Kingdom’s Bureau of Investigative Journalism, there were 2,243 drone strikes in just the first two years of Trump’s presidency, compared with 1,878 in the entire eight years of the Obama administration." (from here)
33. As president, Trump signed three executive orders in 2018 that restricted the labor rights of approximately 950,000 federal government employees who belong to unions. In 2020, he signed another measure, known as Schedule F, that The Washington Post described as “designed to gut civil service job protections.”
34. The AFL-CIO, the largest umbrella organization for U.S. unions has given Sen. Vance a 0% rating for his Senate votes as of mid-2024. Among other things, Vance opposed the nominations of several judges and government officials with pro-labor track records.
35. On November 4, 2019, President Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement, an agreement among 195 nations to cut their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. The United States stood alone among major emitters in the world in its efforts to repudiate the agreement.
36. As president, Trump and his administration's deregulatory agenda extended into the rules that protect our nation’s air and water and address climate change. Brookings tracked the administration’s deregulatory actions and counted 74 actions that the administration took to weaken environmental protection.
37. As president, Trump was a serial liar. According to the Washington Post, Trump told 30,573 lies during his presidency.
38. Candidate Trump in a highly publicized conversation with Tesla, SpaceX and X CEO Elon Musk, praised Musk for firing employees who spoke out on workplace problems and attempted to unionize.
39. Candidate Trump according to those who worked for him say he is the most dangerous person and unfit to serve as president.
40. Candidate Trump is now a legally defined sexual predator.
41. Candidate Trump is a convicted felon. Trump is the first former US president convicted of felony crimes (34).
42. Candidate Trump is a serial liar. CNN clocked more than 40 lies by Trump in two rallies in Pennsylvania. He lies at each rally.
43. Candidate Trump is a misogynist. A jury in 2023 found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation against journalist E. Jean Carroll. Jill Harth said Trump pushed her against a wall and put a hand up her dress at Mar-a-Lago in 1993. Reporter Natasha Stoynoff said Trump assaulted her in 2005 while she was working on a story about his marriage to Melania. Carroll said Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room.
44. Candidate Trump is a racist. "I believe this, it’s in their genes,” Trump said during a rant against immigrants. “And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now,” he added. Eugenics, a deeply flawed and dishonest scientism convinced people, including the Nazis, that criminality and poverty were all inherited.
45. Candidate Trump has promised to remove Temporary Protected Status and deport the Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, after weeks of spreading baseless claims that the Haitian population was eating pets
46. Candidate Trump's rhetoric is dangerous for Americans. Trump and Vance's rhetoric led to bomb threats at Springfield schools.
47. Candidate Trump now warns that migrants have already invaded the United States, which he uses as a means to justify a second-term policy agenda that includes building massive detention camps and conducting mass deportations.
48. Candidate Trump has been charged with a criminal conspiracy over his attempt to overturn his loss of the 2020 election.
49. Candidate Trump has publicly stated that women should be prosecuted for securing abortions.
50. Candidate Trump expressed that states could restrict access to contraceptives.
51. Candidate Trump is weak, unstable, and mentally unfit to be president. He amplified false claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating pets. He peddles conspiracy theories and rumors.
52. Candidate Trump is too old to be president. If reelected in November, Trump would end his term just a few months short of his 83rd birthday, making him two years older than President Joe Biden is now. A Marquette Law School poll released in Oct9ober, 2024, found that 61 percent of registered voters agreed that Trump is "too old to be president.
53. Candidate Trump has ‘concepts’ of plan. His campaign, like his thinking, is lazy.
54. Candidate Trump demonstrated his mental incapacities at the September debate with VP Harris. In a recent rally in Pennsylvania "last night in Montgomery County, northwest of Philadelphia, Trump got bored with the event, billed as a “town hall,” and just played music for almost 40 minutes, scowling, smirking, and swaying onstage."
55. Candidate Trump demonstrated the ease with which he can be triggered at the September debate with VP Harris. He is unfit.
56. Candidate Trump demonstrated his contempt for immigrants, legally in the USA at the September debate with VP Harris. He is unfit.
57. Candidate Trump demonstrated his contempt for women at the September debate with VP Harris. He is unfit.
58. Candidate Trump supports outlawing gender-affirming care for minors at the federal level, according to his “Agenda 47”.
59. Candidate Trump supports banning transgender athletes from competing on teams that match their gender identity.
60. Candidate Trump supports asking “Congress to pass a bill establishing that the only genders recognized by the United States government are male and female — and they are assigned at birth.”
61. Candidate Trump has vowed to roll back Title IX protections for transgender students enacted in April 2024 by the U.S. Department of Education “on day one,” if he’s reelected.
62. Candidate Trump has repeated baseless disinformation about trans women and girls participating in sports including in response to the Paris Olympics and at the Republican National Convention.
63. According to the ACLU, "A second Trump administration would strip LGBTQ people of protections against discrimination in many contexts, including employment, housing, education, health care, and a range of federal government programs. "
64. At a Moms for Liberty summit, Candidate Trump lied, saying, “Think of it, your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation…. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child.” The statement is a false misrepresentation of the highly regulated process of transgender health care for minors in the United States. No children are going to school and receiving surgery there for gender dysphoria.
65. Candidate Trump had the Bipartisan Border bill killed for political gain. His interest is not for what is best for the country, but rather what advantages himself.
66. Candidate Trump is a whiner. As President Obama so aptly said at a rally in Pennsylvania, “Donald Trump is a 78-year-old billionaire who has not stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago. You’ve got the tweets in all caps. the ranting and raving about crazy conspiracy theories. the two-hour speeches, word salad. It’s like Fidel Castro just on and on. Constant attempts to sell you stuff. Who does that? Selling you gold sneakers and $100,000 watch, and most recently, a Trump Bible. He wants you to buy the word of God: Donald Trump edition! It’s got his name right there next to Matthew and Luke.”
67. Candidate Trump is incoherent speaker at his public rallies. He slurs words. As the NY Times reported, “He rambles, he repeats himself, he roams from thought to thought — some of them hard to understand, some of them unfinished, some of them factually fantastical. He voices outlandish claims that seem to be made up out of whole cloth. He digresses into bizarre tangents about golf, about sharks, about his own “beautiful” body. He relishes “a great day in Louisiana” after spending the day in Georgia. He expresses fear that North Korea is “trying to kill me” when he presumably means Iran. As late as last month, Mr. Trump was still speaking as if he were running against President Biden, five weeks after his withdrawal from the race.”
68. Candidate Trump failed to be endorsed by former GOP President, George W. Bush.
69. Candidate Trump failed to be endorsed by former GOP Vice-President, Dick Cheney. Cheney said, "In our nation's 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump." VP Cheney endorsed Kamala Harris.
70. Candidate Trump failed to be endorsed by his former Vice President Mike Pence.
71. Candidate Trump failed to be endorsed by Mark Esper who served as U.S. secretary of defense between July 2019 and November 2020. Esper endorsed Kamala Harris.
72. Candidate Trump failed to be endorsed by Jim Mattis, a retired four-star general, who served as secretary of defense from January 2017 to January 2019. Mattis endorsed Kamala Harris.
73. Candidate Trump failed to be endorsed by John Kelly, a former Marine Corps general, who served as Trump's White House chief of staff. Speaking to CNN in October 2023, Kelly described Trump as "a person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about." Kelly endorsed Kamala Harris.
74. Candidate Trump failed to be endorsed by Mark Milley who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff between October 2019 and September 2023. During his retirement speech, Gen. Milley said Trump was a "wannabe dictator." Milley endorsed Kamala Harris.
75. Candidate Trump failed to be endorsed by John Bolton who served as U.S. national security adviser from April 2018 until September 2019. Bolton endorsed Kamala Harris.
76. Candidate Trump failed to be endorsed by former Attorney General Bill Barr.
77. Candidate Trump failed to be endorsed by Anthony Scaramucci, who served as Trump's White House communications director. Scaramucci endorsed Kamala Harris.
78. Candidate Trump failed to be endorsed by Olivia Troye, Homeland Security adviser. Troye endorsed Kamala Harris.
79. More than 200 Republicans who worked for former President George H.W. Bush, former President George W. Bush, Sen. John McCain and Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, saying democracy would be "irreparably jeopardized" by another Trump administration.
80. Candidate Trump says the United States has “long been taken advantage of” by “so-called allies.” He does not support NATO.
81. Candidate Trump refused to answer whether he wants Ukraine to be victorious over Russia.
82. Candidate Trump stated he will be a dictator from Day 1.
