Vote for Kamala Harris

Letter to the Editor:

During Trump’s presidency, the trade deficit grew to its highest level since 2008. His 2017 tax cuts incentivized corporations to offshore jobs by lowering the tax rates on foreign profits. “More than 300,000 jobs were lost to offshoring during Trump’s presidency.(NYT,: The NAFTA Effect”, 9/8/2024, Lyndon French)

Blaming Pfizer for his 2020 election loss, Trump urged his followers to use Hydroxychloroquine. According to the Journal of The American Medical Association, Hydroxychloroquine is not effective against COVID-19, and is associated with cardiac arrest.

In October 2021, 25 out of every 100,000 residents in predominantly Trump-voting counties died of COVID-19, approximately three times higher than the death rate in predominantly Biden-voting counties (7.8 per 100,000). (NYT 11/8/2021, US COVID Deaths Get Even Redder”, David Leonhart)

At a rally in Wisconsin on 9/28/2024, Trump called Kamala Harris “mentally disabled and impaired,” revealing his contempt for disabled people. According to the Centers for Disease Control, people with disabilities face health inequities due to discrimination, poverty and exclusion from education and employment. More than one in four (28.7 percent) adults in America have some type of disability. 

Trump’s lies cost jobs and lives. Please vote for Kamala Harris.

Gretchen De Grasse

Walla Walla, Wash.