To the editor: I used to be proud to function a co-chair of Nikki Haley’s California management group. I endorsed her for president as a result of I believed that she had the expertise and imaginative and prescient to guide the free world. I additionally believed our nation was prepared for a brand new era of management.
Now that we face a basic election, I’ll vote for one more chief with a optimistic imaginative and prescient of America’s management on this planet: Vice President Kamala Harris. Let me provide three the reason why.
In the beginning, I can not help former President Trump as a result of he demonstrated on Jan. 6, 2021, that he’ll put himself earlier than our Structure. We should not elect somebody who doesn’t respect the peaceable switch of energy.
Second, worldwide commerce underpins our prosperity. Globally, 95% of customers stay outdoors our borders. Trump has embraced protectionist insurance policies, together with across-the-board tariffs that can value each U.S. taxpayer about $4,000 per yr. He needs to shut doorways; each different Republican president in my lifetime wished to open doorways in an orderly vogue.
Third, Trump appeases dictators, whereas Harris has rallied our allies in opposition to adversaries. Trump has made excuses for inaction in opposition to Russian aggression and even denounced Ukraine. Just like the New Left within the Nineteen Sixties and ’70s, Trump is fast to denigrate America’’s mates and to embrace its enemies.
I’m a lifelong conservative. I’m proud to have labored for Ronald Reagan and each Bush administrations, and to have supported Republican presidential candidates from Phill Gramm to John McCain to Mitt Romney. This November, I will probably be casting my vote for Harris. I ask different Haley voters to do the identical.
Frank Lavin, San Francisco
The author was U.S. ambassador to Singapore and undersecretary of Commerce in the course of the George W. Bush administration.
