To the Editor:
Re “Most Biden Voters of 2020 Concern He’s Too Previous to Lead” (entrance web page, March 4):
Donald Trump’s speech in Richmond, Va., on Saturday was chock-full of slurred phrases, confusion, unusual non sequiturs and different purple flags that anybody who has watched a member of the family’s psychological decline would don’t have any hassle recognizing. However The New York Occasions runs a front-page article about how unpopular President Biden is and voters’ worries about his age.
Please drop the pretense that there’s something like “equivalency” within the alternative between candidates! The actual story this election cycle is the truth that the putative Republican nominee has critical, observable indicators of psychological decline. Nothing Joe Biden says or does comes even shut!
Meredith Dytch
Chicago
To the Editor:
Joe Biden could or is probably not too previous to steer the nation, however both approach the one different is Donald Trump. Mr. Biden, the oldest president in historical past, has performed an excellent job in a tough time, with a paralyzed Congress and the wreckage left by his predecessor.
In contrast, Mr. Trump did a horrible job, stuffed his cupboard with corrupt incompetents and targeted on enriching himself, to the good detriment of the American folks.
Given the selection between Mr. Biden, 81, and Mr. Trump, who turns 78 in June, I’ll take Mr. Biden any day. And that’s the one alternative there’s.
So, if Democrats need a second Trump time period, with all its nightmarish implications, then go forward and fear about Mr. Biden’s age, go forward and vote for another person as a protest, go forward and keep house on Election Day. However I’m not. I’m voting for Joe.
Tim Shaw
Cambridge, Mass.
To the Editor:
Let me stipulate that I’m a progressive, lifelong Democrat, and I’m disgusted with Joe Biden. Why? It’s not due to what he has or has not completed; it’s due to what he mentioned in his final marketing campaign and reneged on.
In 2020, Joe Biden, then a candidate, proclaimed that if elected, he can be a transitional chief who would move the baton to a youthful cohort of aspiring celebration leaders. We are able to endlessly speculate on why he has chosen not to take action, however the hubris he’s demonstrating in ignoring his advancing age could effectively propel Donald Trump into the presidency.
I assume Mr. Biden believes that he can overcome the doubts of virtually three-quarters of voters in your ballot who really feel that he’s simply too previous to be efficient in one other time period. Joe, you had an opportunity to cement your legacy, to do the suitable factor, and also you didn’t accomplish that. Allow us to simply hope and pray that your nation doesn’t pay the value in your ego-driven myopia.
Ken Derow
Swarthmore, Pa.
To the Editor:
Your article concerning the New York Occasions/Siena Faculty ballot is essential given the excessive stakes within the 2024 presidential election.
I’m an enormous fan of Joe Biden given his accomplishments, folks abilities, psychological acuity and decency. However this ballot is troubling to me, I need to say. I’m not giving up on President Biden in 2024, since I do consider that he’s nonetheless very efficient and sure will stay so for his time period in workplace, if re-elected.
Nonetheless, you’d be doing an incredible service to all of us who see Donald Trump as an existential menace and hazard to our democracy if there have been a ballot of our most interesting different, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, in opposition to Mr. Trump to see if people who might by no means conceive of voting for Mr. Trump would favor Ms. Whitmer by an enormous margin. In that case, that may be one thing important for Mr. Biden to think about, given the excessive stakes.
Gerald C. Sternberg
Madison, Wis.
To the Editor:
Relating to the Occasions-Siena Faculty ballot of sentiment amongst voters, one of the vital ridiculous questions is “Do you assume america is heading in the right direction, or is it headed within the mistaken course?”
Many citizens like me would reply “no” to that survey query. However that query is so open-ended (or flawed) that it might set off considerate folks to reply negatively due to points like the dearth of sane gun management legal guidelines, lack of entry to abortion, the activist Supreme Court docket or the rise of Christian nationalism, embodied within the present speaker of the Home. I don’t assume voters attribute all of their frustrations over such points to President Biden.
Possibly The Occasions must ask higher questions.
Carol Broadbent
Silicon Valley, Calif.
Combat On, Nikki Haley
To the Editor:
Thanks, Bret Stephens, for encouraging Nikki Haley to proceed working regardless of all the percentages in opposition to her (“Nikki Haley’s Final Ditch,” column, Feb. 28).
Underneath regular circumstances it might make sense for her to give up, figuring out that she has nearly no probability of profitable, and to help the presumptive nominee. Nonetheless, these should not regular instances, and contemplating that the final man standing is probably the most corrupt and unworthy particular person who ever ran for president, with many prison prices in opposition to him, I consider she is doing probably the most noble factor by staying within the race as a way to attempt to save our democracy and our sanity.
Thanks, Nikki, in your braveness and your persistence. We want you greater than ever!
Joshua Rosenthal
Queens
To the Editor:
I’m a lifelong Democrat who deeply admires Nikki Haley and Liz Cheney and am glad that I’ve conservative girls to supply to my granddaughter as function fashions.
Combat to the final ditch, Nikki. Extra folks than are relying on you to carry the road.
Carole Huxel
Goffstown, N.H.
Airdrops to Gaza Aren’t Sufficient
To the Editor:
Re “U.S. Begins Airdrops of Humanitarian Assist in Gaza” (nytimes.com, March 2):
We’ve every studied and written about struggle and different humanitarian crises for greater than 40 years. We all know of few different conditions as determined as that now going through the 2 million residents of Gaza.
With dwindling entry to meals, water, shelter and well being companies and the deterioration of hygiene and sanitation, this humanitarian disaster is on the precipice of changing into a far higher disaster.
The scenario is particularly determined for the numerous infants and younger youngsters who’re severely malnourished and are at extraordinarily excessive danger of dying from diarrheal issues, measles and different infectious ailments.
Airdropping assist is a step in the suitable course, however it’s unlikely to be satisfactory to deal with extraordinarily determined wants. Enough meals, water, shelter and medical provides have to be offered instantly, and plenty of extra humanitarian assist staff have to be permitted to enter Gaza.
Jennifer Leaning
Barry S. Levy
Dr. Leaning is a professor emeritus of the follow of well being and human rights on the Harvard Chan Faculty of Public Well being. Dr. Levy is a previous president of the American Public Well being Affiliation and an adjunct professor of public well being at Tufts College Faculty of Medication.
Loss of life in Gaza
To the Editor:
“Lives Resulted in Gaza” (entrance web page, March 4) was a profile of contradictions that tore at my coronary heart in two methods.
First, it was heartbreaking to see the faces of these Gazans whose lives, together with their goals, have been taken away so instantly. Second, it was heartbreaking to learn that most of the victims supported Hamas’s murderous incursion into Israel and the killing of Jews on Oct. 7.
I wished to weep — and scream.
Steven Cohen
New York
