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 technology of management.
Now that we face a common election, I’ll vote for an additional chief with a optimistic imaginative and prescient of America’s management on the earth: Vice President Kamala Harris. Let me provide three the reason why.
In the beginning, I can’t assist 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 shoppers dwell exterior our borders. Trump has embraced protectionist insurance policies, together with across-the-board tariffs that may price each U.S. taxpayer about $4,000 per yr. He desires to shut doorways; each different Republican president in my lifetime needed to open doorways in an orderly trend.
Third, Trump appeases dictators, whereas Harris has rallied our allies towards adversaries. Trump has made excuses for inaction towards Russian aggression and even denounced Ukraine. Just like the New Left within the Sixties and ’70s, Trump is fast to denigrate America’’s associates 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 through the George W. Bush administration.
