To the editor: I have faced the reality that Donald Trump will be president for the next four years. There are countless arguments about what went wrong and who is to blame.
With the economy recovering well after COVID-19, I'd like to offer another reason why Vice President Kamala Harris lost. Haven't we thought about the possibility that being a woman is the reason she didn't beat Trump? I look back to 2016, when then-President Obama left us with a good economy and Hilary Clinton still lost.
There is a common denominator. Apparently we don't consider a decent woman more capable than a man who degrades everyone for his own benefit and, this time, ran to avoid going to prison.
Someday I hope we can regain our moral compass as a country and vote for the most worthy person for the presidency.
Micki Wood, Fullerton
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To the editor: I am a registered Republican. I'm not a big fan of Trump, but I want to tell you why I voted for him based on my priorities.
First, the economy. Democrats have been trying to tell the public that the economy is great when it is not. A 20% increase in prices on key items in a few years is absolutely ridiculous.
Second, the situation on the US-Mexico border is unacceptable. We have prices rising and Americans living on the streets, and the Biden administration oversaw the illegal entry of millions of people into this country. This has led to increased spending in areas not prioritized by voters.
Third, the media, especially the last few months. They should start reporting the facts without comment and let people form their own opinions.
Fourth, the prosecution of Trump when he was running for president. I saw and heard from many of my Republican friends that this was an important issue for them and that it backfired on the administration.
Michael Gannuscio, Wrightwood, California.
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To the editor: Having spent my career as a lawyer in Detroit representing workers, I have a pretty good idea of what the lunch guys think is important.
More than two weeks before the election, I wrote to the Harris campaign to tell them that she couldn't win the election based on abortion rights, protecting democracy, or arguing that Trump was unstable. I urged the campaign to run an ad in which Harris speaks directly to the camera to explain why inflation was low under Obama and the first Trump administration, why it skyrocketed, and what specifically she would do to help. And play that ad constantly.
Of course, I'm a nobody, and those someone thought a comedian's outrageous comments would sway Latino voters in Pennsylvania.
Democrats continue to be guided by coastal elites. We will hear that Harris lost because of racism and misogyny in blue wall states. But many of those people would say they voted for Obama; others will point to the mixed-race family member they love dearly.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) gets it. A party that stopped listening to the working class cannot expect to continue receiving their votes.
Alan B. Posner, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: When the vast majority of Americans prefer a convicted felon over Harris, it is more than obvious that she was a poor choice as a candidate and that Democrats ran one of the worst campaigns in history.
Who would have imagined that lying about President Biden's mental capabilities, refusing to hold an open convention to nominate a candidate, refusing to allow even a Palestinian to speak at the convention, supporting fracking, going after Cheney's vote, and helping to the massacre of thousands of people? children in the Gaza Strip would not be a winning campaign combination?
John Zavesky, Riverside
