To the editor:

Emotional voting. If I read the political news right, Kamala would be far behind except for two issues — abortion and hatred for Trump. How much impact do those two emotional issues have on America’s economy and security?

The primary reason for abortion being legal according to pro-abortionists is rape and incest. Estimates are that pregnancies due to rape is 1% and incest .5%. Most Republicans accept abortion for rape and incest but do not want to see 1 million unborn lives ended each year. The selfish motive seems to be that the pro-abortion crowd has voted for abortion in most states but don’t want pro-life people to have any say even in their own states. How democratic is that?

Kamala is using the threat that Trump will pass a law preventing any abortion. That is literally impossible. When would he get a 2/3 Republican majority in the Senate and a majority in the House of Representatives? That just doesn’t happen.

Hatred for Trump is mostly manufactured. The Democrats have attacked him even before his inauguration. So-called crimes that he has been indicted for are ignored when done by Democrats. Take his accusation of his cheating on his wife. That was wrong but now has been in court and we hear it constantly from Democrats. Why hasn’t Kamala’s affair at the age of 29 with the most prominent Democrat in California, 60-year-old Willie Brown, who was still married, become headlines? She received a jump-start on politics. But that is not mentioned by Democrats or the news media.

Issues that have a great impact on America now and in the future are: food prices, fuel and everything else went up under Kamala/Biden so there is nothing left for rent for those who are struggling; 15 to 20 million immigrants came across the border illegally under Biden/Harris with drugs galore costing hundreds of billions of dollars and 73,000 deaths every year just on the smuggled fentanyl. Trump had gained control of the border in spite of the resistance by the Democrats but Biden/Kamala cancelled his programs; debt went up another $10 trillion under Biden/Harris after $10 trillion under Obama; America was proven to be weak by the Afghan debacle and since then, Ukraine has been invaded, Hamas has gone across the border on one of the worst raids of innocents in recent history, Iran may go to war and China is threatening Taiwan. Under Trump there were no wars and he even stopped one.

Democrats need to evaluate America’s problems and accomplishments in deciding how to vote. In 2020 America was in the best shape for decades. That was before the pandemic when Donald Trump did the impossible before Biden took office making a vaccine available in months instead of years. Biden perhaps did as much damage with his rules as COVID did with the disease.

I ask Democrats to please select a president based upon sound financial plans and a foreign policy that protects America and other people falling under the claws of ambitious dictators. If you don’t and America goes bankrupt, becomes a socialistic country and the world breaks out in more wars, I am going to become very emotional.

John Benedict

Cape Coral