by
Gary Reed
Gary Reed, former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party says he's endorsing Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
In a letter to the editor published Tuesday in the Lansing City Pulse, Reed writes:
I voted for Nikki Haley in the Feb. 27 primary in part to move the Republican Party past Donald Trump. She received 296,200 votes — 27 percent of the primary votes — at a time when it was clear that Trump was likely going to be the party’s nominee. Many of those 296,200 voters will not vote for Trump on Tuesday; I am one of them.
Donald Trump and JD Vance don’t advocate for the values of the Republican Party I once knew.
He goes on to write:
Trump and Vance thrive on xenophobia and blaming immigrants for all of our problems, rather than coming up with sensible, conservative solutions to serious issues like rising housing costs. Though I may disagree with some of her policy solutions, at least Harris is proposing ideas to fix our problems.
Rather than promote a strong Reaganesque foreign policy, Trump and Vance admire dictators and want to abandon Ukraine and our NATO allies.
Trump promised an auto manufacturing boom and failed to deliver. Factories closed under Trump; auto factories are being built under Harris.
