“I don’t want anyone in power who’s gonna look at the Constitution as optional.”
“Hi, my name is Nancy and I did vote for Donald Trump in 2016 in 2020, but I will not be voting for him again in 2024. And it really doesn’t depend on who he is running against, I’m not going to vote for him again.
“At the time of the January 6th riots, I sat in my living room and I could not believe what I was seeing. And it’s one of the few times that my husband and I turned to each other and said we’re glad our dads are not here. My dad fought in World War II in the South Pacific, in the Navy, and Mike’s dad fought in the Korean War, and we were ashamed that this was happening in the American capital. So for me, that was it for voting for Donald Trump. He took hours before he made any kind of a statement asking them to pull back. He didn’t condemn what they were doing, he actually, afterwards, as you know if you read the news for the subsequent months and years, he praised them. He called them hostages. It was deplorable in my view.
“I don’t think that he views the Constitution as something to be studied and adhered to. It’s more an attitude of, if it’s convenient, great. If it’s not, he doesn’t need to follow it. That’s very concerning to me, very concerning to me as an American citizen. I don’t want anyone in power who’s gonna look at the Constitution as optional. I believe he has made statements to the effect that he will use the agencies of our government to go against people who didn’t support him. And that is, again, not something I want happening in our country, and I just can’t support it.
“When it comes to us supporting NATO, it means we’re supporting freedom in Europe. It means Russia can’t be the bully who just takes back what they think is theirs without recourse. And yet Donald Trump seems to wanna pull out of that, let Europe take care of itself. He seems to want to negotiate, so to speak, with Putin. And again, I can hear my father in my head. I can hear my dad saying “that’s like negotiating with Hitler.” They don’t keep their promises. He hasn’t kept his promise yet. It is not in our best interests as a country, if you are gonna be someone who says ‘America only’ or ‘America first,’ it’s not in your best interests to let someone go in, win the presidency of America, who will talk to Putin and let him do what he wants. And so I think to pull out of NATO, to break our promises to not support Ukraine, it is a really massive mistake. And I haven’t heard anything yet from Mr. Vance, that makes me think he’d be any different. He would be very happy also to let Putin have Ukraine or part of Ukraine or all of Ukraine.
“I’m very concerned about what happens if he wins. What happens to people who don’t agree with him? And if he loses, what his supporters will do to the people who’ve won, it’s very concerning. I don’t want anything to do with anybody who speaks in a totalitarian way, who speaks in a demagoguery way, I don’t know how to describe it. I think the last thing our country needs is a leader who could lead people like sheep off the cliff.”