Hillary Clinton will make a fine president. Donald Trump will be a disaster.
Well, here we are. Election Day is Tuesday.
I strongly suspect most people have made up their minds already, and so it seems exhorting someone to vote for one candidate over the other may seem superfluous.
Still, let me be clear: I am voting for Hillary Clinton, and will also be voting the straight Democratic ticket in my home state of Colorado. I urge you to do the same in your own home state.
The reasons for this are legion, and I’ll give you some details below. But in the end, Hillary Clinton has devoted her life to making things better for other people, has been a faithful and determined public servant, and a large number of her policies overlap with my own.* She is eminently qualified and will make a fine president. Donald Trump, on the other hand, is a dangerous ideologue whose fringe ideas are un-American and filled with hate. I cannot abide that.
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If you are still undecided, then ask yourself this: Which candidate would you rather vote for?
Trump, who denies science, or Clinton, who embraces it? As my friend Bill Nye says:
Trump, who has consistently proved himself to be racist, misogynist, xenophobic, hypocritical, and someone who lies every single time he speaks, and who just put out an ad with a clear anti-Semitic message? Or Clinton, who wants to fight for the rights of everyone, and who carefully considers diversity in her decisions?
Trump, who flatly denies global warming is even real? Or Clinton, who has vowed to do what she can to fight it?
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