The two-minute pitch to undecided voters

There are voters out there who want you to help them make their decision in the presidential race. These are people who aren’t quite aware of the danger Trump represents (though they don’t care for him) and who are worried about Biden’s age. I ask these people, “Will you allow me to make the case for why you must vote for Joe Biden despite your concerns?” Here is the case I make and I feel that people have responded well to it:

“First off, 24 of Donald Trump’s former aides from his first term have not only said they won’t be voting for him but that he is unfit to hold office. And that’s because he is unfit to hold office. Those include attorneys general, joint chiefs of staff commanders, defense secretaries and national security advisors. These are people who mostly accepted roles in the administration to serve as guardrails to Trump’s worst instincts. There will be no guardrails in the second Trump administration.

“Second, please google Project 2025 to find out the direction Republicans will take us beginning Day 1 of a new Trump term. This includes cuts to Social Security and Medicare, gutting the affordable care act, deregulating all industries and worse.

“Finally, Joe Biden is old but he is presiding over the world’s best economy. Our GDP is No. 1, ahead of even China. There have been 17 million new jobs created in the past three and a half years, thanks largely to the infrastructure bill that no president has been able to get through in four decades. Biden achieved that and it is creating jobs and repairing badly outdated infrastructure. Because of this and his clean energy bill and the Chips Act that will put us at the forefront of the microchip industry, we have had the longest stint of unemployment under four percent in five decades. And the stock market is twice what it was under Trump and sets new records every day.

“Mostly, though, Biden is a decent man who cares about our democracy. It is clear that Donald Trump is neither of those things. If we get this wrong in November we are looking at a half century of trying to come back from a very dark wilderness.”