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In April of 2024, I wrote:
“This year -2024 - there will be a national election in November. Up until the beginning of this year, I thought I knew who
would be receiving my vote for president. That has changed radically. At first, I knew for whom I would most definitely
not cast my ballot for president - Donald Trump.
“I was pretty much a conservative Republican-leaning voter throughout my 70-years of voting. If I wouldn't consider voting
for Donald Trump for president, who would I support? With the primary elections coming up in March of 2024, I decided to support Nikki Haley to be
the Republican presidential candidate. Accordingly, I sent in donations to her campaign. When Nikki Haley withdrew as a candidate for the Republican
presidential nomination, I was greatly disappointed. That left me with very little choice. As I previously wrote, come November 2024,
I would hold my nose and vote for the Democratic candidate for president – most likely Joe Biden.”
(Ref. 1)
In early 2024 that suddenly changed!
I discovered that President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party were just the latest in a long line of closet Anti-Semites
who deserted the Jewish people and the Jewish nation in a time of existential danger. In 2024, Biden and the Democrats found themselves in a tough
spot. Their far-left base became enraged over their ostensible support of Israel. Instead of acting with integrity and standing by a loyal
ally in its time of need, the Biden regime made a series of moves to betray Israel and give aid and comfort to its enemies.
The New York Sun reported in late March 2024 that Biden and his henchmen were considering leaving Israel short of the
armaments it needed to fight Hamas, the terrorist organization that had attacked it on October 7, 2023.
Biden issued the threat during a time when Israel was being falsely accused of human rights violations and when
the Biden regime was under heavy pressure to betray Israel or face a massive loss of votes from Muslims and their allies in the upcoming November
elections.
This was just the latest in a growing series of indications that the Biden regime was abandoning Israel and pulling for a
Hamas victory.[1]
The Biden administration's failure to veto a U.N. Security Council vote calling on Israel to declare an "immediate
ceasefire" in Gaza was just one more betrayal of the Jewish nation by the Biden administration. In addition to jeopardizing Israel's security,
this also handed a major victory to Hamas, Iran and their terrorist allies. With the U.N. demanding an end to israel's retaliation to the Hamas
aggression, there was no reason for Hamas to stop trying to hold those parts of Gaza still under its control. Nor was there any reason for it to
release those hostages it was still holding captive.
The Democratic Party seemed to have been transformed into an extreme left-wing anti-Israel "progressive" party supposedly
concerned with racial and minority rights - except when it came to Jews!
Suddenly in 2024, I became a Jew with a voting problem!
But, Halleluiah, in July of 2024, Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and was replaced by Karmala Harris.
My 2024 voting problem seemed to have been solved!
Let’s do a little retrospection. First, could I ever vote for Donald Trump in 2024?
In mid-2023, I answered that question with an emphatic NO – Never Trump! My answer in the summer of 2024
is still an emphatic NO – Never Trump!
My reasons for this decision are presented in an article that I wrote a year-and-a -half ago in June of 2023,
titled: Never Trump! (Ref. 2).
Nothing has changed since I wrote that article – only that Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts and his behavior
continues to be as repulsive as ever.
In July of 2024, former prosecutor Karmala Harris became the presumptive Democratic candidate who will oppose
the Republican candidate and convicted felon, Donald Trump, in the November 2024 presidential election.
Former President Donald Trump, 78, will face off against the much younger Karmala Harris, 59. Trump will be the oldest
presidential nominee in U.S. history.
As I’ve previously noted (Ref. 3), there is strong and repeated evidence that that Trump
is a narcissist and a sociopath, something that this country does not need in the Oval Office. As we’ve all seen, Trump’s traits include
impulsivity, a tendency toward angry retaliation, and a narcissistic “insistence on his own infallibility.”
Karmala Harris’s career path from prosecutor to politician has been defined by many firsts: She was the nation’s first
Indian American senator and California’s first female and South Asian attorney general. Harris is the first woman to become vice president, as
well as the first Black or Asian American person to hold that office. Now, as momentum builds to position her as the Democratic Party’s 2024
presidential nominee, Harris could be on the cusp of becoming the country’s first female
president.[4]
Karmala Harris’s background shows that she is well qualified to serve as this country’s president. Kamala Devi Harris was
born in Oakland, California on October 20, 1964 to immigrant parents. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, came to the United States from India at the age
of 19. She received her doctorate the same year that Kamala was born.
Harris’ father, Donald, immigrated to the United States from Jamaica to study economics at the University of California at
Berkeley. He is now a professor emeritus of economics at Stanford University.
Karmala’s mother earned her doctorate in nutrition and endocrinology at Berkley and became an acclaimed breast cancer
researcher before she passed away in 2009.
Harris writes that her parents “met and fell in love at Berkeley while participating in the civil rights movement.” The
couple later divorced when Harris and her sister, Maya, were young.
Both of Karmala’s parents were active in the civil rights movement, and instilled in her a commitment to build strong
coalitions that fight for the rights and freedoms of all people. They brought her to civil rights marches in a stroller and taught her about heroes
like Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and civil rights leader Constance Baker Motley.
In 1982, Karmala Harris enrolled at Howard University, a historically Black university in the heart of Washington, DC.
There, she joined Alpha Kappa Alpha, the country’s oldest Black sorority, and earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics.
She would later become the first Howard University graduate to be elected Vice President of the United States.
Harris graduated from Howard University and later, the University of California Hastings College of Law.
In 1990, she joined the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office where she specialized in prosecuting child sexual assault
cases.
Harris spent three decades as a prosecutor, serving as a deputy district attorney for Oakland’s Alameda County before
becoming District Attorney of San Francisco.
In 2004, Karmala Harris was elected District Attorney of San Francisco where she was a national leader in the movement for
LGBTQ+ rights. She established the office’s environmental justice unit and created a ground-breaking program to provide first-time drug offenders
with the opportunity to earn a high school degree and find employment, which the U.S. Department of Justice designated as a national model of
innovation for law enforcement.
In 2010, Harris was elected Attorney General of California where she oversaw the largest state justice department in the
country. She won a $20 billion settlement for Californians whose homes had been foreclosed and a $1.1 billion settlement for students and veterans
who were taken advantage of by a for-profit education company. She also defended the Affordable Care Act in court and enforced environmental
laws.
Harris was the first Black American, first woman, and first Asian American elected to be the attorney general of
California.
In 2014, she married Douglas Emhoff, a lawyer. They have a large blended family that includes their children, Ella and
Cole.
In 2017, Harris was sworn into the United States Senate where she championed legislation to fight hunger, provide rent
relief, improve maternal health care, expand access to capital for small businesses, revitalize America’s infrastructure, and combat the climate
crisis. She questioned two Supreme Court nominees while serving on the Judiciary Committee. She helped craft bipartisan legislation to assist in
securing American elections while serving on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
If Elected, Karmala Harris would bring a unique and diverse background to the office of the presidency. She would be the
first woman, the first Black American, and the first South Asian American to be elected to this
position.[5]
Interestingly, even former President Donald Trump thought enough of Kamala Harris to donate twice to her political
campaigns. When Harris was running for reelection as attorney general of California, Trump donated $5,000 to her campaign in 2011 and another
$1,000 to her campaign in 2013. Trump’s older daughter, Ivanka, also donated $2,000 to Harris's campaign in 2014. Harris ultimately won
reelection and served as California’s attorney general from 2011 to 2018. [6]
Karmala Harris is married to Doug Emhoff. Harris and Emhoff met on a blind date in 2013 when Harris was working as attorney
general of California. One year later, the pair were married.
Should Harris become president, Emhoff would make history as the first Jewish person to take up residence in the
White House. While living in the vice presidential house, Emhoff has made his religion known, hanging a mezuzah on the door frame in
2021 when the couple moved in and hosting Jewish holidays at their home including Passover Seder, Rosh Hashanah gatherings, and Hanukkah
celebrations.
“I did not expect my Jewish faith to be such a big deal in this role,” Emhoff said in a May 2022 White House event that
marked the final day of the Jewish American Heritage Month. “But as I have gone forward in it, you really realize how much this representation
matters to people.”
He has been vocal about rising antisemitism in the United States and helped the White House roll out its first national
plan to counter antisemitism and Jewish hate. When former President Donald Trump said Jews who vote for Democrats “hate Israel” and hate “their
religion,” Emhoff slammed the former president's rhetoric.
“This is a disgusting, toxic, antisemitic thing to say by anyone, let alone a former president of the United States,”
Emhoff said on a campaign stop.
Emhoff has two children, Cole and Ella, from a previous marriage. Harris said that the family does not like the
term “stepmom” and chose to refer to her as “Momala.” Harris does not have any children of her own and was not married before meeting
Emhoff.[7]
Harris’s nomination as the Democratic presidential candidate could serve as a map of America’s future. Harris would be the
first Black woman to be nominated by a major party for president and the first South Asian. She also has a diverse personal religious and spiritual
history that is now far more representative of America’s multi-faith makeup.
Raised Hindu by her mother, a native of Chennai, India, she was often taken as a girl to the 23rd Avenue Church of God in
Oakland, California, by a neighbor. As an adult, Harris joined a Black Baptist church — the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco.
Meanwhile, the man who would become Harris’ husband, Los Angeles lawyer Douglas Emhoff, grew up in New Jersey attending
a Reform Jewish synagogue.
Harris’ faith connections have frequently played themselves out in her years in office as the Second Couple inaugurated
a tradition of lighting Hanukkah candles at their residence, as well as celebrating Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.
Every past U.S. president has identified as Christian, and that will not change if Harris is elected in November. But as
she runs for president, her religious biography will be not only history-making but will connect her to how many Americans practice and encounter
faith these days.
Doug Emhoff was the keynote speaker for Interfaith America’s Black Interfaith project and, as first gentleman, he would
likely continue in that role as a spokesman for interfaith causes.[8]
Donald Trump in 2024 is the same Donald Trump that the American people rejected in 2020 and will hopefully do the same
four years later. The obvious truth about the former president remains what it was before.
The most compelling witnesses to what a catastrophe Trump would be if returned to the Oval Office aren’t Democrats.
They are leading Republicans who fell over one another at the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee seeking his favor, hoping to erase
The Big Guy’s memory of what they had said about him on earlier occasions. But the facts about Trump cannot be erased.
For starters, take Trump’s own Vice Presidential nominee, J.D. Vance. “I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy,” Vance said
about his Trump back in 2016. “I never liked him.” Back then, he tweeted, “My god, what an idiot.” In the New York Times,
Vance went on to say, “Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.” He wrote, “I can’t stomach Trump,” and told NPR,
“I think that he’s noxious.”
And not just noxious. Vance sent a Facebook message to a former roommate wondering if Trump could be “America’s
Hitler.”[9]
Publicly, Vance called the Republican candidate am “idiot” and said he was “reprehensible”. Privately,
he compared Trump to Adolph Hitler.[10]
Then there’s Nikki Haley, who was quite clear about her estimation of Trump just a couple of months ago. Republicans who
have supported him, she said, “. . . know what a disaster he’s been and will continue to be.” Haley diagnosed Trump as “completely
unhinged.”
Then there’s Senator Mario Rubio, who took the stage in Milwaukee to kiss Trump’s ring. In 2016 Rubio told CNN,
“For years to come there are many people on the right, in the media and voters at large, that are going to be having to explain and justify
how they fell into the trap of supporting Donald Trump.” Rubio told one crowd that Trump “runs on this idea that he is fighting for the
little guy. But he has spent his entire career sticking it to the little guy.”
Also in Milwaukee, Senator Lindsey Graham, famously once called his party’s nominee a “kook,” “crazy”
and “unfit for office.”
Senator Ted Cruz had this to say about Trump eight short years ago: Trump was a “sniveling coward,” a
“bully,” a “small and petty man who is intimidated by strong women,” a “narcissist” who is “utterly amoral,”
a “pathological liar” who “lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth.”
And let’s not forget Trump’s former chief of staff, General John Kelly, who said last October that Trump was “a person
who thinks that those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as
prisoners of war, are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them.’” Asked about Trump’s lock on the GOP nomination even then,
Kelly had a three-word answer: “God help us.” Trump, said Kelly, is “a person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic
institutions and the rule of law.[9]
In the 2024 national elections, Donald Trump must be defeated! Kamala Harris will be getting my vote to do just
that! My 2024 voting problem appears to have been solved!
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References:
- A Jew With a Voting Problem, David Burton, Sonofeliyahu; Article 620, 25 April 2024.
- Never Trump!, David Burton, Sonofeliyahu; Article 577,
2 June 2023.
- Donald Trump, Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Other Dictators, David Burton, Sonofeliyahu; Article 576,
25 May 2023.
- Who is Kamala Harris? The life of the woman stepping into the 2024 limelight, Chelsea Bailey, CNN, 22 July 2024.
- Kamala Harris, The Vice President, The White House, Accessed 22 July 2024.
- Trump previously donated thousands to Kamala Harris campaign, Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner,
22 July 2024.
- Who is second gentleman Doug Emhoff?, Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner, 22 July 2024.
- Kamala Harris’ multi-religious identity is a map of the future, Yonat Shimron, National Catholic Reporter,
23 July 2024.
- GOP rivals rewrite what they feel about Trump, Jeff Robbins, Boston Herald, 23 July 2024.
- J.D. Vance once compared Trump to Hitler. Now they are running mates, Gram Slattery and Helen Coster, Reuters,
15 July 2024.
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