To the editor: Why ought to we care what the Republican presidential contestants mentioned on this first of many organized spectacles for the social gathering that has sworn off honesty, decency and democracy within the pursuit of energy that corrupts completely?
The candidates characterize a celebration that now not deserves help from considerate and anxious residents. Most of them cower earlier than a traitorous demagogue who swears the 2020 election was rigged, though he was the one who tried to steal it.
For that matter, what’s it with a vetting course of that begins greater than a yr and a half earlier than the final election? A sitting president isn’t even granted three years to indicate what he can do earlier than there are countless polls and power-hungry candidates throwing their hats into the ring, lambasting the president with gross distortions of his file.
Different main democracies don’t make the most of such an unhealthy course of. It contributes to the low-information and cynical voters we’ve in such abundance.
TR Jahns, Hemet
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To the editor: The Republican presidential debate was an attention-grabbing spectacle.
Vivek Ramaswamy was clearly essentially the most obnoxious Trump toady on the stage, whereas Nikki Haley, the previous U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, tried to current an inexpensive and relatively average various.
Everybody else fell someplace in between, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was, as anticipated, a bloviating braggart.
Marcia Goodman, Lengthy Seaside
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To the editor: Six of the eight candidates on stage raised their hand once they have been requested if they may help Trump if he was convicted and ended up because the social gathering’s nominee for president. Solely former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson mentioned they may not help a convicted felon.
The remaining six candidates in impact resigned the GOP from being a law-and-order social gathering.
Trump was defeated in 2020, and there’s no motive to consider that the identical particular person however this time a convicted felon dealing with a jail time period could be extra profitable.
Richard C. Armendariz, Huntington Seaside
