As Election Day nears, voters are already casting ballots in many states. For those still mulling their decision, it’s important to recognize that it really will make a difference who wins, since the differences between the two candidates are so wide.
After all, only one candidate promises to obey the result of the Nov. 5 election.
Only one candidate says it is time to end the hyper-partisanship of recent years, including putting a member of the opposite party in the Cabinet.
Only one candidate promises to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin and give continued support to Ukraine.
Only one candidate promises to make the nation’s wealthiest citizens and biggest corporations pay “their fair share” of helping those who most need it.
Only one candidate promises to seek congressional approval of the bipartisan immigration bill and sign it into law.
Only one candidate promises to restore a woman’s right to make decisions about her own health.
Only one candidate promises to maintain the Affordable Care Act and expand the subsidies that enable many Americans to afford its coverage.
Only one candidate is proposing specific ways to expand home ownership, provide home care coverage for aging parents under Medicare and restore and expand the child tax credit.
Only one candidate promises to restore and expand federal voting law protections.
That candidate is Harris.
On the other hand, only one candidate has made it clear the only election result he will accept is one in which he wins.
Only one candidate promises to make a deal with Putin to settle the fate of Ukraine.
Only one candidate celebrated the Supreme Court decision that reversed a woman’s right to make decisions about her own health.
Only one candidate is a convicted felon who faces a possible jail term and additional federal and state charges for conspiring to obstruct the results of the 2020 election.
Only one candidate expressed concern about the prospect of Election Day chaos caused by “radical left lunatics” and suggested handling it “if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military.”
Only one candidate told members of their own party to kill a bipartisan Senate immigration bill so the issue could help him in the election campaign.
Only one candidate promises “the largest deportation in the history of our country,” using local and state law enforcement personnel and the U.S. military to round up and deport millions of undocumented immigrants.
Only one candidate promises to provide additional across-the-board tax cuts that would include the nation’s wealthiest citizens and further cut taxes on its biggest corporations.
Only one candidate claims expanded social programs like child care can be financed by massive tariffs on imports that economists say would amount to a $4,000 annual tax on American households.
Only one candidate promises to replace the Affordable Care Act but says only he has the “concept of a plan.”
Only one candidate is pledging to make the Justice Department an arm of the White House, clean house at the FBI and the CIA, “investigate very radical district attorney and attorney general in America for their illegal, racist-in-reverse enforcement of the law” and name a special prosecutor to investigate “the Biden crime family.”
That candidate is Trump.
For some voters, personal concerns will outweigh these broader domestic and international issues. But the candidates’ positions on the broad array of issues facing the country show Americans are choosing between two very different courses.