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Why I'm not voting for Trump

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I have voted Republican for President since I was 19:  Bush (2000), Bush (2004), McCain (2008), Romney (2012), and Rand Paul (2016 - Write-in vote).   Much have been made of Trump's moral failings, and I want to take this a different direction. Why I don't plan on voting for Trump in 2020 Trump is someone I have never supported as a politician.  Later in this post, there is a section that describes why I did not support him in 2016.   I feel he is a dangerous person to have as President. 1. Used power of Presidency to prevent funds from going to Ukraine, in return for an investigation of Hunter Biden. Was impeached for this.  Mitt Romney heroically was the only Republican Senator to vote to convict the President of the crime, and he eloquently described his reasons for it ( https://youtu.be/aS8dF1GkYSo ).  That is why if I were to write-in a vote in 2020, I would write Mitt Romney.   Just because Congress votes along party lines on some...

August 2020

  August went by super quickly for some reason.  I signed up for the Piano With Jonny website, as a way to get my jazz learning going, so I spent time doing that.  I was also planning a trip to North Dakota.  And I started up working out again, after my ankle has felt better. New movie recap I watched seven movies for the first time in August!  Due to my ankle injury, the heat outside, and cancelled activities, movies became a bigger part of my life.  I finished three movies in one day on August 1, so two of those were watched partially in July.   The Running Man (1987) .  Had started this the night before, and finished it in the morning.   I had seen parts of this on TV when I was younger, and was always curious to watch it again.   Watching as an adult, it was not that great.  5 stars/10 Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable (2018) .  Watched the first half of this in July, and the second half of this in August.  ...