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To the editor:
I am writing in response to Matthew Bartlett’s July 17 op-ed, “The omissions from Trump’s primetime address tell their own story”:
I am a retired independent voter. I believe in facts, such as Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election by 306 to 232 electoral votes and approximately 51.3% of the popular vote, vs 46.8% of the popular vote for Donald Trump.
In 2024, Trump played the same tired election fraud campaign, begging the American people to distrust our elections. He won by 312 electoral votes to 226 for Vice President Kamala Harris. The popular vote totals were much closer than in 2020, with Trump at 49.8% and Harris getting 48.3%.
If our elections are rife with fraud, how does Trump explain his 2024 win? Remember when he said on the campaign trail, “Get out and vote, just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it’ll be fixed. It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore.”
We’ve witnessed the extreme lengths Trump and his administration are willing to go to demoralize voters, to demonize people and to audaciously engage in unscrupulous, unethical means to interfere in the 2026 elections. He is the epitome of pot-kettle.
And Trump ignorantly thinks American citizens consider voting to be a burden.
— Terry Lynne Hale
Kansas City, Missouri
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