<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><div style="border-left:none;padding:0px;display:flex"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:770.4px"><div><div id="m_3803321138382615333gmail-:lw" style="font-size:0.875rem;direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="m_3803321138382615333gmail-:lv" style="overflow:hidden;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Subject: Stunned<br>To: <<a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">Vision2020@moscow.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Stunned, that's me. Not because the publisher of the Spokesman Review endorsed Donald Trump, but because he HAS been reading his own newspaper and knows how wretched a president Trump has been--</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">And STILL endorses him. I'll share that endorsement with you below, but first I want to report that Shawn Vestal -- one of the Spokesman Review's true talents -- is in the paper this morning, saying "OK, don't agree with the publisher, but don't take it out on the newspaper." Shawn makes a good case, and I agree with him. Newspapers need all the help they can get these days.</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Don Coombs</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span id="m_3803321138382615333gmail-m_1707607618237299239m_6844993345648100218gmail-docs-internal-guid-3fa6377f-7fff-5637-f381-f94c68fb2d34"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-right:11pt;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Editorial Endorsement, Spokesman Review, 10/25/2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-right:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:16pt 7.5pt 0pt"> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial;font-size:15pt;font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap">President: Donald Trump</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-right:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:16pt 7.5pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Donald Trump is a bully and a bigot. He is symptomatic of a widening partisan divide in the country. We recommend voting for him anyway because the policies that Joe Biden and his progressive supporters would impose on the nation would be worse.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-right:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:16pt 7.5pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The list of Trump’s offenses is long. He panders to racists and prevents sensible immigration reform in a nation built on immigrant labor and intellect. He tweets conspiracy theories. He’s cavalier about COVID-19 and has led poorly through the pandemic. He seeks to dismantle the Affordable Care Act without proposing a replacement. He denies climate change.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-right:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:16pt 7.5pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Voters knew his character in 2016 and elected him anyway. Four years later, the nation is still standing. Indeed, in many ways it flourished until the pandemic upended everything.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-right:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:16pt 7.5pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The economy and markets roared under Trump’s championship of market-based solutions and individualism. Unemployment among communities of color reached record lows. He reset trade and diplomatic relationships in America’s favor. He provided historically high support for traditionally Black colleges. He rolled back extreme environmental regulations and led the way for U.S. energy independence. He backed federal sentencing reform to address inordinately high American incarceration rates. And he’s committed to supporting law and order in American cities.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-right:11pt;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Biden might win on personality and comity, but his policies would strike at the economic well-being of the country. He favors massive growth in government and a historic increase in federal spending through green initiatives, free health services, free education and other ideas grounded in reliance on the state as savior rather than creating an environment in which individual liberty and hard work can thrive. Public employee unions would hold outsized power and demand greater spending.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-right:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:16pt 7.5pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To afford it all, Biden and a Democrat-controlled Congress would have to impose unprecedented tax increases or accept catastrophic deficit spending. Taxes and spending likely would increase under Trump, too, but the nation stands a better chance of moderation and reform with him in the White House than it does with Biden pushed left by progressives intent on reshaping America to fit their fantastical vision.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-right:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:16pt 7.5pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This is an election that pits a wretched human being whose policies and instincts for helping America thrive are generally correct against a doddering, doting uncle who would hand out gifts the nation can’t afford in order to win people’s love. Given that choice, economic policy and principle should prevail. Vote for Donald Trump.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-right:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:16pt 7.5pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span id="m_3803321138382615333gmail-m_1707607618237299239m_6844993345648100218gmail-docs-internal-guid-8a43dc15-7fff-2d55-52ee-b1ded7e38764"><br></span></span></p></span><div></div><div><br></div></div></div><div></div></div></div><div></div></div></div><div style="border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px;padding:0px;width:auto;background:rgb(242,242,242);margin:0px"></div></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div style="font-size:0.875rem;padding:0px;width:auto;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-top:none;background:transparent"><div style="border-top:1px solid transparent;padding:0px"><div style="border-top:none;margin:0px;border-right:1px solid rgb(207,207,207);border-bottom:1px solid rgb(207,207,207);border-left:1px solid rgb(207,207,207);padding:16px 0px"><div id="m_3803321138382615333gmail-:nk"></div><div id="m_3803321138382615333gmail-:pt"></div><div id="m_3803321138382615333gmail-:p0" style="background-color:transparent;font-size:0.875rem;padding:0px 8px 0px 16px"><table id="m_3803321138382615333gmail-:p1" style="border-spacing:0px;table-layout:fixed;width:826.4px"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px;vertical-align:top;width:48px"><div id="m_3803321138382615333gmail-:pq" style="height:40px;width:40px;border-radius:50%"></div><div id="m_3803321138382615333gmail-:pr" style="width:40px;height:40px;border-radius:50%"><img id="m_3803321138382615333gmail-:k4_2" name="m_3803321138382615333_:k4" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/no_photo.png" style="display:block;width:40px;height:40px;border-radius:50%"></div></td><td id="m_3803321138382615333gmail-:q7" style="padding:0px;border:1px solid transparent;border-radius:8px;box-sizing:border-box"><form id="m_3803321138382615333gmail-:qa" action="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data" target="_blank"><div id="m_3803321138382615333gmail-:ox" style="height:0px"></div><div id="m_3803321138382615333gmail-:oy"></div></form><table style="border-spacing:0px;font-size:21px;table-layout:fixed;width:776px;vertical-align:top;border-collapse:collapse;border:none"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0px"><div id="m_3803321138382615333gmail-:pm" style="margin-left:0px"><div id="m_3803321138382615333gmail-:o7" style="border:none;margin:0px;height:60px;border-radius:0px 0p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