After witnessing the horrors of Oct. 7 and after realizing that too many Democratic Party elected officials and constituents lack the moral clarity to respond effectively to the war Israel is fighting and to the threat of the political ideology of Islamism, I have decided to vote Republican.

On Nov. 5, 2024, I will vote for James Hayes, Stacy Garrity, Dave McCormick — and, reluctantly, Donald Trump.

Most people believe that this is an important election, that its results might even determine the future of our democracy. I agree with them.

And that is why I am voting for the party that is more likely to contain Iran and remind it and its terror proxies that America will defeat their threats to democracy and freedom; more likely to support Israel in its defensive, existential war; and more likely to protect civil rights by punishing unlawful acts of violence and antisemitic harassment on college campuses.