Opinion

Why this Democratic Nikki Haley backer is endorsing Trump for president

It’s time for America to come together and make Donald Trump the next president of the United States.

I was one of those who doubted he could pull off a second presidential victory and backed Nikki Haley.

I🌄 was wrong — Trump is ready to be president again, and the country needs him.

Indicted 91 times by biasedꦍ prosecutors out to stop him, Trump has engin🐽eered a great comeback.

He proved himself right — he is the one candidate who can overco𓆉me the left-wing machine that’s taken over our politics and our institutions.

De𝓰mocrats scream Donald Tr🌳ump is a threat to democracy while doing everything they can to block voters from even being able to see him, let alone vote for him.

These same Democrats keep yelling “Nothing to see here!” about Biden kin systꦰematically using the family name to collect $20 million or more from the world’s shadiest interests.

Nikki Haley has a distinguished record as a governor and appealed to independent voters and Democrats but never really found a compelling message to energize the broad🍸er Republican Party.

She says she’s a good conservative Republican, but she’s failed to endorse Trump despite taking ෴a pledge to support the GOP winner.

It’s time she encourage h💛er voters to get behind Trump as the one candidate who can put America First and actively campaign for him. Winning Vermont and DC is not enough.

The Republican primary process💜 did exactly what democracy is sup♎posed to do.

A diverse set of candidates offered themselves up to the people, campaigned hard and debated the issues. The voters sorted out, one after one, who they th꧑ink should serve as president.

Gov. Ron DeSantis started out with every advantage, from a big gubernatorial victory in his state to well𓄧 over $100 million in funding.

Month after month, his suppor𝓡t shrank, and Trump’s grew.

♓No candidate could generate the former pres🐠ident’s appeal and enthusiasm.

The campaign Trump ran was smart an🌜d disciplined.

He staye🧸d away from the raucous debates but was out on the campaign trail and available for interviews and town halls.

He had a messa🥀ge for America — it’s time to get back to the policies that generated a great economy, a secure border and a safer world.

America is careening out of control with a president literally asl🦩eep at the switch and letting our enemies gain ground in every region of the world.

The deficit is growing by trillions of dollars; as many as 10 million people entered after crossing the border illegally over൩ the last🌠 three years; and Taiwan, Israel and Ukraine are all under siege to one degree or another.

Left-wing administration and court appointees are taking the co💜untry in crazy cultural directions that turn everyone into oppressors and victims, spreading 🌱division and hate and teaching it to our children.

Antisemitism has b𝓰ecome commonplace as Democrats coddle the left-wing Squad out of fear of losing voteඣs.

The lawfare being run agains🐭t Trump is despicable.

Unproven legal theories are being driven through ꧂the courts; the only thing they have in common is prosecutors and attorneys general who hate Donald Trump.꧑

An unprecedented judgment has been rendered against Trump in New York for not defrauding a single bank ꦅand paying back every loan 🎀one ever advanced him.

Trump has been indicted over Jan. 6 w♉hen his only public effort was to give a speech in which he told p𝕴eople to protest peacefully.

N𒉰o connection whatsoever to violent actors has been proved or even suggested😼.

All this is after Democrats spent years pursuing him and his family with a hoax-dr🅠iven probe trying to prove he was a Russian agent, wꦆhich was preposterous but dominated the media.

They’ve eve💞n attempted to knock Trump off the ballot in multiple states — the Supreme Court had to intervene in a 9-0 decision to try to restore balance to our political system, which is being manipulated 𝄹to deprive voters of the former president and candidate leading in almost all the polls.

Voters know what you get with Trump and Biden — they have seen them bo🅠th up close.

And most believe Trump 🃏was a better president and mไade them better off.

I was an early𓆏 supporter and backer of Trump over the years after what I saw him do in New York.

He built great buildings and even restored 𓆉an abandoned ice-skating rink — already he was doing things no one tho🔯ught possible.

As president🌌 he destroyed ISIS in months, eliminated dangerous Iranian terrorist leaders and held🧔 North Korea and Russia at bay.

Trump has proved he deserves to finiꦑsh his pre🎐sidency with four more years.

Hౠe is the overwhelming choice of Republican primary voters after a fair and open process.

It is time for 🍨not just Republicans but the rest of America to get behind Trump and defeat the well-funded lawfare and propaganda machine of the left-wing fanatics who would give us yet another four years of misery𝐆.

Andrew Stein, a Democrat, served as New York City Council president, 1986-94.