This changes everything. State of the Union address President Biden could have won the election. First debate Biden would have lost the election. Thankfully, Biden did the classy thing as he put country before ego in bowing out, making him only the 6th sitting president not to run for reelection.

Last week, this presidential race was all about Biden’s age. Today, it’s still all about age, only now we’ve flipped the script. Now it’s all about Trump’s old age, his obesity and declining mental acumen. While Trump is a pathological liar, he did say one truth. During the 2020 election, Trump said that Biden, then 77 years old, was “too damn old to be President.” Now that Trump is 78 years old, the oldest presidential nominee ever, Trump is too damn old to run for office! Don-OLD! Vice President Kamala Harris is only 59 years old.

Here are some stark contrasts between these two candidates:

One candidate was a prosecutor, district attorney and attorney general who put criminals in jail; the other is a criminal with a felony conviction.

One candidate prosecuted sexual predators; the other was convicted of sexual assault and paid to have an affair with a porn star.

One candidate made a career of prosecuting grifters and scammers; the other ran a fraud foundation, a fraud university and has a felony conviction for fraud.

One candidate is in great shape and almost two decades younger; the other is an old, obese man with heart disease who refuses to share any of his medical data with the voters.

One candidate is a young mixed-race Black/Indian woman; the other is an old white man.

One candidate graduated from Hastings Law (U.C.S.F.) and can speak eloquently; the other has early dementia and rambles incoherently, like at his rally this week, where Trump confused Kamala Harris for Nikki Haley.

One candidate is natural; the other paints his face orange, dyes his hair blonde and wears shoe lifts.

One candidate conceded she lost her 2020 primary to Biden; the other still refuses to concede he lost the 2020 election, lied about his election loss, and instigated an insurrection on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

One candidate understands how important immigrants are to our country; the other wants to deport 11 million Hispanics and when he was previously in the White House, wanted to use the military to shoot women and children migrants crossing the border.

Immigrants do the jobs nobody wants to do and commit less crime than those born in America

One candidate believes in freedom, compassion and the rule of law, not the rule of one man; the other governs by chaos, fear and hate.

One candidate wants America to move forward; the other wants to Make America Great Again, like the 1950s, when women, Blacks, minorities and gays were second-class citizens.

One candidate will champion a woman’s right to choose what she wants to do with her own body; the other is proud that he ended a woman’s right to choose.

Abortion will be front and center this election.

One candidate believes that billionaires should be paying more than 8% in federal income taxes; the other crafted one of the largest tax cuts for corporations and billionaires (while my taxes went up).

These tax cuts sunset in 2025, so the wealthy really, really want these tax cuts extended, despite our massive budget deficit.

One candidate will protect Social Security and Medicare; the other has already said entitlements are on the table, as he needs to pay for his additional tax cuts for the uber-wealthy.

One candidate believes in protecting our environment; the other told oil lobbyists that if they raised $1 billion for his campaign, they could forget any environmental rules and regulations.

While Fox News will label Harris a communist or socialist (Can you tell me the difference between the two? Didn’t think so.), the vast majority of people watching Fox News get a free government check each month from my hard-earned income taxes, making them socialists. Laura Ingraham called Harris “a puppet of the globalists,” which is hilarious as Fox News is owned by a globalist, Australian billionaire Rupert Murdoch.

The question for Middle-America is, can they vote for an African-American female president who is married to a Jewish man? Women, Blacks, Jews and Indians (from India) can swing this election to Harris.

Matthew Owen resides in Eureka and believes the First Amendment allows for free speech. He can be reached at mowen707@gmail.com.