Why I’m voting for Kamala Harris for president

Matthew Arnold Stern
8 min readJul 29, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris at a Pentagon briefing

In politics, we’re often voting against instead of for something. And our choices have been based on our fears rather than our aspirations. It certainly has felt that way in this presidential election. While I feel President Biden has done an excellent job given the extraordinary challenges he faced in his term, he did the right thing by passing the baton to Vice President Kamala Harris. She energizes voters because she gives us something more than just “orange man bad.” She has given us a vision and a platform that will reunite our country and bring it forward.

To explain, I’m listing 47 reasons why I’m voting for her to become 47th President of the United States. These are reasons based on the things I want for America and how I expect her leadership will bring them to fruition.

  1. She is the best qualified of the major party candidates. She has been a district attorney, Attorney General of California, United States Senator, and Vice President of the United States. Compare that to her opponent, who had no public service experience prior to being elected president, and his running mate, who has been in the Senate for only two years.
  2. She has shown she’s the type of person who doesn’t take crap from anyone, from taking on Brett Kavanaugh and Bill Barr to telling Vice President Pence not to interrupt her during the…

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Matthew Arnold Stern

A novelist and award-winning public speaker and technical writer. My novels Amiga and The Remainders are available now.