To the editor:

Gary Henry’s letter to the editor states that Trump prolonged the COVID pandemic and kept Americans dying. According to Statista, the 462,193 pandemic deaths in 2021 when Biden was president outnumbered those in 2020 (384,536) when there was no vaccine for most of that year (the vaccine was approved for emergency use — but not yet approved by the FDA — on Dec. 11, 2020). There were also 224,986 deaths in 2022 on Biden’s watch.

Henry also asserts that Trump did little or nothing to help the “working class.” The working class disagreed; they knew they were better off under Trump and their votes showed it. Even NPR (definitely not partial to Trump) admitted that unemployment rates for Black and Hispanic workers reached record lows during his administration.

Blacks, Hispanics and union workers are not monolithic and are smarter than Democrats appear to think. They are tired of being told for whom they should vote and are capable of making up their own minds. The vast majority of Trump supporters are not stupid, racist, homophobic or any of the other names they are called. And, yes, some of them are moderate. Henry and other Democrats do not define them.

My late GOP city councilman/city commissioner/state legislator father told me that someone could have the same information as I and reach a different conclusion, so Mr. Henry has a right to his opinion but not to distort facts.

Marsha Henry Goff,

Lawrence