Who chooses candidates?
I saw a day or two ago that Trump spokeswoman Sarah Sanders Huckaby tells us that the reason Trump is president is that God chose him for the position. One wonders, did he also choose Vladimir Putin to be president of Russia or Phil Bryant to be governor of Mississippi? Did any voter anywhere choose anybody to be anything?
If Sanders is right, then what we read in the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the Constitution must be wrong. Which do you choose?
This land is our land.
Billy Hairston
Lamar County, AL
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