Letter to the editor: Carly Fiorina for president

I do not expect any of my fellow “liberal/progressive” Democrats to share my concern here, but because I believe that it will be very difficult for the Democrats to retain the pesidency in 2024 and to retain control of Congress in 2022 (because of Republican state legislatures wanting to make it hard for many Democrats to vote), I want whoever the Republicans nominate for president in 2024 to be a high-quality person such as Carly Fiorina (who voted for Biden-Harris in 2020).

I like it that she is widely known to be a very sensitive, empathetic and compassionate person on a one-to-one level, partly as a consequence of the many personal tragedies and heartaches she has experienced.

My own admiration and respect for her skyrocketed when her physical appearance was cruelly and sadistically mocked and insulted by a 2016 Republican presidential candidate, and she responded with quiet and restrained dignity and “class” by simply saying this candidate had exhibited a “poor character.”

I want her to run for president in 2024.

Stewart B. Epstein

Rochester, N.Y.

The writer is a former Squirrel Hill resident who taught at West Virginia and Slippery Rock universities.