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When Kamala Harris was running against Joe Biden, she attacked him viciously. In the early stages of the Democratic Primary, her aggressive treatment of Biden had her supporters thinking she might win the nomination. She faded and was one of the first candidates to withdraw. Now she is running with Biden as his vice president partner. After tough criticisms of each other, the Democrats have united and are moving forward as a whole.

Nobody ridiculed Donald Trump in 2016 more than his fellow Republicans. As they saw him gaining more and more momentum, they warned that he would be dangerous as president. (They were right on that count.) When he won, the Republicans joined the Trump cult, drank the Kool-Aid and rolled to victory.

Their primary was so ferocious that Trump accused Texas U.S. Senator Ted Cruz's father of participating in a conspiracy that culminated in the assassination of John Kennedy. Now Trump is suggesting that if he wins a second term, he could nominate Cruz to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In the Cameron County Democratic Party Sheriff's race we at The McHale Report endorsed the incumbent Omar Lucio against former Cameron County District Clerk Eric Garza. We did everything within our literary and journalistic skills to promote Lucio and to denigrate Garza. 

That's Politics 101, but when the dust had settled, Garza had decimated his foe by a whopping 57% to 43%. With the family fight concluded, we Democrats (most of us) have become one in 2020 as no Republican deserves our support in these times of Trump.

We have joined Garza and our fellow Democrats in our struggle to rescue America from Trump, the rabid Republicans, the racists, the rednecks, the Religious Right bigots and the ring-wing bigwigs.

As candidates, Garza is easily the clearer choice. Throw out the partisan sympathies. He is better educated, has county-wide experiences and has overseen a large administrative staff. And it is nice to know that as an average citizen he has a clean record.

John Chambers can't make the same claim. The Brownsville Herald in today's edition published that the Trump Republican could be spending a year in jail in the near future as well as paying thousands in fines for 14 different misdemeanors. He hasn't been in law enforcement since 2016 and then it was as the police chief of the hick town Indian Lake where he encountered one personnel problem after another. It has been well-documented that he has no leadership abilities.

Though we have disagreed with Garza in the past, which is normal in any primary, we are not sour-grape Democrats. We are sad that Sheriff Omar Lucio has decided to abandon the Democratic Party that put and kept him in office. He shouldn't have permitted his bitterness over a loss in a fair-and-square election to cloud his vision.

We support Garza without reservation as we do with Biden against Trump. He has the potential to be an excellent sheriff. Chambers' conduct is an insult to all officers who wear the badge. 

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