To the editor:

CNN’s presidential poll released on June 8 gives former Vice President Joe Biden a 14% point lead nationally over soon-to-be former President Donald Trump.

According to the recent broadside in print against Trump from his first secretary of Defense, James Mattis, “We must reject any thinking of our cities as a ‘battlespace’ that our uniformed military is called upon to ‘dominate.’ … The Nazi slogan for destroying us … was Divide and Conquer. … Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us.”

If Trump’s favorite “Mad Dog” general James Mattis is openly comparing his former boss Donald Trump to a Nazi, then it’s well past time for traitor Trump to resign!

Attempting to hang onto the American presidency by hook or by crook in order to avoid federal prison will not be a successful sale for despicable Donald Trump in 2020.

With this in mind, partisan Republicans, it’s time for some profiles in courage from you usually craven conservatives. Dump Trump at your coronavirus convention! Just do it for America already. No more excuses!

All we are saying is give Pence a chance.

Jake Pickering

Arcata, California