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Letter: How to support democracy. And how not to.

FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2018, file photo, Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for President Donald Trump, speaks in Portsmouth, N.H. President Donald Trump on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019, stood behind personal attorney Giuliani, one of his highest-profile and most vocal defenders, amid reports that federal prosecutors in the city Giuliani led as mayor are eyeing him for possible lobbying violations. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

I met my friend for breakfast. We volunteer with an organization to register people to vote and we needed to make plans.

Our waitress was a healthy, pleasant young woman who genuinely seems content with her life and who happily responded that, of course, she was registered to vote.

We read up, we vote, we participate in get-out-the-vote activities, we demonstrate, we write letters to the editor, we canvass, we make phone calls for our candidate. We get to talk with lots of good, wonderful people. We use the tools outlined and available to make democracy work.

Donald Trump enlists the help of Rudy Guliani to use his friends from Ukraine to support financially some of their contacts in Ukraine who have agreed to create an investigation to damage Joe Biden, Trump’s strongest challenger in the 2020 election.

This is how they approach an election. This literally makes me cry, that our leaders use these ugly tactics and supposedly serve.

Carla Coates, Holladay

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