Is the Republican Party a national party representing all Americans, or is it a paid-for interest group devoted to the elevation of of the rich and the subjugation of the poor? Do they care about the education and health of the poor and the powerless?
Personally, that question was answered in the time of Reagan. It is insane to trust the Republican Party to select a President, they have given us Nixon and Ford, Bush and Bush, and our truly strange present day Pharaoh and his gilded family. They do have great PR people. I must admit that, they can con the poor to vote against their interests, time and again. Without the Electoral College we wouldn't have had George W. Bush and his war crimes, or Trump, but instead have had Al Gore and Bernie. Imagine working on both the health needs of the poor and of the planet as well. 
(Oh wait, we would have had Bernie if the DNC weren't so corrupt, that is a different thing).
Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon