Arizona Newspaper Breaks With Tradition, Backs Clinton
- by Leah Brady
- in Worldwide
- — Sep 30, 2016
The paper used to be called The Arizona Republican, and last night they did something they've never done - endorsed a Democratic nominee for president.
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"Some of us look at her command of the issues, resilience and long record of public service - as first lady, USA senator and secretary of State - and believe she'd serve the nation ably as its president", the editorial read.
Hillary Clinton is entering uncharted waters - gaining endorsements from newspapers that have traditionally endorsed Republicans.
The Arizona Republic only briefly addressed Trump's political platform, and instead chose to attack what they saw as the candidate's deep character flaws that made him uniquely unfit to be president. Clinton is the first Democratic presidential candidate he's ever supported.
Trump, the editorial concluded, is "beneath our national dignity". Clinton knows how to compromise and to lead with intelligence, decorum and perspective.
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Not everyone was happy with their endorsement, least of all their readers. She's tough. She doesn't back down.
"Trump will try to rebut the editorial [endorsements] with this criticism" of the media and its perceived liberal bias, said David Yepsen, director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University and formerly a top reporter and editor at Iowa's Des Moines Register. "Not a blistering tweet".
Warner's decision not to support his party's nominee, Donald Trump, is meant to send a signal in the five-term senator's battleground home state and beyond that mainstream, security-minded Republicans should side with Clinton.
"We get that", the board wrote. "Trump's values are hostile to conservatism".
The board went on to point out numerous facts Trump detractors have been citing for the better part of the year, but two meta-aspects of this endorsement make their message particularly noteworthy. According to the Washington Post's tally, the Republican nominee "is still without a daily newspaper endorsement in the general election". Within hours of the Republic posting the editorial on its Facebook page, it was inundated with threats to cancel subscriptions and claims of betrayal as the post was shared almost 2000 times and commented upon nearly 1000 times. She previously worked for the Tampa Bay Times.
