The New York Times announces its support for Kamala Harris

The prestigious American newspaper The New York Times announced its support for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris for the November presidential election, in an editorial published Monday, September 30. The candidate in fact embodies the “only patriotic choice” during the ballot, judges the daily newspaper in particular in its text. However, his name is not mentioned before the fourth paragraph, because the editorial committee, which signed the text, prefers to first criticize the candidacy of Donald Trump.

“This unequivocal, disheartening truth – Donald Trump is unfit to be president – ​​should be enough for any voter who cares about our country and the stability of our democracy to deny him re-election.”

Editorial Board of the “New York Times”

in an editorial

The editorial committee of New York Times brings together renowned editorialists and is supposed to reflect the values ​​of the media. He had already called on President Joe Biden to withdraw from the race for the White House after his disastrous debate against Donald Trump in June. The signatories recognize that the vice-president “may not be the perfect candidate for every voter, especially those who are frustrated and angry about our government’s failures to fix what has been broken”. But they also urge Americans “to compare Ms. Harris’s record with that of her rival”adding that the candidate is more “only a necessary alternative.

The editorial committee of New York Times has not supported a Republican Party presidential candidate since 1956, with Dwight Eisenhower. But this election concerns “something more fundamental” that “competing policies and principles” in a two-party system, the committee specifies. He believes that this time, “Unless American voters stand up to him, Mr. Trump will have the power to do deep and lasting damage to our democracy”. The editorial states that a second term for the billionaire “would be far more damaging and divisive than the first.”