The New York Instances continued its 64-year streak of supporting Democrats for president over Republicans by endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris this week.
“Kamala Harris is the only choice,” The New York Instances editorial board wrote in an article from Monday headlined, “The only patriotic choice for president.”
That is the seventeenth straight election that the outlet has supported a Democratic candidate for president over a Republican, with the outlet’s steady blue streak starting in 1960 with John F. Kennedy. The final time Republican it backed was President Dwight D. Eisenhower, when he efficiently ran for re-election in 1956.
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The New York Instances continued its multi-decade streak of supporting Democrats for president by endorsing Kamala Harris. (Getty Pictures)
“This unequivocal, dispiriting truth — Donald Trump is not fit to be president — should be enough for any voter who cares about the health of our country and the stability of our democracy to deny him re-election,” the editorial board wrote.
“For this reason, regardless of any political disagreements voters might have with her, Kamala Harris is the only patriotic choice for president,” The Instances wrote.
Harris, The Instances continued, will not be a “perfect candidate” however is a “more than necessary alternative” to Trump on points just like the financial system, immigration, and America’s worldwide alliances.
The Instances acknowledged that some voters are involved over Harris’ press avoidance technique.
“Many voters have said they want more details about the vice president’s plans, as well as more unscripted encounters in which she explains her vision and policies,” The Instances wrote. “They are right to ask. Given the stakes of this election, Ms. Harris may think that she is running a campaign designed to minimize the risks of an unforced error — answering journalists’ questions and offering greater policy detail could court controversy, after all — under the belief that being the only viable alternative to Mr. Trump may be enough to bring her to victory.”
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The Instances acknowledged that some voters are involved over Harris’ press avoidance technique. (AP Picture/Carolyn Kaster)
“That strategy may ultimately prove winning, but it’s a disservice to the American people and to her own record,” the editorial board continued. “And leaving the public with a sense that she is being shielded from tough questions, as Mr. Biden has been, could backfire by undermining her core argument that a capable new generation stands ready to take the reins of power.”
The endorsement would not come as a shock. In 2016, the Instances’ liberal board declared Trump to be the worst main get together nominee within the nation’s historical past and has continued to talk out vehemently in opposition to him since then. It endorsed Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden in opposition to him up to now two elections.
Throughout its prolonged streak of supporting Democrats, the Instances has endorsed such candidates as George McGovern in 1972, Walter Mondale in 1984 and Michael Dukakis in 1988, who all had been defeated in electoral landslides.
The Trump marketing campaign was unconcerned.
“An endorsement from the New York Times is about as useful as a moldy old dishrag that hasn’t been cleaned in years,” Trump Marketing campaign Communications Director Steven Cheung instructed Fox Information Digital in a press release. “They had to apologize in 2016 for misleading their readers and completely misreading President Trump’s historic victory, but it seems like they still haven’t learned their lesson. Kamala Harris is endorsed by the Fake News because she is fake, a phony, and unfit for office.”
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The Harris marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Fox Information Digital.
The Instances is not alone in main newspapers having blatantly Democratic-favoring editorial boards. The Washington Publish started endorsing presidential candidates in 1976 and has by no means supported the Republican hopeful.
Fox Information’ Brian Flood and David Rutz contributed to this report.
