NYT Splits Presidential Endorsement for First Time in History, Backing Klobuchar and Warren

The New York Times editorial board announced Sunday evening that it would endorse two candidates for president for the first time in the newspaper’s history: Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota received the paper’s support.

The Times’s editorial board interviewed nine of the top candidates last month for in-depth interviews and documented the process of how they settled on the double endorsement in the paper’s documentary show “The Weekly” on FX.

The paper’s endorsement of Warren, senator from Massachusetts, and Klobuchar, senator from Minnesota, comes just...