NYT Editorial Board Endorses Warren, Klobuchar
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The New York Times’s Endorsement CharadeThe New York Times has created a spectacle around one of the stodgiest features of presidential primary season: The newspaper endorsement. In years past, the Times had simply splashed the name of the chosen one across its editorial page a week or so before the Iowa Caucuses, with a few bromides about “experience” and “temperament.” In the last two competitive Democratic primaries, the Times endorsed the establishment favorite Hillary Clinton, revealing both the Times’s own establishment leanings and the depths of its influence on actual voters.
This cycle, the Times...
From the Center
NYT editorial board endorses Warren, Klobuchar for Democratic nomination for presidentThe New York Times editorial board on Sunday night endorsed both Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) for the Democratic nomination for president.
The dual endorsement, a break in convention for the Times, comes just two weeks before the first primary contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, where Warren has remained a top contender while Klobuchar has struggled to break out of single-digit support.
"In a break with convention, the editorial board has chosen to endorse two separate Democratic candidates for president," reads the Times's endorsement.
"Choosing who...
From the Right
NYT Splits Presidential Endorsement for First Time in History, Backing Klobuchar and WarrenThe 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...
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