Our endorsement is rooted in respect
for her intellect, experience and courage.
for her intellect, experience and courage.
Hillary Clinton for President
In
any normal election year, we’d compare the two presidential candidates
side by side on the issues. But this is not a normal election year. A
comparison like that would be an empty exercise in a race where one
candidate — our choice, Hillary Clinton — has a record of service and a
raft of pragmatic ideas, and the other, Donald Trump, discloses nothing
concrete about himself or his plans while promising the moon and
offering the stars on layaway. (We will explain in a subsequent
editorial why we believe Mr. Trump to be the worst nominee put forward
by a major party in modern American history.)
But
this endorsement would also be an empty exercise if it merely affirmed
the choice of Clinton supporters. We’re aiming instead to persuade those
of you who are hesitating to vote for Mrs. Clinton — because you are
reluctant to vote for a Democrat, or for another Clinton, or for a
candidate who might appear, on the surface, not to offer change from an
establishment that seems indifferent and a political system that seems
broken.
Running down the
other guy won’t suffice to make that argument. The best case for Hillary
Clinton cannot be, and is not, that she isn’t Donald Trump.
The best case is, instead, about the challenges this country faces, and Mrs. Clinton’s capacity to rise to them.
Editorial
Hillary Clinton would make a sober, smart and pragmatic president. Donald Trump would be a catastrophe.
The Times Editorial Board
Donald J. Trump, a billionaire businessman and television personality, is the latter. He has never held elected office and has shown himself temperamentally unfit to do so. He has run a divisive, belligerent, dishonest campaign, repeatedly aligning himself with racists, strongmen and thugs while maligning or dismissing large segments of the American public. Electing Trump could be catastrophic for the nation.
By contrast, Hillary Clinton is one of the best prepared candidates to seek the presidency in many years. As a first lady, a Democratic senator from New York and secretary of State in President Obama’s first term, she immersed herself in the details of government, which is why her positions on the issues today are infinitely better thought-out than those of her opponent.
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