Every 75 years or so, the Dallas Morning News endorses a Democrat for President. This is one of those years.
Hillary Clinton
There is only one serious candidate on the presidential ballot in November. We recommend Hillary Clinton.
We don’t come to this decision easily. This newspaper has not recommended a Democrat for the nation’s highest office since before World War II — if you’re counting, that’s more than 75 years and nearly 20 elections. The party’s over-reliance on government and regulation to remedy the country’s ills is at odds with our belief in private-sector ingenuity and innovation. Our values are more about individual liberty, free markets and a strong national defense.
We’ve been critical of Clinton’s handling of certain issues in the past. But unlike Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton has experience in actual governance, a record of service and a willingness to delve into real policy.
Resume vs. resume, judgment vs. judgment, this election is no contest.
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After nearly four decades in the public spotlight, 25 of them on the national stage, Clinton is a known quantity. For all her warts, she is the candidate more likely to keep our nation safe, to protect American ideals and to work across the aisle to uphold the vital domestic institutions that rely on a competent, experienced president.
Hillary Clinton has spent years in the trenches doing the hard work needed to prepare herself to lead our nation. In this race, at this time, she deserves your vote.
Their previous editorial was a long lamentation about how Donald Trump isn’t a “real” Republican, which just makes me roll my eyes, but whatever. One wonders which if any mainstream newspapers will endorse Trump and what their reasoning will be if they do. As for this endorsement, you can almost hear them gritting their teeth as they wrote it. I make it at least a 99% chance they go back to their usual pattern in 2020. They’ll crawl across a parking lot full of broken glass to endorse Ted Cruz if he’s the GOP nominee that year. But this year and this race, they did the right thing.