The Union Leader, a conservative New Hampshire newspaper, backs Biden, his first Democratic endorsement in 100 years

10/25/2020 Ghana



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“Building this country is squarely within Joseph Biden’s skill set. We have found Mr. Biden to be a caring, compassionate and professional public servant,” the Union Leader editorial board wrote Sunday. “He has repeatedly expressed his desire to be president of the entire United States and we take him at his word.”

However, the newspaper’s editorial board highlighted what it calls “significant” political disagreements with Biden, which the board says it expects to spend “a portion of the next four years disagreeing.”

“Joe Biden may not be the president we want, but in 2020 he is the president we desperately need,” the editorial continued. “It will be a president to unite the people and right the ship of state.”

Despite the board’s policy disagreements with Biden, it was not enough to back President Donald Trump, who is scheduled to visit New Hampshire on Sunday. The newspaper board wrote that Trump “is not always 100% wrong, but he is 100% wrong for America.”

In 2016, the newspaper’s editorial board broke its 100-year tradition of backing Republicans with its endorsement of the libertarian Gary Johnson instead of President Donald Trump. Just a year earlier, Trump called the newspaper’s editor, Joseph McQuaid, a “ruffian” and a “bad boy” after losing the newspaper’s coveted endorsement of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in the Republican primary.

“Sadly, President Trump has proven himself the antithesis of thoughtful and pragmatic; he has failed to win a second term,” the editorial board concluded.

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