The Boston Herald isn’t endorsing a presidential candidate
For the first time in decades, The Boston Herald says it will not endorse a candidate for president.
In an editorial titled “None of the above for president” published on Friday, the newspaper said voters are faced with “deplorable presidential choices” in Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump.
“With all the great talent this nation has produced, the voters are left with a choice between two of the most distrusted presidential candidates ever to share space on one political ballot,” the Herald‘s editorial board wrote.
Scandal and controversy have followed Clinton since she emerged on the national stage as first lady, the paper argued.
From the Whitewater scandal of her early White House years, which sent three of the Clintons’ Arkansas buddies to prison (but not the Clintons themselves), to the more recent scandal over her private email server and its 33,000 deleted emails — controversy has forever dogged Hillary Clinton.
The editorial board tackled the Republican candidate by comparing the “narcissistic reality TV host and sometime real estate developer” to a flawed character in a Shakespearean tragedy.
“Just when you think there might be a “new” Donald Trump he goes on another Twitter rant in the middle of the night,” the editors wrote.
Trump showed in the course of three debates, especially the one this week, that he lacks anything resembling self-discipline, is prone to temper tantrums and appears utterly unable to focus on matters of policy. And the policies he has espoused bear no resemblance to traditional Republican values or positions.
Read the full editorial at the Herald.
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