The Boston Globe Editorial Board endorses Elizabeth Warren for the Democratic nomination
"Elizabeth Warren will fight for the integrity of our democracy and for our society’s most vulnerable," the editorial board wrote.
The Boston Globe Editorial Board endorsed Elizabeth Warren for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday, just under a week before the Massachusetts primary and Super Tuesday.
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“Our senator brings her heart and her head to an election where so much, including the future of our neighborhoods, the justice system, and the planet is at stake,” members of the editorial board wrote of the Massachusetts senator. “On that score, there can be no doubt: Elizabeth Warren will fight for the integrity of our democracy and for our society’s most vulnerable.”
Early voting is already underway in the Bay State, and Warren is one of eight Democrats making a bid for the 2020 nomination. The Globe’s editorial board has endorsed former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld for the Republican nomination.
The editorial board acknowledged the doubt they expressed in December 2018 that Warren should run for president, but concluded that the senator has “proved us wrong and has shaped the course of the race for the better”:
… One candidate stands out as a leader with the qualifications, the track record, and the tenacity to defend the principles of democracy, bring fairness to an economy that is excluding too many Americans, and advance a progressive agenda. She would fight the corruption and corporate influence that distort our politics, lift up working families, and combat gun violence and climate change. That candidate is Elizabeth Warren.
Senator Warren sees corruption, including the influence of corporate money in elections and of lobbyists in the legislative process, as the gateway problem that impedes progress on crises plaguing both the country and the planet. The National Rifle Association and its lobbyists, for instance, prevent the popular view among citizens — that guns and particularly assault weapons ought to be better regulated — from prevailing as policy reform. The fossil fuel industry has thwarted legislative efforts to address climate change, long a widespread concern and now a priority of a majority of Americans. And health care companies, including pharmaceutical companies, have fought back common-sense policies that would make medicine more affordable.
Senator Warren’s diagnosis of what ails the democratic process is sound, and her pledge to the Globe editorial board, when we posed one of our readers’ questions, is that she would make battling corruption her signature legislative initiative before tackling any other. It is a worthy cause — a root evil worth going to the mat for — in an era of historic dysfunction in Congress.
Read the full endorsement from the Globe’s editorial board here.
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