Max Power
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Dallas Morning News endorses Hillary; First Democratic endorsement in 75 years
The Dallas paper joins the Houston Chronicle in endorsing Hillary. This comes on the heels of a Washington Post/SurveyMonkey poll that had Hillary winning Texas yesterday.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...story.html
I don't think Texas is in play just yet but it's an eventuality.
Quote:Breaking with decades of encouraging readers to vote for the Republican presidential candidate in the general election, the Dallas Morning News on Wednesday endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, whose editorial board previously suggested was not a real Republican.
"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 editorial board wrote. "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."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/da...z4JZk60xS2
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09-07-2016 08:23 AM |
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