The New York Times is warning voters to think about the children when they cast their vote in November, a day after it officially endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.
“Voters attracted by the force of the Trump personality should pause and take note of the precise qualities he exudes as an audaciously different politician: bluster, savage mockery of those who challenge him, degrading comments about women, mendacity, crude generalizations about nations and religions,” the paper’s editorial board wrote.
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“Our presidents are role models for generations of our children. Is this the example we want for them?”
The Times said Trump’s business record, which includes some bankruptcies and a fraud lawsuit against Trump University, also disqualifies him, along with his comments against immigrants that quickly became a focus of his campaign.
“From that moment of combustion, it became clear that Mr. Trump’s views were matters of dangerous impulse and cynical pandering rather than thoughtful politics,” the board said.
“Yet he has attracted throngs of Americans who ascribe higher purpose to him than he has demonstrated in a freewheeling campaign marked by bursts of false and outrageous allegations, personal insults, xenophobic nationalism, unapologetic sexism and positions that shift according to his audience and his whims.”
Both national and swing state-level polls currently show the race between Trump and Clinton in a virtual tie.
