Hillary Clinton snagged another key newspaper endorsement on Sunday, this one based in the state capital of early-voting New Hampshire.
“Only one Democratic candidate for president is truly qualified to hold the job: Hillary Clinton,” wrote the Concord Monitor in an editorial titled “Clinton is Democrats’ best choice.”
The editorial complimented Clinton’s level of knowledge and level of experience with foreign and domestic issues.
“Clinton’s performance during her four years as President Obama’s secretary of state during tumultuous times and terrorist attacks led former secretary of state Henry Kissinger to say that she ‘ran the State Department in the most effective way I’ve ever seen.’ He was not the only senior Republican with foreign policy experience to feel that way,” the editorial said.
By comparison, the editorial said that Bernie Sanders is a “foreign policy naif,” but noted that he “made the right call in opposing the war in Iraq.”
As a senator in 2002, Clinton voted in favor of war, which she has since described as “a mistake.”
On Clinton’s plans for foreign policy, access to healthcare, climate change and college affordability, the editorial remarked that Clinton displays “her knowledge on the issues.”
Meanwhile in regards to Sanders’ “Medicare-for-all” healthcare plan, the editorial said “[v]irtually none of what he has pledged to do is achievable.”
The Monitor said it has received multiple visits from Clinton, and “found her to be warm, funny and without the arrogance displayed by so many high-level politicians.”
“She knows how to get things done in a country with many needs and many threats, the greatest of which is the political dysfunction that has prevented their being addressed. She gets our strongest possible endorsement for the Democratic nomination,” the editorial concluded.
Clinton is on a bit of a roll this weekend. She received the endorsement of Iowa’s flagship newspaper Des Moines Register on Saturday.
While Clinton tops the majority of polls nationally and in Iowa, her lead in Iowa is diminishing. She trails Sanders 39.6 percent to 52.4 percent in New Hampshire, which neighbors his home state of Vermont, according to the latest RealClearPolitics average of polls.
