The right-leaning Wall Street Journal editorial board has a policy against endorsing presidential candidates, but the paper suggested it may break with that tradition this time.
Noting that recent national polls show an unusual level of voter dislike for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the Journal said it may be the year of the “neither” candidate.
“We’ve sometimes thought that the best thing about this election is that one of them will lose,” the paper said Tuesday night. “But that still means that one of them will take power for four years. Perhaps we need to open ourselves to new possibilities. If ‘neither’ could make it onto the November ballot, maybe we’d reconsider our longstanding editorial policy of not endorsing candidates.”
The Journal is typically more favorable to Republican candidates who take positions that benefit business and commerce, but the paper has been strongly critical of Trump for his proposals on illegal immigration and international free trade.
