Too little, too late
Two New England newspaper weighed in on the Republican presidential primary race over the weekend. Does any of it matter?
And then there were two – Ron DeSantis suspended his campaign Sunday. The same day, the New Hampshire Union Leader and the Boston Globe ran endorsements of Haley in their newspapers. Too little, too late to change the trajectory of the race? Barring any unexpected political earthquakes, yes.
On Sunday, the Boston Globe offered Nikki Haley a tepid endorsement that reads more like an indictment of former President Trump than a vote of confidence in Haley. In fact, the Globe’s editorial board calls out Trump by name 8 times in their endorsement before they get around to mentioning Haley’s name.
The Globe opined, “Haley’s not this editorial board’s cup of tea. But she is a mainstream, traditional conservative who would not put the country through constant scandals or take a torch to basic principles of democratic government like accepting election results.”
The Globe is appealing to independent voters who are allowed to vote in either of the major party’s primaries, to choose a republican ballot and use it to vote against Trump by backing Haley.
In a second key newspaper endorsement for Haley on Sunday, the New Hampshire Union leader is far more enthusiastic about Haley’s candidacy with the editorial board writing, “Of course, we can’t talk about Nikki Haley without addressing the elephant in the room and the rather old donkey hiding in the White House.
