Arizaon Daily Stat the largest newspaper in the state gives Kamala Harris endorsement
President: The Arizona Daily Star endorses Kamala Harris.There has never been a clearer choice than the one voters have in this year’s 2024, Presidential election.
As executive editor of the Arizona Daily Star, I produce the Opinion pages daily. For that daily task, I frequently confer with the Daily Star’s volunteer Editorial Advisory Board. The board was absolutely invaluable in helping the Star reach its endorsement decisions.
That is not to say the endorsements that follow represent unanimity of thought on the advisory board. They do not. The board was chosen partly for a spectrum of viewpoints, so I certainly didn’t expect these calls to be unanimous. Instead, the endorsements represent the best consensus possible of the advisory board’s views as well as my own, and as the author of these endorsements, I accept responsibility for them. But I cannot thank the advisory board members enough for their assistance and well-thought perspectives.
I am also grateful to the readers who consistently provide a thought-provoking range of views in our Guest Opinions and Letters to the Editor. As I read all of them every day before they are published, our readers themselves can be credited with having significant influence on endorsements.
I should add here that the endorsement is entirely separated from the work of our newsroom. Our reporters and news editors have no involvement in this process. — David McCumber, Executive Editor
This time around, Donald Trump is not an unknown quantity, as he was in 2016. His four-year term in office, the chaotic insurrection and ugly transfer of power at its end, and his behavior over the four years following his presidency are all available for American citizens to evaluate.
We cannot excuse or normalize January 6. The very fact that Trump now describes what happened as a “day of love” and its violent perpetrators “hostages” should be disqualifying. There are so many things that Trump has said and done that are disqualifying, from mismanaging a pandemic to blowing up the deficit by $8 trillion with tax cuts for billionaires to fomenting the insurrection in the first place.
His border outrage feels fake; his disdain for all immigrants and those from “shithole countries” feels real.
His stated intentions would cripple the economy — enormous tariffs, mass deportations, more tax cuts for the rich — yet somehow he’s been frequently evaluated as “better for the economy” than a centrist, consensus-seeking former prosecutor, attorney general, U.S. senator and sitting vice president with a degree in economics.
Indeed, of all the disinformation peddled by MAGAs in this cycle, the persistent jabber that Kamala Harris is mentally deficient — parroted by Trump himself — is the most vile, racist, sexist lie of all.
Harris’ campaign with vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz has made a compelling case for the creation of middle-class opportunity, the revitalization of small business, the reining-in of runaway housing and healthcare expenses, and the pursuit of clean-energy solutions to climate change. All deserve to be near the top of any President’s to-do list.
By contrast, Trump has painted a false, dark picture of America under siege by “others.” His constant mendacity and virulent nativism gives his campaign a harsh and cynical cast — fully supported by vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance. Even more concerning, Trump has displayed an autocratic bent that should concern everyone with interest in the preservation of the American republic.
The choice is not close or difficult. The stakes are as high as they get. The Arizona Daily Star urges its readers to vote for Kamala Harris for President.
U.S. Senate: the Arizona Daily Star endorses
Ruben Gallego.The truth and Kari Lake continue to be estranged.
The Republican former newscaster is an enthusiastic part of the MAGA wing of the Republican Party — and like its leader, former President Donald Trump, she still refuses to acknowledge that he lost his presidential reelection race in 2020 — or that she was defeated in her bid for the Arizona governorship in 2022.
Also like Trump, many of her public pronouncements are rated “false” by fact-checkers.
Editor’s note: The Star’s endorsements are coming late in the cycle this year, for a host of reasons, but the bottom line is we still believe in a community newspaper’s role in endorsing candidates for election and we were determined to fill that role.
As executive editor of the Arizona Daily Star, I produce the Opinion pages daily. For that daily task, I frequently confer with the Daily Star’s volunteer Editorial Advisory Board. The board was absolutely invaluable in helping the Star reach its endorsement decisions.
That is not to say the endorsements that follow represent unanimity of thought on the advisory board. They do not. The board was chosen partly for a spectrum of viewpoints, so I certainly didn’t expect these calls to be unanimous. Instead, the endorsements represent the best consensus possible of the advisory board’s views as well as my own, and as the author of these endorsements, I accept responsibility for them. But I cannot thank the advisory board members enough for their assistance and well-thought perspectives.
I am also grateful to the readers who consistently provide a thought-provoking range of views in our Guest Opinions and Letters to the Editor. As I read all of them every day before they are published, our readers themselves can be credited with having significant influence on endorsements.
I should add here that the endorsement is entirely separated from the work of our newsroom. Our reporters and news editors have no involvement in this process. — David McCumber, Executive Editor
This time around, Donald Trump is not an unknown quantity, as he was in 2016. His four-year term in office, the chaotic insurrection and ugly transfer of power at its end, and his behavior over the four years following his presidency are all available for American citizens to evaluate.
We cannot excuse or normalize January 6. The very fact that Trump now describes what happened as a “day of love” and its violent perpetrators “hostages” should be disqualifying. There are so many things that Trump has said and done that are disqualifying, from mismanaging a pandemic to blowing up the deficit by $8 trillion with tax cuts for billionaires to fomenting the insurrection in the first place.
His border outrage feels fake; his disdain for all immigrants and those from “shithole countries” feels real.
His stated intentions would cripple the economy — enormous tariffs, mass deportations, more tax cuts for the rich — yet somehow he’s been frequently evaluated as “better for the economy” than a centrist, consensus-seeking former prosecutor, attorney general, U.S. senator and sitting vice president with a degree in economics.
Indeed, of all the disinformation peddled by MAGAs in this cycle, the persistent jabber that Kamala Harris is mentally deficient — parroted by Trump himself — is the most vile, racist, sexist lie of all.
Harris’ campaign with vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz has made a compelling case for the creation of middle-class opportunity, the revitalization of small business, the reining-in of runaway housing and healthcare expenses, and the pursuit of clean-energy solutions to climate change. All deserve to be near the top of any President’s to-do list.
By contrast, Trump has painted a false, dark picture of America under siege by “others.” His constant mendacity and virulent nativism gives his campaign a harsh and cynical cast — fully supported by vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance. Even more concerning, Trump has displayed an autocratic bent that should concern everyone with interest in the preservation of the American republic.
The choice is not close or difficult. The stakes are as high as they get. The Arizona Daily Star urges its readers to vote for Kamala Harris for President.
U.S. Senate: the Arizona Daily Star endorses
Ruben Gallego.The truth and Kari Lake continue to be estranged.
The Republican former newscaster is an enthusiastic part of the MAGA wing of the Republican Party — and like its leader, former President Donald Trump, she still refuses to acknowledge that he lost his presidential reelection race in 2020 — or that she was defeated in her bid for the Arizona governorship in 2022.
Also like Trump, many of her public pronouncements are rated “false” by fact-checkers.
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