Here’s a prediction: Newspapers around the country will endorse President Trump’s opponent in the 2020 presidential election by a gaping margin, perhaps even exceeding the 57-to-2 blowout for Hillary Clinton in 2016 (among the country’s 100 largest papers).
One way to stick out from this lump of consensus? Get your endorsement out early. “Our Orlando Sentinel endorsement for president in 2020: Not Donald Trump,” reads the headline on the Sentinel’s Tuesday editorial, which is pegged to the president’s visit to Orlando later Tuesday to officially launch his presidential campaign. In 2016, The Post’s editorial board ruled out a Trump endorsement months before the election, calling him a “unique and present danger” to the Constitution.
Is this the first such editorial of the 2020 cycle? “I think so,” responded Julie Anderson, the Sentinel’s editor in chief, who oversees both the paper’s news coverage and its editorials. “All the lies are unacceptable and, to us, the editorial board, just disqualifying," Anderson said, adding that the early editorial was a “way to bring attention to that.”
