These Are the Only 6 Newspapers in the Country to Endorse Donald TrumpRead more:
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Election year 2016 has been a radically unusual moment in the staid, old-fashioned world of newspaper endorsements. Big newspapers have taken unprecedented steps like "un-endorsing" Trump (a totally new thing in newspaper history); even USA Today has stepped out of its usual neutral lane to tell people that under no circumstances should readers vote for Donald Trump as president. As of this writing, Clinton has more than 200 endorsements from daily and weekly newspapers in the United States. A dozen or so papers have endorsed not-Trump, and one endorsed not-Clinton, but a striking 38 papers have chosen to endorse no one in this presidential election.
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Politico contacted every American paper known to have endorsed the Republican candidate. Apart from the St. Joseph News-Press, they are the Santa Barbara News-Press, the Waxahachie Daily Light in a suburb of Dallas, the Times-Gazette in Hillsboro, Ohio, and most recently, the Sheldon Adelson-owned Las Vegas Review-Journal, the only major newspaper in the nation to come out for Trump. On Sunday, the Antelope Valley Press, a small family-owned daily newspaper in Palmdale, California, with a circulation of about 20,000, also published an endorsement of Trump, albeit with no accompanying explanation.
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Until this past weekend, the total circulation of all the papers that had endorsed Trump was about 100,000. That number tripled on Sunday morning, when the Las Vegas Review-Journal, with a circulation of about 200,000, became the largest American newspaper to endorse Donald Trump. The endorsement came just as President Barack Obama arrived in Las Vegas to stump for Hillary Clinton.
The endorsement was little surprise: Major GOP donor and casino magnate Sheldon Adelson bought the paper late in 2015, a move that provoked an exodus of staffers concerned about editorial independence. Publisher Craig Moon tells Politico, “Sheldon Adelson didn’t have any influence over this endorsement.” However, Moon does acknowledge that “Sheldon hired me as publisher, and our views are very similar politically.”
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