Pittsburg Post-Gazette Endorses Donald Trump: ‘He Has Put America First’

[mystery-ak]

Pittsburg Post-Gazette Endorses Donald Trump: ‘He Has Put America First’

Charlie Spiering 1 Nov 2020

The Pittsburg Post-Gazette on Sunday endorsed President Donald Trump for re-election, its first time endorsing a Republican since 1972.

Trump, the editors wrote, understood that China was “our enemy” and that he had changed the conversation from “free trade” to “fair trade.”

“He has put America first, just as he said he would,” they wrote.

The editorial endorsing the president praised his record on trade issues, China policy, jobs, the economy, and the energy industry.

They also praised him for keeping the country open despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

“Has Mr. Trump handled the pandemic perfectly? No,” they wrote. “But no one masters a pandemic. And the president was and is right that we must not cower before the disease and we have to keep America open and working.”

The editors of the Pittsburg Post-Gazette, however, sternly lectured Trump for his un-presidential behavior.

“We share the embarrassment of millions of Americans who are disturbed by the president’s unpresidential manners and character — his rudeness and put-downs and bragging and bending of the truth,” they wrote.

But they also raised the alarm of former Vice President Biden’s fitness for office.

“Mr. Biden is too old for the job, and fragile. There is a very real chance he will not make it through the term,” they wrote.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/11/01/pittsburg-post-gazette-endorses-donald-trump-he-has-put-america-first/

[rangerrebew]

November 1, 2020
"This newspaper has not supported a Republican for president since 1972. But we believe Mr. Trump, for all his faults, is the better choice this year."

Say the editors of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette... that's Pittsburgh, the second-largest city in the state that will probably determine the outcome.

    We too prefer the first-class temperament and demeanor of a Winston Churchill, a Dwight Eisenhower, a Franklin Roosevelt, a Ronald Reagan, or a Barack Obama (whom this newspaper enthusiastically supported in 2008 and 2012)...

    [H]e recognized [Middle America's] pain. No one ever asked the American people, or the people in “flyover,” country, if they wanted to send their jobs abroad — until Mr. Trump... He has put America first, just as he said he would....

https://althouse.blogspot.com/2020/11/this-newspaper-has-not-supported.html

[mountaineer]

This really is quite significant. The PPG has long been a reliably left-wing rag.