The New York Times announced Sunday evening that it was supporting two candidates in the Democratic primary for the presidential election in the United States, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar, being for the first time unable to vote in favor of a only name.
To justify this ambivalence, the prestigious daily explains that the two approaches in competition among the many candidates - the one, “radical”, represented by Elizabeth Warren or that, “realistic”, carried by Amy Klobuchar- have advantages and disadvantages vis-à-vis the Republican Donald Trump, who will seek a second term in November. "An essential debate is taking place at the moment between two visions which could determine the future of the party and perhaps of the country", we read in an editorial, two weeks before the first vote of the primaries, in the State of l 'Iowa.
Bernie Sanders deemed too old and too rigid
"Some inside the party see President Trump as an aberration and believe that a return to a more sensible America is possible. And then there are those who think that President Trump was the product of political and economic systems so corrupt that they need to be replaced, he adds. Both the radical and the realistic models deserve serious consideration. This is why we support the most effective candidates for each of these approaches. These are Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar. "
Elizabeth Warren, 70, who represents the left wing of the Democratic Party, is fairly well placed in the polls for the Democratic primary, in third place at the national level behind former Vice President Joe Biden and a very left rival, Bernie Sanders. If the New York Times is worried about the difficulties it would have, if it acceded to the White House, to implement certain radical reforms, it notes that progressive ideas are more than ever "in tune with the times". And believes that she is a better lawyer than Bernie Sanders, 79, deemed too old and too rigid.
Joe Biden called to “pass the torch to a new generation”
"The path to the nomination for Elizabeth Warren is full of pitfalls, but not difficult to imagine," said the daily. If Amy Klobuchar, 59, moderate in his positions, is further in the voting intentions, the newspaper praises his qualities. Her long experience in the Senate "and her proven ability to bring the two camps together would make her an expert in compromises" and "a figure who would unite the two wings of the party - and perhaps the Nation", according to the daily. "May the best one win," he says.
The New York Times thus chooses not to support the one who has been the favorite of national polls for months, Joe Biden, by invoking his 77 years and his intention to "return to the status quo" before the era Trump. "It will not be enough for America to be the society it must become," the newspaper said, calling on Joe Biden to "pass the torch to a new generation."
However, he also does not support the youngest in the race, Pete Buttigieg, former mayor of a town in Indiana almost unknown a year ago and the main revelation of the campaign. At 38 years old and without experience at the federal level, the daily newspaper seems to think that its time has not yet come. For the first time, the newspaper transparently showed, in a television program, the process of choosing its preferred candidate. It included interviews with nine candidates.
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