Donald Trump is in Orlando to announce the kickoff of his re-election campaign.
We’re here to announce our endorsement for president in 2020, or, at least, who we’re not endorsing: Donald Trump.
Some readers will wonder how we could possibly eliminate a candidate so far before an election, and before knowing the identity of his opponent.
Because there’s no point pretending we would ever recommend that readers vote for Trump.
After 2½ years we’ve seen enough.
Enough of the chaos, the division, the schoolyard insults, the self-aggrandizement, the corruption, and especially the lies.
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Trump’s successful assault on truth is the great casualty of this presidency, followed closely by his war on decency.
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Trump has diminished our standing in the world. He reneges on deals, attacks allies and embraces enemies.
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Trump seems to care nothing about the deficit and the national debt, which once breathed life into the Tea Party.
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This non-endorsement isn’t defaulting to whomever the Democrats choose. This newspaper has a history of presidential appointments favoring Republicans starting in the mid-20th century. Except for Lyndon Johnson in 1964, the Sentinel backed Republican presidential nominees from 1952 through 2004, when we recommended John Kerry over another four years of George W. Bush.
As recently as 2012 we recommended Republican Mitt Romney because of what seemed at the time to be Obama’s failure to adequately manage the nation’s finances.
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Trump will kickoff of his re-election campaign in Orlando tonight.
The Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board just dropped this: "We're here to announce our endorsement for president in 2020, or, at least, who we're not endorsing: Donald Trump." https://t.co/TQhvlHsCUQ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 18, 2019
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