The night before the Iowa Republican caucuses. new york times The editorial board implored Republicans to abandon their 2024 front-runner, former President Donald Trump, in an article Monday morning.
in the work of the title “Republican voters are to blame,” left-wing newspapers tried to blame Republicans for supporting anyone.
The board stated:
Iowa Republicans and voters in New Hampshire and subsequent states will have one important responsibility as they gather Monday to cast their first votes of the 2024 presidential campaign season. The goal is to nominate a suitable candidate for the position of president. It would “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
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The paper criticized Trump, who leads Biden in most battleground states and appears poised to become the Republican nominee, as “clearly unfit.”
“Donald Trump has proven himself unwilling and clearly unworthy,” the committee wrote.
The paper's committee also implied that Trump was ineligible because he was facing charges from left-wing prosecutors, and argued that if elected, Trump would act like a dictator and seek revenge against his political opponents. .
He is facing a criminal trial for his actions as a 2016 candidate, president and former president. In his third presidential bid, he stepped up a years-long campaign to undermine the rule of law and democratic processes. He said if elected he would act like a dictator on “day one” and direct the Justice Department to investigate political opponents and critics in the media, saying the greatest danger to the nation “doesn't come from other people. ” he declared. Overseas but from within the country. ”
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Noting that he has a “clear path” to the nomination, the board said it is “essential to remind voters that there is still an opportunity to nominate another standard-bearer for the Republican Party, and that all of Americans should want to do that.” ”
The board indicated it had the interests of the American people in mind.
“This is not a partisan concern. It is good for the country for both major parties to have qualified presidential candidates who express competing views about the role of government in American society. They have the right to make such choices.”
The left-wing paper said President Trump has “severely undermined the Republican Party and the health of American democracy.”
A New York Times sign hangs above the entrance to a building in New York, May 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Lenihan)
The newspaper said voters may like Trump's plans for further tax cuts and restrictions on abortion and immigration, but warned that there were “unique risks” in electing Trump.
The board did not name anyone in particular, but asked Republicans to consider “other options.”
“Mr. Trump is currently distinguished from other Republican candidates primarily by his disdain for the rule of law. The sooner he is rejected, the more Republicans will work within the system to achieve their goals. We can quickly return to the difficult but necessary mission of cooperating.”
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