Let's do one for Donald Trump, which is of course the Las Vegas Review-Journal, owned by billionaire and GOP donor Sheldon Adelson:
Mr. Trump entered the Oval Office in 2017 promising to be a disrupting force, to upend Beltway norms. Mission accomplished. In return, he has faced a shockingly hostile media elite rushing to bury objectivity in service to social media blather and the endless loop of the cable TV news cycle. But for all of Mr. Trump’s bluster and braggadocio, his domestic policy record has been quite traditional — and successful. Voters interested in accomplishments should take notice.
The most pressing matter facing Nevada and the nation in coming months, and even years, will be the resurrection of the economy post-pandemic. Mr. Trump’s record on job creation and economic growth speaks for itself. Mr. Biden disingenuously blames the current administration for the economic downturn, implying that Mr. Trump had the power to stop a worldwide pandemic. That’s desperate nonsense. Prior to the lockdowns, U.S. growth was more consistently robust than it had been in years and wages were continuing their upward trend for workers.
In the end, it is all about Adelson's tax breaks.
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Now for a number of Joe Biden endorsements:
The Gazette in Iowa:
On Inauguration Day 2017, President Donald Trump raised the specter of “American carnage” that his presidency would remedy. Instead, he unleashed it.
Four years later the nation is gripped by a pandemic that’s killed more than 200,000 people. Trump publicly downplayed the virus while conceding its deadly threat to the country only in private. His delayed response cost thousands of lives needlessly. His erratic forays into virus misinformation confused and confounded efforts to control the spread. He shunned the advice of medical experts and made decisions aimed more at boosting his reelection chances than protecting Americans’ health.
And when his administration’s cavalier attitude toward COVID-19 led to a White House outbreak, the president emerged from the hospital to give Americans a rambling, insulting admonishment to not let the virus “dominate” them, as if its victims somehow lacked the will to survive.
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Donald J. Trump’s intentionally divisive presidency is hurtling us toward the most alarming threat to American democracy that any of us has ever seen. For the first time, we have a president who cannot bring himself to commit to the peaceful transition of power. In many other countries, across many centuries, this road often has led to bloodshed, to tyranny.
This is our moment — now — to stand up for democracy. To stand up, each of us, for dignity, civility and competence. To stand up for the hope of an America where we might solve the many problems we face with dialogue and give-and-take and honesty.
It is time to vote for Joseph R. Biden.
Biden may not be perfect — Lord knows he is an awkward debater — but he has vowed to be a president for the whole country, not just the sections that voted for him. That’s what presidents are supposed to do.
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A recurring theme in the Biden endorsements is about how divisive Trump is and how Biden would help heal the divisions.
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It has gotten so bad that some fear Americans may lose confidence in the integrity of the elections.
That's how bad it's gotten. And that's bad. That's bad for democracy and that's bad for the country.
Let us repeat for emphasis: Beyond any single issue, that is bad for the country.
Joe Biden has called this election "a battle for the soul of the nation."
We like the sound of that. We believe it is.
Donald J. Trump isn't the cause of all of our nation's divide. He didn't create it all. Myriad factors are at play. We were divided before Trump arrived.
But President Trump has failed to provide the leadership to try to heal that discord. Instead, he has brazenly attempted to exploit it. He has made, and continues to make, it worse, a lot worse.
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Joe Biden should be our next president. A battered and divided country must hit the reset button. The nation needs a leader who can pull us back together, who wants to pull us back together. Sure, disagree on policies and debate the issues. But a president should not routinely sow discord. Self-promotion should not be his best skill. Our allies should not wince when the president speaks. The less fortunate should feel they are a part of us, not castoffs on a cruel game show. Biden promises needed change. The alternative could be perilous for our democracy.
Biden knows tragedy, and he’s at his best when talking about moving beyond it. He lost a wife and infant daughter to a car accident and an adult son to a brain tumor. He speaks of pain and healing and recovery — with authority and empathy. He comforts military families, knowing how it feels to send a son into a combat zone. He still believes in the legislative process, even when it’s divisive and bogged down. He hasn’t lost his faith in the system and looks for ways to bring sides together. Biden is not afraid of the hard work involved in finding common ground. To him, compromise isn’t a dirty word, but he’s also known to fight hard for what he believes, like when he championed the Violence Against Women Act in the 1990s.
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America is in peril. Our nation is buffeted by crises, and the warning lights are flashing red. We need a president with experience and character, someone who can extinguish the flames and rebuild the foundation.
America needs Joe Biden.
The former vice president believes that we can find our way back from the precipice, that progress can be made, and must be made, by working with the other side. That’s essential to solving our baseline crisis — the way our nation is being torn apart by our differences.
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