The New Hampshire Union Chief formally rebuked President Donald Trump as soon as once more by backing Joe Biden, its first Democratic presidential candidate in additional than a century.

The conservative-leaning publication issued its endorsement Sunday, praising Biden as a “caring, compassionate {and professional} public servant” in a prolonged editorial.

“Joe Biden is probably not the president we wish, however in 2020 he’s the president we desperately want,” the Union Chief’s editorial board wrote. “He shall be a president to convey individuals collectively and proper the ship of state.”

The newspaper mentioned it expects “to spend a good portion of the following 4 years” disagreeing with Biden on issues of coverage, together with his stances on gun management and local weather change. Noting that the previous vp was “among the many most average” of these vying for the Democratic nomination within the 2020 primaries, nevertheless, they added, “We’re hopeful that it is a signal of the considerate and pragmatic public servant President Joe Biden shall be.”

In 2016, the Union Chief stunned readers and media professionals by endorsing Libertarian Gary Johnson over Trump, breaking a 100-year custom of backing Republican presidential candidates.

4 years later, the paper’s distaste for Trump hasn’t budged.

“President Trump shouldn’t be all the time 100 % incorrect, however he’s 100 % incorrect for America,” the editorial board wrote Sunday. “Mr. Trump rightly factors out that the COVID-19 disaster isn’t his fault, however a real chief should personal any state of affairs that occurs on their watch. We could also be turning a nook with this virus, however the nook we turned is down a darkish alley of file infections and deaths.”

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In 2015, Trump blasted the Union Chief’s writer, Joseph McQuaid, as a “dangerous man” and “actual lowlife” after the paper endorsed former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for president.

In an interview with CNNMoney that very same yr, McQuaid dismissed Trump’s criticisms as “a monologue tirade,” including, “He says I’m a dishonest man. It’s he who’s being dishonest and terribly confused.”

Information of the Union Chief’s Biden endorsement got here as Trump sought to shore up help for his reelection with a rally in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Current polls, nevertheless, have discovered the president trailing Biden by as a lot as 12 proportion factors within the Granite State.

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