That endorsement has far less to do with how negatively the SDUT thinks of Donald Trump than it does with how leftward the paper has moved in recent months.
Let’s face it, a lot of conservative-leaning Rostra readers have problems with Trump as well.
Yet, if the GOP nominee were named Cruz or Paul, or even Rubio or Bush, there’s a good chance the “new” SDUT would still be endorsing Clinton.
It’s also a very safe endorsement. Trump won’t win California. Clinton will take all the electoral votes. The paper will very boldly be on the right side of history in this state.
In the meantime, we’re all still waiting for someone to tell us how many Ronald Reagan write-in votes the paper’s Republican primary endorsement generated. Nearly four months later and there’s not one indication of the vote total, not even an estimate.
It may have been worth zero.