'Hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy': NYT dumps on Trump as it endorses Harris

The New York Times editorial board unsurprisingly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president on Monday -- but it also took the opportunity to deliver a scathing assessment of her rival.

In the very first line of its endorsement of Harris, the Times argued that "it is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States than Donald Trump."

The editors then went on to document Trump's assorted moral and ethical failures.

"He has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the nation above self-interest," they wrote. "He has proved himself temperamentally unfit for a role that requires the very qualities — wisdom, honesty, empathy, courage, restraint, humility, discipline — that he most lacks. Those disqualifying characteristics are compounded by everything else that limits his ability to fulfill the duties of the president: his many criminal charges, his advancing age, his fundamental lack of interest in policy and his increasingly bizarre cast of associates."

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The editors argued that this lengthy list of disqualifying characteristics by itself should be enough for voters to support Harris's campaign, but they also made an affirmative case for the vice president as well.

"As a dedicated public servant who has demonstrated care, competence and an unwavering commitment to the Constitution, Ms. Harris stands alone in this race," the editors wrote. "She may not be the perfect candidate for every voter, especially those who are frustrated and angry about our government’s failures to fix what’s broken — from our immigration system to public schools to housing costs to gun violence. Yet we urge Americans to contrast Ms. Harris’s record with her opponent’s."

Read the full endorsement of Harris at this link.