'Way more dangerous' Trump hammered by editor behind 'powerful' Harris endorsement
Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday morning, the editor-in-chief of the The Economist explained why the venerable institution couldn't bring itself to back Donald Trump and instead cast its lot with Vice President Kamala Harris with an endorsement that caught political observers by surprise.
Speaking with the panel, Zanny Minton Beddoes summed up the Economist's position on Trump by calling him an "unacceptable risk we think he poses to America and the world."
"The audience that we had in mind when we wrote this was our many readers who are Republicans," she explained to Morning Joe regular Katty Kay. "We have Republicans and Democrat readers and we didn't want this to be a grand statement for the history books. We wanted to try to lay out to those readers that we have, who are likely to vote for Donald Trump, why we think he poses a risk."
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After explaining point by point why Trump is now completely unacceptable, Minton Beddoes said of the ex-president, "We think he'd be much more unconstrained. There is a real risk that he threatens America's institutions."
She then noted all of the people who once worked for Trump who have either declined to endorse him for a second term or who are flat-out opposing him.
"If you were hiring someone for a job, you'd really think twice about hiring someone where you have those references, the people who had worked closely with that person before," she emphasiszed
"Add all of that together, we think it is just an unacceptable risk," she concluded. "Look, I hope if he is elected president, that we will be wrong and those risks don't come to pass. but I think the risk of a Trump presidency, it is hard to quantify but it is too big. I think Kamala Harris, she may not be great, I would be delighted if she was, but she may well be a mediocre president, but she doesn't pose the catastrophic risk."
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