Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York questioned why the New York Times is dismissing supporters of former President Donald Trump as “unpatriotic,” citing the paper’s recent endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.
The newspaper, which has not endorsed a Republican presidential candidate since Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, deemed Harris “the only patriotic choice” for president on Monday. York said he was “a little surprised” to see the New York Times make this claim, citing its previous arguments on debating patriotism.
“There have been times in the past when the New York Times thought it was bad to question the patriotism of your fellow Americans, but here we are, dismissing tens of millions of Americans who are going to vote for Donald Trump as unpatriotic,” York noted on Fox News’s America Reports.
York was also puzzled by the paper’s claim that Harris is best equipped to address the issues facing the country, including the cost of living and immigration. He argued that it is similar to the way the Harris-Walz campaign has consistently tried to portray Trump as the incumbent candidate despite Harris being vice president for almost four years, adding that “voters know differently.”
Ahead of Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, York previewed what the two candidates’ strategies will likely be when they face off against each other, suggesting that Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) will go after Sen. J.D. Vance’s (R-OH) “childless cat ladies” comment and claims about Haitian immigrants eating house pets. York predicted that Vance will target Walz’s political record, specifically his handling of the COVID-19 lockdowns and the summer 2020 riots that occurred following George Floyd’s death.
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Kaylee McGhee White, the Restoring America editor for the Washington Examiner, also previewed the vice presidential debate, claiming that Vance provides a better path for the country in an eventual post-Trump era. Meanwhile, she argued that neither Harris nor Walz is seen as “the next great Democratic leader” the country is looking for.
CBS News is hosting the vice presidential debate, which network anchors Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan will moderate. Unlike ABC News’s presidential debate, the moderators will not fact-check either candidate throughout the entire 90-minute debate, which will air at 9 p.m.