The Boston Globe has "enthusiastically" endorsed Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton for the party's nomination on Sunday just two weeks before the New Hampshire primary where the paper reaches 20,000 subscribers, saying "This is Clinton's time" to lead the country.
"Today, the nation has new challenges, which require a different kind of leader - someone who can keep what Obama got right, while also fixing his failures, especially on gun control and immigration reform. That will require a focus and toughness that Obama sometimes lacked," the Boston Globe's editorial board wrote. "This is Clinton's time, and the Globe enthusiastically endorses her in the Feb. 9 Democratic primary in New Hampshire."
In recent polling, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders leads in New Hampshire by nearly 13 points, according to an average of recent polls compiled by RealClear Politics, in which Sanders has 52.4 percent support compared to Clinton's 39.6. Martin O'Malley is in third with 2.6 percent.
The Boston Globe's editorial board hit particularly hard on the issue of gun control in which they not only asserted that Clinton had the correct stance, but that there is a contradiction in Sanders' positions on guns and corporations.
"Clinton's assertive record on guns stands in contrast to that of her main Democratic opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who voted against the Brady background-check bill and, his claims notwithstanding, is not a convincing champion of gun control," the board wrote, according to CNN. "Sanders presents himself as an avowed foe of big business, but his vote to protect firearms corporations from legal liability tells a different story. Clinton is simply more credible on what for too many Americans is a life-and-death issue."
Sanders has had a positive impact on the race, however, according to the Globe, with his focus on income inequality and the influence of Wall Street on politics. "His entry into the race has pushed Clinton to the left in ways that have made her positions inconsistent - she has come out against a Trans-Pacific Partnership that she helped to initiate as secretary of state," they wrote. "But Sanders's candidacy has also opened up more room for Clinton to champion working people who are struggling in a changing economy."
The endorsement for Clinton follows others from the Des Moines Register in Iowa on Saturday and the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire on Sunday.
