'UNACCEPTABLE RISKS'

The Economist Endorses ‘Underwhelming’ Harris to Stop Trump

Another Trump term “comes with unacceptable risks,” the financial publication warned.

The Economist endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday, warning that a second Donald Trump administration “poses an unacceptable risk to America and the world.” While Harris' shortcomings are “ordinary” and not disqualifying, its editors write, the same cannot be said of her opponent. “By making Mr. Trump leader of the free world, Americans would be gambling with the economy, the rule of law and international peace. We cannot quantify the chance that something will go badly wrong: nobody can. But we believe voters who minimise it are deluding themselves,” they explain. The endorsement from the U.K.-based publication, which has supported each Democratic presidential nominee since John Kerry in 2004, comes shortly after nearly two dozen Nobel Prize-winning economists said that Harris' economic proposals are “vastly superior” to Trump’s.