The New York Times editorial board endorsed the two leading female candidates for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination on Sunday, throwing its support behind Senator
The board’s decision to back not one but two candidates is a significant break with convention, one that it says is meant to address the “realist” and “radical” models being presented to voters by the (Democratic field. While arguing that President Trump must be defeated, the board does not take a position on the best path forward for Democrats, writing that both approaches “warrant serious consideration.” (The editorial board is separate from the New York Times newsroom .)
The female senators have released some of the most detailed policy plans of the candidates remaining in the primary campaign, prompting the board to praise each one as the “standard-bearer” for her wing of the party. 
“There will be those dissatisfied that this page Is not throwing its weight behind a single candidate, favoring centrists or progressives, ”the board writes. “But it’s a fight the party itself has been itching to have” since Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2020, “and one that should be played out in the public arena and in the privacy of the voting booth.”
It adds: “Ms. Klobuchar and Ms. Warren right now are the Democrats best equipped to lead that debate. May the best woman win. ”
The members of the editorial board spent more than a dozen hours meeting with nine candidates, releasing full transcripts of their interviews publicly. They took a more transparent approach to their process than ever before, describing their decision-making in a limited-run daily (podcast) and announcing their final choices on the Sunday episode of “ The Weekly ”on FX.
The editorial board argues that Ms. Warren has emerged as the strongest choice from the left wing of the Democratic Party, praising her “serious approach to policymaking,” her skill in explaining her ideas, her commitment to overhauling the structures of government and her experience leveraging the tools of the executive branch . The board cites her work creating “Carrying out a progressive agenda through new laws will also be very hard for any Democratic president, ”the board writes. “In her interview with the editorial board Still, the board worries that her path to the nomination is “challenging,” questions her political instincts and suggests that the country needs a “more unifying path” than her message blaming American business for a wide array of societal problems. Of the more average candidates in the race, the board singles out Ms. Klobuchar, saying “the best chance to enact many progressive plans could be under a Klobuchar administration.” The editorial board casts her as an experienced, successful lawmaker with the ability to unite the party, while praising her plans to tackle climate change, housing policy , infrastructure, health care and childhood poverty. [Sign up for our politics newsletter and join the conversation.] “Her vision goes beyond the incremental,” they write. “Her lengthy tenure in the Senate and bipartisan credentials would make her a deal maker (a real one) and uniter for the wings of the party – and perhaps the nation.” Yet the board questions her management ability, citing reports that she has mistreated some staff members in the past Nearly two weeks before voting for the Democratic nomination begins, the race remains extraordinarily fluid. Senator Bernie Sanders (of Vermont and former Vice President) Joseph R. Biden Jr. Ms. Klobuchar, who has staked much of her campaign on success in Iowa The editorial board found fault with both men. Mr. Sanders’s policy prescriptions are described as “overly rigid, untested and divisive.” In an observation likely to anger his supporters, the board compared the Vermont senator to Mr. Trump at one point. “Three years into the Trump administration, we see little advantage to exchanging one over-promising, divisive figure in Washington for another, ”it writes. Mr. Biden, meanwhile, is described as preferring “merely restoring the status quo,” with an agenda “that tinkers at the edges” and will not sufficiently advance the country, in the board’s view. “What’s more, Mr. Biden is , ”the board adds. “It is time for him to pass the torch to a new generation of political leaders.” Of Mr. Buttigieg, the board writes, “His showing in the lead-up to the primaries predicts a bright political future; we look forward to him working his way up. ” Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, declined to meet with the board, saying that he did not yet have positions on enough issues
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