The UK-based Economist magazine has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential race, asserting that a vote for her is a vote for “stability.”
The Economist’s editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes, an active force in the magazine’s ongoing trend to the left, took over the direction of the Economist in 2015, after which it endorsed only Democrats: Hillary Clinton in 2016, Joe Biden in 2020, and now Kamala Harris in 2024.
In explaining her choice for Harris, Beddoes insists that those who believe that Donald Trump did more good than bad in his first term as president are guilty of a “recklessly complacent” analysis.
Beddoes goes on to argue that Harris, who defended Biden’s sound mental state and did not win the Democrats’ primary, “stands for stability,” which could be true in the sense that the same behind-the-scenes shadow government…
