The Boston Globe’s editorial board published Tuesday a scathing piece urging Massachusetts voters to unite against Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump.
Titled “Massachusetts voters must stop Donald Trump,” the authors wrote that “stopping Donald Trump is imperative — and not just for his fellow Republicans.”
Massachusetts voters will weigh in March 1, as one of the “Super Tuesday” primary states.
The editors called on unenrolled voters, who are able to participate the Republican primary, to back Ohio Gov. John Kasich, whom the Globe has endorsed. They also criticized Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson for being “right wing,” and knocked Florida Sen. Marco Rubio for a lack of experience.
In the op-ed, the left-leaning editorial board noted that since the Bay State awards delegates proportionally, not winner-take-all, a vote for a non-Trump candidate won’t be wasted.
The Globe editors also cautioned Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters and officials against strategically rooting for Trump with the assumption he would be easily defeated in a general election, warning, “That’s playing with fire. Just remember how few pundits believed Trump would ever make it this far.”
“The best way to stop Trump is to stop Trump now,” they wrote. “But as the race turns to Massachusetts, the answer to John F. Kennedy’s question — ‘ask what you can do for your country’ — has rarely been clearer: unenrolled voters should pull a Republican ballot and vote for John Kasich because it’s a vote against Donald Trump.”
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
