Washington: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is "amply qualified" to be US president, a leading American daily said today endorsing the former secretary of state.
Popular and influential daily The Washington Post made a strong case for the former First Lady to be elected as the next American president ahead of the Tuesday's election.
Latest polls indicate that the race to the White House has tightened over the last two weeks, with Clinton maintaining a slight edge over her Republican rival Donald Trump.
In a lead editorial, The Post said it has written a lot in recent months about why Trump is manifestly unqualified - by experience, temperament and outlook - for the Oval Office.
"We agree that attention paid to his unfitness is to Ms Clinton's benefit. But we also believe that fair examination of Ms Clinton in her own right provides convincing evidence that she is well prepared and fully capable to succeed as president of the United States," it said.
"There is no question that Clinton has flaws and has made mistakes in her 30 years in public life, but the caricature painted by her opponents is more slander than reality," The Post observed noting that "it is hard to imagine that any other politician subjected to decades of unrelenting conspiracy-mongering, unprecedented scrutiny and outright misogyny would fare as well as she has".
"Some of the emails from her staff stolen by Russia and released show thoughtless comments and embarrassing political calculations by her staff, but many others reveal a woman with discipline and resilience who thinks thoughtfully about the important issues of the day and pushes for pragmatic solutions. Those are the qualities we hope will result in her being elected president on Nov 8," The Post said.
The New York Times too favoured electing Clinton in the presidential elections.
"If Mr Trump is rejected on Tuesday, the nation will have a momentary breather," the daily wrote in an editorial.
"The United States has seen worse than Donald Trump. It has endured political crises and corruption, war abroad and bloodshed at home. But that doesn't make it any easier to contemplate the catastrophe that looms if we wake up Wednesday morning to President-elect Trump," the New York Times said.
Both the New York Times and the Washington Post have endorsed Clinton as the next president of the country besides an overwhelming majority of major US newspapers.
These include even those newspapers which have never endorsed a Democratic candidate in more than 100 years.
