Sheldon Adelson’s Newspaper Endorses Trump, With “Asterisk”

The Las Vegas Review-Journal has become the first major newspaper to endorse presidential candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 general election, publishing an unsigned editorial on Saturday that lauds the Republican nominee while acknowledging his flaws.

The show of support less than three weeks before Election Day could help Mr. Trump in Nevada, a battleground state, after a number of other major newspapers have broken their traditions of backing Republican candidates to endorse this cycle’s Democrat or Libertarian alternative instead.

But, as The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman pointed out, the Review-Journal’s endorsement of Trump “may come with something of an asterisk.”

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