ELECTION/ENDORSEMENT/FLORIDA/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The newspaper in Orlando, where the president is set to officially kick off his reelection bid Tuesday [6-18-19], has already announced its 2020 White House endorsement: anyone but Donald Trump…The Sentinel dubbed Trump’s ‘successful assault on truth’ as ‘the great casualty of this presidency, followed closely by his war on decency’ and said the commander in chief ‘has diminished our standing in the world.’ Though the Sentinel endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016, the paper has a long history of favoring GOP candidates for the White House. The paper supported Republican Mitt Romney over Democratic incumbent Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential race, and with the exception of President Lyndon Johnson in 1964, ‘the Sentinel backed Republican presidential nominees from 1952 through 2004,’ the editorial board wrote. But the Sentinel noted Tuesday that its ‘non-endorsement isn’t defaulting to whomever the Democrats choose’ as their nominee to take on Trump in the general election. The editorial board said it would ‘eagerly’ consider Romney, now a U.S. senator from Utah, or former Ohio Gov. John Kasich if they launched primary challenges to the president.”
–Quint Forgey, “Orlando Sentinel announces 2020 endorsement: Not Trump,” Politico, June 18, 2019 10:41 am