To the Editor,

After watching the presidential de

bate last Tuesday, I've reached the conclusion that while we could once align presidential candidates with one of the two major national newspapers, the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal, those days are over.

Obama was the New York Times; George W. Bush was the Wall Street Journal; Eisenhower was the Journal; JFK was the Times.

The debacle of a debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump showed Harris's responses as reasonable parroting of the New York Times.  Unfortunately, Trump's were more reminiscent of a terrible tabloid, such as The National Enquirer.

Actually, parts of Trump's performance could just as easily have been mistaken as coming from the satirical Onion or, worse, from the purposely humorous Babylon Bee, whose motto is, "The definitive source of fake news you can trust."

As a lifetime conservative, I've always voted for the candidate that more closely echoed the opinions of the Wall Street Journal. With a choice in 2024 between the New York Times and a fake news tabloid, I will either vote NYT or stay home.

Lonnie Barham, Warwick