"The election of Hillary Clinton is an event that we would welcome for its historical importance, and greet with indescribable relief," the New Yorker says of Hillary Clinton. | Getty The New Yorker endorses Clinton

Hillary Clinton is a "distinctly capable candidate," unlike her opponent Donald Trump, who is "manifestly unqualified and unfit" to be president, The New Yorker says in a presidential endorsement.

"The election of Hillary Clinton is an event that we would welcome for its historical importance, and greet with indescribable relief," the magazine says.


In an editorial that will be published in the Oct. 31 edition and is available online, the GOP nominee is described as having the trait of "temperamental authoritarianism." The editorial continues on with a list of his reversals in policy positions through the years.

Clinton is described as a pioneer.

"She has been a pioneer throughout her life, and yet her career cannot be easily reduced to one transcendent myth: she has been an idealist and a liberal incrementalist, a glass-ceiling-smashing lawyer and a cautious establishmentarian, a wife and mother, a First Lady, a rough-and-tumble political operator, a senator, a Secretary of State," the editors write.

"Her story is about walking through flames and emerging changed, warier and more determined."

The editorial touches on Clinton's unpopularity and the decree to which she is untrustworthy, but it writes them off as having to do little with her choices.

In addition, the editorial notes how monumental and historical it would be to elect the first female president.

"Just as President Obama was able at certain moments of glaring injustice and crisis to focus the country on matters of race in a potentially lasting way, Hillary Clinton, who has emphasized in her campaign and throughout her political life such issues as early-childhood education, paid family leave, and equal pay, could also change the nation in deeply consequential ways," the editors write.

"That’s a thrilling possibility for all Americans. "