Business magazine The Economist on Thursday endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonButtigieg stands in as Pence for Harris's debate practice Senate GOP sees early Supreme Court vote as political booster shot Poll: 51 percent of voters want to abolish the electoral college MORE, calling her "America's best hope."

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"The choice is not hard. The campaign has provided daily evidence that Mr Trump would be a terrible president," the magazine's editorial board wrote.

"Although, by itself, that is not much of an endorsement, we go further. Mrs Clinton is a better candidate than she seems and better suited to cope with the awful, broken state of Washington politics than her critics will admit. She also deserves to prevail on her own merits."

The Economist noted it is not in support of all of Clinton's policies, calling her tax plan "fiddly."

"The scale of these defects, though, is measured in tiny increments compared with what Mr Trump proposes."

The editorial board concluded that it is backing Clinton "partly because she is not Mr Trump, but also in the hope she can show that ordinary politics works for ordinary people — the sort of renewal that American democracy requires."