Donald Trump trails badly behind Hillary Clinton in newspaper endorsements

Newspaper and magazine endorsements don't normally turn elections.

But when there are so many in favour of one candidate, you've got to wonder if it spells the end for the other.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has added the New Yorker to her list of endorsers, which already includes Vogue and 182 daily newspapers.

Thirty-seven of Clinton's endorsements came from newspapers that recommended Republican Mitt Romney in 2012.

In contrast, Donald Trump has only received four endorsements from daily newspapers: the Santa Barbara News-Press, St. Joseph News-Press, Waxahachie Daily Light, and Las Vegas Review-Journal.

One of the dailies that recommended Clinton, the Los Angeles Times, recently tweeted a copy of a letter it received in 2007 from Trump objecting to its hard-hitting coverage of Trump University.

In the letter, billionaire called Trump University "a very successful" part of his business holdings.

https://twitter.com/latimes/status/790177257843224577

This year, Trump accused a judge of Mexican heritage, Gonzalo P. Curiel, of being biased against him in a fraud case involving Trump University.

And just last week, the Los Angeles Times reported that Trump has since filed a motion asking the same judge to exclude his comments from being admitted as evidence.

Trump is seeking to have his comments deemed inadmissable even though he repeated his criticisms of the judge on national TV and at political rallies in front of large audiences.

Curiel will deal with the motion on November 10, two days after the presidential election.