Liberal economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman declared Hillary Clinton as the most able candidate running for president in the history of the country.
In a Monday column for the Times, Krugman said that Clinton, a former U.S. senator and secretary of state, has the strongest policy positions compared to Republican candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, and that she will win the Democratic nomination “barring the political equivalent of a meteor strike.”
“Well, Mrs. Clinton isn’t just the most knowledgeable, well-informed candidate in this election, she’s arguably the best-prepared candidate on matters economic ever to run for president,” he said.
Krugman said that in the event of an “8 a.m. call” to the president “warning that financial markets will melt down as soon as they open,” he wants Clinton to answer it.
“I don’t know how much play the candidates’ readiness for economic emergencies will get in the general election,” he wrote. “There will, after all, be so many horrifying positions, on everything from immigration to Planned Parenthood, to dissect. But let’s try to make some room for this issue. For that 8 a.m. call is probably coming, one way or another.”
