The Tampa Bay Times, Dallas Morning News and Houston Chronicle published editorials that lauded Clinton's record and stances on issues, helping a Clinton campaign that is trying to focus more on March voting states after losing the New Hampshire primary.

"Democrats should vote for her March 1. She's a better choice than another long-shot liberal senator, her surging rival Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont," wrote the Dallas Morning News editorial board. "A better choice not because he's too liberal to win in November, though he is. She's better because over her lifetime, Clinton has learned to temper her idealism without losing it."

Likewise, the Tampa Bay Times editorial board writes that Clinton, "has the skill and experience to appeal to general election voters and build on President Barack Obama's record." In backing Clinton, the Florida paper also slighted Sanders. "There is no indication Sanders is prepared to effectively protect the United States from terrorists or manage the complicated relationships this nation must nurture around the world," they write.

The Houston Chronicle editorial board, a paper that endorsed then-Sen. Barack Obama over Clinton in 2008, wrote that because of energy and foreign policy, the paper feels "that Clinton would be a better president than the senator from Vermont."