Washington Post declines to endorse a presidential candidate for the first time in decades
America's influential Washington Post newspaper announced on Friday that it would not endorse a candidate for US president in the tightly contested race for the first time since 1988. The Post's move comes days after the Los Angeles Times announced a similar decision, triggering the resignation of its editorial page editor.
Less than two weeks before Election Day, The Washington Post said Friday it would not endorse a candidate for president in this year's tightly contested race and would avoid doing so in the future — a decision immediately condemned by a former executive editor and one that the current publisher insisted was “consistent with the values the Post has always stood for.”
In an article posted on the front of its website, the Post — reporting on its own inner workings — also quoted anonymous sources within the publication as saying that an endorsement of Kamala Harris over Donald Trump had been written but not published. Those sources told the Post reporters that the company's owner, billionaire Jeff Bezos, made the decision.
There was no immediate reaction from either campaign.
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