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Former Vice President Kamala Harris called out The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times in her new book, “107 Days,” over their refusal to endorse a presidential candidate in 2024.
“The Los Angeles Times, my hometown newspaper, published its electoral endorsements,” she wrote, recalling the Oct. 14 piece published by the paper. “The very first line of the article stated: ‘It’s no exaggeration to say this may be the most consequential election in a generation.’ But there was no mention of the most consequential race of all.”
The LA Times, owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong, declined to endorse a presidential candidate, and The Washington Post, owned by Jeff Bezos, followed suit.
“The pre-capitulation of these powerful billionaires alarmed and dispirited me. As it turned out, they were early adopters of the feckless posture that would be embraced by a raft of business leaders and institutions once Trump was elected. They’d just been the first in line to grovel,” Harris wrote after noting the Post’s non-endorsement and in reference to President Donald Trump’s eventual election victory.
The paper has only endorsed Democratic presidential candidates, except in 1988 when it declined to endorse Democrat Michael Dukakis.
The Washington Post did not immediately return a request for comment.
Harris also highlighted Alexandra Petri, who now writes for The Atlantic but previously served as a political humor columnist at the Post.
“But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them,” Petri wrote at the time.
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