‘The Washington Post’ avoids endorsing a candidate in the US elections for the first time in decades

The diary Washington Post has decided not to endorse any candidate in the United States presidential elections for the first time in decades.

“The Washington Post will not endorse any candidate in this election or any presidential election in the future. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing any presidential candidate,” he wrote William Lewisexecutive director of the newspaper, in an article published this Saturday.

The equidistant decision of William Lewis, in office since last January, has made many newspaper workers feel badpublic radio NPR reported.

The newspaper thus avoids taking sides with the vice president and Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, or with the former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump ahead of the November 5 elections.

The Washington Post followed the tradition of not endorsing any candidate for the White House until changed his position in 1976 and He then supported Democrat Jimmy Carterafter the Watergate scandal that the newspaper itself had uncovered. The last time he did not endorse anyone was in 1988.

The newspaper has investigated irregularities and controversies by Trump and those around him for years, and has been highly critical of the Republican’s rhetoric and his refusal to accept the 2020 electoral defeat against Joe Biden.

The equidistant decision of William Lewis, in office since last January, has upset many of the newspaper’s workers, public radio NPR reported.

Martin Baron, editor of the newspaper during Trump’s term, between 2017 and 2021, told NPR that this decision is an act of “cowardice” that It will make it easier for Trump to “intimidate even more” the owner of the newspaper, billionaire Jeff Bezos.

A similar controversy has hit the newspaper this week The Angeles Timeswhere the head of the Editorial Board, Mariel Garza, resigned from her position in protest because the newspaper’s owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, blocked the newspaper’s support for Harris.

Kamala Harris has received the support of a large majority of the mediaas The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The New Yorker, Vogue and the magazine Rolling Stone.

The conservative tabloid New York Postowned by magnate Rupert Murdoch, announced this Friday its support for Trump despite having criticized him in 2021 for the assault on the Capitol.