Kamala Harris slams Washington Submit, LA Instances over 2024 endorsement snub

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris referred to as out The Washington Submit and the Los Angeles Instances in her new guide, "107 Days," over their refusal to endorse a presidential candidate in 2024.

"The Los Angeles Instances, my hometown newspaper, revealed its electoral endorsements," she wrote, recalling the Oct. 14 piece revealed by the paper. "The very first line of the article acknowledged: ‘It’s no exaggeration to say this can be essentially the most consequential election in a technology.’ However there was no point out of essentially the most consequential race of all."

The LA Instances, owned by Patrick Quickly-Shiong, declined to endorse a presidential candidate, and The Washington Submit, owned by Jeff Bezos , adopted go well with.

"The pre-capitulation of those highly effective billionaires alarmed and dispirited me. Because it turned out, they have been early adopters of the feckless posture that may be embraced by a raft of enterprise leaders and establishments as soon as Trump was elected. They’d simply been the primary in line to grovel," Harris wrote after noting the Submit's non-endorsement and in reference to President Donald Trump's eventual election victory.

WASHINGTON POST UNION, STAFFERS REVOLT OVER DECISION NOT TO ENDORSE A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, BLAME BEZOS

Jeff Bezos, Kamala Harris and Los Angeles Instances proprietor Dr. Patrick Quickly-Shiong (Getty Pictures)

Harris's new book was launched on Tuesday and recounts her traditionally quick presidential marketing campaign that adopted former President Joe Biden's determination to exit the race.

The LA Times announced in late October the editorial board wouldn’t be endorsing a candidate for the primary time since 2008. In consequence, the paper’s editorials editor, Mariel Garza, resigned over what she alleges was the proprietor's determination to not endorse Harris.

The LA Instances advised Fox Information Digital "an endorsement by the Los Angeles Instances is a vital determination that may affect a lot of voters. After considerate consideration, the proprietor, Dr. Patrick Quickly-Shiong, couldn't endorse Vice President Harris, based mostly on the document of the Biden administration and her personal observe document. Competence issues!"

The Submit introduced days later that the editorial board would not be endorsing a presidential candidate within the 2024 election or any future presidential election.

William Lewis, writer and CEO of The Washington Submit, referred to as the choice on the time "an announcement in help of our readers’ potential to make up their very own minds on this, essentially the most consequential of American selections — whom to vote for as the following president."

BEFORE NON-ENDORSEMENT DECISION, WASHINGTON POST CALLED TRUMP 'DREADFUL' AND 'WORST PRESIDENT OF MODERN TIMES'

Former Vice President Kamala Harris speaks on the Emerge twentieth Anniversary Gala in San Francisco April 30, 2025. (Camille Cohen/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)

The paper has solely endorsed Democratic presidential candidates, besides in 1988 when it declined to endorse Democrat Michael Dukakis.

The Washington Submit didn't instantly return a request for remark.

USA Today and The Minnesota Star Tribune additionally declined to endorse a presidential candidate within the 2024 election.

Harris quoted former Washington Submit editor Marty Baron's reaction to the paper's non-endorsement in her guide, writing, "That is cowardice, a second of darkness that may go away democracy as a casualty. Donald Trump will have fun this as an invite to additional intimidate The Submit’s proprietor, Jeff Bezos (and different media house owners). Historical past will mark a disturbing chapter of spinelessness at an establishment famed for braveness."

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Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally at Jenison Discipline Home on the campus of Michigan State College Nov. 3, 2024, in East Lansing, Mich. (AP Picture/Jacquelyn Martin)

Harris additionally highlighted Alexandra Petri, who now writes for The Atlantic however beforehand served as a political humor columnist on the Submit.

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"But when I have been the paper, I might be a little bit embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I'll spare you the suspense: I'm endorsing Kamala Harris for president, as a result of I like elections and need to hold having them," Petri wrote on the time.