Vice President Kamala Harris said she was disappointed Tuesday by the decisions of major liberal newspapers such as The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times not to offer endorsements this election cycle.
During an appearance on “The Breakfast Club,” host Charlamagne the God asked Harris how he felt about major news outlets like The Post and LA Times choosing to drop an endorsement after years of consistent and enthusiastic support for Democratic candidates for the White House.
Both the Post (Jeff Bezos) and the LA Times (Patrick Soon-Shiong) have billionaire owners who canceled endorsements late in the election cycle.
Harris said those decisions were “disappointing, no doubt” and pointed the finger at her opponent, suggesting the former president only cares about the “billionaires in Donald Trump’s club.”
She also claimed that Trump would offer a massive tax cut to the wealthiest Americans if he were returned to office.
“He’s not sitting around thinking about what he can do to take care of your grandma and grandpa,” Harris said.
“He’s thinking about people like him or him and all his grievances and all that angers him about how he’s been treated personally, as opposed to worrying about how you’ve been treated and what his responsibility is to lift you up .”
Bezos wrote an op-ed defending The Post’s decision not to endorse a presidential candidate in the 2024 race, which was announced last week and caused an uproar among the paper’s staff and liberal readers.
The billionaire founder of Amazon, who bought The Post in 2013, insisted that newspaper endorsements “do nothing to tip the scales” but instead “create a perception of bias.”
He doubled down on The Post’s decision to end its presidential endorsements, saying it’s a “principled decision and it’s the right one.”
Soon-Shiong told the LA Times that he had no regrets about his paper not endorsing a candidate, arguing that he thought it would create further mistrust among readers.
The decisions have been criticized by some Democrats and media pundits, and the fallout has also included hundreds of thousands of canceled newspaper subscriptions and resignations from some employees.
On Monday, MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski said former President Trump “forced” The Post’s editorial board not to endorse Harris in the race during an interview on ABC’s “The View.”
The board was reportedly poised to offer an endorsement to Harris before the plug was pulled at the last minute.
“He got the Washington Post and Jeff Bezos, who is supposed to be a powerful and brilliant billionaire. It caused Bezos to retire, head of Amazon. Runs the Washington Post, owns it… He forced them not to support him. This is very scary, guys,” said Brzezinski.
The Post’s editorial board endorsed Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016 and President Biden in 2020.
The Post’s editorials on Trump over the years have been extremely hostile, at one point referring to him as the worst president in modern history.
Fox News Digital reached out to The Washington Post for comment.
Fox News’ Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
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