Vice President Kamala Harris' local newspaper Los Angeles Timeswill not receive presidential support in 2024.
The newspaper's lack of support is disrespectful to Harris. of times He supported President Joe Biden in 2020, Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Barack Obama in 2012 and 2008.
The decision not to endorse Ms. Harris was made by Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong of the paper's owner, Semaphore.
[A]Editor-in-chief Terry Tan told editorial board staff earlier this month that the paper would not endorse any candidates in this presidential election, two people familiar with the situation said.・He said that this was based on Dr. Soon-Shiong's decision. , a doctor who made a fortune in the medical industry.
The paper did not explain its decision, but wrote at the bottom of its online endorsement page: “The editorial board supports selectively, selecting and recommending the most important races.”
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This is not the first time owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong has overruled the paper's editorial board since taking over the paper in 2018. In 2020, the newspaper met with and interviewed Democratic presidential candidates seeking the nomination. But after deciding to support Democrat Elizabeth Warren, Soon-Shiong reversed party leadership at the last minute and announced he would not support her in the primary (the paper endorsed Joe Biden in the general election). .
After Richard Nixon was re-elected in 1972 and resigned from office in the wake of the Watergate scandal, the newspaper stopped supporting candidates. Throughout Nixon's career, times The California Republican supported it throughout his House, Senate and presidential campaigns. The next approval was nearly 30 years later in 2008.
Wendell Husebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former RNC war room analyst. he is the author of politics of slave morality. Follow Wendell “×” @WendellHusebø or society of truth @WendellHusebo.
