The Washington Post won’t be making a presidential endorsement for the 2024 election or in any future presidential races, becoming the latest news publication to pull away from backing political candidates.
William Lewis, the newspaper’s publisher and CEO, said in a statement Friday that the Post is "returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates,” with the goal of providing "nonpartisan news for all Americans.” The paper only began endorsing candidates consistently starting in 1976, he said.
"We recognize that this will be read in a range of ways, including as a tacit endorsement of one candidate, or as a condemnation of another, or as an abdication of responsibility,” Lewis wrote. "That is inevitable. We don’t see it that way.”
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