Media influence groups in the USA draw parallels with 2016 elections: leading American media refuse to support Kamala Harris

On October 25, 2024, 11 days before the US presidential election, The Washington Post, the largest metropolitan newspaper and the third largest circulation newspaper in the US announced that its owner, Jeff Bezos, had decided not to support any of the presidential candidates.

This editorial policy was a violation of the almost half-century-long tradition of supporting Democrats in presidential elections, which had been in place since 1976.

The only time since then that The Washington Post has withdrawn its support from both candidates was in the 1988 election, in which Republican nominee George H.W. Bush won 426 electoral votes. This was the last election in the United States with such a landslide victory for one of the presidential candidates.