Kamala Suffers Two Devastating Blows - Suddenly The Smart Money Is On Trump

The world turned upside down last week when two of the central pillars of the Democratic Party’s media support complex, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, refused to endorse Kamala Harris for President.

For decades the Democratic Party has benefited from the media elite credentialling their Leftwing candidates, even manifestly unqualified ones like Jimmy Carter, in opposition to the candidates of the Republican Party.

So, does this mean that the resolutely liberal Washington Post and Los Angeles Times have become or are becoming more conservative?

The WaPo and the LA Times are separate publications with entirely different billionaire owners, so before we answer that question let’s dig into what is known about the decisions not to endorse Harris.

Let’s start by acknowledging it is accepted as fact that editorial page writers at both papers had drafted and were waiting for the go-ahead to publish endorsements of the blundering Vice President.

According to reporting by the New York Post a high-ranking former editor at the Washington Post is claiming that the paper’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, entered into a quid-pro-quo agreement with former President Donald Trump to kill the newspaper’s planned endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Longtime Post editor-at-large Robert Kagan, who quit after the non-endorsement on Friday, told The Daily Beast that Trump met with executives at Blue Origin – the space company owned and operated by Bezos – after the Post’s announcement, suggesting Bezos entered a deal with the possible next president.

“Trump waited to make sure that Bezos did what he said he was going to do, and then met with the Blue Origin people,” he reportedly said.

“Which tells us that there was an actual deal made, meaning that Bezos communicated, or through his people, communicated directly with Trump, and they set up this quid pro quo.”

Kagan, one of the most relentless media critics of Donald Trump and his policies, offered no proof of the deal, even though he further claimed it had been in the works for some time.

Amid fierce backlash that Bezos was responsible for the controversial decision, Lewis, the outlets publisher, denied those claims in a statement, stressing that he himself pulled the plug on the endorsement due to his opposition of presidential endorsements.

“He was not sent, did not read and did not opine on any draft. As Publisher, I do not believe in presidential endorsements. We are an independent newspaper and should support our readers’ ability to make up their own minds,” Lewis said in a statement, according to The Daily Beast.

The decision of the Los Angeles Times to withhold its endorsement from Kamala Harris was also accompanied by editorial desk drama.

A draft of a proposed editorial giving Harris the nod was reportedly written by editorial page editor Mariel Garza before it was called off.

Then the LA Times’ billionaire owner, Soon-Shiong, told the newspaper’s editorial board through the outlet’s executive editor Terry Tang that the LA Times would not endorse Harris or former President Donald Trump, which was first reported by Semafor.

According to reporting by Semafor, “It wouldn’t be the first time since he bought the paper in 2018 that owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong had overruled the wishes of the paper’s editorial board. In 2020, the paper met with Democratic candidates for president for interviews with the intention of making a pick in the race. But after deciding to endorse Elizabeth Warren in the Democratic presidential primary, at the last minute Soon-Shiong overruled its leadership and said there would be no endorsement in the primary race (the paper endorsed Joe Biden in the general election).”

But then again, the LA Times had passed over Kamala Harris before – it didn’t endorse her for Attorney General in 2010, so maybe those who know her best like her least.

However, Far Left employees of the paper may have thought they had free rein due to the alleged influence of Soon-Shiong’s daughter Nika, whose progressive politics on racial justice and the war in Gaza have at some points heartened and emboldened the social justice warriors on staff. However, according to Semafor, the paper told Politico that there was no involvement from Nika Soon-Shiong in the endorsements of Far Left candidates in the past couple of election cycles.

So, back to our question: Does this mean that the resolutely liberal Washington Post and Los Angeles Times have become or are becoming more conservative?

The short answer is “NO,” the decision by the owners of the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times to withhold their endorsements from Kamala Harris does not mean the papers are becoming more conservative. Their editorial desks and newsrooms will continue to be staffed by relentlessly liberal products of the Far Left “journalism” schools, such as Columbia and Northwestern.

But it does tell us one very important thing about the 2024 election, and that is this: That the billionaire owners of the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times are a lot smarter than the average journalism school graduate, and with the election now just a week away the smart money is on Donald Trump to win.

Conservatives, we are in a battle for the survival of a free America established and created under God’s laws.  None should stay on the sidelines in this election.  Working together we can save America for our children, grandchildren, and future generations. Please forward this and other CHQ articles to your contact list to inform and educate family, friends, neighbors, and others on what’s at stake in this election.

George Rasley is managing editor of Richard Viguerie's ConservativeHQ.com and is a veteran of over 300 political campaigns. A member of American MENSA, he earned his first newspaper byline in 1976 for an article in The Goshen (Indiana) News. His family entered the newspaper business in 1831.

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