Washington Post columnist quits, calling the decision not to endorse Kamala Harris a ‘terrible mistake’

• Michele Norris said she resigned as a columnist at The Washington Post.
• Norris said the Post’s decision not to endorse Kamala Harris was a “terrible mistake.”
• The Post reported that its owner, Jeff Bezos, made the decision.

Michele Norris, a columnist at The Washington Post, has resigned, making her the most recent staffer to leave over the newspaper’s decision not to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

Norris shared the news in an X post on Sunday.

“The Washington Post’s decision to withhold an endorsement that had been written & approved in an election where core democratic principles are at stake was a terrible mistake & an insult to the paper’s own longstanding standard of regularly endorsing candidates since 1976,” she wrote…

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