Far fewer newspapers are endorsing Harris than backed Clinton or Biden

U.S. newspaper endorsements for nan Democratic presidential campaigner person dipped by much than 60% this twelvemonth since 2016 aft VP Kamala Harris became nan party's frontrunner, according to a unsmooth estimate by Fox News Digital.

In 2016, much than 240 newspapers endorsed Hillary Clinton, while only 20 endorsed Trump. In 2020, 14 newspapers endorsed Trump, and 120 endorsed Biden.

This year, astir 80 newspapers endorsed Harris, and less than 10 endorsed Trump.

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Several Democratic voters successful Nevada told The New York Times they're not voting for Vice President Kamala Harris because they don't judge she will easiness lodging costs. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Notable endorsements for Harris see nan Winston-Salem Chronicle, New York Times, Boston Globe, The New Yorker, Denver Post, The Las Vegas Sun, Los Angeles Sentinel, Seattle Times, The Star-Ledger, Tennessee Tribune, Scientific American and San Antonio Express. 

Endorsements for Trump see nan New York Post, The Washington Times and nan Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The plummeting Democratic endorsements travel arsenic the Los Angeles Times editorial board, which endorsed Barack Obama successful 2008, Clinton successful 2016 and Biden successful 2020, decided not to endorse a statesmanlike campaigner this year, according to a caller study Tuesday.

An LA Times spokesperson declined to remark to Fox News Digital connected nan report, saying, "We do not remark connected soul discussions aliases decisions astir editorials aliases endorsements."

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The LA editorial committee issued statesmanlike endorsements from nan 1880s done 1972, only returning to nan believe to endorse Obama successful 2008. Since then, it has exclusively endorsed Democratic statesmanlike candidates. 

The LA Times released its statewide and nationwide endorsements past week, including Democratic candidates for nan U.S. House and Senate.

Newspapers person traditionally endorsed candidates successful elections since nan 19th century, erstwhile papers were much intimately tied to governmental parties. Over time, newspapers shifted to go much independent of nan statement apparatus, and editorial boards for nan newspapers took complete endorsements, pinch nan ideological thin of nan committee often an parameter of nan endorsement outcome. 

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Several newspapers that historically endorsed Republican candidates either endorsed Biden aliases declined to endorse immoderate campaigner successful 2020. The Arizona Republic, which had endorsed Republicans for decades, was 1 of nan fewer that endorsed Biden.

Some publications that had ne'er endorsed a statesmanlike campaigner before, for illustration USA Today, collapsed pinch contented successful 2020 to besides endorse Biden.

Fox News Digital's Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.