'The View' co-host argues newspapers shouldn't be making endorsements

"The View" co-host Sara Haines made nan lawsuit connected Tuesday that newspapers shouldn't beryllium endorsing candidates successful elections, aft The Washington Post declined to endorse a statesmanlike campaigner and announced it wouldn't beryllium successful nan future.

"I can’t presume to cognize different than what you tin benignant of deduce connected your ain arsenic to why Jeff Bezos wouldn’t do this, but successful general, I don’t deliberation newspapers ever should person endorsed anyone. As an independent entity that is losing spot each time pinch nan public, they’re astatine an all-time debased of 31%, group don’t judge nan news successful nan media, I deliberation independent news organizations shouldn’t beryllium endorsing," Haines said.

The different co-hosts disagreed pinch nan editorial board's decision. The Post has exclusively endorsed Democratic statesmanlike candidates since 1976, isolated from for erstwhile they declined to endorse either campaigner successful 1988. 

"Now, erstwhile he took complete nan paper, nan motto is ‘democracy dies successful darkness.’ Well, Jeff, you conscionable turned nan ray disconnected again. That’s why group are huffy because, you know, it’s not for illustration you conscionable made this decision, you know, ooh, willy-nilly," co-host Whoopi Goldberg argued.

BEFORE NON-ENDORSEMENT DECISION, WASHINGTON POST CALLED TRUMP 'DREADFUL' AND 'WORST PRESIDENT OF MODERN TIMES'

Sara Haines, a co-host of 'The View' said papers shouldn't beryllium endorsing candidates successful elections. (Screenshot/ABC)

Fellow co-host Joy Behar said, "They took down Nixon 50 years ago, and now they're giving Trump a walk successful a way, and besides I deliberation it's disingenuous of Bezos to opportunity its astir impartiality, erstwhile it really is astir his pocketbook. He knows if Kamala gets in, if he endorsed Trump and Kamala won, she would not do thing to him. But if he endorsed Kamala and Trump gets in, he's successful trouble." 

She added, "stop pretending for illustration you attraction astir thing else." 

Bezos wrote an op-ed for nan Post connected Monday explaining his decision. 

The billionaire Amazon founder, who bought The Post successful 2013, insisted that newspaper endorsements "do thing to extremity nan scales of an election" but alternatively "create a cognition of bias." He doubled down connected The Post's determination to extremity its statesmanlike endorsements by saying it's a "principled decision, and it’s nan correct one."

The co-hosts besides asked Washington Post subordinate editor Bob Woodward astir nan determination from Bezos connected Tuesday.

"I really disagree, nan Post, though. It has a news broadside and an editorial side, it's 1 institution," Woodward said. "When Carl Bernstein and I wrote stories that were denied, nan Washington Post editorial section stood squarely down us."

"It’s 1 institution, and it is an institution that – reporting astir Donald Trump and what he’s done, and supported by nan editorial page," he continued.

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MSNBC big Mika Brzezinski told The View hosts connected Monday that it was Trump who forced Bezos and nan Post not to endorse. 

"That everything that Trump is threatening, you request to believe, and it’s already happening. If billionaires crook to his will … He threatens, disparages, demeans people, but he besides makes things hap for himself," Brzezinski began.

"He sewage nan Washington Post and Jeff Bezos, who’s supposedly a powerful, superb billionaire. He sewage Bezos to backmost down, nan caput of Amazon. Runs nan Washington Post, owns it. He sewage them to extremity what they person been doing timelessly, which is endorsing a candidate. He forced them to not endorse. That’s beautiful scary, guys," she said.

"Morning Joe" big Mika Brzezinski joined nan co-hosts of "The View" connected Monday and blasted nan Washington Post for not endorsing Kamala Harris. (Screenshot/ABC)

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The determination by nan Post prompted galore liberals to cancel their subscriptions to nan paper. The Post's editorial committee endorsed Hillary Clinton complete Trump successful 2016 and President Biden successful 2020.

Fox News' Joseph Wulfsohn contributed to this report.