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When the Los Angeles Times decided not to endorse Kamala Harris for the presidency, the head of the editorial board threw a tantrum and quit once the news broke.

Editorials Editor Mariel Garza quit on Wednesday after the owner of the media outlet, Patrick Soon-Shiong, who bought the paper in 2018, claimed he asked the editorial board to compare the policies of both candidates Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump to make an informed decision. The board would not answer and therefore he decided that the paper would not make an endorsement.

“The Editorial Board was provided the opportunity to draft a factual analysis of all the POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE policies by EACH candidate during their tenures at the White House, and how these policies affected the nation,” Soon-Shiong wrote. “In addition, the Board was asked to provide their understanding of the policies and plans enunciated by the candidates during this campaign and its potential effect on the nation in the next four years. In this way, with this clear and non-partisan information side-by-side, our readers could decide who would be worthy of being President for the next four years.”

This absolutely incensed Garza, who claimed “she was blocked by the paper’s ownership from endorsing Harris,” according to The Daily Wire. It’s the first time in 20 years that the LA Times hasn’t endorsed Democrats for the presidency.

“I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not okay with us being silent,” Garza told the Columbia Journalism Review. “In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is how I’m standing up.”

“I didn’t think we were going to change our readers’ minds—our readers, for the most part, are Harris supporters,” the now-former editor commented. “We’re a very liberal paper. I didn’t think we were going to change the outcome of the election in California.”

“But two things concern me: This is a point in time where you speak your conscience no matter what. And an endorsement was the logical next step after a series of editorials we’ve been writing about how dangerous Trump is to democracy, about his unfitness to be president, about his threats to jail his enemies. We have made the case in editorial after editorial that he shouldn’t be reelected,” she pointed out.

“It was a logical next step,” Garza claimed. “And it’s perplexing to readers, and possibly suspicious, that we didn’t endorse her this time.”

Garza also whined that not backing Harris would make the paper look sexist.

“It makes us look craven and hypocritical, maybe even a bit sexist and racist,” she stated in a cringe-worthy resignation letter. “How could we spend eight years railing against Trump and the danger his leadership poses to the country and then fail to endorse the perfectly decent Democrat challenger—who we previously endorsed for the US Senate?”

The Trump campaign was elated at the development, especially since the paper had previously backed her in other candidacies.

“In Kamala’s own home state, the Los Angeles Times — the state’s largest newspaper — has declined to endorse the Harris-Walz ticket, despite endorsing the Democrat nominees in every election for decades,” the Trump campaign noted. “Even her fellow Californians know she’s not up for the job.”

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