Kamala Harris’ failure to secure key endorsements suggests her campaign is in free-fall

Democratic statesmanlike candidates complete nan years could count connected galore things heading into Election Day. Near aliases astatine nan apical are awesome national and newspaper endorsements.

But immoderate of those captious stamps of support are abruptly not rolling successful for Kamala Harris, and it’s becoming a achy inclination for this flailing campaign.

Harris’ run has grounded to unafraid cardinal endorsements. AP

The biggest rustle came Friday erstwhile The Washington Post, a newspaper that has never endorsed a Republican statesmanlike campaigner successful its full history, announced it will not endorse Harris or Trump for president.

Yup, nan aforesaid publication that endorsed Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale won’t backmost nan 2024 Democratic nominee.

Think astir this for a moment: To boost Harris, galore successful nan media — including WaPo itself — person been comparing Donald Trump to Hitler (again). The Washington Post’s gems spell backmost to nan 2016 campaign.

September 2016: “Don’t comparison Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. It belittles Hitler.”

December 2023: “Yes, It’s OK to comparison Trump to Hitler”

September 2024: “Trump gets compared pinch history’s awesome villain because his rhetoric is that bad”

But now nan insubstantial won’t endorse his opponent? Does it abruptly deliberation she’s arsenic bad arsenic — aliases possibly moreover worse than — “Hitler”? 

Former WaPo editor Marty Baron called nan decision “cowardice, pinch populist arsenic its casualty.”

Its existent editor, Will Lewis, says nan non-endorsement is based connected nan newspaper “returning to its roots” of not officially siding pinch immoderate statesmanlike candidate.

The past clip it took a walk was successful 1988, erstwhile George H.W. Bush went connected to triumph 40 states successful a landslide triumph complete Michael Dukakis. 

But this “roots” mentation doesn’t clasp water. If this was ever the intention, why hold until correct earlier nan predetermination to denote it? 

Maybe, conscionable maybe, WaPo’s apical brass — presumably proprietor Jeff Bezos himself — watched Kamala’s trainwrecks connected “60 Minutes,” Fox News and this week’s Town Hall connected CNN.

Bezos couldn’t get down specified a substance-free campaigner for illustration Kamala, nary matter what nan unit thought.

Even Democrats are horrified pinch her performances, pinch erstwhile Obama strategist David Axelrod going truthful acold to telephone her retired for non-answers, describing them arsenic “word crockery city.” 

The WaPo’s no-endorse determination comes conscionable days aft nan Los Angeles Times, nan largest newspaper successful Kamala’s ain location state, besides declined to backmost either candidate. 

In this case, nan paper’s owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, nixed immoderate general connection of support for either of nan wannabes. 

The LA Times editorial-page editor and 2 editorial-board members past promptly resigned successful protest, showing again conscionable really acold near nan newsroom has gone: Furious that their campaigner of prime won’t get nan paper’s backing, these “journalists” simply quit.

There whitethorn beryllium thing other successful play here: For respective weeks, Donald Trump has been connected an upward trajectory successful nan polls. Almost each awesome forecaster has him arsenic nan favourite to win. 

He’s tied nationally, a position he ne'er came adjacent to achieving successful 2016 aliases 2020.

And he’s up successful nan polling averages successful each plaything state, pinch states for illustration New Hampshire, Virginia and New Mexico coming into play. 

To that end, is this hedging by these papers meant to debar publically backing a losing campaigner who’s going backward successful a hurry? 

The unions aren’t breaking retired nan pom-poms for Kamala either.

The nation’s largest union, The Teamsters, pinch 1.3 cardinal members, has refused to backmost her. Internal polling shows Trump up 27 points connected Kamala among its rank and file.

And nan Firefighters Union, which boasts nearly 350,000 members, besides skipped giving her nan nod.

Then there’s nan Arab American PAC, based successful nan cardinal authorities of Michigan. For each Harris’ pandering — trading retired Jews and Israel — she still couldn’t triumph complete this Arab group, which typically endorses Democrats. 

Remember, each of these voices heartedly endorsed Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Their support is expected to beryllium an absolute layup for immoderate Democrat moving for nan nation’s highest office.

It conscionable ain’t happening for Kamala.

And that’s a beardown motion her run is successful a free-fall. 

Meanwhile, Trump, nan happier warrior of late, has awesome momentum arsenic we caput into November. 

The joyousness is intelligibly gone for nan Kamala Harris run — on pinch nan endorsements she needs from voices Democrats person ever had successful nan bag.

Joe Concha is simply a Fox News Contributor and bestselling author.