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It's very, very unlikely that this is motivated by a desire to influence the outcome of the election, because it's so obviously and wildly implausible that it would actually do so. Nobody who reads the Washington Post or LA Times editorial page is going to change his vote based on an explicit endorsement or lack thereof from one of these papers. They've been implicitly endorsing Harris since Biden dropped out, and implicitly endorsing anyone-but-Trump for eight years. Anyone who's receptive to the message already got it.
An official endorsement from either of these papers would be purely symbolic.
I strongly suspect that the owner is not using the LA Times to advance a political agenda, but rather trying to get them to maintain the thinnest fig leaf of objectivity in order to enhance the paper's credibility. He has to know there's no way the LA Times' endorsement is going to tip the vote in a swing state.
Unless I'm wrong about that, this is totally consistent with what Yarvin said.
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The USA endorsed Biden in 2020, but other than that has generally had a policy of no endorsements.
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