Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and widely read around the country. The newspaper has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes. It employs around 800 journalists and had a 2015 daily circulation of 356,768. Its digital circulation was 1,000,000 in 2018.
Jeff Bezos bought the paper in 2013. Tensions between he and the newsroon have continued; in 2024 and 2025, multiple personnel resigned over the paper's non-endorsement of Kamala Harris and editorial changes advanced by Bezos.
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In what was supposed to be a strictly celebratory event launching President Biden’s glide path to the Democratic presidential nomination here, long-shot primary challenger Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) sought to appeal to the crowd with a somber warning.
Speaking minutes before Biden was set to take the stage here at the First-in-the-Nation Dinner on Saturday, Phillips warned the gathered Democrats that Biden’s low poll numbers and weak political standing threatened to let former president Donald Trump back into the White House.
“I’m here to tell you the numbers do not say things are looking good,” Phillips said from the stage, as Democratic officials milled about the hall. Phillips received some light applause after his remarks, which he had to stop at one point to try to get the attention of people who were not listening.