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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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Depending on how online you are, you might have seen a claim related to JD Vance on the social media account of your favorite feminist or left-leaning activist: that the Republican vice-presidential nominee believes women should stay in marriages with men who abuse them. This week, the allegation got a boost from Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D), who told CNN hosts: “He suggests that women should stay in abusive relationships. Listen, a domestic abuser isn’t a man, he’s a monster.”
Is the claim true? Did Vance say that? “Suggest” is a vague word that can cover anything from an assertion to an implication to a wink. It’s worth unpacking exactly what comments on the subject Vance has, or hasn’t, made.
Let’s get some context: