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The Washington Post announced Friday that it would not endorse a presidential candidate in this year ’s election or in the future.

A source with knowledge told CNN on Friday that an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris had been drafted before it was squashed.

At least one editor has resigned, and high-profile Post staffers have publicly expressed their dismay.

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame called the decision “surprising and disappointing” A group of 17 Post opinion columnists also published a statement Friday evening , criticizing their own newspaper’s decision not to endorse a candidate in the presidential election as a “terrible mistake” Earlier in the week , the Trump campaign used the Los Angeles Times ’ non-endorsement in a fundraising email calling it a humiliating blow” for Harris .