Jonathan Capehart Reportedly Resigns From Washington Post Editorial Board Over Piece on Elections

Jonathan Capehart left the Washington Post editorial board after a disagreement over a piece they published on the Georgia senate runoff between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker, according to a new report.

Axios media reporter Sara Fischer reported that Capehart was one of the Post’s most prominent editorial board members, and that his departure means no people of color currently serve on the board.

Axios reported Capehart’s decision stemmed from an editorial board piece titled “Runoff results show why Georgia should be a 2024 early primary state.”

The piece argued Georgia has become a purple state between Warnock’s victory and Donald Trump’s lack of political success there. The Peach State is described as “a genuinely competitive battleground.”

Axios did not detail the nature of the dispute, but the Post editorial included a line noting “turnout remained high” in the 2022 midterms in Georgia “despite hyperbolic warnings by President Biden and other Democrats that updated voting rules amounted to Jim Crow 2.0.”

Capehart himself had disputed that very claim in the editorial a month before in November, referring to the rules as “Jim Crow 2.0” in his own piece.

Axios reported Capehart resigned from the board shortly after the editorial ran in December. Axios heard from a Post spokesperson who said the paper’s opinion section “is committed to diverse representation in all its pages” and that the section “plans to further expand the range of voices in the months to come.”

Capehart is still with the Post as a columnist and associate editor, in addition to hosting his MSNBC show.