NEW YORK (AP) — More than 200,000 people have canceled their subscriptions to The Washington Post since the paper launched announced his decision A report released Monday said he did not endorse a presidential candidate last week.

NPR reported the figure citing “two people at the newspaper with knowledge of domestic affairs.”

Reporting a loss of subscriptions of this magnitude would be a major blow to a news organization. We are already facing financial problems. The Post had more than 2.5 million subscribers last year, most of them digital; which ranked it third behind The New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

Post spokeswoman Olivia Peterson had no comment on the report when contacted by The Associated Press.

The Post’s editorial staff has reportedly prepared an endorsement for the Democratic Party. Kamala Harris before announcing on Friday that readers would instead be left to make up their own minds. The timing, with less than two weeks until Election Day, has led critics to question whether Post owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is worried about whether the Republican Party is on Election Day. Donald Trump If elected president, he may retaliate.

Marty Baron, retired former editor of the Post condemned the decision It was seen on social media as “cowardice, its victim is democracy”.

Some journalists, including Post columnist Dana Milbank, encouraged readers reporters or editors did not express their anger at the decision by canceling subscriptions for fear it might cost them their jobs.

The Post’s decision came just days after the Los Angeles Times. He said he wouldn’t approve It is stated that a presidential candidate accepted by the newspaper cost them thousands of subscribers.

More than 2,000 comments were made on the Post’s website to an article about the consequences of disapproval; Many of them said they left readers.

“I’m unsubscribing after 70 years,” wrote one commenter, who claimed to have lost hope and faith that the Post would publish the truth.