Media Turn a Blind Eye to Jaime Harrison’s Lobbying Work

The Washington Post ignores the role that Harrison's lobbying career has played in aiding his political rise.

Jaime Harrison is closing in on Lindsey Graham in South Carolina and is being helped along by the mainstream political media’s bizarre insistence on ignoring his past as a Washington lobbyist.

Harrison began the race as a long shot. But in recent months, the polling has tightened, with the non-partisan electoral analysts at the Cook Political Report moving the race this week to their “toss up” category, prompting a Thursday piece from the...