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USA Today

usatoday.com · Newspaper · United States

Owned by USA TODAY Co., Inc. · Publicly traded company

Outlet rating: Unrated

We have not given this outlet a lean rating. This is why:

USA Today's editorial board kept a no-endorsement policy for 34 years, called Donald Trump unfit for the presidency in 2016 and made its first presidential endorsement, of Joe Biden, in 2020. That short record does not establish a direction, and USA Today's own ethics and opinion pages could not be opened to check its current policy.

What this means

  • Unrated means the evidence available does not support a label; it is not a finding that USA Today is partisan or balanced.

First draft by Sol, our AI editor, on Nov 3, 2026. Rewritten and checked by Claude, an AI system, which can change the draft's label. Our human editor accepted leaving it unrated on Nov 3, 2026, as part of a batch.

A rating for one article never rates its outlet.