Two Washington Post journalists stepped down from the paper’s editorial board on Monday to protest the decision by the newspaper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, not to endorse a presidential candidate. Both said they intended to stay at the paper in other roles.

David Hoffman, who has worked at The Post since 1982, and Molly Roberts, another editorial board member, said they felt it was important for the paper to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris because they considered former President Donald J. Trump as a danger to the country.

“I believe we face a very real threat of autocracy in the candidacy of Donald Trump,” Mr. Hoffman said in his letter announcing his intent to step down to the editor of the opinion department, David Shipley, a copy of which was reviewed by The New York Times. “I find it untenable and unconscionable that we have lost our voice at this perilous moment.”

Mr. Hoffman received a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing at a ceremony on Thursday for a series on authoritarian regimes suppressing dissent. He said he would continue working on several projects he had underway, “including the expanded effort to support press freedom around the world.”

Ms. Roberts said in a post on X, “The mission of an editorial board is simpler than it may seem: We want to make the country and the world a better place by supporting the best candidate or the best policy, and condemning the worst. We want to change minds. But above all else, we want to write with moral clarity. If we can’t do that, what are we doing at all?”

Ms. Roberts said the imperative on the editorial board to endorse Ms. Harris over Mr. Trump was “about as morally clear as it gets.”