Jennifer Bakos

Mom, wife, daughter, sister, lifelong Cubs fan, and proud Dem. I consume an unhealthy amount of politics.

[Jennifer Bakos @jenbakos]

So @JoeNBC has been screaming at us about what “journalists” and “reporters” do for a bit now… You know what they *don’t* do? TALK ABOUT THEMSELVES INCESSANTLY. Make themselves the story. @Morning_Joe

[Jennifer Bakos @jenbakos]

@RadioFreeTom I am honestly asking: What are those political costs? What does that look like?

[Jennifer Bakos @jenbakos]

@RepNancyMace Seen here: Nancy Mace auditioning for the role of Regina George in Mean Girls: This is Forty.

[Jennifer Bakos @jenbakos]

@brianstelter This seemed fairly obvious, is so so depressing, and makes it hard to trust their coverage. @morningmika @JoeNBC

[Jennifer Bakos @jenbakos]

@washingtonweek @brianstelter @MarkLeibovich @BumillerNYT There’s this weird implication from high-minded media types that because “millions of Americans” don’t know something or care about something or watch something, it’s not important or worthy of discussion. It’s your GD job to inform them and make them care.

[Jennifer Bakos @jenbakos]

@maxlugavere And also, has not been pushing quack medical science for decades. Get real.

[Jennifer Bakos @jenbakos]

@FitFounder I started to suspect you were a hack when you made eating a piece of Halloween candy with your kid seem like a sin to atone for.

Folks: think twice about accepting advice from a guy who applauds a total quack and enemy of public health.

[Michael J. Stern @MichaelJStern1]

Trump picks incompetent loyalists for his Cabinet, and @CNN leads with "In Bold Move, Trump Picks Unorthodox Staff."

The media is the problem. They helped him get elected and they are covering for him now.

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

I've been involved in winning presidential races and races that lost. One common thread is that everyone seems to have a reason why you won or lost which usually reflects a personal perspective or agenda.

So here's mine: I think VP Harris ran a very good campaign that operated at a high level. She had a great convention, crushed Trump in a debate, and put on a series of big event rallies that were the best I'd ever seen.

As a Republican operative, I spent years pointing out flaws in the Democratic Party and I'm not here to say it doesn't need to go through a period of questioning and self-reflection. Those are much larger questions than one election and one campaign. But the Republican party is an anti-democratic movement, attacking the pillars of American democracy from elections to the judicial system.

I understand those who say that if there had been a "normal" Democratic primary, the results would have been better. Maybe. But think about it. In modern political history, every time a sitting VP has run for the nomination, that VP has won. Perhaps it would have been different this time and the eventual nominee would have emerged stronger for the process. But more likely there would have been a bloody primary fight that left the nominee broke and trying to patch together a fractured party to face a Republican party that has become Donald Trump's party. In all probability, VP Harris would have won that primary and been in a weakened and vulnerable position when it was finally resolved in May or June.

I would say to my Democratic friends to go through this post-election process with open minds and hearts but never doubt that the Democratic party is the only pro-democracy party in America. No one will have a position in Trump's administration who is not an election denier adhering to the Big Lie. That's toxic to a country's sense of self and the damage will take a generation to repair, if it is possible to heal.

Losing an election does not mean that you were wrong and they were right. It means you lost an election. I grew up in Mississippi watching my parents back candidates opposed to segregation. When those candidates lost, and they did for a long time, my parents didn't question if they were on the right side. They didn't ask themselves if the majority who supported segregation had proven the justness of their cause by winning.

The mid-terms start after the Super Bowl. It will likely be a good election for Democrats and then the 2028 presidential race will be upon us. After a loss, the days seem long but the months will pass quickly. Reflect, rest up, but come back prepared to fight. Fight not because victory is assured but fight because not to fight is to give up. And if we do that, we no longer deserve to call ourselves Americans.

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[Jennifer Bakos @jenbakos]

@marcorubio @DaveMcCormickPA What happened to all the fraud you guys were claiming in PA? 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Jennifer Bakos @jenbakos]

@brianstelter @stengel No, you spend too much time covering the show and not enough covering the stakes. The forest has no clue it’s about to be lit on fire.

[Lee in Iowa @Lee_in_Iowa]

ANSWER YOUR PHONES,

CALIFORNIA and NEVADA.

Those unknown numbers might be volunteering Democrats, letting you know your ballot didn’t count and helping you correct it so it DOES count. There’s a time limit. Pick up the phone!

Please retweet!!!

[Jennifer Bakos @jenbakos]

@brianstelter @ryanjreilly @Ipsos You don’t say!

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

While I'm discouraged that my fellow citizens elected a criminal as their president, I'm proud that I downplayed his criminality enough to maintain my status as a neutral reporter.

[Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson]

if the nyt workers are able to successfully prevent the needle from being published it will be one of the greatest achievements for organized labor since the invention of the weekend

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

In an ideal scenario the President of the United States and the worst person in the world would be two different people.

[Jennifer Bakos @jenbakos]

@atrupar The closing argument, as proposed by third graders.

[Jennifer Bakos @jenbakos]

@katekeepsit100 Just canvassed in Pa this weekend and this 💯

[Jennifer Bakos @jenbakos]

@greg_price11 Ahh, yes. The Very Serious Joe Rogan podcast.

[Jennifer Bakos @jenbakos]

@MeetThePress @Redistrict @SteveKornacki Men, you’re embarrassing yourselves.