Since leaving the White House, where she served as press secretary under Joe Biden, Jen Psaki landed a job on MSNBC where she continues to spout partisan talking points to a far-left audience.
But in the wake of President Donald Trump’s decisive victory earlier this month, some Democrats are showing signs of introspection. And Psaki appears to be among them.
As The Hill reported:
“Look, I think Democrats are in the wilderness. As you said before, there is no clear leader of the party,” Psaki said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” highlighted by Mediaite.
She noted that President Biden is going to be out of office in less than 65 days, and Vice President Harris lost the presidential election.
Psaki noted that Democratic governors may emerge as the party’s leader. There’s talk about California Gov. Gavin Newsom taking charge, but as Psaki said Sunday, there is no clear leader right now.
After the brutal election loss, Democrats are left pointing fingers and trying to figure out where they went wrong with messaging and reaching working class voters.
Her on-air admission attracted some social media attention:
But that wasn’t the only reason Psaki made headlines this week. She also admonished fellow Democrats for daring to reconsider the party’s extreme position on the issue of transgender rights, as Huffpost reported:
“It’s important not to yield to manufactured panic, and to align with the actual facts before making sweeping claims,” Psaki said. “Echoing and adopting the panic from the other side is not leading. It’s not meeting people where they are. It’s simply falling prey to right-wing propaganda without checking the facts first.”
Psaki, a former White House press secretary under President Joe Biden, said Democrats have “a lot of soul-searching” to do, although she worries some people in the party could reach “wrong sweeping conclusions” on issues related to trans rights.
Republicans spent nearly $215 million on anti-trans TV ads in this year’s election, data from AdImpact shows.
This includes a Trump campaign ad that referred to Vice President Kamala Harris remarking on government funding for gender-affirming care for prisoners and detainees.
“If that sounds like a particularly obscure issue, it is ― because it applies to a tiny group of people. And it’s also a policy that, by the way, was in place during the first Trump presidency,” noted Psaki, who pointed to other lines in right-wing ads that falsely depict America as facing a “crisis” of trans youth playing sports.
Here’s a clip of that segment:
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