All you need to know about Bernie's former national press secretary arguing with Chomsky on a podcast is there is a universe where Bernie, having chosen a different press secretary, is about to win a presidential election.

There's no single cause but two aspects of Bernie 2020 that stood out relative to Bernie 2016 were (1) way more hostile press toward his campaign and (2) a press operation that was way more hostile to reporters, and it's worth pondering why that was https://twitter.com/mattmangels/status/1315746225811976193

And yet, most campaigns aim to have a press outfit that generates broad positive coverage in order to create a buzz of inevitability. The Bernie 2020 approach was to treat reporters like idiots carrying water for the party whose writing could only do harm. https://twitter.com/ehnottooxabi/status/1315748260229906434

"You have to be at least a little nice to journalists since they write articles about whether your campaign seems good or bad, which voters then read" is, in fact, true

I think Republicans do enjoy very good relationships with journalists relative to how much the median journalist actually agrees with the GOP platform. I mean isn't this the root of the media's whole false-equivalence approach to political coverage? https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1315753861315993600

You watch old tape of Bush or McCain bantering with journalists and you're seeing the platform on which favorable media coverage of an extremely antidemocratic agenda is built

Since a lot of people are seeing this thread I should clarify: I don't think Gray is the single proximate cause of Bernie's loss but I think she is representative of his approach toward certain aspects of campaigning—especially media relations—that played a big role in him losing