After Biden administration climate adviser Jake Levine announced his campaign to represent California’s 32nd Congressional District, his wife, MSNBC host Jacqueline Alemany, took to X to assure the public that she will uphold journalistic standards.
“As a journalist, it’s paramount to respect certain boundaries on my support,” Alemany wrote on Tuesday. “That means I won’t be involved in the campaign, nor coverage of it, and I will continue to uphold the professional standards of independence that my work requires.”
— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) August 5, 2025
Alemany, formerly a Washington Post reporter, joined MSNBC in March as a Washington correspondent and cohost of a new weekend show alongside Jonathan Capehart, a former Post colleague and liberal commentator, and Eugene Daniels, whom one publication described as an “expert in all things Kamala Harris.”
While Alemany has not described her reasons for leaving the Post, she announced the move days after the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, announced plans for the opinion section to defend “personal liberties and free markets.” Capehart has said he left the paper over Bezos’s plans.
Alemany’s new employer, MSNBC, has faced plummeting ratings and viewership for months amid mounting scrutiny over left-wing bias. Parent company Comcast announced in November that it was cutting ties with the failing network.
Levine, who served as an adviser to former president Barack Obama and as the chief climate officer at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation under former president Joe Biden, is seeking to replace 15-term Democratic congressman Brad Sherman.
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