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Amanda Marcotte

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Amanda Marcotte is an American political journalist and author. She is a senior politics writer at Salon, writes Standing Room Only and is the author of Troll Nation.

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What DI has documented

DI has documented statements by Amanda Marcotte on 2026 Midterm Elections, Sexism, and U.S. Politics. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Amanda Marcotte

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Amanda Marcotte

Role at the time: Salon senior politics writer publishing a column

Defended or excused

Statement summary

Marcotte defended Ossoff's remark and attributed the backlash to male insecurity.

“Beneath the right's meltdown over Ossoff's relatively tame comment about Harp was a molten layer of male insecurity.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Marcotte defends Ossoff's remark about HarpParagraph beginning Beneath the right's meltdown
Why we used this label

She calls the disputed remark relatively tame and criticizes the reaction to it.

Read statementJon Ossoff’s travel with Natalie remark about Donald Trump and Natalie Harp

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