Jacob is a deputy editor with Inside Elections, which provides nonpartisan analysis of campaigns for Senate, House, governor, and president. Jacob appears regularly on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal to discuss the battle for the House and Senate and has been quoted on elections in major outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, Fox News, and local outlets across the country. He is currently a contributor at elections site FiveThirtyEight. Jacob was a part of 2020 election week coverage on WUSA9, CBS’s Washington, DC affiliate. On election night in 2020, he worked on the decision desk at Edison Research, which provides results to ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN.
