Bender joined The Wall Street Journal in 2016.[1] He was awarded the Gerald R. Ford Foundation Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency in 2019,[2] and a National Press Club Award in 2020.[3] In 2021, he published his first book, Frankly, We Did Win This Election.[4] The book covers the events that led to
PresidentDonald Trump's loss of the
2020 presidential election to
Joe Biden.[5] The book also featured on The New York Times best seller list.[6]