Amy Holmes

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Amy Holmes
Born (1973-07-25) July 25, 1973 (age 50)
Lusaka, Zambia
Alma mater Princeton University (AB)
Occupation(s) News anchor, former Republican strategist
Employer Mercury Radio Arts

Amy Mulenga Holmes [1] (born July 25, 1973) is a Zambian-born American journalist and political commentator. Holmes co-hosted, with fellow commentator Michael Gerson, a politically conservative-oriented talk show on PBS titled In Principle. [2] She is a former contributor to NBC News.

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Holmes formerly was a news anchor on Glenn Beck's TheBlaze TV and a former host of TheBlaze's news discussion program Real News. From 2015 to 2016, she hosted Way Too Early , which airs weekdays on MSNBC at 5:30 a.m. Eastern Time, as a lead-in to Morning Joe . She also has appeared as an independent political contributor for CNN and on Fox News, and has appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher numerous times. [3]

Life and career

Holmes was born in Lusaka, Zambia, to a Zambian father and a white American mother. [4] [5] She was raised in her mother's native Seattle, Washington, after her parents divorced when she was three. [4]

Holmes received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in economics from Princeton University in 1994. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She is a conservative independent. [3]

She has guest co-hosted The View [6] and co-hosted Fox News' Glenn Beck while Beck was on the road with his "Unelectable" show. She has also appeared on the HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher . She was an anchor of a morning radio program syndicated by The Washington Times newspaper called "America's Morning News". She has appeared with Cenk Uygur on MSNBC Live , and on Reliable Sources , Morning Joe , and Media Buzz .

After working for Independent Women's Forum, from 2003 to 2006, Holmes wrote Senate floor statements for Bill Frist, a two-term United States Senator from Tennessee and Republican Majority Leader. [7]

Holmes resides in New York City.

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  3. 1 2 "CNN". cnn.com. Archived from the original on December 21, 2014. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  4. 1 2 Holmes, Amy (January 21, 2008). "Amy Holmes Pt. 1 – The Q&A Cafe with Carol Joynt". YouTube (Interview). Interviewed by Carol Joynt. Archived from the original on 2021-12-15. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  5. "Amy Holmes: Political Commentator". People Magazine . May 8, 2000. Archived from the original on October 12, 2008. Retrieved January 31, 2009.
  6. Argetsinger, Amy; Roberts, Roxanne (November 28, 2006). "Hot Topics but No Heated Discussions As Amy Holmes Sits In on 'The View'". The Washington Post . Archived from the original on February 12, 2011. Retrieved April 27, 2011. (in The Reliable Source)
  7. Baker, Scott; Stephans, Liz (August 10, 2011), Blaze Editor-In-Chief Scott Baker Sits Down with Blaze GBTV News Anchor Amy Holmes, The B-Cast with Scott Baker & Liz Stephans, archived from the original (podcast) on November 7, 2012

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