Amy Holmes | |
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Born | Lusaka, Zambia | July 25, 1973
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.
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]
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.