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<a href="/biography/chuck-todd">Charles David “Chuck” Todd</a> was born on April 8, 1972 and is an American expert and accomplished news journalist.

Background

Chuck was born in Miami, Florida to Lois Cheri and Stephen Randolph Todd. He grew up with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews">Jewish</a> upbringing. He graduated from Miami Killian Senior High School, he then attended George Washington University, however, he did not graduate from college. Todd was attending the university on a music scholarship and was an expert in playing the French horn. He majored in political science and minored in music. Even though he had a passion for politics, he still wanted to learn music for the sake of his creative and artistic outlet.

Life as News Journalist

Before he ventured into his career of political reporting and analysis, he first earned practical political experience through various campaigns in Florida and Washington D.C. While his stay in college, Chuck worked for the presidential campaign of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Harkin">Senator</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Harkin">Tom Harkin</a> and then started work at The Hotline. Until March 12, 2007, Todd worked for National Journal's The Hotline, where he was editor-in-chief for six years. It was invaluable experience that he would use to move up the ladder in his field.

Todd also co-hosted with John Mercurio for Hotline TV which comprised of a daily show of three to seven minutes adding up to a weekly show of about 20 to 30 minutes. Because of his expertise, he became a frequent guest in talk programs and political discussion shows like Hardball with Chris Matthews and Inside Politics with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Woodruff">Judy Woodruff</a>. Besides working for The Hotline, Todd added to his resume, the position of political director for NBC in March of 2007. He reached that role with the help of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Russert">Tim Russert</a>. Todd became one of Washington’s foremost experts on political campaigns of all levels after working 15 years at The Hotline.

After <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Russert">Russert</a>’s death, Todd was chosen as a suitable candidate to replace him as the host of Meet the Press, but <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gregory_(journalist)">David Gregory</a> was instead selected for the job. He often expresses his views on political discussion shows like Moring Joe, Meet the Press, and NBC Nightly News with <a href="/biography/brain-willams">Brian Williams</a>. At Newsvine, he does a weekly Question and Answer session with the users.

Todd succeeded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gregory_(journalist)">Gregory</a> as the NBC News Chief White House Correspondent alongside <a href="/biography/savannah-guthrie">Savannah Guthrie</a> on December 18, 2008. Being the NBC News Political Director, he was also named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributing_editor">Contributing Editor</a> to Meet the Press. According to MSNBC <a href="/biography/dan-abrams">television personality</a> <a href="/biography/dan-abrams">Dan Abrams</a>, Todd ranked fifth in the name of TV-journalists in America by influence for a October 2009 poll. He rose to second position for December 2011, but soon fell to 90th position for January 2013. Since January 2010, Todd collaborated with <a href="/biography/savannah-guthrie">Savannah Guthrie</a> and hosted The Daily Rundown on MSNBC. On August 2014, he took over as the host of Meet the Press on NBC and left his role as chief White House correspondent as well as the co-host of The Daily Rundown. His first edition of Meet the Press aired on Sunday, September 7 2014.

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Todd is also an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University. He is also the author of “The Stranger: <a href="/biography/barack-obama">Barack Obama</a> in the White House”. The book was published in 2014, the Chicago Tribune described the book as "richly sourced and deeply informed." Todd is also the co-author, with Sheldon Gawiser, of How <a href="/biography/barack-obama">Barack Obama</a> Won: A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election, published in 2009.

On July 23, 2015, MSNBC announced Todd would return to their network with a daily political show focusing on the 2016 presidential election. Currently Chuck Todd is the <a href="/biography/chuck-todd">moderator</a> of ‘Meet the Press’ and political director for NBC News. He serves as on-air political analyst for Nightly News with <a href="/biography/lester-holt">Lester Holt</a> and TODAY. He is also the editor of First Read, NBC’s must-read guide to political news.

Chuck has a goatee and speaks in a direct, conversational manner, without punchy diction or pomposity. This demeanor has gained him a lot of respect in the news media. He realized that even though he is just a political commentator and not an actual politician, he still needed a look that would set him apart from the rest of the field.

Personal Life

He lives with his wife Kristian Denny Todd, son Harrison and daughter Margaret. Kristian works as a communication professional and is also the co-founder of Maverick Strategies Mail. In addition, she was the spokesperson for the successful U.S. Senate Campaign of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Webb">Senator</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Webb">Jim Webb</a>. Todd was presented with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Humane_Letters">Doctor of Humane Letters</a> from Marymount University, in recognition of his work in journalism.

Todd attacked Fox News for not doing anything about <a href="/biography/sean-hannity">Sean Hannity</a> after it was exposed that <a href="/biography/sean-hannity">Hannity</a> was a <a href="/biography/sean-hannity">client</a> for Donald Trump’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cohen_(lawyer)">lawyer</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cohen_(lawyer)">Michael Cohen</a>. He felt that there was a conflict of interest because <a href="/biography/sean-hannity">Hannity</a> would have a bias towards Trump during his broadcasts on Fox News.

After Todd went public with his comments, <a href="/biography/sean-hannity">Sean Hannity</a> was offended and struck back against Todd. Instead of talking about the issue on hand, Sean decided to get personal and mentioned that Todd’s wife had worked with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)">Democrats</a> in her past consulting work.  It’s always bothered Chuck that Sean tried to get personal with him because he has never gone personal at him. And he’s gone heavy personal at Chuck in ways that he thought were very unprofessional. Things got out of hand between the two when it really shouldn’t have. Things should have stayed professional but Sean did not know how to control himself.

In 2001, George Magazine named Todd one of the 50 most influential people in politics. In 2005, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washingtonian_(magazine)">The Washingtonian</a> featured him in its “Best of” issue in the journalism section. In 2009, the magazine named him one of the top 50 journalists covering Washington. In January 2012, GQ Magazine named Todd as "The Most Powerful Journalist in Washington," A Star in Political Journalism. Getting on the list was a huge accomplishment for Chuck because he had really worked hard to perfect his craft.

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