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| Born | Stephan Joseph Kornacki (1979-08-22)August 22, 1979 (age 45) Groton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Boston University (BA) |
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| Years active | 2002–present |
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Stephan Joseph Kornacki Jr. (born August 22, 1979)[1] is an American political journalist, writer, and television presenter. Kornacki is a national political correspondent forNBC News. He has written articles forSalon,The New York Observer,The Wall Street Journal,The New York Times,New YorkDaily News,New York Post,The Boston Globe, andThe Daily Beast. Kornacki is the multimedia anchor and data analyst for much ofMSNBC'sThe Place for Politics campaign coverage, which airs duringElection Day in the United States since 2016.
Kornacki was born inGroton, Massachusetts, to Stephan Joseph Kornacki Sr. and Anne Bernadette (Ramonas).[2][3] He has an older sister, Kathryn Kornacki, born in January 1978,[4] who is a professor atCaldwell University.[5][6] He went toGroton-Dunstable Regional High School.[7] Kornacki attendedBoston University and graduated with a degree in film and television.[8][9]
He started his journalism career as a reporter for PoliticsNJ.com,[10] a New Jersey political news site owned byDavid Wildstein, where he worked from 2002 to 2006.[11] He formerly co-hosted a political news series onNews 12 New Jersey and reported on theU.S. Congress forRoll Call. His articles have been published in theNew York Observer,The Wall Street Journal,The New York Times, the New YorkDaily News, theNew York Post,The Boston Globe, andThe Daily Beast.[6] He is a former politics editor atSalon.[12]
From 2012 to 2013, Kornacki co-hostedThe Cycle onMSNBC with political strategistKrystal Ball, pop-culture commentatorTouré Neblett, and conservative columnistS.E. Cupp.[13][14] He subsequently took over another MSNBC program,Up, airing Saturdays and Sundays from 8 to 10 am, starting in April 2013.[15] Since 2014, he has been MSNBC's election coverage map correspondent.[16][17]
Beginning in 2016, Kornacki hosted a daily program from 4 p.m. to 5 pm, and frequently guest hosts onHardball with Chris Matthews,All in with Chris Hayes andThe Rachel Maddow Show. On May 8, 2017, Kornacki was named National Political Correspondent forNBC News Group, with plans to continue co-hosting the 4 p.m. edition ofMSNBC Live withNicolle Wallace.[18] He published a book titledThe Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism in 2018, which chronicles "the polarization of politics".[19][20] In October 2019, Kornacki began hosting a podcast for NBC News covering the inquiry andfirst impeachment of Donald Trump calledArticle II: Inside Impeachment.[21]
Following his work on the2020 United States presidential election, Kornacki was named byPeople as one of the sexiest men alive,[22] with his use ofGapkhakis eventually becoming a fashion trend on its own, colloquially referred to as "Kornacki Khakis".[23][24][25] He was also approached to bring his unique analytic style to thesports division ofNBCUniversal, first appearing onFootball Night in America in December 2020 to break down playoff scenarios for the remainder of the2020 NFL season.[26][27] He would later make appearances on NBC's coverage of the2021 Kentucky Derby, where he was the only personality to correctly predictMedina Spirit as the apparent winner of the race (although the win was later given toMandaloun after a positive drug test by Medina Spirit), and the2020 Summer Olympics.[28][29][30]
Kornacki is gay and publiclycame out in 2011 through a column inSalon.[20][31] As of 2014[update], he resides in theEast Village of Manhattan.[8]
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