What to know about Kristen Welker, the NBC reporter replacing Chuck Todd

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NBC’s major Sunday politics show, “Meet the Press,” is getting a new look this fall. Chuck Todd, the show’s host for the past nine years, is stepping into a new role as the network’s chief political analyst, and Kristen Welker, NBC’s chief White House correspondent, will take over the role in September. Here’s what to know about the show’s new host:

Welker has hosted the show before

Welker, who is 46, has regularly filled in for Todd during his tenure. She was also the co-host of “Meet the Press NOW,” a show on NBC’s online streaming network, NBC News NOW.

In 2020, she was named co-anchor of “Weekend TODAY,” alongside NBC’s Peter Alexander.

She’ll be the first Black journalist to host the show

Come September, Walker will become the 13th full-time host of “Meet the Press," joining an impressive list that includes David Gregory, Tim Russert, Garrick Utley, Lawrence Spivak and Martha Rountree.

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1. She has to be better than Chuck.

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2. A rock would be better than Chuck Todd

He should have been canned ages ago, so good riddance to bad rubbish.

That said, I don't know why I always thought Welker was Indian.

Weird.

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3. I thought that about her, too.

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4. There's a bloc of Americans who get their (political) news mainly from

a/the Sunday morning show(s). As well, of course, as other likely voters who also tune in.

The mostly RW-leaning "billionaires" who own most of the MSM and have mostly been able to keep the conservative Republican Party packed with their agents know there're huge differences between the parties. Not just about improving "profits" and keeping deregulated, but existential level. (See below for reminder why.)

So I'm assuming that the most important thing to know about Belker is actually about them.

And that, as always, any new host of MTP will be tasked with delivering a program that will both satisfy MSNBC viewers and serve the electoral and ideological interests of those behind Comcast/NBCUniversal.

I.e., by continuing the decades-long project of undermining confidence and trust in Democratic candidates and party and with it suppressing the Democratic vote. Deployment strategies, and with them levels of honest and dishonest coverage, as always vary over time with the situations. Relatively calm pre-electoral periods, like now, are used to build trust that to be banked against what what's to come as the elections heat up.

After all, the stakes are huge for everyone.