Dana Bash Biography
Dana Bash is an American anchor and host working for CNN as a Chief political correspondent, news anchor, host of Inside Politics, and co-anchor of State of the Union on CNN with Jake Tapper. She joined the CNN news team in 1993, after previously working for CBS.
Dana Bash Career
Bash is CNN’s top political correspondent and anchors Inside Politics with Dana Bash, which airs weekdays at noon ET. She is also co-anchor of State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, which airs on Sunday mornings and is the network’s biggest news show. Bash lives in Washington, D.C., and writes about campaigns and Congress there. She also hosts CNN’s political town halls daily. She was also the moderator for CNN’s first debate of the 2020 election cycle, which took place in Detroit.
She also conducted the last Democratic Presidential Debate of the cycle, which took place in Washington, D.C. Also, Bash was in charge of special coverage of Election Night in America for the 2020 election, which went on for a few days until CNN was the first to predict that Joe Biden would win. The 2019 Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism goes to Bash from the National Press Foundation.
Bash started her CNN show, Being, in 2021. It’s different from her Sunday morning news talks. The show has in-depth interviews with people who have a big impact on American society, politics, and policy. This helps viewers see the person behind the public image. Bash started her digital CNN show, Badass Women of Washington, in 2017. The show features women from many generations and backgrounds who have broken through glass ceilings to get where they are today.
Bash was an important part of CNN’s 2016 presidential primary debates. She was a questioner in six of the seven primetime debates, and she asked questions of candidates on both sides of the line. Bash is also a co-anchor for all live election night shows from the CNN Election Center. Bash did in-depth talks with most of the 2016 presidential candidates as part of her work covering the campaigns. These included Donald Trump, Senators Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Bernie Sanders, and Governors Jeb Bush and John Kasich.
Bash is also still very important to the network’s coverage of Capitol Hill. In 2015, she broke the news live on TV that House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy would not be running for Speaker of the House. On Speaker John Boehner’s last day in office, she did his last interview. Bash was also in charge of covering Hillary Clinton’s 11-hour hearing before the House Select Committee on Benghazi as the main reporter.
She was very important to the network’s coverage of Midterm Election Night in America. She reported from the war rooms of the RNC, the DNC, and CNN’s Election Center in Washington, D.C. A TV-only interview with Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) to talk about his decision to change his mind about gay marriage, the groundbreaking interview with former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (R-Ariz.) and her husband Mark Kelly in Arizona, and the first interviews with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) after each member’s Senate filibuster. Bash got her bachelor’s degree in political relations from The George Washington University.
At CNN, Scholes works alongside; Fareed Zakaria, Fredricka Whitfield, Bill Weir, Amara Walker, John Avlon, David Axelrod, John Berman, Victor Blackwell, Wolf Blitzer, Kate Bolduan, Pamela Brown, Kim Brunhuber, Erin Burnett, Alisyn Camerota, Julia Chatterley, Rosemary Church, Laura Coates, Anderson Cooper, Audie Cornish, Amanda Davies, Max Foster, Bianna Golodryga, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Laila Harrak, Erica Hill, Michael Holmes, Van Jones, Brianna Keilar, Lynda Kinkade, John King, Melissa Knowles, Christina Macfarlane, John Miller, Veronica Miracle, Bianca Nobilo, Abby Phillip, Brad Parks, Richard Quest, Don Riddell, Michael Smerconish, Boris Sanchez, Tom Sater.
Dana Bash Salary
Bash earns a salary of about $1 million – $3 million annually.
Dana Bash Net Worth
Bash has an estimated net worth of about $5 Million – $10 Million which she has earned through her career as a News anchor.
Dana Bash Age
Bash was born on June 15, 1971, in New York, United States. She is 53 years old as of 2024, and she celebrates her birthday on the 15th of June every year.
Dana Bash Height and Weight
Bash stands at a height of 5 feet 2 inches tall (1.57m) and weighs 59 kgs (130 lbs).
Dana Bash Family
Bash was born Dana Ruth Schwartz in Manhattan to Frances Weinman Schwartz (mother) and Stuart Schwartz (father). Her mother is an educator and author and teaches Jewish studies while her father is a producer for ABC News and previously worked as a senior broadcast producer for Good Morning America. Bash has a brother named David Schwartz.
In addition, her grandmother from her mother’s side was named Teri Vidor Weinman, and together with her family, they were Hungarian Jews. In 1944, there was an invasion of Hungary by Nazi German troops as part of world war 2 and they had to escape to the United States with her husband. However, her parents and sister were killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Dana Bash Husband and Children
Bas was previously married to Jeremy Bash, a CIA chief of staff and Department of Defense chief of staff under former president Barack Obama. They married in 1998 up to 2007 when they divorced for unknown reasons. The pair did not have any children together. Later on, in 2008, she tied the knot with John King, a fellow CNN Correspondent. They were blessed with a son; Jonah Frank King in 2011 and divorced in 2012 due to infidelity issues.
Dana Bash John King
Bash and John King were married in 2008 and divorced in 2012 due to infidelity issues. John King is the national correspondent for CNN. In April 2023, it was reported that his coworker and ex-wife Dana Bash would take over as the only anchor of Inside Politics in the middle of June, while he started a new project that would deal with election politics.
Dana Bash Social Media Platform
Bash is very active on her Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. She has 634.3k followers on Twitter 134.2k followers on Instagram, and 1.4k followers on Facebook.