Sean Duffy Biography
Sean Duffy is an American politician, prosecutor, former sports commentator, and reality television personality working for FBN as a co-host of FOX Business’ The Bottom Line alongside Dagen McDowell. He joined the FBN news team in 2020, after previously working for CNN News.
Sean Duffy Career
Duffy was on the sixth season of MTV’s The Real World: Boston in 1997. He also appeared on Road Rules: All Stars in 1998, which is where he met Rachel Campos, who would become his wife. After that, Duffy was on the 2002 show Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons. Both of them were in a filmed part of The Real World Awards Bash in 2008, when Duffy was the district attorney.
Duffy has been a color commentator for ESPN during televised events. In 2003, he was both a competitor and a commentator on ESPN’s Great Outdoor Games. His name was given to him as an honorary athlete for the Badger State Games in 2004. Duffy and Dagen McDowell were co-hosts of the Fox Business show The Bottom Line in December 2022. The show’s first episode aired on January 23, 2023.
Duffy is a Republican who was named Ashland County District Attorney by Governor Scott McCallum in 2002 to take over for Michael Gableman. He won again without a challenge in 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008. In 2008, Duffy was one of 10 Republicans from Wisconsin who were running for president.
Duffy launched his run for Congress in Wisconsin’s seventh congressional district on July 8, 2009. People thought Duffy wasn’t going to win the race until May 2010, when Dave Obey, a Democratic congressman who had been in office for 15 years, said he wouldn’t run for re-election. After Obey made his statement, Julie Lassa, a Democrat and state senator, joined the race.
On June 4, 2010, Duffy said he was stepping down as Ashland County District Attorney to focus on his campaign for Congress. After three weeks, the retirement took effect, and Duffy went back to working in his father’s law firm. He won the race on November 2, 2010, and was one of many Republicans across the country who were chosen to Congress that day.
Several sources say that he won because he started his campaign ten months before Lassa did, because he organized and raised money from the ground up, because he was a district attorney, and because voters were unhappy with the economy. In 2011, Duffy voted to get rid of the Davis–Bacon Act’s requirements for government projects to pay prevailing wages.
In March 2011, Duffy went to a public town hall-style meeting in his district put on by the Polk County Republicans. The video shows that after a state bill was passed that would have frozen the pay of state workers, Duffy was asked if he would be willing to give up his own $174,000 salary. Duffy replied that he would only be ready to do that if all government workers’ pay was cut. He also insisted that he was “struggling” to get by, even though his salary was almost three times the average for Wisconsin residents.
When Duffy and fellow rookie Republican Rick Crawford (Arkansas) wrote an open letter to Speaker John Boehner on December 22, 2011, they asked the leader to let the House vote on the Senate’s deal to extend the tax cuts for two months. In 2013, Duffy and Michael Michaud (Maine), a Democrat in the House, proposed a resolution asking the government to make sure that people can get information on paper as well as electronically.
Duffy was a member of the panel that looked into Planned Parenthood. He agreed with President Donald Trump’s 2017 order to temporarily stop people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. Duffy helped pass a bill in January 2017 that would end the Endangered Species Act’s protections for grey wolves. In February 2017, Duffy talked to Alisyn Camerota of CNN.
He agreed with President Trump’s ban on travel and immigration, which was meant to fight extreme Islamist terrorists. When Camerota asked Duffy about the Quebec City mosque killing and why Trump hadn’t said anything about the white terrorists who did it. According to Duffy, Europe, China, Canada, and Mexico’s actions against the United States with tariffs were “economic terrorism in a way” in July 2018. Duffy gave up his seat on September 23, 2019, so he could care for his baby daughter who has a heart defect.
He graduated from St. Mary’s University and got his J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law. As a child, Duffy learned to log roll. At age 13, he began speed climbing, which means running up 60- and 90-foot poles. He has two titles for speed climbing.
At FBN Duffy works alongside Hillary Vaughn, Grady Trimble, Kelly Saberi, Taylor Riggs, Charles Payne, Jack Otter, Kelly O’Grady, Dagen McDowell, Kacie McDonnell, Stuart Varney, Elizabeth MacDonald, Susan Li, Edward Lawrence, Larry Kudlow, Jeff Flock, Katrina Campins, Gerry Baker, and Madison Alworth.
Sean Duffy Salary
Duffy earns an annual salary of about $47,000-$120,000.
Sean Duffy Net Worth
Duffy has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $7 Million which he has earned through his career as a news co-host.
Sean Duffy Age
Duffy was born on October 3, 1971, in Hayward, Wisconsin, United States. He is 52 years old as of 2023, and he celebrates his birthday on the 3rd of October every year.
Sean Duffy Height and Weight
Duffy stands at a height of 5 feet 11 inches tall (1.80m) and weighs 75 kgs (165 lbs).
Sean Duffy Family
Duffy was born in Hayward Wisconsin to Carol Ann Duffy (mother) and Thomas Walter Duffy (father). He has ten siblings of which one is named Ryan Duffy. More information on his other sibling’s names will be updated when available.
Sean Duffy Wife and Children
Duffy has been married to Rachel Campos Duffy, a fellow alumna of The Real World, and Fox News personality since 1999. The two met when working as co-stars on Road Rules: All Stars. They used to reside in Ashland, Wisconsin when Sean was a District Attorney for that county. They are blessed with nine children; six girls and three boys.
Their lastborn daughter Valentina was born on October 1 2019 and was diagnosed with Down’s Syndrome. Duffy said that he was retiring from Congress as of September 23 because he and his wife found out that their ninth child would have health problems, including a heart condition.
Sean Duffy Real World
Duffy was cast in the American TV series The Real World together with his wife Rachel Campos. The show is about a group of strangers who try to live together in a house for a few months, while cameras record how they get along with each other. Everyone on the show moves to a new place every season.
Sean Duffy First Wife
Duffy has not been married before. He has only been married to one wife; Rachel Campos Duffy since 1999.
Sean Duffy Family Adopted
Duffy and his wife Rachel have 9 children and they are all biological. Their names include Evita Pilar (October 1999), Xavier Jack, Lucia Belen (April 2004), John Paul (2006), Paloma Pilar (May 2008), Maria Victoria (April 2010), Margarita Pilar (May 2014), Patrick Miguel (2016), and Valentina Stella Maris (October 2019).
Sean Duffy Social Media Platforms
Duffy is very active on his Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. He has 64.1k followers on Twitter 25.1k followers on Instagram and 84k followers on Facebook.