Saagar Enjeti | |
Birth Date: | 21 April 1992 |
Alma Mater: | George Washington University (BA) Georgetown University (MA) |
Occupation: | Journalist and political commentator |
Party: | Republican[1] |
Movement: | Right-wing populism Welfare conservatism |
Saagar Enjeti (born April 21, 1992) is an American journalist,[2] podcast host, and political commentator currently co-hosting the American political news and opinion series Breaking Points.
Enjeti born on April 21, 1992 to an immigrant Indian family,[3] and was raised in College Station, Texas. He attended high school in Doha, Qatar. His parents are Prasad Enjeti and Radhika Viruru, both professors at Texas A&M University.[4] He graduated from George Washington University in 2014 where he majored in economics.[5] In 2018, he received a masters in security policy from Georgetown University.[6]
Enjeti served as a media fellow for the Hudson Institute, specializing in government and politics, international relations, and technology & Applied Sciences.[7] He co-hosted the podcast The Realignment with Marshall Kosloff.[8] He currently serves as a Tony Blankley fellow at the Steamboat Institute.[9]
Enjeti worked at The Daily Caller[10] as its White House Correspondent.[11]
He co-hosted Rising with Krystal Ball and wrote for The Hill from 2019 to 2021.[12]
In 2021, Enjeti and Ball left Rising to start their own show called Breaking Points.[13] That show became the number one political podcast one week after launching[14] and reached one million subscribers on YouTube in 2023.