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Karoline Leavitt

Karoline Leavitt

  • Republican
Career

White House press secretary, 2025-present
National press secretary for Trump 2024 presidential campaign, 2024
Communications director U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, 2021-2022
Assistant White House press secretary, 2019-2020

Education

Saint Anselm College

Details

Born: Aug 24, 1998

State Representative

Biography

Karoline Leavitt has served as White House press secretary for the second Trump administration since January 2025, the youngest person to hold that position. Leavitt was born on August 24, 1998, in New Hampshire. She graduated from Saint Anselm College in 2019, earning a degree in politics and communication. A volunteer at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics during college, she began working for Fox News during the 2016 election. After graduating, she worked for former president Donald Trump and served as a presidential writer and assistant press secretary in the press office. She became a communications director for U.S. Rep Elise Stefanik after the 2020 election. She ran for election to the U.S. House to represent New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District in 2022, losing in the general election. 

Sources:

About Karoline. KarolineforCongress. (n.d.). Retrieved October 6, 2022, from https://www.karolineforcongress.com/about-karoline 

POLITICO. (n.d.). Retrieved October 6, 2022, from https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/24/playbook-birthday-karoline-lea…;

Karoline Leavitt. Ballotpedia. (n.d.). Retrieved October 6, 2022, from https://ballotpedia.org/Karoline_Leavitt 

Karoline Leavitt - candidate for Congress NH01 - LinkedIn. (n.d.). Retrieved October 6, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/karolineleavitt

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