Charles David Todd, popularly known as Chuck Todd, is a TV journalist and is currently, the 12th moderator for Meet the Press of NBC and the host of MTP Daily of MSNBC. He is a native of Miami but resides in Virginia with his wife and their 2 children.
Todd majored in Political Science which laid the base in his career as a political reporter and analyst and minored in music, but never earned his degree.
Todd has also earned and won awards in his career as an American journalist.
Chuck Todd Net Worth Stands at $2 Million
Although he started his journalism career in 1992, Chuck Todd’s net worth is only estimated at $2 Mllion, according to CelebrityNetWorth.com.
Chuck Todd started his career as an aid at political campaigns in Florida and then moved to national campaigns. It is through these campaigns that Todd earned his political experience. In 1992, he worked as an aid for the presidential campaign of the then Senator, Tom Harkin in Iowa.
Chuck Todd views about Ex-President Donald Trump
Chuck Todd, Political Director and moderator at the Meet The Press, at an interview at NBC News was asked about how Donald Trump, Ex-President was defending his pre-elections in America, to which said that Trump was channeling the grievances at the rallies. He also said that trump raised questions on immigration issues, Obamacare, trade and also spoke about China. In addition, he said
“It is all personal grievances for him,right now everything is a personal grievance and so that to me is the big difference.”
His Rise to Fame at NBC
Chuck Todd joined NBC in 2007 and was the Political Director for NBC News. He started off as a political analyst on various political shows with NBC.
He then proceeded to work at National Journal’s The Hotline from 1992 to 2007 and also served as their editor-in-chief for 6 years. During his career at The Hotline, Todd has also hosted the daily and weekly webcast series, Hotline TV, along with John Mercurio.
He was announced as NBC News Chief White House Correspondent in 2008 as a partner with Savannah Guthrie and he was also the Contributing Editor for Meet The Press at that time. In 2013, he became co-host of The Daily Rundown of MSNBC with Guthrie.
It was in 2014 that Todd was announced as the moderator of NBC’s Meet The Press and in 2015, he became the host of MTP Daily, an extension of Meet The Press on MSNBC.
During an interview with Rolling Stone in 2019, Todd confessed that he believed disinformation played a major role during the Trump administration although in 2017, he had commented on air that
“Alternate facts are not facts. They are falsehoods.”
The Many Accolades to His Name
Chuck Todd is a two-time Emmy Award Winner as “Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast” in 2009 and 2010. He has also been nominated for various other Emmy Awards in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015 and 2018.
In 2005, he was featured as one of the ‘Best Of’ Journalists by Washingtonian.
Chuck Todd has been one of America’s top journalists to this date and it is his love for true journalism that has brought him here. He believes and we quote,
“Media bias is one thing. Rejection of reality is another”.
