Catherine Elise Jordan is an American journalist, political analyst and TV personality born on September 23, 1982 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, USA. She was a speechwriter for Condoleezza Rice, director of communications for the National Security Council during the administration of President George W. Bush. She has appeared as a political analyst on NBC News and MSNBC, and is known as a supporter of the Republican Party.
First steps
Elise is the daughter of Kelly Jordan and Susan Boone Jordan; she has a brother named Russell. Her curiosity about journalism started early in her life during high school, showing an interest in writing from an early age, a fact she demonstrated when she wrote a formal letter apologizing to her mother in her teens.
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Education, hobbies and family
Yale university
Elise graduated from Yale University in 2004 with a degree in history. Not much is known about her time at Yale, her friends, or extracurricular activities there.
Hobbies
In addition to her love of writing and journalism, Elise often showcases her love of animals and interest in skiing on her Instagram account. She owns a corgi dog named Bobby. One of Elise’s main recurring hobbies is spending time with her nieces and nephews, sharing quite a few pictures of them on her Instagram.
Career
First jobs
Elise Jordan began her career when she graduated from Yale and landed her first prominent job in the State Department as a speechwriter for George Bush’s second secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice. who later became the communications director of the National Security Council and a speechwriter for the president. In 2008, she started working in the US Embassy in Baghdad.
After the end of the Bush administration, Elise joined Deloitte & Touche in 2009 and later in 2011 became a columnist for the conservative editorial magazine National Review Online. She only worked on the latter for six months, but it helped her gain experience as a columnist, a fact she would later demonstrate when she became a contributor to prominent portals and magazines such as The Daily Beast and Time.
TV Shows – 2011 to 2016
In 2011, she would appear on Fox News for the first time, on the satirical talk show “Red Eye with Tom Shillue”, and for the second time on “Hannity”, a show that also aired on Fox News, in which she appeared several times. was through the years. Her participation in these shows created her reputation as a Republican supporter and political commentator. Over the next several years, she would appear on shows such as Fox and Friends and On the Record with Brit Hume, both shows of a conservative political nature. Other shows she has appeared on several times since 2016 include “Morning Joe” and “Weekend Today”, on NBC News.
NBC News and MSNBC – 2016 to Present
Her participation in NBC News and MSNBC, both networks that often display progressive political views, has pushed her out of her comfort zone and challenged her views.
It has also given her a platform to express a wider variety of opinions, to the point that she has made visible her disapproval of the Trump administration through these networks.
Podcast “Words Matter” – 2018
In 2018, after openly demonstrating her disapproval of Trump’s politics, she created a political center-right themed podcast called “Words Matter”, co-hosted by Steve Schmidt and produced by Adam Levine, a project that ended abruptly in February 2019 when in one of the episodes of the podcast they interviewed Jordan and his producer Schmidt, inquiring about Howard Schultz running for the US presidency. Schmidt, who was a Schultz consultant, walked out of the studio in the middle of the interview; It was assumed that Jordan and Levine were unaware that Schmidt was advising Schultz, but the questions asked during the interview put Schmidt in a difficult position.
After the episode, Schmidt spoke on the program about his disapproval of the interrogation. After this episode, Elise Jordan also quit the podcast, but the project is still active under the same name, with different hosts.
Personal life: relationships and marriages
Michael Hastings – 2007 to 2013
Elise Jordan met Michael Hastings while working as a speechwriter for Condoleezza Rice. She later started dating him when both of them were in Afghanistan between 2008 and 2009. In the new year of 2010, Hastings proposed to Jordan and they were married in May 2011. Hastings was a well-known American journalist, reporter and author, also an editor and frequent contributor to Rolling Stone and Buzzfeed.
He rose to prominence as a journalist when he published “The Runaway General,” a story about U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal, in Rolling Stone in 2010. This report Hastings received a Polk Award and the Huffington Post named him one of the “Game Changers” of 2010. In addition to his work as a reporter, Hastings in 2008, two years before his coverage of McChrystal. In this book, Hastings recounts the day his former fiancé, Andrea Parhamovich, was killed in Baghdad in 2007, when the convoy she was traveling in was ambushed. These works and his reports from Baghdad gave Hastings a good reputation in the media.
Hasting’s death – 2013.
On June 18, 2013, Michael Hastings died in a car accident in Los Angeles, leaving widow Elise Jordan and many questions about his death open.
A year after his death, a novel entitled “The Last Magazine” written by Hastings was published by Elise Jordan, who edited and brought it to life after she found the manuscript after his passing.
Mike Hogan – 2017 to present
Elise Jordan found love again after several years of Hastings passing. She and Mike Hogan got married on September 23, 2017 and honeymooned in Italy. It’s not known when Elise first met Mike Hogan, but before the wedding, they often shared photos of themselves together, taking care of Bobby, Jordan’s corgi, or with their nieces and nephews. They also shared little bits their ski trips on Instagram. Mike Hogan is the digital editor of Vanity Fair.
Children
Elise Jordan has no children yet. She often refers to her corgi dog, Bobby, as her and husband Mike’s child.
Net value
As of 2020, Elise Jordan has an estimated net worth of over $1.2 million which is expected to increase as she continues to work in journalism and make TV appearances.
Physical Characteristics
Elise Jordan is a woman of white ethnicity, of slim build; she is 1.85 m tall. Her eyes are green and her natural hair color is blond, and she keeps it stylized short. She looks elegant and professional when she appears on TV.
Interesting facts
- Elise Jordan is known as a Republican supporter; however, she has expressed displeasure with Trump’s administration and politics on several occasions.
- Regardless of her conservative political affiliations, Jordan appears as a political analyst on NBC News and MSNBC, networks that often lean more toward progressive political views.
- Her father Kelly Jordan passed away in 2016.
- She has a brother named Russell Jordan.
- She got married on September 22, 2017, just two days before her birthday.
- Elise has a niece who was named after her.
- Elise and her family often go on vacation to her hometown in Mississippi.
