Who is Hallie Jackson? Everything to know about the NBC anchor interviewing Kamala Harris

On Tuesday night, Presidential hopeful Kamala Harris volition beryllium down with NBC newsman Hallie Jackson for her archetypal interrogation with the web since she became the Democratic nominee. 

Viewers from each astir the state volition beryllium watching successful suspense arsenic Jackson speaks with Vice President Harris from the U.S. Naval Observatory successful Washington, D.C. just 2 weeks earlier predetermination day. 

In summation to a sit-down interview, the network besides announced that elder Washington analogous Jackson volition person 'exclusive entree during Harris's run stops successful Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin' connected Monday.

With the interrogation acceptable to aerial Tuesday nighttime astatine 6:30 p.m. ET, it volition permission plentifulness of voters earnestly awaiting her appearance, arsenic DailyMail.com's predetermination model currently gives Donald Trump a 65.9 per cent accidental of winning. 

But arsenic some Republican and Democratic viewers tune successful connected Tuesday, they whitethorn beryllium near wondering much astir Jackson, the NBC anchor who is interviewing Harris. 

Who is Hallie Jackson?

Hallie Jackson, 40, is presently a quality anchor astatine NBC, and is simply a elder Washington analogous for the network.

She's the Sunday anchor for NBC Nightly News, and hosts her ain show, Hallie Jackson NOW, connected NBC’s streaming transmission NBC News NOW. 

Jackson was calved successful Ohio, but was raised successful Yardley, Pennsylvania.

She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University successful 2006, which has besides seen different alums similar CNN writer Wolf Blitzer and erstwhile New York City politician Michael Bloomberg.

During a 2023 interrogation with Real Woman Online, she said that she had precocious recovered a binder she made during freshman twelvemonth that fundamentally held her five-year plan.

'There was a conception for media jobs, 1 for the advertizing industry, and 1 conception for moving connected Capitol Hill,' she told the outlet astatine the time.

'I adjacent flirted with [the thought of] the quality community, moving for the CIA oregon FBI. But ultimately, I was capable to make my ain way and find thing I emotion that besides had an accountability origin to it — information to powerfulness and each that.'

Jackson holds a B.A. successful governmental subject from the prestigious university, and was a subordinate of the Phi Mu sorority portion she was enrolled there, per her bio successful the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Magazine.

Where has Hallie Jackson worked?

Upon graduating from Johns Hopkins University, Jackson began her vocation successful journalism, taking her archetypal occupation arsenic a newsman astatine WBOC TV-16 successful Salisbury, Maryland.

She past moved connected to enactment arsenic a newsman and play anchor astatine WFSB-TV successful Harford, Connecticut for 4 years, until 2012.

Jackson became a nationalist analogous for Hearst Television successful Washington, D.C.,  wherever she worked for 2 years until 2014, erstwhile she landed a spot arsenic a analogous astatine NBC News astatine their bureau successful Los Angeles. 

The Phi Beta Kappa postgraduate was aboriginal assigned to screen Senator Ted Cruz's run during the 2016 statesmanlike predetermination arsenic an embed. 

During this time, Jackson genuinely made a sanction for herself arsenic she covered the embattled and heated Republican primaries.

She interviewed assorted GOP candidates and players successful the predetermination portion connected the road, similar Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Senator Marco Rubio, and mostly covered Trump's run erstwhile Rubio was out. 

Jackson besides came to beryllium known arsenic portion of the network's Road Warriors, which included now-stars Katy Tur, Kasie Hunt and Kristen Welker, per Conde Nast Traveler (CNT).

Of her clip connected the road, she told the outlet that she recovered 'friendly people' everywhere. 

'This whitethorn dependable similar a cop-out, but it's true: each implicit the place,' she told CNT. 

'From Uber drivers to edifice servers, astir radical perk up erstwhile they perceive you're from NBC. Most of them are looking for a glimpse of beingness connected the run way — and, conversely, it's often talking to those folks that yields the champion stories.'

She would aboriginal spell connected to anchor the 1 p.m. spot connected MSNBC conscionable months earlier the 2016 statesmanlike election, according to The Daily Beast.

In 2017, she was named arsenic NBC's Chief White House Correspondent, and past promoted to elder Washington analogous successful 2021.

Jackson was adjacent a moderator for a February 2020 statement among the Democratic nominees erstwhile she was astir 9 months large - though Harris was not portion of this group.

As a reporter, Jackson has been known to propulsion backmost against definite members of the governmental world, similar erstwhile Vice President Mike Pence's main of unit Marc Short arsenic she repeatedly questioned him about coronavirus protocols astatine the RNC. 

Is Hallie Jackson married?

Hallie Jackson is presently successful a narration with her longtime partner, Frank Thorp, who is simply a shaper and off-air newsman who covers Congress astatine NBC.

Thorp graduated from West Virginia University successful 2007, and was an intern for The Today Show successful 2004. 

After graduating, helium started his vocation arsenic a Today amusement researcher astatine NBC successful 2007. 

Mostly recently, successful May, Jackson posted a saccharine tribute to her partner connected his 40th birthday, sharing a drawback of him blowing retired candles connected an intricately-decorated cake.

'May 30: a newsy day, to enactment it mildly. Of the galore headlines, here's my fave: Frank turns forty today!' Jackson wrote successful the caption.

'While he's blowing retired his candles successful Taipei, I'm backmost stateside thanking my fortunate stars I get to instrumentality these trips astir the prima with the world's champion spouse and parent. Saving the sappy(er) worldly for later, but can't hold to observe you.'

Before she was successful a concern with Thorp, Jackson was joined to assemblage shot subordinate and manager Doug Hitchner.

The 2 got divorced successful 2011.

Does Hallie Jackson person kids? 

Hallie Jackson has 1 three-year-old daughter, Monroe, who she welcomed with spouse Thorp successful March 2020.

She announced her gestation connected TV, during Sunday Today With Willie Geist, connected the Sunday Mail segment. 

Although Monroe was expected to beryllium calved successful April of 2020, she came into the satellite 3 weeks aboriginal successful March.

In March 2021, Jackson penned an affectional effort for Today about what it was similar being a first-time ma during the coronavirus pandemic.

'Being a large pistillate oregon caller ma tin beryllium stressful capable arsenic it is: Nothing’s what it utilized to be,' Jackson wrote.

'Add to that the furniture of pandemic uncertainty and anxiety, and it’s nary wonderment probe suggests galore large and caller moms are struggling nether the value of it all.'

In the piece, Jackson said that she ever told her girl that she was 'safe and loved' earlier she went to sleep. 

'And I deliberation astir however 1 day, I mightiness commencement the communicative of her archetypal twelvemonth similar this: My full beingness changed erstwhile you were calved — and truthful did everyone else’s,' she penned. 

What is Jackson's narration with Kamala Harris? 

Although Jackson has covered Harris' run connected NBC News before, it doesn't look that she has had a one-on-one sit-down with her, until now.

When she moderated the 2020 Democratic nominee debate, Harris was not present, arsenic she had already dropped retired of the race.

Viewers tin drawback the interrogation connected NBC Nightly News connected Tuesday, October 22 astatine 6:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. CT.

It volition aboriginal aerial connected NBC News NOW, NBCNews.com, TODAY and MSNBC