Krystal Ball

Not to be confused with Crystal ball.

Krystal Ball
Ball in 2013
Born
Krystal Marie Ball

(1981-11-24) November 24, 1981 (age 42)
King George, Virginia, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Virginia (BA)
Occupations
  • Political commentator
  • media host
Political partyDemocratic
Spouses
Jonathan Dariyanani
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(divorced)​
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(m. 2023)​
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YouTube information
Subscribers1.28 million Edit this at Wikidata
(June 2024)
Associated actsKyle Kulinski
Saagar Enjeti
Breaking Points
The Hill
Websitebreakingpoints.supercast.com

Krystal Marie Ball (born November 24, 1981) is an American political commentator and media host. She was previously a political candidate, as well as a television host at MSNBC, a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, and a co-host of The Hill's Rising along with Saagar Enjeti.[2][3][4] In May 2021, Ball and Enjeti announced that they were leaving the show in order to launch their own independent project titled Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar.[3][2][5] Ball is a co-host with her husband Kyle Kulinski on the podcast Krystal Kyle & Friends. She has made guest appearances on networks such as CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and programs including Real Time with Bill Maher.

Ball was the Democratic Party nominee for Congress in Virginia's 1st congressional district in the 2010 election, losing to Republican incumbent Rob Wittman. She co-hosted the MSNBC show The Cycle from June 2012 to July 2015. In May 2017, she created the People's House Project, a political action committee working on behalf of Democratic causes.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference married was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Cockburn (June 1, 2021). "The fall of Rising". The Spectator World. Archived from the original on June 1, 2021. Retrieved June 7, 2021.
  3. ^ a b Newport, Cal (June 15, 2022). "The Rise of the Internet's Creative Middle Class". Culture Desk. The New Yorker. Condé Nast. ISSN 0028-792X. OCLC 320541675. Archived from the original on October 21, 2022. Fourteen years ago, Kevin Kelly famously proposed that an artist could make a living online with a thousand true fans. Has time proved him correct?
  4. ^ "Rising". TheHill. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  5. ^ THANK YOU Subscribers AND How Krystal and Saagar's Launch Was Almost A TOTAL DISASTER. Breaking Points. June 2, 2021. Archived from the original on February 26, 2022. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via YouTube.