CNN's Holmes

Kristen Holmes is a correspondent for CNN, based in the Washington, D.C. bureau. She has extensive experience as a reporter and on-air journalist with deep knowledge of America's political landscape and a wide network of sources in Washington and around the country. Throughout her career, she has reported on some of the country's most important news stories, including covering the 2022 midterms and 2024 presidential hopefuls. Kristen Holmes has been part of a small team leading CNN's coverage on voter integrity and how the pandemic dramatically reshaped the election process. She has also broken a number of stories on state preparations for mail-in voting, internal deliberations at the US Postal Service, and the fraught transition of power. As part of CNN's election coverage, Holmes was asked to help create and host Election 101, a popular 11-episode CNN Original Series/iHeart Radio podcast that remains one of the network's most popular political podcasts. The content was aimed at bringing a new and vital understanding of what's at stake when Americans cast their votes. Kristen Holmes is a regular guest host on CNN's top political podcasts. She has also covered the White House during the Trump administration, focusing on the contentious relationship between federal health agencies and the Trump White House as the pandemic ravaged the country. Holmes has broken stories on behind-the-scenes deliberations over the pandemic response, exclusively obtaining a number of internal documents that exposed political interference in the federal government's response. She was also the first reporter to obtain details of the Trump administration's plan presented to the nation's governors to reopen the country.