Krystal Ball Net Worth

What is Krystal Ball Net Worth?

Krystal Ball Net Worth is US$ 4 Million as of January 2023.

Biography

American political commentator and media host Krystal Marie Ball. She has previously run for office, worked as a host for MSNBC, contributed frequently to The Huffington Post, and co-hosted ‘The Hill’s Rising’ alongside Saagar Enjeti. Ball and Enjeti made the decision to leave the show in May 2021 in order to work on their own independent project called Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar. Kyle Kulinski and Ball co-host the podcast Krystal Kyle & Friends. She has made cameo appearances on shows like Real Time with Bill Maher and networks like CNN, CNBC, and Fox News.

In Virginia’s first congressional district, Ball was the Democratic Party’s candidate for office in the 2010 election; nevertheless. She served as co-host of the MSNBC program The Cycle from June 2012 to July 2015. She founded the People’s House Project in May 2017, a political action organization that supports Democratic causes.

Timeline

Early Life

60 miles south of Washington, D.C., in King George County, Virginia, in 1981, on November 24, Ball was born. Rose Marie Ball, her mother, is a teacher, and Edward Ball, her father, is a scientist. Her father, a physicist who focused his dissertation on crystals, gave her the name Krystal. Her older sisters are two.

Ball attended Clemson University for one year after graduating from King George High School in King George, Virginia, before transferring to the University of Virginia, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in economics.

Career

Ball is a licensed public accountant as well as a business entrepreneur. She had previously worked for the federal contractor CGI Group. After leaving CGI, she started working abroad and designing educational software for a company she and her husband owned. She previously wrote a column for The Atlantic.

After Limbaugh’s remarks on Sandra Fluke, Ball created a website in 2012 urging a boycott of the sponsors of The Rush Limbaugh Show. On March 2, 2012, ThinkProgress published a story stating that the show has lost more than 50 verified advertisers.

2010 U.S. House Campaign

In 2010, Ball challenged incumbent Republican Rob Wittman for the position of U.S. Representative for Virginia’s 1st congressional district. Ball backed education reform during the election, including charter schools, the use of technology, alternative certification for instructors, and six-figure incomes for teachers. She also demanded increased disclosure, a new Independent Ethics Commission to look into and audit special interest influence, a lifelong ban on lobbying by former members of Congress, a prohibition on lobbyist gifts, and a lifetime ban on lobbyist gifts. She received 72% of her donations from outside the state. She raised $1.06 million in total, which is 20% less than Wittman.

Bloggers released p@rnographic images of Ball and her then-husband at a 2004 Christmas party one month before the election. Prior to the incident, her candidacy received little national notice. The leak was initially attributed to Ball’s opponent Wittman as part of a smear campaign. In a statement denouncing the disclosure, Wittman urged the bloggers to remove it. Ball also bemoaned the unequal expectations for male and female candidates in light of Scott Brown’s lackluster response to his earlier nud* Cosmopolitan photo. She has used the incident as a cautionary tale for aspiring candidates on their immaturity.

Wittman defeated Ball by a score of 63.90% to 34.76%.

The Cycle (2012–2015)

Ball made appearances on Fox News, CNN, and CNBC as well as started contributing regularly to MSNBC, in part because of the 2010 campaign’s photo incident. She frequently provided content to the HuffPost. Ball co-hosted The Cycle on MSNBC with Touré, Steve Kornacki, and S. E. Cupp from June 25, 2012 through July 31, 2015. She described how she began a new career as a television political pundit in an interview with Jill Filipovic. One of her most talked-about monologues was one from 2014 in which she begged Hillary Clinton not to run for president.

She belonged to the New Leaders Council as a Senior Fellow.

Reversing the Apocalypse: Hijacking the Democratic Party to Save the World, Ball’s debut book, was released in 2017. In it, she made the case that the Democratic Party should emulate Franklin D. Roosevelt and advocate for a more interventionist economic agenda than it has in recent years in order to return to its New Deal roots.

Political Action Committee

Ball founded the People’s House Project, a political action committee (PAC) that supports Democratic causes, in May 2017. It was one of the biggest financial backers of Richard Ojeda’s West Virginia Senate campaign.

In response to McClatchy’s assertions, Ball said that because the PAC only received funding intermittently, she paid herself a hefty sum in the first quarter of 2018 to make up for the wages she was due in 2017 and that her salary “was comparable to what other PAC directors generally make.” She added that her PAC doesn’t operate like a conventional PAC because it isn’t a “direct channel” for money and that she serves as a manager for each of the candidates she works with. In a report by McClatchy, Ball was cited as the “go-to consultant for all manner of problems and questions” by candidates and campaign staff that she had helped.

Rising (2018–2021)

Ball started conducting a webcast titled Rising on The Hill in 2018. Ball co-hosted the webcast alongside Buck S*xton at first, but Saagar Enjeti eventually took S*xton’s place. The Populist’s Guide to 2020: A New Right and New Left Are Rising, written by Ball and Enjeti, will be published on February 8, 2020.

Ball backed Bernie Sanders’s bid for president in 2020. She speculated that Democrats were keeping Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in Washington, D.C., when they would otherwise be campaigning, by using the Senate investigation during the Donald Trump impeachment investigation in 2020.

In order for Ball and Enjeti to start their own independent program, Breaking Points, they decided to leave ‘Rising’ in May 2021.

Krystal Ball Net Worth Growth

The estimated net worth of Krystal Ball is US$ 4 million. Her work as a political analyst is her primary source of income. She now enjoys some opulent living thanks to her prosperous career. She is among the wealthiest and most well-known political commentators in the country.

Highlights      

• A consistent writer for ‘The Huffington Post.’
• ‘The Hill’s Rising’ co-host.
• A co-host of the ‘Krystal Kyle & Friends’ podcast

Favorite Quotes from Krystal Ball

“Once we accept our own basic worthiness we cannot help but see the basic worthiness of every other human.”

– Krystal Ball

“If you want to understand why something is happening in America just follow the money.”

– Krystal Ball

“One woman can be written off by a culture always looking to judge and blame women.”

– Krystal Ball

 “Yes, health care is an election issue. It’s also a moral imperative especially in a wealthy nation.”

– Krystal Ball

“A preliminary agreement in principle is not a deal.”

– Krystal Ball

Key Life Lessons from Krystal Ball

• The value of dreams cannot be overstated. Without imagination, you are unable to perform.
• The key to success cannot be discovered. It came about as a result of planning, putting in a lot of effort, and failing forward.

Frequently Asked Questions

Summary

Krystal Marie Ball is an American political commentator and media host who has previously run for office worked as a host for MSNBC, contributed frequently to The Huffington Post, and co-hosted The Hill’s Rising with Saagar Enjeti. She has made cameo appearances on shows like Real Time with Bill Maher and networks like CNN, CNBC, and Fox News. She founded the People’s House Project in May 2017 to support Democratic causes. Krystal Ball is a licensed public accountant and business entrepreneur who previously worked for CGI Group. In 2010, she challenged incumbent Republican Rob Wittman for the position of U.S.

A representative for Virginia’s 1st congressional district. She backed education reform and demanded increased disclosure, a new Independent Ethics Commission to look into and audit special interest influence, a lifelong ban on lobbying by former members of Congress, a prohibition on lobbyist gifts, and a lifetime ban on lobbyist gifts. Bloggers released p@rnographic images of Ball and her then-husband at a 2004 Christmas party one month before the election, which was initially attributed to Wittman. Ball used the incident as a cautionary tale for aspiring candidates regarding their immaturity. Wittman defeated Ball by a score of 63.90% to 34.76%.

She co-hosted The Cycle on MSNBC with Touré, Steve Kornacki, and S. E. Cupp from June 25, 2012, through July 31, 2015.