Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will join Fox News as a contributor in November, bringing hard-won campaign and White House experience straight to the network’s air.
Just the News reported that Leavitt will start the contributor role in November, becoming the second of President Trump’s press secretaries to land at the conservative-leaning cable network after Kayleigh McEnany.
She is expected to begin on November 1, the Washington Examiner reported, after stepping down as the president’s top spokeswoman on August 27 to spend more time with her young family.
Fox News Media Chief Executive Suzanne Scott framed the hire around real governing and campaign work, not pundit theory.
"Karoline’s firsthand experience in the White House and on the presidential campaign trail gives her a distinct understanding of today’s political landscape,"
Scott said in the network’s announcement.
Leavitt left the administration after giving birth to her second child. She briefly returned from maternity leave, then chose to step away from the White House post.
President Trump had already described her exit as a move to spend time with family while she remained a top outside advisor. That sequence tracks with a press secretary who put the job first through a campaign and an administration, then recalibrated once her household grew.
Her path to national prominence started earlier. In 2022 she ran an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in New Hampshire and gained wide notice. She later became press secretary for the Trump 2024 campaign, then took the same role inside the administration.
That ladder, from long-shot candidate to campaign spokeswoman to White House press secretary, gives her a record few cable commentators can match. Viewers get someone who faced the podium, not only the green room. Media fights around the Trump White House have stayed raw, including when Trump barred major outlets over coverage disputes, and Leavitt’s tenure sat inside that pressure.
Leavitt did not stay quiet about the move. In comments carried as Fox made the hire public, she tied the new role to the same style she used on the job.
Breitbart reported her statement on joining the network:
"I look forward to bringing my unique perspective from my experience as White House Press Secretary, along with the same energy and candor that defined my tenure, to Fox’s millions of viewers across their many platforms."
Candor from a press secretary who actually held the briefing book is a different product than recycled talking points. Fox is stocking its bench with people who lived the decisions critics only narrate.
Network lineup shifts have been part of the recent Fox story as well, including when Fox parted ways with Maria Bartiromo and left key business shows unsettled. Adding a former White House press secretary is a clear counter-move toward governing-season talent.
McEnany’s presence already gave Fox a direct line to the first Trump term’s briefing-room fights. Leavitt extends that bench into the 2024 campaign and the current administration. Two press secretaries who took the tough questions now sit on the same network.
That matters for an audience tired of lectures from people who never had to defend a policy under lights. Leavitt’s record runs through an uphill House bid, a winning national campaign, and the daily grind of White House communications. Fox’s own political coverage remains a daily reference point for Republican races, as when a Fox News poll showed strain in a high-profile Texas Senate fight.
Her November start also keeps a familiar Trump-world voice in circulation while she prioritizes family. The arrangement is straightforward: leave the West Wing after a brief post-maternity return, stay close as an outside advisor, and take the argument to a national audience on Fox’s platforms.
Other recent Fox-centered political stories have shown how fast a single appearance can move a narrative, including coverage around Melania Trump’s defense of Donald Trump on the network. Leavitt’s contributor seat puts another battle-tested communicator in that mix.
For readers who follow Fox’s wider news hole, the network’s reporting footprint stays broad, even overseas crime sagas such as the case of Egyptian TV host Sarah Khalifa, but the Leavitt hire is about domestic political credibility, not spectacle.
Experience still counts. Fox just hired more of it.