| Saagar Enjeti | |
| Birth Date: | 21 April 1992 |
| Alma Mater: | George Washington University (BA) Georgetown University (MA) |
| Occupation: | Journalist and political commentator |
| Movement: | Right-wing populism[1] Welfare conservatism |
Saagar Enjeti (born April 21, 1992) is an American journalist, podcast host and political commentator currently co-hosting the American political news and opinion series Breaking Points.
Enjeti born on April 21, 1992, to an immigrant Indian family, and was raised in College Station, Texas.[2] His parents are Prasad Enjeti and Radhika Viruru, both professors at Texas A&M University.[3] He graduated from George Washington University in 2014 where he majored in economics and in 2018, he received a masters in security policy from Georgetown University.[4] He was married in 2024.
Enjeti served as a media fellow for the Hudson Institute, where he co-hosted the podcast The Realignment with Marshall Kosloff.[3] [4] [5] He also served as a Tony Blankley fellow at the Steamboat Institute.[4] [6]
Enjeti worked at The Daily Caller as its White House Correspondent.[3] [4] [7]
He co-hosted Rising with Krystal Ball and wrote for The Hill from 2019 to 2021.[8] [9] The pair co-wrote the book The Populist's Guide to 2020 which focused on left and right populism in America.[3] [10] [11]
In 2021, Enjeti and Ball left Rising to start their own show called Breaking Points.[8] That show became the number one political podcast one week after launching and reached one million subscribers on YouTube in 2023.[12]