Get to know Kristen Welker, the Philly native replacing Chuck Todd on NBC's 'Meet the Press'

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Philly Inquirer link: https://www.inquirer.com/entertainment/tv/nbc-kristen-welker-meet-the-press-chuck-todd-20230605.html

NBC’s flagship politics show Meet the Press will soon have some Philly flavor.

Kristen Welker, NBC’s chief White House correspondent and a one-time NBC10 news anchor, will replace Chuck Todd as the famed Sunday roundtable’s moderator in September.

“I’ve watched too many friends and family let work consume them before it was too late,” Todd told viewers at the end of Sunday’s Meet the Press. “I promised my family I wouldn’t do that.”

It’s another step up the NBC News ladder for Welker, 46, who began covering the White House for NBC in 2011. She has reported on three administrators, cohosted NBC’s weekend edition of the Today show, and drew rave reviews for performance during a 2020 presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

“I’ve had the privilege of working with her from essentially her first day and let me just say she’s the right person in the right moment,” Todd said of Welker. “This is exactly how I always hoped this would end, that I’d be passing the baton to her.”

Here’s everything you need to know about Kristen Welker, the new moderator of Meet the Press:

- more at link-

Woohoo! Philly girl makes good, and we all get to cheer for her. Congratulations Kristen Welker!

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1. More media nonsense.

*yawn*

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2. Congrats to Kristen. I like her. I might just start watching

Good riddance Chuck Todd.

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3. Sounds great as long as she doesn't pronounce "you know" as "ya kneeuuoow."

I went to college there and learned to cringe every time I heard that.

I always thought the local accent must have been some cruel relic the local native American tribes left with the Anglos before they got wiped out.

**And yes, DEFINITELY good riddance to Chuck Todd. Whatever it was that America met every Sunday while he was running that show, it rarely resembled the Fourth Estate.

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4. I've always liked her WH reports and she was a terrific moderator for that last presidential debate

Looking forward to watching MTP again!

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5. All I want is to Give Reality

a Chance.. TY!

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6. Let's hope so - anything is better than Chuck Todd

... but that's not fair to Kristen. She can run rings around him.

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7. Good to know.. We The People Needed

a 180!

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8. K&R