Eugene Daniels is a playbook co-author and white house Correspondent. He became co-author of Playbook in January with Rachel Buddy, Ryan Liza, and Tara Palmieri. He served as a White House Correspondent focusing on Kamala Harris, First Lady Jill Biden, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, and emerging power players in Washington.
Eugene Daniels Parents Detail & Bio
Eugene Daniels is an American Playbook co-writer and White House journalist at Politico. He was born in the year 1989 making him 32 years old. His height is 177 cm or 5 feet 10 inches, and he weighs 85 kg.
He was born to a father, Eugene Anthony Daniels, who served in the U.S. Army, and mother, Leah Daniels. He has two siblings named Jade Daniels and Maya Daniels. He was inspired by his grandmother, Katie Daniels, to pursue political journalism. She passed away in 2012. He passed his school years in Shoemaker High School and graduated from college, Colorado State University.
He is engaged to South Dakota native Nate Stephen.
Eugene Daniels' Is Engaged To Nate Stephen
Eugene Daniels' fiancé, Nate Stephen, is a manager for the Anchor Collaborative Network (ACN). Nate was a senior technical officer at NGO called Root Change, where they work to build systems change capacity and test community-led approaches in the international development sector. He grew up on a cattle ranch in the Black Hills of South Dakota and did B.A. in Anthropology/Sociology from Carleton College in Minnesota. He has co-founded a rural entrepreneurship training center and rabbit raising cooperative with 150 members and is successful in having 300 people train in microenterprise development and four satellite campuses.
On June 24, Eugene had announced his engagement with his passionate and creative partner, Nate Stephen, via Instagram, where he posted multiple pictures of them having fun and wrote, “ I’ve never loved a human more. And I will choose you every day for the rest of my life. (I said hell yes.) “
Eugene and his fiancé, Nate Stephen, have been open about their relationship and dated for many years. Nate is a big supporter of Eugene’s work and is vocal about social justice and views about the LGBTQ community publically.
Net Worth Of Eugene Daniels
Eugene Daniels had joined MSNBC as a contributor in mid-March of this year. His estimated net worth is revealed to be $1.5 million with a salary of $110000 yearly. He appeared on Deadline: White House with Nicolle Wallace and was introduced as a contributor talking about Republican efforts to pass more restrictive voting laws across the country.
As per some sources, the average salary of MSNBC employees is said to be $57,500 annually on average. According to some data, the highest paying job at MSNBC is an intern at $33,000 annually.
Eugene is the first Black co-author of the influential newsletter and also the first LGBTQ+ person to work in political journalism.
Eugene had joined POLITICO in 2018 and has covered the midterms, the Democratic presidential primary, and general election through print, video journalism, and podcasts. Before, he had covered the 2016 primary, general election, and national politics as a political reporter at Newsy. His beginning was in local television in Colorado Springs. In 2010, he worked as an intern at the only news station that only covers Northern Colorado news.
Eugene had moderated POLITICO’s Confronting Inequality Town Hall series that examined how inequities in policing, housing, healthcare, education, and employment permeate and plague the United States during the country’s reckoning with race in 2020.