Tara Palmeri

Tara Palmeri (born September 1, 1987) is an American journalist. She has worked at news organizations including ABC News, Politico, Puck, New York Post and Washington Examiner. Palmeri hosts The Tara Palmeri Show on Youtube and writes The Red Letter newsletter. She has also hosted podcasts such as "Broken: Seeking Justice", "Power: The Maxwells" and "Somebody's Gotta Win".

Biography Palmeri was born on September 1, 1987, in New York. She is a 2005 graduate of DePaul Catholic High School in Wayne, New Jersey. She attended American University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Public Communication in 2008.

Career Palmeri started her career at CNN as a news assistant in the D.C. bureau in 2009.

She subsequently joined the Washington Examiner where she co-wrote a daily column called "Yeas & Nays".

She moved to New York in 2010 when she was hired by the New York Post to write for Page Six. She also worked as a general assignment reporter and first reported the news of Chris Christie's weight loss surgery.

Politico hired her to cover European politics from Brussels in 2015. After the 2016 presidential election, Politico reassigned her to Washington as a White House reporter covering the Trump administration. During her tenure, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer called Palmeri "an idiot with no real sources."

CNN announced in 2017 that Palmeri was hired as a political analyst for the network, while continuing to cover President Trump for Politico.

Palmeri was hired by ABC News as a full-time White House correspondent in October 2017. On February 12, 2021, Ducklo was suspended without pay by the White House for one week. The following day, Ducklo resigned from his White House position over the matter.

In 2022, Palmeri joined the journalism startup Puck At Puck, Palmeri broke the news that Nancy Pelosi would resign as Speaker of the House after the 2022 midterm elections. She also hosted the election-themed podcast, “Somebody’s Gotta Win,” a collaboration between Puck and Spotify’s The Ringer. It ended in April 2025.