Amy Mulenga Holmes (born July 25, 1973) is a Zambian-born American journalist and political commentator. Holmes co-hosts, with fellow commentator

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, a politically conservative-oriented talk show on

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titled ''In Principle.'' She is a former contributor to

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. Holmes formerly was a news anchor on

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's TheBlaze TV and a former host of TheBlaze's news discussion program ''Real News''. From 2015 to 2016, she hosted ''

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'', which airs weekdays on

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at 5:30 a.m. Eastern Time, as a lead-in to ''

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''. She also has appeared as an independent political contributor for

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and on

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, and has appeared on ''

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'' numerous times.

Life and career

Holmes was born in Lusaka,

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, to a Zambian father and a white

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mother. She was raised in her mother's native

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, after her parents divorced when she was three. Holmes received a

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with a major in

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

from

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in 1994. She was a member of

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. She is a

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independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ...

. She has guest co-hosted '' The View'' (in The Reliable Source) and co-hosted Fox News' ''

'' while

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was on the road with his "Unelectable" show. She has also appeared on the

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show ''

''. She was an anchor of a morning radio program syndicated by ''

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'' newspaper called "America's Morning News". She has appeared with

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on ''

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'', and on '' Reliable Sources'',

, and

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. After working for several years for

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, a two-term

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from

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and

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. Holmes resides in

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Life and career

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