Abby Phillip

Along with Wolf Blitzer and The Des Moines Register chief politics reporter Brianne Pfannenstiel, Phillip co-moderated the seventh Democratic debate of the 2020 election at Drake University on January 14, 2020. She received criticism for alleged bias in moderating the debate.

She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Marcus Richardson. Phillip and Richardson were married at the Larz Anderson House in May 2018. Richardson is currently a managing consultant at nVisium, a cybersecurity company based in Herndon, Virginia.

Phillip joined CNN in 2017 and currently covers the Trump Administration. Before CNN, she worked at the Washington Post where her roles included national political reporting and general assignments. She also worked at ABC News, where she was an ABC News Fellow and digital reporter in New York City. Phillip began her journalism career as a White House reporter and blogger for Politico covering campaign finance issues and lobbying. She appears occasionally on Washington Week with Robert Costa on PBS.

Phillip is of Afro-Trinidadian descent. Born and raised in Bowie, Maryland, she graduated from Harvard University in 2010 with a degree in government. At Harvard, Phillip wrote for the Harvard Crimson.

Abby Phillip (born November 25, 1988) is an American journalist who works as a White House correspondent for CNN. She has appeared as a guest on Washington Week and C-SPAN.