Krystal Ball
Populist progressive left · anti-establishment media· 626K followers · tracked by RisingPolitics
22.7Credibility Score (0–100) · ranked #157 of the creators we track
Krystal Ball ranks #157 by credibility versus #161 by raw follower count — they reach a more credible audience than their follower total alone would suggest.
Audience authenticity is still warming up — we’re accumulating samples, so this score may shift.
Krystal Ball is an American political commentator and podcast host who currently co-hosts the political news and opinion series Breaking Points alongside Saagar Enjeti. She was previously the Democratic nominee for Congress in Virginia's 1st district in 2010 and a co-host of MSNBC's The Cycle and The Hill's Rising. In 2021 she and Enjeti left Rising to launch the independent Breaking Points, and she also co-hosts the podcast Krystal Kyle & Friends with her husband Kyle Kulinski.
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Is Krystal Ball left or right?
Krystal Ball sits on the populist progressive left: she backed Bernie Sanders's 2020 campaign, frames politics around working-class economics versus corporate power, and is a persistent critic of the Democratic Party's establishment wing rather than a defender of it. She describes her project as left populism, and on Breaking Points — the show she co-founded in 2021 with right-populist Saagar Enjeti after both left The Hill's Rising — she supplies the left half of a deliberate left-right populist pairing. Her trajectory runs from conventional Democratic politics (2010 congressional nominee, MSNBC co-host) to independent anti-establishment media. In 2025-2026 she has been a vocal supporter of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in New York City, interviewing him on Breaking Points during his mayoral run and framing his wins as a defeat for the Democratic establishment. Breaking Points won Best Political Podcast at the 2026 iHeartPodcast Awards.
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How credible is Krystal Ball's audience?
Krystal Ball scores 22.7 out of 100 on the RisingPolitics Credibility Score, ranking #157 among the political creators we track. The score starts with audience size, subtracts accounts that look fake, and weighs how strongly the audience actually engages.
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