PERSON: Sara Haines

Co-Host

Sara Hilary Haines (born September 18, 1977) is an American television host and journalist. She is known as one of the co-hosts of the ABC daytime talk shows The View and Strahan, Sara and Keke and the host of The Chase. She has also worked as a correspondent on Today, ABC News, and Good Morning America.

Haines was born in Newton, Iowa, and raised there with her three siblings. She attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in government in 2000. At Smith, Haines played basketball and volleyball.

On her birthday in 2022, in appreciation of her accomplishments as a journalist and TV host, Newton’s mayor Mike Hanson proclaimed September 18 as “Sara Haines Day” in Newton, Iowa.

Haines married attorney Max Shifrin in November 2014 after initially meeting online. The couple resides in New Jersey. Their first child was born in March 2016, followed by their second in December 2017, and their third in June 2019.

Haines grew up in what she describes as a “conservative household” and identifies as a “left-leaning moderate”.

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