Local television Earhardt was hired as a reporter for
WLTX, the local
CBS station in
Columbia, South Carolina, before she graduated from
University of South Carolina. From 2000 to 2004 she worked as the morning and noon anchor. She traveled to
New York City after the
September 11 attacks to cover
South Carolina middle school students' raising nearly half a million dollars for firefighters to buy a new fire truck to replace one lost at the
World Trade Center site. In 2005, Earhardt moved to
San Antonio,
Texas, and anchored weekday morning and noon newscasts at television station
KENS. Earhardt has written three children's books (
Take Heart, My Child;
Through Your Eyes; and ''I'm So Glad You Were Born
) and a memoir: The Light Within Me''.
Fox News Earhardt moved to
New York City and began working at
Fox News Channel in 2007. Earhardt became a co-host of
Fox & Friends in 2016. President
Donald Trump tweeted about the show more than 100 times in the first eight months of his presidency. During a 2018 interview, she praised Trump for threatening former FBI Director
James Comey with alleged audio recordings, stating it "was a smart way to make sure he stayed honest" in congressional hearings. Shortly prior to the interview, Trump had withdrawn the U.S. from the
Paris Climate Agreement; Earhardt asked him, Why did Barack Obama|President [Barack] Obama . . . why did his administration think this agreement was okay for America?" In a later interview with Pence, she described the Paris Climate Agreement as "unfair" to the United States. Amid the Trump administration's negotiations with
Kim Jong-Un,
Fox & Friends ran North Korean images of Kim Jong-Un touring industry in his country; Earhardt described the images as "very romantic". In 2017, she falsely claimed that "5.7 million . . . illegal immigrants might have voted" in the 2008 election. In May 2019, after
The New York Times documented Trump's "deep financial distress" between 1985 and 1994 that included losing more money than almost any other American taxpayer, Earhardt praised Trump. She said, "It's pretty impressive, all the things that he's done in his life. It's beyond what most of us could ever achieve." Earhardt criticized "the liberal media", saying that Republicans will not run for office anymore "because they know the liberal media is going to take them down." In October 2018, after
The New York Times documented how Trump obtained nearly half a billion dollars from his father,
Fred Trump Sr., through "dubious tax schemes" and possible tax fraud, Earhardt accused the
Times of "bashing" Trump's father. After Trump ordered the assassination of a top
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general,
Qasem Soleimani, citing intelligence he said necessitated it, Earhardt defended the administration against requests that the administration show the intelligence. She said, "I find it interesting that people are critical of the president's decisions, of our intelligence community's decisions, or general's decisions... Everything can't be made public." She paraphrased Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo, "you just have to trust us." Previously, Earhardt had shown considerable distrust of the intelligence community during Trump's presidency; she had also advanced "
deep state" conspiracy theories. During the
COVID-19 pandemic, Earhardt encouraged viewers to travel by plane, saying "it's actually the safest time to fly." Her comments contradicted guidance from the
Centers for Disease Control. In December 2021, Earhardt drew criticism after stating on air: "It's [the Fox Christmas tree] a tree that unites us, that brings us together. It is about the Christmas spirit, it is about the holiday season, it is about
Jesus, it is about
Hanukkah." Her incorrect characterization of the Christmas tree as a symbol of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah gained attention on social media and corrections in the news media. ==Personal life==