Before 2014, Griffin had written articles for her father's
far-right website
WorldNetDaily, where she served as a "special Washington correspondent for WND." In 2010, Griffin was a media intern for Congressman
Tom McClintock and began a one-year position as an associate producer on
The Laura Ingraham Show. In the 2012 presidential election cycle, Griffin was the spokesperson for the
College Republican National Committee, traveling the country discussing the youth vote. In 2014, she was named press secretary for Congressman
Mark Meadows; she was later named as his communications director. She went on to work as the communications director for the
Freedom Caucus in the
U.S. House of Representatives, serving under
Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows. In September 2017, she was appointed special assistant to the president and press secretary to
Vice President Mike Pence. As press secretary to the vice president, she traveled with Pence on numerous trips, domestic and foreign, and was part of the official U.S. delegations to the
Munich Security Conference and
ASEAN Summit. In September 2019, Griffin became press secretary for the
United States Department of Defense, after the role had been vacant for nearly a year. She was also appointed director of media affairs. In this role, Griffin was the chief spokesperson for the department. In April 2020, it was reported that Meadows, by then Trump's chief of staff, had considered bringing Griffin on as a
White House press secretary. She joined the
White House Office as the
White House director of strategic communications on April 7, 2020. In August 2020,
The Washington Post reported that Griffin played an important role in shaping the Trump administration's coronavirus response. Griffin resigned as White House communications director on December 3, 2020, effective the next day. At the time it was reported she planned to start a consulting firm "focusing on the corporate, political and defense realms" and that she had initially planned to leave before the election according to one person speaking anonymously. The day before January 6, 2021,
United States Capitol attack, Griffin publicly condemned Trump supporters for harassing Senator
Mitt Romney. She denounced the attack, and days later, on January 8, blamed Trump for inciting the attack and suggested that he should resign. In a February 7, 2021, interview on
CNN, Griffin questioned the constitutionality of the
second impeachment of Donald Trump and stated she believed censuring would be more appropriate. When asked if she would support censure after the impeachment if it fails, she said it was "an open question" before recommending the country should "move on" from the Capitol raid. In February 2021, Griffin became a visiting fellow with the
Independent Women's Forum. In June 2021, Griffin co-authored an editorial with
Johanna Maska, who served as President Obama's director of press advance. In the editorial, which was published by
USA Today, the two discuss the need to overcome the political divide in the U.S. Griffin voluntarily spoke to the
January 6 House select committee several times in 2021. In December 2021, CNN revealed that Griffin was the author of a text to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows calling for Donald Trump to condemn the attack saying "people will die." In June 2022, Griffin revealed that Trump stated privately several times in November 2020 that he had lost the 2020 election and she related that once while watching Biden on television, Trump said "Can you believe I lost to this guy?" On July 27, 2022, she said the Justice Department had not contacted her regarding its investigation into January 6. During her testimony to the January 6 select committee in September 2022,
Cassidy Hutchinson claimed that Griffin agreed to act as her
backchannel so she could avoid letting her attorney
Stefan Passantino, a Trump loyalist, know that she was giving additional testimony. In 2021, Griffin joined
CNN as a political contributor. Griffin was appointed a fellow of the
Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service for spring 2022. In 2022, Griffin became a permanent co-host of
The View for the talk show's 26th season after making several guest appearances throughout 2021 and 2022. In 2024, she received a
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host nomination for her work. In 2024, Griffin said that she voted for
Kamala Harris in the
2024 presidential election, saying that it was the first time she had voted for a Democrat. ==Personal life==