[11] Huntsman worked on her father's 2012 presidential campaign as a media advisor and surrogate,[12] during which she and her sisters were profiled by The New Yorker,[13] GQ,[12] and BuzzFeed.

[14] Huntsman appeared as a political commentator for ABC News in Washington, D.C. and Good Morning America in New York City.

[15] In October 2012, Huntsman was profiled in ABC News's "Five Questions",[16] a part of This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

In August 2012, she was interviewed by Brian Williams on Rock Center about Mitt Romney's run for president and her own relationship with the Mormon faith.

[19] In July 2013, Huntsman joined MSNBC's The Cycle, filling a vacancy created by the departure of former panelist S. E. Cupp.

She sought to bring conservative views to the program, and denied that her relation to the Huntsman family had anything to do with her acquiring the position since she, in her own words, "went through the same audition process as everybody else", against a field she recalled featured several hundred candidates.

[25] On September 4, 2018, Huntsman joined the long-running ABC talk show The View as one of five co-hosts along with Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, and Meghan McCain.

[31] In August 2010, Huntsman married her University of Pennsylvania boyfriend, Jeffrey Bruce Livingston, in 2010 in an Episcopal service at Washington National Cathedral.