Eleanor Irene Clift (née Roeloffs; born July 7, 1940)[1] is an American political journalist, television pundit, and author.

[4] Eleanor Roeloffs was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn,[1] the daughter of German immigrants from the island of Föhr in the North Sea.

After Carter's win, Clift became White House correspondent for Newsweek and has covered every presidential campaign for the magazine since 1976.

She began a broadcast career on The Diane Rehm Show on WAMU-FM, Washington, D.C., as a Friday week-in-review panelist.

a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show The McLaughlin Group, which she has compared to "a televised food fight".