Her father manages real estate design and construction for Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia, while her mother is a yoga teacher in Easton.

She started working as a national political reporter for the Associated Press in August 2011 and covered Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.

[10] In January 2013, Hunt joined NBC News as an off-air reporter and producer covering Congress and politics.

[11] She wrote for msnbc.com and appeared regularly on MSNBC and Bloomberg shows, including Morning Joe, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and With All Due Respect.

In October 2017, Hunt began anchoring her talk show on MSNBC, Kasie DC, which aired in two separate segments on Sundays at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.

In April 2024, a segment on CNN discussed the renaming of Hamilton Hall, on the Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus in New York City by student protesters.

This description has been criticized as an example of the adultification of Palestinian children and a pro-Israel bias on CNN, as well as other Western mainstream media.

[27][28] On January 23, 2025, it was announced that Hunt would leave her CNN morning show in March 2025 and host a new hour-long weekday program for the network from 4:00 to 5:00 pm titled "The Arena;"[29][30] the morning show will also be divided into two separate programs hosted by Rahel Solomon and Audie Cornish.