Steve Cortes

Steven Connor Cortes (Business executive and conservative journalist)
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Born	January 5, 1972 Chicago, Illinois Alma mater: George Washington University
Political Party	Republican
Spouse	Married with four children
Religion	Roman Catholic

Steven Connor Cortes (born January 5, 1972) is a business executive and conservative television broadcaster in his native Chicago, Illinois. From 2020 to 2021, he co-hosted with Jenn Pellegrino the program known as Cortes and Pellegrino, a nightly news program on Newsmax. However, in November 2021, Cortes was removed from the television show because of his vocal opposition to company policy requiring vaccine mandates, which are at odds with Newsmax chief executive officer Christopher Ruddy. The program had low ratings too, perhaps because it was cast opposite Sean Hannity on Fox News at the 9 p.m. Eastern time slot. Usually the program had firebrand Michael Savage of San Francisco as a guest on a near weekly basis. Cortes is also a former campaign spokesman for former U.S. President Donald Trump.Before the assignment on Newsmax, he was a commentator for CNBC and Fox News.

Cortes is of Colombian descent. His father left Colombia to attend graduate school at the private Indiana Institute of Technology, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was reared on the South Side of Chicago. In 1994, Cortes graduated from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., at which he played football and was nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship. After college, he sold government bonds through Prudent Financial, Inc. Then he established his own company, VeraCruz, LLC , which offers real estate market research. In 2001, he published a book on investments entitled, "Against the Herd: 6 Contrarian Investment Strategies You Should Follow.

Cortes is married and the father of four children.