- NBC News announced Friday that McDaniel would join as an on-air contributor
- MSNBC boss Rashida Jones has reportedly banned McDaniel from the channel
- Her hiring caused unrest among employees in the left-wing newsroom
Former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has reportedly been banned from appearing on MSNBC after her appointment as an NBC News contributor caused unrest in the left-wing network’s newsroom.
NBC News Senior Vice President of Politics Carrie Budoff Brown announced Friday that McDaniel would join the team and contribute expert insight and analysis on politics and 2024.
McDaniel announced in late February that she would step down from her GOP leadership role earlier this month after pressure from former President Donald Trump, who publicly endorsed close loyalist Michael Whatley and daughter-in-law Lara Trump for leadership as he approached the Republican presidential nomination. lecture.
Sources said The Wall Street Journal MSNBC President Rashida Jones “has no plans to have McDaniel on the channel” after employees expressed dissatisfaction with her hiring.
“A number of MSNBC anchors and producers have internally raised concerns about McDaniel’s ties to former President Donald Trump and the RNC’s role in his efforts to cast doubt on the 2020 election results,” the Journal said.
Former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has reportedly been banned from appearing on MSNBC after being hired as a contributor to NBC News
Sources told The Wall Street Journal that MSNBC president Rashida Jones (pictured) ‘has no plans to have McDaniel on the channel’
McDaniel was first elected chairman of the RNC in 2017. Previously, she chaired the Michigan Republican Party and helped deliver the state to Trump in 2016.
She is the granddaughter of the late Michigan Governor George Romney and the niece of Utah Senator Mitt Romney.
But under her leadership of the RNC, while Trump was president, Republicans lost the House and Senate and then the White House in 2020.
After Trump lost, the RNC made multiple allegations of election fraud, and McDaniel helped promote multiple falsehoods about the election.
In 2022, the RNC under her leadership also voted on a censure resolution, condemning then-Rep. Liz Cheney and then-Rep. Adam Kinzinger, two GOP members on the House committee on January 6.
Brown announced McDaniel’s hiring on Friday in a memo that said, “It couldn’t be a more important time to have a voice like Ronna’s on the team.” As chair of the Republican National Committee, she spent nearly eight years at the highest levels of American politics before stepping down earlier this year.”
“As we prepare for the longest general election campaign in recent history, she will bolster our industry-leading reporting by providing an insider perspective on national politics and the future of the Republican Party.”
She made her contributing debut on a highly controversial episode of Sunday’s Meet the press where anchor Kristen Welker pressed McDaniel about a 2020 phone call she had with Trump where they were appeared to pressure two election officials in Wayne County, Michigan, not to certify the 2020 vote.
The Wall Street Journal reported that MSNBC anchors and producers have internally raised concerns about McDaniel’s ties to former President Donald Trump. Pictured: MSNBC host Rachel Maddow
“A number of MSNBC anchors and producers have internally expressed concerns about McDaniel’s ties to former President Donald Trump,” the Wall Street Journal said. Pictured: MSNBC host Joy Reid
McDaniel stood by her actions, saying, “There were some issues in Wayne County. They have been consistent. They have been well documented in subsequent elections. And they said as prospects, “we think we should have an audit before we certify.”
“Our call that night was to say, ‘Are you OK?’ That’s my memory. It was three and a half years ago.”
The ex-RNC chairman admitted that Biden won the election “fair and square” and declared “he is the legitimate president.”
‘He’s the president. He is the legitimate president. I have always said, and I continue to say, there were problems in 2020. I believe both can be true.”
She also said she disagrees with Trump’s plan to free people convicted of committing crimes in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
“I don’t think people who committed violent acts on January 6 should be free,” McDaniel said.