NBC Already Considering Cutting Ties With Ronna McDaniel?
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NBC News announced that former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel was joining the network.
Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is joining NBC News as on-air contributor, the network announced Friday.
Why it matters: She joins the network after facing a pressure campaign from former President Trump to resign from the RNC. Trump instead favored a triumvirate of loyalists to lead the committee.
It adds another staunch conservative voice to the network’s repertoire of Republican commentators, which includes Marc Short, who was chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence, and Brendan Buck, a former top congressional aide.
What they’re saying: “It couldn’t be a more important moment to have a voice like Ronna’s on the team,” Carrie Budoff Brown, who leads NBC News’ politics and elections reporting, said in a statement.
According to a new report, NBC News is considering cutting ties with Ronna McDaniel already.
There’s active consideration at NBC News to cut ties with Ronna McDaniel after the brutal reception her hiring as an analyst has gotten, a network insider tells Fox News Digital.
The former Republican National Committee chairwoman was signed as a paid contributor last week, leading to an immediate uproar among current and former NBC staffers, as well as media critics who considered the longtime Donald Trump ally unacceptable for the news organization.
An MSNBC insider told Fox News Digital that the pushback against McDaniel’s hiring was worse than leadership anticipated, and not just from within NBC, and due to that there was discussion about cutting her. Spokespersons for NBC News and MSNBC didn’t respond to a request for comment, and McDaniel remains with the network as of Monday.
The source added they’d be glad to see NBC cut McDaniel, saying she has long operated in bad faith, had credibility issues and has engaged in election denial, alluding to her role in helping President Trump’s efforts to overturn 2020 election results and rhetoric about that election being unfair.
