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After stepping down from her role as chair of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel will join NBC News as a political analyst.
A network source confirmed to Mediaite that McDaniel, who ascended to the top of the RNC soon after Donald Trump was elected president and ran the committee until earlier this month, had joined the network. She will make her NBC debut on this Sunday’s Meet the Press for an interview with Kristen Welker.
In addition to providing commentary for NBC, McDaniel will also appear on MSNBC for coverage during the 2024 election season.
The New York Times first reported the news. The Times quoted an internal NBC memo in which Carrie Budoff Brown, who is in charge of political coverage for NBC News, said, “It couldn’t be a more important moment to have a voice like Ronna’s on the team,” and the former RNC chair would provide “an insider’s perspective on national politics and the future of the Republican Party.”
McDaniel announced that she was stepping down from her position as chair of the RNC in late February. She was replaced by co-chairs Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump, and Michael Whatley.
Before resigning from the RNC, McDaniel became the subject of criticism by Trump and his supporters after several Republican election losses, even after McDaniel played a role in the scheme to overturn the 2020 election. A call released in December 2023 revealed that McDaniel promised two Michigan canvassers that she would get them legal representation if they refused to certify the election results in their state.
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