According to reports, former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel has been banned from appearing on MSNBC.

The alleged ban was sparked by an uproar in the liberal network’s newsroom following McDaniel’s hiring as an NBC News contributor.

“NBC News Senior Vice President of Politics Carrie Budoff Brown announced on Friday that McDaniel would be joining the team and contributing expert insight and analysis on politics and 2024,” Daily Mail reports.

The announcement reportedly didn’t sit well with numerous MSNBC pundits.

From the Associated Press:

Former NBC News “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd criticized his network Sunday for hiring former Republican National Committee head Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor, saying on the air that many NBC journalists are uncomfortable with the decision.

Todd spoke on “Meet the Press” after his successor as moderator, Kristen Welker, interviewed McDaniel about her role in the 2020 election aftermath.

“Our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation because I don’t know what to believe,” Todd said. “I don’t have any idea whether any answer she gave to you was because she didn’t want to mess up her contract” with NBC, he said.

McDaniel “has credibility issues that she has to deal with: Is she speaking for herself or is she speaking on behalf of who is paying for her?”

Todd said many NBC journalists are uncomfortable with the hiring because some of their professional dealings with the RNC during McDaniel’s tenure “have been met with gaslighting, have been met with character assassination.”

“Ronna McDaniel Reportedly ‘Banned from Air’ After One Appearance on Far-Left Network,” Kyle Becker commented.

“Just days after jumping the sinking ship at the Republican National Committee, who as captain rammed it into three straight icebergs during the federal elections, she seemed to have found her life raft on the far-left network MSNBC. Last week, Ronna McDaniel was hired as an MSNBC Contributor. The Wall Street Journal, however, is reporting there is already a mutiny on board her new network,” he continued.

Here’s a clip from McDaniel’s appearance:

Daily Mail reports:

Sources told The Wall Street Journal MSNBC President Rashida Jones ‘has no plans to have McDaniel on the channel’ after employees expressed discontent with her hiring.

‘A number of MSNBC anchors and producers have voiced concern internally about McDaniel’s ties to former President Donald Trump and the RNC’s role in his efforts to challenge the 2020 election results,’ the Journal stated.

McDaniel was first elected chair of the RNC in 2017. Before that she was chair of the Michigan Republican Party and helped deliver the state for Trump back in 2016.

She is the granddaughter of late Michigan Governor George Romney and 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 under her leadership, the RNC also voted on a censure resolution, condemning then-Rep. Liz Cheney and then-Rep. Adam Kinzinger, two GOP members on the House January 6 committee.

Brown announced McDaniel’s hiring in a staff memo on Friday that said: ‘It couldn’t be a more important moment 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.’

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