MSNBC president Rashida Jones told employees that former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel will not appear on any of the cable channel’s shows.
This comes after NBC News hired McDaniel as an on-air contributor, saying that she would appear across all NBC News platforms including MSNBC.
“It couldn’t be a more important moment to have a voice like Ronna’s on the team,” Carrie Budoff Brown, senior vice president of politics at NBC News told staff members in a memo.
McDaniel has repeatedly attacked MSNBC. She accused the network of “spreading lies” and called on-air contributors “primetime propagandists.” She’s also an election denier who refuses to accept that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election.
The backlash from viewers and members of staff at MSNBC following the news of McDaniel’s hiring was swift. Jones sought to quell the backlash by telling employees in an internal memo that there are no plans to put McDaniel on their airwaves, according to The Wall Street Journal.
McDaniel is still set to make her first appearance in her new role this Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
