Former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel axed by NBC after intense backlash

In a letter to staff reported by the Wall Street Journal, Budoff Brown said: “It couldn’t be a more important moment to have a voice like Ronna’s on the team [to provide] an insider’s perspective on national politics and on the future of the Republican party.”

Todd pointed to attacks on the press mounted by McDaniel in her seven-year spell at the head of the RNC, which coincided with Trump’s presidency and his surge to the Republican nomination this year.

A procession of senior NBC and MSNBC hosts followed Todd in protesting the McDaniel hire on air, from the popular husband-and-wife morning show team of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski to Jen Psaki, Nicolle Wallace, Joy-Ann Reid, Lawrence O’Donnell and Rachel Maddow.

Prominent rightwingers in media and politics cried foul, pointing to Psaki’s MSNBC role after being White House press secretary under Joe Biden as they alleged hypocrisy at the left-leaning network.

“The chief threat among them now is not the rioters and the kooks, but the slick political professionals who are turning their considerable talents to laundering violently revolutionary claims that America’s elections aren’t real.”

Citing recent cuts in light of McDaniel’s reported $300,000 deal, a union group representing rank-and-file NBC News staffers also demanded management action.