Rachel Maddow Implores NBC to Reverse ‘Inexplicable’ Ronna McDaniel Hire

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow has joined a growing list of NBC journalists and on-air personalities who have criticized their network’s decision to employ former Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, and has urged NBC to reverse its “inexplicable” hiring.

In her opening monologue on Monday, Maddow first excoriated McDaniel for aiding Donald Trump’s “strongman” ambitions, including by telling GOP canvassers in Michigan to not sign a certification of the 2020 election results, as The Detroit News reported late last year.

“We have had a lot of these guys, but our generation’s version of this guy has gotten a lot farther than all the rest of them,” Maddow said, in reference to the former president.

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