Ronna McDaniel appeared on Sunday’s Meet the Press, but not as a NBC News political analyst as was assumed after a Friday announcement that she’d joined the network. Instead, her appearance was as an interviewee, in a pre-scheduled interview with host Kristin Welker.
Welker asked McDaniel about a bunch of hot-button topics but first asked about her record at the RNC, highlighting that one RNC committee member called McDaniel a “failed chair” and asking if McDaniel deserved to still be in her role after the shellacking the party repeatedly suffered at the ballot box during her tenure. Of course, McDaniel believes she did a great job, and any shortcomings were because of the candidates running, or Donald Trump and his supporters. Anyone but Ronna.
You know, I push back on that very hard. You know, the fact that under my time as chair we’ve had more women in Congress ever than in the…
