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Martin Pengelly in Washington

‘Pretty bad’: NBC condemned by top US historian over role for Ronna McDaniel

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Ronna McDaniel on midterms election night in November 2022. Photograph: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images

The former Republican National Committee chair turned NBC politics analyst Ronna McDaniel “tried to disassemble our democracy” by supporting Donald Trump’s electoral fraud lies and should not be given such a media role, a leading historian said amid uproar over the appointment.

“What NBC has done is they’ve invited into what should be a normal framework someone who doesn’t believe that framework should exist at all,” Timothy Snyder, a Yale professor and author of On Tyranny, told MSNBC, part of the network now employing McDaniel.

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