Former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile has left Fox News after claiming she’s ‘accomplished what she wanted’ with Joe Biden’s election win.
Brazile has made multiple appearances on ABC News’ Sunday news show This Week and was listed as a contributor with the program on ABC last weekend.
‘When my contract expired, they offered me an additional 2-4 years,’ Brazile told The Daily Beast when asked about her departure from Fox, ‘But I decided to return to ABC.’
Brazile went on to say that ‘all is good’ between her and Fox, suggesting that the split was amicable.
Donna Brazile’s time with Fox News is over after she departed from the conservative network
In an email to the New York Times, Brazile elaborated more about her time with Fox News.
‘Fox never censored my views in any way,’ Brazile said. ‘Everyone treated me courteously as a colleague.’
Brazile also added, ‘I believe it’s important for all media to expose their audiences to both progressive and conservative viewpoints. With the election and President Biden’s first 100 days behind us, I’ve accomplished what I wanted at Fox News.’
She joined Fox News as a contributor in March 2019, despite knowing she would be criticized by progressives for joining the outlet.
Brazile stated that the 2016 election ‘showed we have to engage that audience and show Americans of every stripe what we stand for rather than retreat into our ‘safe spaces.”
Brazile recently joined ABC News as a contributor and is solidifying her role there
Her time at Fox News was not always easy, though, filled with occasional shouting matches and frequent criticism from Donald Trump.
In August 2019, Trump tweeted, ‘So @donnabrazile gives Crooked Hillary the Questions, and now she’s on @FoxNews,’ expressing his displeasure.
Trump tweeted about her again in June 2020: ‘She gets fired by @CNN for giving Crooked Hillary the debate questions, and gets hired by @FoxNews. Where are you Roger Ailes?’
She also once told Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel to ‘go to hell’ after McDaniel weighed in on the 2020 Democratic primary.
Before working for Fox News, Brazile worked as a contributor for CNN. She resigned from the news company in October 2016 after a WikiLeaks email in 2016 revealed that she leaked presidential debate questions to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Her time at Fox was filled with occasional shouting matches and criticism from Donald Trump
‘We are completely uncomfortable with what we have learned about her interactions with the Clinton campaign while she was a CNN contributor,’ CNN said in a statement at the time of their split.
Brazile expressed disappointment with the way things ended years later when talking to Variety.
‘I don’t like the way we split,’ Brazile said. ‘I came out of 2016 bruised and battered and emotionally distraught. I didn’t think I would ever get myself to go back out there.’
Brazile also has a long political history in addition to her time as DNC chairwoman, working with Jesse Jackson, Walter Mondale, and Richard Gephardt.
She also managed the 2000 presidential campaign of Al Gore.
Donna Brazile is the former Democratic National Committee chairwoman
Brazile is the third prominent figure to depart from Fox News recently, joining Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Jedediah Bila and former White House correspondent Kristin Fisher, who has been hired by CNN.
Fisher was criticized by viewers for a November segment in which she debunked the election fraud claims of Trump’s lawyers.
Juan Williams also recently left The Five so he could stay in Washington DC with his family, though he is set to continue on at the network.
Williams was the liberal voice on the round table show, a slot Brazile could have been a contender to fill.
She is the second liberal voice to make a big move at Fox News recently after Juan Williams (pictured) left The Five, though he’s expected to stay on with the network
The New York Times reports that the various changes at Fox News is allowing more pro-Trump figures to make waves with the network.
Greg Gutfeld and Dan Bongino, both Trump supporters, now have prominent time slots at the network.
Fox News also canned politics editor Chris Stirewalt – who was a major part in the network’s call for Joe Biden in Arizona during the election – and recently brought in a new editor, Kerri Kupec, who was a spokeswoman for William Barr.
In other moves feeding into partisan politics on cable news networks, MSNBC replaced Chris Matthews with Joy Reid in primetime and CNN dumped Rick Santorum after he made remarks about Native Americans.