MSNBC has tapped Symone Sanders, a top Biden presidential campaign aide and the former chief spokeswoman to Vice President Kamala Harris, to host new cable and streaming shows.
Sanders, who left the vice president’s office in December, will host a weekend show based in Washington, D.C., and another on the Peacock streaming service The Choice, the network announced Monday. Both are expected to launch later this year, and Sanders will also serve as an MSNBC fill-in anchor.
Before leaving the administration, Sanders was among Harris’s most vocal defenders. Amid reports that Harris’s office was beset by dysfunction, Sanders pushed back, arguing, “We are not making rainbows and bunnies all day. What I hear is that people have hard jobs, and I’m like, ‘Welcome to the club.’”
She was one of four top Harris communications aides to leave the vice president’s office less than one year into office, with a report charging that the vice president’s chief of staff was struggling to recruit new talent.
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“The glamour runs out pretty quickly in those jobs,” a California political consultant told the Washington Examiner on Monday.
Efforts to right the ship are still underway. Harris’s newly named communications chief, Jamal Simmons, spent the first days following his appointment last week batting back criticism for past comments on the 2000 presidential election and undocumented immigrants.
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Sanders was previously a political analyst for CNN and published a 2020 memoir, No, You Shut Up. A former fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, she was a spokeswoman for the 2016 presidential campaign of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and a senior adviser to Joe Biden during his 2020 bid for the White House.
