Thread by @Monaheart1229

Wow
SO:
Per Dylan Byers at Puck:
The front runner emerging to take Rachel Maddow's place in the 9pm MSNBC time-slot next year
is none other than Nicolle Wallace!!
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or more here:
puck.news/msnbc-stares-d…

2/"NBC executives and producers told me much of Chris Hayes‘ audience at 8 p.m. and Lawrence O’Donnell‘s audience at 10 p.m. is made up of Maddow viewers who show up early and stay late.

3/"Not a single one of those high-level insiders thought either host could sustain their current audiences without her, let alone come close to matching hers

4/"..And yet as you move higher and higher up the organization, it becomes clear that one person has emerged as the preferred successor among NBC leadership: Nicolle Wallace

5/"..As one NBC executive put it, “Nicolle is the most obvious in-house candidate.” .. She is also well liked by Maddow, several sources said, and would have her blessing.

6/"None of this will please Hayes, Ari Melber, or Joy Reid, all of whom are said to be angling for the 9 p.m. slot. Several high-level MSNBC insiders described Hayes and Melber, white men who have failed to rate well in their current slots, as non-starters.

7/"Reid is arguably the most prominent Black woman in cable news, but many insiders say privately that it would be a considerable risk to make her the face of primetime because of her history of controversy

8/"She has repeatedly had to apologize for decades-old homophobic and anti-Semitic blog posts, many of which would have tanked the careers of others. Perhaps most infamously, she once tried to shirk responsibility for homophobic posts by claiming that she had been hacked.

9/"Several NBC insiders fear that she’s still prone to unforced errors, and said it was only a matter of time before an errant tweet invited more controversy..."
~excerpts Puck