Symone Sanders, who served as press secretary for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign, and later in Vice President Kamala Harris’ press shop, will soon have her own show on MSNBC. The format and timing of the weekend program are still unknown. AccordingAccording to The New York Times, it will air on Saturdays and sundays starting in the spring. She will also appear on MSNBC’s streamer, The Choice (on Peacock), and act as a fill-in anchor on the network.
“I’m a young woman, a young Black woman from the Midwest,”Sanders said this to the New York Times. “Yes, I do politics, but I’m also a consumer of pop culture. I watch the news, I check Twitter, but I’m also into ‘Real Housewives.’ I’m interested in reaching what I call the nonpolitical group chats, the discussions that are penetrating outside of Washington.”
According to MSNBC Sanders will also contribute written material to MSNBC Digital.
In December, reports of Sanders’ intention to leave the White House in the new year surfaced. In addition to being Harris’ chief spokesperson, she was also the vice president’s senior adviser.
After working on President Joe Biden’s successful 2020 election campaign, she was tapped to join the all-female press team as he moved into the White House.
In her political career, she’s made a name for herself through cable news appearances. After being famously told that she would be “shut up”She was interviewed on-air by a Republican official and turned the viral moment into her memoir title: “No, You Shut Up: Speaking Truth to Power and Reclaiming America.”