She is a member of the Democratic Party and became interim chairperson of the Democratic National Committee in July She briefly served as the interim chairperson for the DNC in the spring of and assumed that role again in the summer of She was the first African American to direct a major presidential campaign , acting as campaign manager for Al Gore in She has also worked on several presidential campaigns for Democratic candidates, including Jesse Jackson and Walter Mondale — Geraldine Ferraro in , and for Dick Gephardt in the Democratic primary. Her family's surname was "Braswell" several generations back. Kennedy School of Government.
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Donna Brazile, the former interim Democratic National Committee chairwoman, has been hired by Fox News to serve as an on-air political commentator. Brazile was formerly a contributor at CNN but was fired after a December Wikileaks report found she had shared topics that would be covered during a televised town hall against Bernie Sanders with presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Probably not. But I will listen.
With a new look apparently came a new and revelatory attitude. When Donna Brazile appeared on the Wendy Williams Show, to promote her new book, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics, she talked about everything from her start in politics, before becoming the first Black woman to lead a political, presidential campaign in , for Al Gore, to her love life. See what she had to say in the highlights from her interview below. I eat a salad every night, a little protein and I gave up my Southern cooking.