24 Facts About Donna Brazile

Donna Lease Brazile is an American political strategist, campaign manager and political analyst who served twice as acting Chair of the Democratic National Committee.

Donna Brazile is currently an ABC News contributor, and was previously a Fox News contributor until her resignation in May 2021.

Donna Brazile served as the acting chair of the Democratic National Committee in spring 2011, and again from July 2016 to February 2017.

Donna Brazile was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the daughter of Jean Marie and Lionel Joseph Donna Brazile, the third of nine children.

Donna Brazile became interested in politics at the age of nine when a local candidate for office promised to build a neighborhood playground.

Donna Brazile participated in a TRIO Upward Bound program while in high school.

Donna Brazile served as an advisor for Bill Clinton's campaign for the presidency in 1992 and for re-election in 1996.

In 1999, Donna Brazile was appointed deputy campaign manager and was later promoted to campaign manager of the 2000 presidential campaign of Vice-President Al Gore, becoming the first African-American woman to manage a major party presidential campaign.

Donna Brazile donated her papers to the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections in the Louisiana State University Libraries Special Collections, located in Hill Memorial Library.

On March 17,2017, Donna Brazile admitted to forwarding debate questions to Clinton's campaign during the 2016 Democratic primary, while she was Vice Chair of the DNC and working as a CNN commentator.

Donna Brazile was an election monitor in Kenya for the 2022 presidential elections.

Donna Brazile is member of the advisory board of the Washington and Lee University Mock Convention.

Donna Brazile was a weekly contributor and political commentator on CNN's The Situation Room and appeared on American Morning and its successor, New Day.

Donna Brazile regularly appeared on CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, and was a frequent member of Anderson Cooper's guest panel of political experts on CNN's Election Night Coverage.

Donna Brazile is founder and managing director of Donna Brazile and Associates and a contributor to NPR's Political Corner and ABC News.

Donna Brazile had agreed mutually with both CNN and ABC to suspend her contracts with the networks in order to serve as interim chair of the DNC.

On October 31,2016, CNN announced that Donna Brazile offered a formal resignation and that they were permanently severing their ties to Donna Brazile as a CNN contributor, due to inappropriate leaks with the Clinton campaign while she worked for the network.

On March 18,2019, Donna Brazile became a contributor for Fox News.

In July 2017, Hachette Books announced that it had acquired the rights to Donna Brazile's forthcoming book, Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House, published on November 7,2017.

Later, in an interview on ABC's This Week on November 5,2017, Donna Brazile said that she had found no evidence of the Democratic primaries having been rigged in favor of Clinton.

The credibility of Donna Brazile's allegations came under scrutiny by The Washington Post.

In September 2015, the newspaper had already reported about the fundraising agreement between Hillary and the DNC which Donna Brazile disclosed and noted that Sanders supporters knew about it.

Donna Brazile cameoed as a fictionalized version of herself in Army of the Dead along with Sean Spicer.

Donna Brazile is a Catholic and said she wanted to be a priest as a child but did not pursue this after her mother told her girls could not be priests.