Former DNC Chair Donna Brazile is now a Fox News contributor

Less than two weeks after the Democratic National Committee said it wouldn't let Fox News host any 2020 debates, its former chair has been hired by the network.

Donna Brazile, who served as interim DNC chair from July 2016 through February 2017, has been hired as a contributor for Fox News, Variety reports. Brazile said in a statement that she's "delighted" to be joining the network, predicting progressives will criticize her for this move but saying that "if we've learned anything from the 2016 election, it is that we can't have a country where we don't talk to those who disagree with our political views."

Brazile also said that there's "an audience on Fox News that doesn't hear enough from Democrats" and that the party has to "engage that audience ... rather than retreat into our 'safe spaces' where we simply agree with each other." This is similar to the argument Fox personalities made after the DNC said earlier this month it wouldn't partner with Fox for any 2020 Democratic debates, citing an article from The New Yorker about the relationship between President Trump and the network.

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That article also raised the possibility that someone at Fox News had shared questions with Trump before a 2016 Republican primary debate. Though Fox News denied this report, it drew comparisons to Brazile, a former CNN contributor who the network severed ties with after hacked WikiLeaks emails showed she shared questions with Hillary Clinton before two events, per Politico; she won't be involved with Fox News debates, reports Variety. Brazile would later say, per The Washington Post, that her "conscience — as an activist, a strategist — is very clear" and that "if I had to do it all over again, I would know a hell of a lot more about cybersecurity."