The Daily Show With Michael Steele

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart invited former Republican National Committee Chairman, Michael Steele, to the show on Wednesday’s episode.

Michael Steele served as the first African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee from 2009 to 2011, and is a political analyst for MSNBC. Steele was raised in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and co-founded the Republican Leadership Council, a political action committee, in 1993. In 2003 he became Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, the first African-American elected to statewide office there. He made an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate in 2006, losing to Democrat Ben Cardin, then served as chairman of GOPAC, the Republican Party’s political training organization. He worked as a commentator for Fox News before making his bid for the chairmanship of the RNC. In 2010 Steele announced that he would seek a second term as RNC chair, but dropped out of the race after four rounds of voting. He was succeeded by Reince Priebus, former chair of the Wisconsin Republican Party. A partner at the law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf, Steele is the author of “Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda” (2010). In May 2011 he became a regular columnist for The Root.

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