It’s official: Ronna McDaniel will not be hired as a contributor for NBC News after all. The widely-reported hire of the outgoing Republican National Committee chair triggered outrage from much of the network’s audience and from its reporters and staff, owing to McDaniel’s propagation of 2020 election conspiracy theories and her attacks on the network’s own reporters. Multiple on-air personalities at NBC and MSNBC, including Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow, went on air to criticize the decision. By this week, reports circulated that NBC was backtracking on the hire, which some speculated was only…