Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus interrupted political strategist and former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Donna Brazile on Sunday during an ABC panel to remind her that the nation elected President-elect Donald Trump, after she claimed his base was threatening GOP senators to influence Cabinet appointments.

Since the announcement of his cabinet picks, some of Trump’s nominations—such as Fox’s Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense, former Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for director of National Intelligence, and former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for director of the Department of Health and Human Services—have faced significant opposition.

On ABC’s This Week, Brazile argued that Trump’s team has “unleashed” his base movement, Make America Great Again (MAGA), to pressure senators who have not yet publicly supported some of his more unconventional choices.

“Yeah, but they didn’t unleash MAGA. America unleashed MAGA. I mean, the whole point of Trump’s victory is how did the traditional picks that we used to always put in place, how did that work for us? The American people rejected it and they accepted what Donald Trump’s been selling in this country for the last couple of years,” Priebus said.

“So I mean, he won with Muslim voters in Dearborn. He won with Puerto Ricans in Florida. He won a majority of male Hispanic voters. He won in every state across the country better, except for I think like Washington and Oregon or something like that,” Priebus added. “So MAGA is here because MAGA has been accepted by the American people, and so that’s why we’re here. We got to be reminded of this all the time.”

Brazile, however, disagreed with Priebus’ statement, emphasizing that millions of Americans are not part of MAGA and believe the Senate has a “constitutional responsibility” to vet the individuals entering Trump’s second administration. While Priebus acknowledged that the nominees would undergo the process, he expressed that he was unfazed by the smears and threats, noting that it was simply Republicans versus Republicans.

“It’s their own people. It’s their own family,” Priebus concluded.

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