What do the RNC and DNC do?

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🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Today we're talking RNC and DNC. The committees, not the conventions. What do they do? Who decides who chairs them? And what does it mean to a national committee when someone can post a message on social media that has more impact than thousands of mailbox flyers? Today's guests are Boris Heersink and Marjorie Hershey, who take us from a few folks setting up a convention to a massive organization that tries (and sometimes fails) to wrangle a party's identity. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So the Trump campaign is pretty much taking over the Republican National Committee.
0:05.0	At least four senior staffers were fired yesterday according to two sources familiar with the matter.
0:09.8	DNC put out a distract directed at Laura Trump, the co-chair of the
0:15.3	R and C who released her own music the same day as Cowboy Carter. Just play it
0:20.9	real quick. The R and see met in Houston last week to install a new pair of leaders selected specifically by the former president.
0:31.0	You're listening to Civics 101, I'm Nick Capedice. I'm Hannah McCarthy.
0:34.7	And today we are talking about committees. Not the ones in Congress. That was another
0:39.8	episode we did. Today it is all about the RNC and the DNC. But we're not talking
0:45.4	about the other RNC and DNC, the Republican and Democratic National
0:51.6	Convention. Yeah, I can't believe we've finally done it, Hannah, we have hit an initialism that is exactly
0:56.2	the same as another extremely relevant initialism.
1:00.0	RNC and DNC are short for both parties national committees as well as their national conventions.
1:06.7	And if anyone out there wants to know about the national conventions, we did an episode on those
1:11.2	a while back and we will put a link to that in the show notes.
1:14.7	You know I like that episode a lot.
1:15.9	Oh, thank you.
1:16.9	Partially because it features the copyright-free banger known as Stomps and Claps.
1:21.6	Man, it gets you going, you know?
1:25.0	Let's do this!
1:26.0	And you know what?
1:27.0	You know what, I feel bad for anyone who clicked on this episode thinking
1:30.0	it would be about the conventions,
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