Episode Details

After Joe Biden’s historically bad debate performance, many Americans were left wondering how the Democratic Party could allow him to remain in the race. The answer is a corrupt and wholly inept corporation called the DNC Services Corporation—Democratic National Committee or DNC for short. This episode looks at the DNC’s failures over time and how they’ve worked with the RNC to rig the system against third party candidates. And it pulls back the curtain to reveal the tragic ineptitude that continues to deliver wins to the Republican Party.

Resources

Newsweek: My Fellow Progressives: Replacing Biden Is Not Our Fight

BYU Law: The Constitution and the Ballot Box: Supreme Court Jurisprudence and Ballot Access for Independent Candidates

Intercept: DNC Staffers Mocked the Bernie Sanders Campaign, Leaked Emails Show

Colorado Politics: How Dems, GOP each legally 'rig' presidential primaries, caucuses

The New York Times: The D.N.C. Has a Primary Problem

The Hill: DNC chair on third-party candidates: ‘This is not the time in order to experiment’

Democrats.org: Jaime Harrison

League of Women Voters: The League's History Sponsoring Presidential Debates

Commission on Presidential Debates

Tampa Bay Times: Nader, Buchanan kept out of debate

Britannica: United States presidential election of 1912

TIME: How Ross Perot Changed Political Campaigns

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The New York Times: To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race

The New York Times: Biden Tells Allies He Knows He Has Only Days to Salvage Candidacy

Ballotpedia: Partisan composition of state legislatures

Pew Research Center: Public Opinion on Abortion

The Hill: 88 percent in new poll support background checks on all gun sales

UNFTR Episode Resources

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