Audio Interview: Delegate Explains RNC Rule Change Fight

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Published: 27 Aug, 2012
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IVN's Wes Messamore interviews RNC Delegate Brian Dougherty Monday afternoon for an inside look at the RNC rule change controversy. Dougherty offers a clear explanation of the RNC rule change at issue, the different sides of the debate, who makes up the RNC rules committee and how rules are amended, and the effects that the controversial rule change might have on the Republican Party and future Republican primaries.

For an intimate look at the rule change fight from inside the convention, and a few facts and perspectives that might surprise you, listen in below:

http://youtu.be/CODbKH0-qKo

A special thanks to IVN Republican National Convention Correspondent Tom Brown, who caught up with RNC Delegate Brian Dougherty from the Pennsylvania delegation and made this interview possible.

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