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Cornale tapped for DNC executive director
The decision is a sign that Joe Biden looked favorably on the national committee’s work during the presidential election season.
Joe Biden waits to speak during the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. | Andrew Harnik/AP
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Sam Cornale
will be named executive director of the Democratic National Committee, according to multiple people familiar with the decision.
Cornale, currently the DNC’s deputy CEO, will be tasked with working with expected incoming chair Jaime Harrison to guide the national party through the turbulent 2022 midterms. The first election cycle after a president is elected is frequently brutal for the party that controls the White House.
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Folks, we just survived something really crazy awful: four years of a president without shame, backed by a party without spine, amplified by a network without integrity, each pumping out conspiracy theories without truth, brought directly to our brains by social networks without ethics all heated up by a pandemic without mercy.
It’s amazing that our whole system didn’t blow, because the country really had become like a giant overheated steam engine. What we saw in the Capitol last week were the bolts and hinges starting to come loose. The departure of Donald J. Trump from the White House and the depletion of his enablers’ power in the Senate aren’t happening a second too soon.
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EarthGang went and did the unthinkable for any American touring act right now: They performed at a music festival in 2021.
Two weeks ago, Atlanta-based rappers Olu (aka Johnny Venus) and WowGr8 (aka Doctor Dot) performed at Bay Dreams festival in New Zealand on Jan. 3 as the sole American act on the bill that highlighted more than 30 international and Kiwi acts. It had been on the duo’s schedule since the opportunity presented itself following their last performance in New Zealand, in December 2019.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic nearly erased Bay Dreams from their calendar, which previously included other festival gigs like Glastonbury. But the festival organizers in New Zealand, which completely closed its borders in March and had successfully eliminated the virus by June, proposed a solution as mandated by the country: quarantine for 14 days during Christmas up until New Year’s Eve, test negative at the end of the period, and perform at the top of the new year.
Jaime Harrison, a former South Carolina Democratic Party chairman and a current national party associate chair, will be formerly named party chair on Thursday, when the Democratic National Committee virtually