Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro broke down the history of the Republican National Convention in the latest episode of “Facts,” explaining why the convention still mattered today even though it has changed over the years.
The episode, posted Wednesday as the 2024 RNC takes place in Milwaukee, delves deep into the history of the RNC, highlighting some of the most contentious and interesting conventions from the first one in 1856 to the 2016 convention when Donald Trump was nominated.
“In order to understand the way the Republican Party works today, it’s important to understand how the RNC worked historically and how that has changed,” Shapiro says in the episode. “That story is the story of the evolution of power from elites inside the Republican Party to broader swaths of the Republican primary electorate.”
The RNC was first established in 1856 and was designed to…
