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Using the RNC as a Platform to Gain Prominence

The Republican National Convention isn't just a nominating event -- it also allows individual candidates to gain national attention for their campaigns. Hear NPR's Tavis Smiley, commentator Joseph C. Phillips and James Garner, mayor of Hempstead County, N.Y. Garner is running for Congress.

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