EthicalMUN IV 2024 US Presidential Election DNC Chairs: Noah Greer Crisis Directors: Brian Phillips, Tallulah Reiser, and Sophie Basner EthicalMUN IV Dear Delegates, Welcome to EthicalMUN IV! We are all so excited to meet you all and oversee two days of fruitful and interesting debate. Julie Johnson The topic for our joint crisis committee is the 2024 Presidential Election. We Co-Secretary General hope for the debate to be particularly interesting since this is an issue that requires delegates in two committees to cooperate and collaborate in order to come up with Olivia Pollack viable solutions. This topic also gives all delegates a chance at power, since the Co-Secretary General majority of delegates present are vitally important to their respective parties. Any delegate can make a play for power, and we encourage you to do so, in new, innovative Aleksi Sefanov ways. We hope that this topic will stimulate your creativity and make for an amazing Chief of Staff weekend. We have three experienced chairs and three capable crisis directors who are Ben Greer eagerly anticipating the start of this conference. Please take the time to at least Chief of Staff thoroughly read the background guide and conduct research of your own so that you can have the best possible position papers and come forward well versed on the topic. Brian Phillips This background guide is simply a starting point for your research, and more research Under Secretary- is necessary to prepare for this committee. For those of you who are new to Model General of Committees UN, this committee is a crisis committee, which means that there will constantly be new dilemmas (provided by our crisis team, Margot, Aleksi, Brian, and Francesca) Sara Snyder that you must solve. In terms of research, we understand that this is a theoretical Under Secretary- committee and therefore hard to research for, so we understand that the majority of General of Committees the research you will have about the situation will be directly drawn from the Gavin Kelly background guide. However, you can still do basic research on your position and role Chief Crisis Director and think about the essential questions. This is a multilayered committee for delegates who have a passion for politics Thomas Vernarde and inventive problem-solving skills. This committee is also a Joint-Crisis Chief Crisis Director Committee, meaning that there will be two committees taking place at once. One room will consist of positions in the Democratic National Convention (DNC) and this Amani Creamer committee will be chaired by Noah Greer. The other room will consist of positions in Director of Outreach the Republican National Convention (RNC) and this committee will be chaired by Aleksi Sefanov and Ella Topkins. The actions of each room will affect the other, and remember, only one candidate can win the Presidency. We are very excited to see how you attempt to win this election, and we can’t wait to see you in May! Please email us if you have any questions at all. Your chairs and crisis directors, Noah Greer ([email protected]) Aleksi Sefanov ([email protected]) Ella Topkins ([email protected]) Brian Phillips ([email protected]) Tallulah Reiser ([email protected]) Sophie Basner ([email protected]) JCC: 2024 Election DNC EthicalMUN IV Crisis Committee Procedure minute moderated caucus passes, the Like most crisis committees, perpetual moderated caucus will be the parliamentary procedure will be suspended, and the committee will slightly different from General enter the five-minute moderated Assemblies and Specialized caucus. If there are no points or Committees. The parliamentary motions on the floor, the chair will procedure used in this committee is revert to the perpetual moderated optimized for the relatively few caucus. people in our committee and the quick Relevant Points and Motions: responses needed for crises. • Point of Inquiry • Point of Information Perpetual Moderated Caucus: • Point of Personal Privilege Unlike GA or Specialized • Point of Order Committees, Crisis Committees will • Motion to Open Debate not have a speakers list, and will • Motion for a Moderated operate under a perpetual moderated Caucus caucus. A perpetual moderated caucus • Motion for an Unmoderated is a never-ending moderated caucus Caucus that runs for the entirety of the • Motion for a Round Table committee with no set topic. For this • Motion to Introduce All Papers committee, the perpetual moderated on the Dais caucus will have a 30 second • Motion to Introduce an speaking time. This perpetual Amendment moderated caucus will be suspended • Motion to divide the Question when a delegate proposes a motion. • Motion to Enter Voting For example, if a motion for a five- Procedure 1 JCC: 2024 Election DNC Crisis EthicalMUN IV • Motion to Adjourn Debate inform or misinform the public according to the desires of the Written Papers committee. They will have the same Crisis Notes: Crisis notes are notes sponsor and signatory rules as used to take personal action from a directives. delegate, without the need for committee approval. A character's Like all committees, collaborating portfolio powers, therefore, binds with other delegates is strongly crisis notes. Please ensure to sign your recommended. However, in a crisis character’s name at the end of your committee, it is also encouraged that crisis note and address it to CRISIS one stays in character and acts in on the front of your folded note. accordance with their character’s motivations. Directives: Like general assemblies Introduction to Topic and specialized committees, crisis Welcome to the American committees have documents that take presidential election cycle! As the committee action concerning the Democratic National Convention, we issues at hand. In crisis committees, are in charge of nominating a this document is called a directive. candidate in the Democratic primary The number of sponsors and that can go head-to-head against the signatories required on directives will new Republican candidate, as the depend on the size of the committee. incumbent Republican president is completing her second term. Over the Press Releases: Press releases are last eight years, President Natalia committee documents addressed to Torres has connected both sides of the the public. They can be used to aisle, with a 54% approval rating. The 2 JCC: 2024 Election DNC EthicalMUN IV Crisis reason she has done so well across the to Ronald Reagan’s Republican Party, country is that she has embraced the Democratic party has evolved several of the Democratic platform’s over time. The Democrats and core tenets. She combined the Republicans essentially switched principles of pro-choice liberal views social beliefs when Franklin Delano on women’s reproductive rights with Roosevelt ran on the Democratic traditional, far-right conservative ticket. This switch epitomized the views of expanding fossil fuels, change that occurred after Southern corporate tax cuts, opposition to Democrats realized that banning Medicaid and Medicare, reduction of slavery through the Federal gun restrictions, and increased foreign government disadvantaged them, such military intervention. that they became Republicans. On the The Democratic Party was other end, African-Americans started founded on January 8th, 1828. The to slowly change to the Democratic first Democratic president was the Party, and eventually, the Democratic seventh President of the United Party became a frontier for radically States, Andrew Jackson. Jackson is liberal social values for its time.2 The most well-known for being pro- Democrats became the party of slavery and pro-Federal government. inclusion, with the Civil Rights Act of The Democratic Party was founded on 1964 garnering support from the primary principle of the Federal President Lyndon b. Johnson. After government having a larger influence this, African Americans nearly fully on citizens’ lives. 1 switched political sides to the While the greatest change in Democratic Party. It became the party American political philosophy is of minorities and intellectuals, all the attributed to the change from way through electing America’s first Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party president of color, barack Obama.3 3 JCC: 2024 Election DNC EthicalMUN IV Crisis In this committee, you will be plans to voters. They may also representing the majority of high- participate in debates with candidates level members of the Democratic from other parties. During the general party, all with the same goal in mind. election, Americans go to their The White House is on the horizon for polling place to cast their vote for the Democratic Party, and it is now president. but the tally of those time to seize the day. votes—the popular vote—does not determine the winner. Instead, Information on Topic presidential elections use the Electoral “The election process begins College. To win the election, a with primary elections and caucuses. candidate must receive a majority of These are two methods that states use electoral votes (270 votes). In the to select a potential presidential event no candidate receives a nominee. In general, primaries use majority, the House of secret ballots for voting. Caucuses are Representatives chooses the president local gatherings of voters who vote at and the Senate chooses the vice 4 the end of the meeting for a particular president.” candidate. Then it moves to How to Become President of the United States nominating conventions, during which political parties each select a nominee to unite behind. During a political party convention, each presidential nominee also announces a vice presidential running mate. The candidates then campaign across the country to explain their views and 4 JCC: 2024 Election DNC Crisis EthicalMUN IV The U.S. Constitution's Requirements • Primary: In a primary, party for a Presidential Candidate: members vote for the best candidate that will represent • At least 35 years old them in the general election.6 • Must be born in the United States Step 2: National Conventions • Must have lived in the United Each party holds a national States for at least 14 years convention to choose one presidential Step 1: Primaries and Caucuses nominee.