Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig capegirardeaucountydemocrats.com. NS
Answer
capegirardeaucountydemocrats.com. 5 NS ns-505.awsdns-63.com.
capegirardeaucountydemocrats.com. 5 NS ns-744.awsdns-29.net.
capegirardeaucountydemocrats.com. 5 NS ns-552.awsdns-05.net.
capegirardeaucountydemocrats.com. 5 NS ns-1420.awsdns-49.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0