Lots of things. I work for a neutral research org (so not a politician or a political party), which definitely impacts my experience. We field media inquiries, set up interviews (either with experts on staff or, if it's something general, one of us will do it- I've given talks/Q and As on local elections and stuff like that), send out newsletters, write copy for our offerings and gather contact information for people who would be interested, create graphics, answer questions from the public, manage our social media feeds, run/host webinars, etc.
On my team in particular, I'm the team member with the strongest tech and quantitative skills, so I also am the one who collects and presents metrics + owns relationships with a lot of the service providers we have relationships with.
It's not my favorite job I've done (too much 'asap' work and not enough thinking work), but I took the job because I knew marketing and branding was what I was weakest in when I was working for myself, and I wanted to learn about marketing while still having a roof over my head, so I took a comms job.
What kinds of things do you do in your political communications job? Sounds very interesting!