2020 Election AMA (with Cristina Uribe)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

It’s less than 100 days until Election Day. What are the chances of political realignment? Is vote-by-mail a panacea? And how can despairing citizens contribute to real change? Civic Ventures President and campaign expert Zach Silk and veteran political strategist Cristina Uribe are joining forces to answer your questions about the 2020 election this week. Cristina Uribe is a veteran political strategist and manager working at the intersection of advocacy and politics. She has held senior management roles at several organizations, including California Director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC), Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives at the National Education Association (NEA), and Western Regional Director at EMILY’s List. She has led campaigns and civic engagement efforts in dozens of states across the country. Twitter: @curibeca Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/ Twitter: @PitchforkEcon Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer

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0:00.0	Hey, my name is Zach Silk. It's been a while since I've been on the podcast. I'm the
0:10.0	president of Civic Ventures and I'm excited to be talking today with one of my old friends and favorite people in politics Christina Uribe
0:18.8	Hi Zach. For those of you who not had a pleasure to talk to Christina, she's one of my favorite politicos,
0:25.2	has been involved in political campaigns up and down the ticket, everything from local races to legislative races to congressional races and everything in between and also like me has a lot of experience on ballot measures and so we've spent a lot of time in the trenches and I thought it'd be really interesting to talk to Christina about some of the ways that politics is playing out.
0:50.0	We're here in the 2020. I think we first met in 2020.
0:53.0	I think we first met in 2006.
0:57.0	Does that ring a bell to you?
0:58.4	I feel like yes, maybe even a little bit
1:00.8	before that congressional campaign
1:02.8	when you were, yeah,
1:04.8	when we were doing state legislative races in Washington.
1:08.1	Oh my goodness.
1:08.8	And back then, if I recall, you worked for Emily's list. Yeah, I had the Western states for Emily's list.
1:15.0	Christina, sometimes people say that this is the most consequential election of our lifetimes.
1:20.0	And normally I laugh about that because I don't remember an election
1:23.2	that people didn't say that.
1:24.5	But this might actually be the most consequential election
1:27.2	of our lifetimes.
1:28.2	Yeah, I tend to agree because that is something
1:30.6	that we say every election.
1:32.2	And to be honest, depending what's on the ballot, right?
1:35.0	If things you care about, especially ballot measured,
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