2021: The Year of Politicking Dangerously - Insurrection, Pandemic, and Biden's Big Agenda

Let's Find Common Ground

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🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Christina Bellantoni, is joined by USC Professor Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro, strategists Ben Tulchin and Juan Rodriguez, and commentator Charlie Sykes to weigh the Biden Administration's achievements and fumbles, the fallout from November elections, and the need for bipartisan action for real change.

Featuring:

Christina Bellantoni - Director of USC Annenberg's Media Center; Professor of Professional Practice, USC Annenberg
Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro - Dean's Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations; Director, Center for Leadership by Women of Color
Juan Rodriguez - Campaign Manager for Gov. Gavin Newsom; Partner, Bearstar Strategies
Charles Sykes - Founder and Editor-at-Large, The Bulwark; Host, The Bulwark Podcast
Ben Tulchin - President and Founder of Tulchin Research; Pollster, Strategist for Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign and Eric Adams' 2021 Mayoral Campaign

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0:00.0	Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.7	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot-button issues where we respect
0:22.0	each other and respected truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.3	Hi, I'm going to introduce now the moderator of our next panel, Christina Bellantone. She's the director
0:36.2	of the USC Annenberg Media Center. She's a professor of
0:40.2	professional practice, a USC Annenberg, a faculty fellow at the Annenberg Center on
0:46.0	Communication, Leadership, and Policy. She's also a contributing editor with the independent
0:51.3	nonprofit newsroom, the 19th News, which focuses on gender politics and
0:56.6	policy. And she's been our partner going all the way back years ago to when she was at the Los
1:02.3	Angeles Times as a brilliant political editor. Christina, take it away. Thanks, Bob. That's really nice.
1:08.1	Can't wait to see you in person. Welcome, everyone. Thanks for joining us this
1:11.5	morning. I'm so excited about this panel. I respect everybody on it so much. And I frankly care about
1:17.2	a lot of the issues that we are going to talk about here today very deeply. So I think we're going to
1:22.2	have just a great engaging discussion. This is 2021 insurrection, pandemic, and Biden's big agenda. And I'm really grateful
1:30.9	to be joined today. All of us are grateful to be joined today by Professor Ange Marie Hancock Alfaro,
1:36.7	the dean's professor and chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations
1:40.8	here at USC. She is a globally recognized scholar of intersectionality theory.
1:46.1	She also directs three research units at USC, the USC Institute of Intersectionality and Social
1:51.5	Transformation, the USC Center for Feminist Research, and the USC Dornsive Center for Leadership
1:57.6	by Women of Color, which is leading a study on the first black and
2:01.7	South Asian Vice President, the Kamala Harris Project. Juan Rodriguez, thank you for joining us.
2:07.4	He led California Governor Gavin Newsom's campaign to defeat the recall election and is a partner
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