Climate Change and the 2020 Election

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This panel examined the impact climate change has had on primary elections and the 2020 presidential election and the issue’s relevance to voters during an economic crisis, the pandemic, and racial justice movements.

Featuring:
Michelle Lujan Grisham - Governor of New Mexico, former US Representative (D-NM)

Bina Venkataraman - Editorial Page Editor, The Boston Globe; Senior Advisor for Climate Change Innovation, Obama Administration

Christine Todd Whitman - Former New Jersey Governor and Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Bush Administration

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0:00.0	Welcome to Election R&D from the University of Southern California's Center for the Political Future.
0:10.8	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 each other
0:22.0	and respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:30.1	I'm here with my co-director at the Center for the Political Future, Mike Murphy. We're going to have a
0:36.6	panel on what's happening, how we can drain the Political Future, Mike Murphy. We're going to have a panel on what's happening,
0:39.3	how we can drain the partisanship from this issue, what are the things we can get done. At the end of it,
0:44.7	by the way, we'll have about 20 minutes of questions from you. We have extraordinary guests.
0:49.7	Christine Todd Whitman, 50th governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001, and a former Mike Murphy client.
0:57.7	She was administrator of the EPA during President George W. Bush's administration, and she
1:03.5	runs the Whitman Strategy Group, a consulting firm that specializes in energy and environmental issues.
1:09.7	She also recently spoke at the Democratic National
1:11.9	Convention, which I don't think she ever expected to do. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is the 32nd
1:18.0	Governor of New Mexico, the first Latina Democratic governor in the country. She was elected
1:22.9	to Congress in 2010. She served three terms in Washington, then was elected governor of New Mexico, and in 2019,
1:31.4	she oversaw one of the most productive legislative sessions in New Mexico state history that featured
1:36.9	a historic investment in public education and a landmark transition to clean energy.
1:42.0	Bina Ventatarraman is a journalist, author, and science policy expert,
1:46.5	was senior advisor for climate change innovation in the Obama administration.
1:51.1	Currently, she is an editorial page editor at the Boston Globe
1:54.2	and former director of global policy initiatives at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.
1:59.7	And, of course, my friend Mike Murphy and
2:02.6	sometime opponent. Governor Lujan Grisham, I think we're going to start with you. New Mexico
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