CPF Fellows Roundtable Series: American Democracy and Its Institutions

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🗓️ 20 February 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In the first installment of the CPF Fellows Roundtable Series of 2021, CPF Fellows Barbara Comstock, Shaniqua McClendon, and Todd S. Purdum discussed the institutional aspects of American democracy from the Senate and the filibuster to gerrymandering and political parties. This discussion was moderated by CPF Fellows Manager, Harry Burke.

Featuring:
Barbara Comstock: Former U.S. Representative (R-VA) and CPF Spring 2021 Fellow
Shaniqua McClendon: Political Director, Crooked Media and CPF Spring 2021 Fellow
Todd S. Purdum: Former New York Times Reporter and Staff Writer at The Atlantic; CPF Spring 2021 Fellow

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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
0:21.5	respect each other and respected truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.2	Hello, and welcome to the first installment of our three-part fellows, CPF fellows roundtable series.
0:35.7	My name is Harry Burke. I am the fellow's manager here at CPF,
0:39.4	and I'll be moderating today's discussion, which will be broadcast through Facebook Live.
0:44.1	It will be an episode on our podcast, The Bolly Pulpit, which can be found wherever you get your
0:48.9	podcast. Today's discussion will center around American democracy and our governing institutions.
0:54.8	Distrust among Americans towards Congress, politicians, democracy in general, has left many feeling disenchanted with our system.
1:02.3	And today we hope to delve into these and other surrounding topics and engage in fruitful conversations.
1:06.6	Today I'm joined by our three fellows.
1:08.5	Shiniko McClendon is the political director at Crooked Media.
1:12.9	And before that, worked on Capitol Hill, serving as policy advisor to Senator Kay Hagan
1:17.6	and legislative director to Congresswoman Alma Adams.
1:20.8	Todd Purdam is a renowned and longtime journalist, recently writing as a staff writer
1:24.5	for The Atlantic and California correspondent.
1:27.0	He's also been a senior
1:27.9	writer at Politico, contributing editor of Vanity Fair, and was formerly with the New York Times
1:32.6	where he worked for 23 years. And Barbara Comstock is a former member of Congress from Virginia,
1:37.2	where she served from 2015 to 2019. And prior to serving in Congress, Barbara was elected for
1:41.9	three terms in the Virginia House of Delegates, and she's currently
1:45.3	a senior advisor at Baker Donaldson focused on technology issues. We are going to have a couple
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