Election 2024 Breakdown with CPF Fellows

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 20 January 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

CPF Co-Directors Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy join Spring 2024 CPF Fellows, Douglas Brinkley, Jane Coaston, Ron Galperin, and Tim Miller for a lively discussion on the 2024 primary elections, presidential race, and campaigns.

Featuring:

Douglas Brinkley: Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities & Professor of History, Rice University; Spring 2024 Fellow, USC Center for the Political Future
Jane Coaston: “The Argument” Podcast Host, The New York Times; Spring 2024 Fellow, USC Center for the Political Future
Ron Galperin: Former Controller and CFO, City of Los Angeles; Spring 2024 Fellow, USC Center for the Political Future
Tim Miller: Political Consultant; Jeb Bush 2016 Campaign Director; Spring 2024 Fellow, USC Center for the Political Future
Bob Shrum: Director, Center for the Political Future; Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics, USC Dornsife
Mike Murphy: Co-Director, Center for the Political Future; NBC Political Analyst

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0:00.0	Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California's 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 respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.5	I'm Bob Strom, director of the Center for the Political Future, here at USC Dornside. With me as the
0:35.4	center's co-director, Mike Murphy.
0:37.9	Hello.
0:38.4	Today, we welcome some of our extraordinary spring fellows for the first discussion this
0:44.0	semester of our bully pulpit series. Mike and I will question the fellows for about 45 minutes,
0:49.6	and I'm sure Mike will throw in some opinions along the way, and then we'll put this up for audience
0:54.7	questions. Let me introduce the fellows who are with us. Douglas Brinkley is the Catherine
0:59.4	Santa Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University. He is a prolific
1:05.2	write around politics and public policy. His latest book is a monumental study of the origins of the environmental movement,
1:12.2	and I'll get to that later. Jane Koston is a contributing opinion writer for the New York
1:16.8	Times. Previously, she was the host of the opinion section's podcast, The Argument,
1:21.9	and was a senior political reporter at Box with a focus on conservatism in the GOP. Ron Galpert is the former controller and
1:30.2	chief financial officer of the city of Los Angeles and was the first openly gay official in this
1:36.3	city. Tim Miller was a political consultant and served as communications director for Jeff Bush
1:42.8	2016, and then was political director for Republican
1:46.8	voters against Trump. He is now the bulwarks writer at large, an author of the best-selling book,
1:52.2	Why We Did It, a travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell. He joins us as the spring
1:57.8	2024-Bennep fellow. Two of our fellows couldn't be with us today.
2:02.1	Michael Tubbs was the mayor of Stockton, who created innovative strategies to combat gun violence and
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