Election 2024: Where Are We Now?

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🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Election 2024: Where Are We Now?

CPF Director Bob Shrum joins Jane Coaston, journalist and CNN contributor, and David Simas, former CEO of the Obama Foundation, for a discussion on how the 2024 election looks with less than two weeks to go. They discuss how each candidate is performing in the polls, the importance of the presidential debate, and each campaign's strategy and messaging.

Featuring:
- Jane Coaston: Journalist; CNN Contributor; Lead Host of Crooked Media's Daily News Show “What A Day"; Fall 2024 CPF Fellow
- David Simas: Former CEO of the Obama Foundation; Former Director of the Office of Political Strategy & Outreach under the Obama Administration
- Bob Shrum: Director, Center for the Political Future; Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics, USC Dornsife

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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. Let me introduce today's
0:31.3	panelists. Jane Koston is a contributing writer for The New York Times. Previously, she was the host of the opinion
0:38.5	sections podcast, The Argument, and she is, by the way, good at arguing, and senior political
0:44.3	reporter at Vox with a focus on conservatism and the GOP. She's also a terrific fellow at the
0:52.1	Center for the Political Future. David Seamus, Managing
0:55.3	Director of Emerson Collective, former president of the Obama Foundation, and White House
1:01.1	Director of Political Affairs under President Obama. I'm going to begin with something pretty
1:06.0	simple, and I'll get your take on it, and then I'll probably weigh in a little too.
1:11.8	Jane, I'll start with you.
1:12.8	Where are we now in this election and where are we headed?
1:16.2	I know where we are.
1:17.2	I do not know where we're headed.
1:18.7	I got out of prognostications about nine years ago.
1:22.8	I think right now we're in the midst of a very tight race.
1:25.0	We're in this weird moment where there hasn't been a lot of good polling coming out of a lot of swing states.
1:30.5	So, for example, I think that, you know, Virginia actually has only been pulled once this month.
1:37.0	Virginia is not a swing state in this election, but that just kind of is the durst of data we're dealing with.
1:40.9	So basically, we're in an incredibly tight race.
1:44.0	I think that for a lot of people, this is actually the most quote-unquote normal. with Dana we're dealing with. So basically, we're in an incredibly tight race.
1:45.5	I think that for a lot of people,
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