Election R&D Dialogues: 40 Days To Go

Let's Find Common Ground

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🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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With Election Day a little more than one month away, Center Co-Directors Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy discuss the implications of the Supreme Court vacancy following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the latest polling within the battleground states, what to expect in the first Trump/Biden debate, and the President’s comments on the peaceful transfer of power should Joe Biden win the election.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Election R&D from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.2	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists
0:17.4	from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues, where we
0:21.7	respect each other, and we respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:30.2	Hello, I'm Mike Murphy, and welcome to USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future Election
0:37.4	R&D Dialogue. We get paid by the number of
0:40.6	words we jam into the title of our event. So today is what we call a payday because we got a good
0:46.1	title for a good event. I'm here joined with my friend, professional adversary, but partner at the
0:52.2	USC Center for the Political Future, Bob Schrum,
0:55.6	the legendary Democratic consultant. And we're going to talk about everything that's going on in the
1:00.6	election and take a few of your questions, because here we are, Bob, 40 days out, and every
1:07.3	minute there's an earthquake. We obviously had the death of really a giant of American life,
1:14.0	Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I'm a conservative, but I can't help but admire who she is and what she did.
1:23.6	That, of course, is triggered not only mourning, but a huge political fight to fill a Supreme
1:29.3	Court vacancy. One of the highest level battles you can have in Washington because it puts
1:34.1	an imprint on the third branch of government, our judiciary in particular, the very important
1:39.2	Supreme Court. So we'll get to that, but I wanted to start our discussion by talking a little bit about the state of the race and something that was published earlier today online.
1:50.5	I tweeted it.
1:51.2	I think you tweeted it because it's something we've talked about before.
1:54.5	And I've been talking about this for years, so I'm so happy they did it.
1:57.9	Our friend Charlie Cook at the Cook Political Report joined up with my erstwhile employers, NBC News,
2:05.3	to create an interactive chart where you can look at the results of the 2016 election adjusted for the current demography of America.
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