Election R&D Dialogues: DNC Recap

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Following the most unconventional Democratic political convention in history, Center Director Bob Shrum is joined by special guest Steve Schmidt to share the highlights and forecast the road ahead to November.

Featuring: Steve Schmidt, Co-Founder, The Lincoln Project; Republican Political Strategist

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0:00.0	Welcome to Election R&D from the University of Southern California's Center for the Political Future.
0:11.0	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.
0:29.1	Hello, I'm Bob Ström, the director of the Center for the Political Future at the USC
0:35.1	Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.
0:38.3	Welcome to our election R&D broadcast right after the Democratic Convention.
0:44.3	We're doing this in partnership with the Rancho Mirage Writers' Festival,
0:49.3	and I want to express our gratitude to Jamie Cabler and Deborah Chu.
0:53.3	We're going to go about 35 or 40 minutes, and we're going to then turn this over to
0:59.6	Q&A.
1:00.9	If you have a question, write it in the Q&A box.
1:04.1	Our assistant director, Erica Maldonado Singh, will then have those questions, and she'll
1:10.1	be able to ask them when we turn to them.
1:12.6	Today we have a very special guest, who most of you will recognize and who's a great friend of mine.
1:19.5	Steve Schmidt was in the White House with George W. Bush, was a top aide to Dick Cheney. He ran the Schwarzenegger reelection campaign.
1:31.8	Unfortunately, I have to say, given that I was so involved in the Kerry campaign, he was also a
1:37.1	strategist for the Bush campaign in 2004. He ran the McCain campaign in 2008, and he is now one of the leading lights of the Lincoln
1:46.6	Project, a group of dissident Republicans who have broken with President Trump.
1:52.2	Steve, I'm so grateful for you being here today.
1:54.8	Thank you very much.
1:56.3	Thank you.
1:58.0	So I'm going to start by talking about the virtual nature of this convention.
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