Election R&D Dialogues: Final Presidential Debate Analysis with Special Guest Patrick Griffin, Republican Media Strategist

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🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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CPF Co-Directors Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy are joined by Republican media strategist Patrick Griffin to discuss the final Presidential Debate between President Trump and Vice President Joe Biden.

Griffin was a Fall 2019 Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Political Future. He is a founding partner and CEO of Merrimack Potomac + Charles ( MP+C), one of New England's leading integrated public affairs and strategic communications firms. He has worked as a Republican media consultant for four U.S. presidential campaigns including Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, and U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander.

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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,
0:21.2	where we respect each other and we respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:26.4	Hello and welcome to another election R&D dialogue from the USC Center of the Political
0:37.3	Future.
0:38.2	I'm co-director Mike Murphy, joining me as our director, Bob Schrum, and our special guest,
0:44.2	former USC Center for the Political Future Fellow, and an old friend of mine, Patrick Griffin.
0:50.4	Pat sent me his 14-page bio here, which I'm going to kind of skim through. But Pat is the
0:59.1	founding partner and CEO of Merrimack, Potomac, and Charles, one of New England's leading,
1:04.2	integrated public affairs and strategic communications firms with offices in beautiful Boston,
1:10.5	Massachusetts, and Concord, New Hampshire.
1:13.8	Pat's a lifelong native of New Hampshire. All of us Republicans know him as one of the King
1:19.2	consultants of the New England area. He's an advisor to Governor John Sununu. We work together on a ton
1:25.0	of campaigns up there over the years. He's kind of Mr. New Hampshire, including work for President George W. Bush, U.S. Senator
1:32.2	Lamar Alexander and Governor Mitt Romney.
1:34.7	Pat is the author of two books, Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain and Primary Columns.
1:41.4	Also, he, as I said, was a fellow here.
1:47.8	He does regular stuff at the Harvard IOP. He is a TV commentator. You walk down the streets of Boston and people jeer at him. So we know he's on
1:53.6	television there in WCVTV, the ABC affiliate in Boston, Fox 25. You see him on CNN and Fox News nationally and all kinds of good stuff. He's also on
2:04.3	the board of one of our fellow institutes in New Hampshire, the Institute of Politics in St. Anselm
2:10.2	College. So Pat, welcome to Election R&D. Thanks, Mike. And great to be here.
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