Election R&D Dialogues: RNC Recap

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The Republican National Convention culminated with President Trump delivering his acceptance speech in front of an unprecedented back drop. Center Co-Directors Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy share their takes on the convention's highs and lows, what to expect in the upcoming presidential debates, and answer live questions.

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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 from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot-button issues where we respect
0:22.1	each other and we respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.4	Okay, according to our technical staff and the magic of electrons, we should be right on
0:35.2	up and running on Facebook live. Welcome to the USC Center for
0:39.2	the Political Futures Election R&D Dialogues. I'm Mike Murphy and co-director of the center,
0:45.8	and with me is my friend and old professional adversary, our center director, Bob Strump. Bob,
0:50.8	welcome. Thank you, and we're doing this, of course, in partnership with the Rancho Mirage
0:55.0	Writers Festival. Absolutely. Check it out online. It's pretty cool. We're going to be doing more
0:59.9	stuff with them. So, this is one of our chatathons about what's going on in politics, and obviously
1:06.5	the big topic is the Republican National Convention. So, Bob, you're a lifelong fan of the Republican
1:14.0	Party, a many-time convention reviewer. I remember you're waving that Reagan or nothing signed back
1:20.8	in 76. I say facetiously, Bob, of course, to those in our audience who don't know, has been a
1:26.9	giant in the Democratic
1:28.0	Party for years and a very famous Democratic speech writer and, of course, political
1:32.2	consultant.
1:33.2	So I'm going to start by throwing it to you.
1:35.6	What did you think?
1:36.6	What was your sense?
1:37.6	And then I'll go into my spiel.
1:39.2	Well, I agree with what you said on MSNBC last night that Donald Trump won the Fidel Castro Award for the longest
1:46.6	oratory. It was the worst written and worst delivered acceptance speech in modern history.
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