Finding Common Ground: The State of Our Democracy

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

CPF Director Bob Shrum joins Democratic political icon James Carville and former White House Chief of Staff and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus for a Common Ground Committee discussion on the 2022 midterm election results and the state of our democracy. They discuss the biggest takeaways from the midterm election, Carville's take on a Biden second run, and Priebus' experiences in the Oval Office.

Featuring:

James Carville: Political Icon
Reince Priebus: White House Chief of Staff (2017), Chairman of the RNC (2011-2017)
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.
0:11.8	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 respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.3	Our guests are going to engage with me and with each other for an hour, and then we'll have
0:33.5	half an hour for questions from the audience, including students who are watching remotely
0:38.1	from the George H.W. Bush School at Texas A&M University. So let me introduce two people
0:45.0	who probably don't need an introduction. James Carvel is the legend. He's a colleague, an old friend
0:52.2	with whom I worked back in the day. He is truly a political
0:56.6	icon. He was the architect of Bill Clinton's 1992 triumph in a driving force in other successful
1:03.1	center-left campaigns here and around the world. He's frequent and incisive, acerbic, and often
1:09.1	funny as he comments on television.
1:12.1	Reince Previs is the former and longtime chair of the Republican National Committee.
1:17.3	He was also the first White House chief of staff for President Donald J. Trump.
1:22.8	Earlier as state party chair in Wisconsin, he built a Republican bastion that lasted for nearly a decade.
1:30.8	Given the circumstances, however, I can't say I ever worked with him. But I can say that I think of him
1:38.0	as a friend, and we have been on stage together before. He is smart and thoughtful about the
1:43.4	American politics in which he has
1:45.4	played such a large part. So let me start with this. Leading up to this election, there was talk
1:50.9	about what might happen afterwards, but we haven't seen riots or candidates refusing to accept
1:56.1	outcomes. In fact, let's listen to what historian John Meacham said the day after the election.
2:02.0	American said, I actually want a constitutional republic where we argue about differences peaceably.
2:11.4	We don't encourage political violence. We understand that democracies are about giving and taking, and it's harder to give
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