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Let's Find Common Ground

How’s Biden Doing? What about the GOP?

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 8 October 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

For the 2022 Trojan Family Weekend, CPF Co-Directors and veteran political strategists Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy have a balanced and witty conversation about the latest political headlines. They discuss Joe Biden's administration, the state of the Democratic and Republican parties, and the midterm election and what it means for the 2024 general election.

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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

Welcome to Trojan Family Weekend to our podcast, The Bullie Pulpit, which we will use this event for as well. I'm Bob Shrum, the

0:40.0

Warshaw professor and the director of the Center for the Political Future. I'm the Democrat

0:44.2

who's dressed like a Republican. My co-director, Mike Murphy, is the Republican who's dressed

0:52.8

like a Democrat. And we're going to talk about for about

0:57.3

half an hour, about where President Biden is, what's going to happen in the midterms. And we

1:03.2

might touch on what happens beyond that. And then we're going to open this up to questions from you.

1:08.4

So I'll start off by giving Mike the first crack at this.

1:12.6

Where are we?

1:14.6

Well, crazy times demand crazy politics, I think, is where we are.

1:19.4

First of all, welcome.

1:20.9

It's great to see you.

1:21.7

Sorry, I keep saluting.

1:22.9

It's just they've got the Vegas lights turned on here.

1:25.4

So I'm blinded.

1:26.6

I should have brought my sequence. But it's

1:28.9

wonderful to see you all here today. We're going to have fun in this discussion. Also talk a little

1:32.4

bit about what we do at the center. So where are we? Bob asked the question. First of all,

1:37.9

we're in what is called by political hacks, say wrong track election. That's where a majority or super majority of people, when you

1:45.1

ask them on a poll, do you think things are going in the right direction or they've gotten

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