Inaugurating A New Future?

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy welcome the Spring 2025 CPF Fellows to USC for a virtual discussion of Donald Trump’s inauguration and what a second Trump term may look like. The conversation features:

Bob Shrum (moderator) - Director, USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future
Ed Goeas – Republican Pollster and Strategist
Betsy Fischer Martin – Executive Director, Women & Politics Institute at American University; Former "Meet the Press" Executive Producer
Jonathan Martin - Senior Political Columnist and Politics Bureau Chief at POLITICO
Anthony Rendon – Former Speaker of the California State Assembly
Cameron Trimble – Former White House Director of Digital Engagement; Founder of Hip-Politics

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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 respected truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations. I'm Bob Schrum, the director of
0:31.6	the Center for the Political Future at USC Dornsife. And I want to say that before we begin anything, we are thinking of friends,
0:42.3	neighbors, colleagues who have lost so much in these terrible fires in Los Angeles.
0:50.7	And I'm going to talk a little bit more about that later. So welcome to our first event of the semester.
0:57.0	We're going to talk with our panel for about 40 minutes and then leave time for your questions.
1:02.9	Put questions in the chat and I'll make sure we get to as many of them as possible.
1:07.3	We're fortunate to have six terrific fellows conducting study groups this semester.
1:14.1	Today you'll meet five of them, and we'll have a discussion about the title shifts underway in American politics.
1:20.7	The fellow who can't join us for this program, but who will be spending time on campus this semester is Jessica Malon Patterson, the chairwoman of the California Republican Party.
1:31.9	Let me introduce the fellows who are here for today's discussion.
1:36.2	Ed Goh has served as president and CEO of the Terrence Group, one of the most respected Republican survey research and strategy teams in American
1:46.5	politics for 35 years before retiring from the firm in 2022.
1:52.7	Ed is widely recognized as a leading American political strategist and was program director
1:59.6	for the 2008 Republican Convention for Senator
2:03.0	John McCain's presidential campaign. Betsy Fisher Martin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist,
2:10.0	former TV news executive, who serves as the executive director of the Women and Politics
2:15.6	Institute at American University and as a faculty member
2:19.0	in the university's department of government. She spent 23 years at NBC News, serving as the
2:26.7	path-breaking executive producer of Meet the Press. Jonathan Martin is the Politics Bureau chief, senior political columnist at Politico.
2:39.1	Before starting his column in 2022, he served as the national political correspondence
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