Mike Murphy: Donald Trump vs Joe Biden

Conversations with Bill Kristol

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🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

What will the campaign between Donald Trump and Joe Biden look like amidst the coronavirus pandemic and economic crisis? What strategies might each candidate pursue? What strategies should they pursue? Joining us—in our first socially-distanced audio Conversation—is veteran Republican operative and frequent guest Mike Murphy to discuss the state of the race. As usual, Murphy is provocative, humorous, and insightful—both about the current dynamics of the campaign as well as how things might unfold in the months ahead. This is a must-listen Conversation at a pivotal and unprecedented moment in our politics.

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0:00.0	And the Hi, I'm Bill Crystal. Welcome to Conversations. I'm very pleased to be joined today by my friend and fellow conversant on several other conversations,
0:23.2	Mike Murphy, a great Republican political consultant involved in many successful
0:28.2	campaigns at many levels and a few unsuccessful ones and a fellow...
0:31.9	What? I know, I won't mention those.
0:34.0	The list is too...
0:35.0	Of course.
0:36.0	More than a few.
0:37.0	We have only an hour, Mike, so you can't really, you know, go through that.
0:42.0	Now this is an audio conversation obviously Mike and
0:44.8	I are socially distanced here and Mike is in his secure undisclosed location
0:50.0	out in the West Coast right? I am in the in the general vicinity of Los Angeles,
0:55.7	California and it is fantastic to be here. I miss the TV cameras as I'm sure
1:00.3	our nation does because actually it's an act of mercy not to have to look at us
1:05.9	squinting at each other so it's great to be here Bill I always enjoy these.
1:09.3	It's going to be bad when we get a ton of mail saying you know those audio conversations are great
1:13.6	with the two of you but we don't really need the video anymore you know.
1:16.0	Those guys really have a look for radio.
1:19.0	Yeah. Let's keep it that way.
1:21.0	Yeah, we'll suppress those incoming emails and
1:23.3	text and so forth okay so let's talk politics it's May 13th as we talk a little
1:29.4	over three months after Iowa that's hard to believe that that was only three months ago right two months after I
1:35.0	the real, the coronavirus really came to everyone's front and center to everyone's attention and really changed life here in America.
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