On to November: What Matters and Why?
Let's Find Common Ground
USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future
5.0 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Center Director Bob Shrum moderates a discussion exploring how the primary campaigns and developments in Washington are shaping the general election landscape.
The panelists include:
Rob Collins - Republican strategist; Former Executive Director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee
Christian Grose - Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, USC Dornsife; Academic Director, USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy
Betsy Fischer Martin - Emmy-winning journalist; Former TV news executive; Executive Director, Women and Politics Institute, American University
Mike Murphy - Co-Director, Center for the Political Future; political analyst for NBC News; former Senior Strategist for John McCain
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Election R&D from the University of Southern California's Center for the Political Future. |
| 0:11.4 | 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 each other and respect the truth. |
| 0:23.5 | We hope you enjoy these conversations. |
| 0:28.9 | So welcome to our last panel of the day. |
| 0:33.4 | Adley Stevenson once said after a raucous day at a Democratic convention that he knew who they were going to nominate the last survivor. |
| 0:41.6 | So I salute you as last survivors of today, which I think has been an extraordinary set of conversations, and I hope we can match that. |
| 0:51.3 | Our panelists are Rob Collins. |
| 0:53.1 | It's a longtime Republican strategist, |
| 0:55.2 | former executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, |
| 0:58.9 | an absolutely terrific human being despite his politics. |
| 1:04.0 | Betsy Fisher Martin, who's an Emmy Award-winning journalist, who's a former producer of Meet the Press, |
| 1:10.4 | very close to Tim Russer, |
| 1:12.2 | and now executive director of the Women and Politics Institute at American University. |
| 1:16.7 | My colleague, Christian Gross, associate professor of political science and public policy at |
| 1:21.3 | USC Dornside, academic director at the Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy. His book, Congress in Black and |
| 1:29.3 | White, won the best book on Race and Politics Awards from the American Political Science Association. |
| 1:34.8 | And of course, Mike Murphy, co-director of the Center for the Political Future, political analyst |
| 1:39.5 | for NBC News. Some of you have probably seen him on TV. Former senior strategist for John McCain, Mitt Romney, |
| 1:45.4 | Jeb Bush, among many others, the longtime political adversary and a very good friend. The way I want to do |
| 1:51.8 | this is sort of talk back and forth about Democrats and Trump and try to weave it together. And I'm going |
| 1:59.3 | to start with this. Democrats had a long, |
| 2:02.0 | contentious primary process in 2008, and it did not seem to hurt Obama. In fact, arguably, it helped him. |
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