President Joe Biden’s First 100 Days - How Strong is Trump’s Hold on the GOP?

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🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

CPF Co-Director Mike Murphy is joined by former Congresswoman Barbara Comstock, journalists Robert A. George and Jeremy Peters, and President Trump’s former White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, to discuss how the impact of Republican voter support of the former president translates into influence within GOP leadership.

Featuring:

Mike Murphy - Co-Director, USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future; NBC Political Analyst

Barbara Comstock - Former U.S. Representative (R-VA) , Spring '21 Fellow, Center for the Political Future

Robert A. George - Columnist, Bloomberg Opinion

Mark Meadows - Former White House Chief of Staff, President Donald Trump and U.S. Representative (R-NC); Senior Partner, The Conservative Partnership Institute

Jeremy W. Peters - National Politics Reporter, New York Times; Contributor to MSNBC; Author, "Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted"

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0:00.0	Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.7	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.
0:29.2	Hey, hello, internet, and welcome to our third panel here at the Center for the Political
0:34.6	Future, and I'm excited about it. It's called How Strong is Trump's Hold on the GOP, the Grand Old Party?
0:41.6	I'm Mike Murphy, co-director of the Center here, and we have an esteemed, accomplished
0:45.9	Republican panel with one journalistic exception, though I don't actually know how
0:50.1	our journalistic panel member votes, as it should be, to talk about this topic.
0:54.9	And so let me do some introductions, and then we will get right to it.
0:58.8	Joining us is a recent fellow from the center here, a spring 2021 fellow, a big hit, a big success,
1:06.7	former Congresswoman Barbara Comstock, an old friend of mine from the Republican Wars.
1:11.7	She was elected to Congress in 2014, served two terms representing a tough swing district,
1:17.9	the 10th congressional district.
1:19.6	And before that, back when I worked as a strategic advisor to both George W. Bush and Mitt Romney.
1:25.2	Welcome, Barbara.
1:26.7	Another old friend, Robert George,
1:28.4	he's a columnist for Bloomberg opinion and before that an editorial writer with both the New York
1:32.8	Daily News and the New York Post, two of the great, great newspapers that I enjoy reading.
1:37.7	Grigley, though, the editorials, of course, Robert, and always the front page would.
1:41.5	He is a conservative and libertarian blogger and pundit who worked for the
1:44.8	RNC and Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives. Another former
1:49.7	member of Congress, Mark Meadows, who served as the 29th, I believe the last White House
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