President Joe Biden's First 100 Days - Racing Toward 2022 and 2024

Let's Find Common Ground

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🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Elex Michaelson, Fox 11 News co-anchor, is joined by journalist Todd Purdum, strategists Rachel Bitcoffer and Mark Mellman, and Shaniqua McClendon, political director at Crooked Media, to discuss whether Democrats will lose seats and legislative control in the midterms and which candidates are shaping the race for the presidency in 2024.

Featuring:
Elex Michaelson - Co-Anchor, Fox 11 News and Host, "The Issue Is: With Elex Michaelson"

Rachel Bitecofer - Elections Analyst and Strategist; Editor, The Cycle; Founder, Strike PAC

Shaniqua McClendon - Political Director, Crooked Media; Spring '21 Fellow, Center for the Political Future

Mark Mellman - CEO, Mellman Group; Former President of the American Association of Political Consultants

Todd Purdum - Former New York Times Reporter and Staff Writer at The Atlantic; Spring '21 Fellow, Center for the Political Future

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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
0:21.5	respect each other and respected truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.5	Hey, I'm Bob Strom. I'm back again. And on behalf of the Center for the Political Future, I want to
0:35.2	thank our audience, everybody who's participated today before I introduced the final panel Future. I want to thank our audience, everybody who's participated
0:37.7	today before I introduced the final panel. And I want to thank Rancho Mirage Writers' Festival
0:43.1	and Jamie Cabler. It's actually a real pleasure for me to introduce Alex Michelson. He co-anchors
0:50.0	the Fox 11 News, co-hosts the Fox 11 special report. He hosts and produces the political talk show
0:57.8	the issue is, which airs throughout California. He's the winner of six Emmy Awards and has interviewed
1:05.1	nearly every key political figure, including Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Gavin Newsom,
1:13.4	the list could go on and on. He's even interviewed me. At Annanburg, at the Annenberg School of
1:18.5	Journalism, he was first in his class, and his life has gone on to vindicate that. And he's also,
1:26.8	as I've come to know him, a first-class human
1:29.2	being. Alex, take it away. Bob, thank you so much. Bob Schrum, such a mensch, such an incredible
1:35.2	person who's not only one of the most talented, smartest, most experienced political minds
1:42.2	out there, but also one of the kindest human beings. And I'm so
1:45.3	grateful for you. And grateful to be a Trojan. Fight on to all the Trojans that may be watching as
1:51.9	well. Thank you for that very kind introduction. We've got a great panel to take us home today and
1:58.7	talk about some of the big issues you are really thinking about
2:01.3	things like 2022, 2024, where do we go from here? We're going to get into the gossip, the good,
2:08.0	all the good stuff is that we've saved it for the end. And so with us is Rachel Bidicoffer,
2:14.9	who is the founder and editor of the cycle, a website that offers political analysis and commentary.
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