The 2020 Election with Tiffany Cross, Rick Wilson and Rich Thau

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🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Racism, police and the pandemic are dominating hearts and headlines, but will they translate to votes in national and regional elections? One study found wavering Trump voters rank immigration and climate change as top reasons for a possible vote change, but it’s unclear if that will materialize. Other studies contend climate doesn’t even rank on the minds of swing voters. Young, liberal Americans are leading the charge on climate, but Bernie Sanders learned they are more likely to protest than vote. What issues are top of mind for Obama-Trump voters in swing states? How will the Coronavirus and racial justice crises of 2020 impact voters this cycle? Guests: Tiffany Cross, Co-Founder, The Beat DC; Author, Say It Louder! Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy Rich Thau, President & Co-founder, Engagious Rick Wilson, Republican Political Strategist This program was recorded via video on June 23, 2020. For full show notes, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.5	Is the 2020 election more than a referendum on the current president?
0:36.2	Climate One conversations feature energy executives
0:38.9	and environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats, the exciting and the scary aspects of the climate
0:44.5	challenge. I'm Greg Dalton. The conventional wisdom on this fall's election is that once again,
0:51.1	it will come down to a handful of voters and a handful of states.
0:55.0	This is a game of small numbers. Going out there and hunting down these small pools of persuadables
1:00.0	is critical because we're in an electoral college game.
1:03.7	Rick Wilson is a longtime Republican political strategist who got his start campaigning with the first President Bush.
1:09.9	He's editor at large at The Daily Beast and author of
1:12.4	Running Against the Devil,
1:14.0	a plot to save America from Trump and Democrats from themselves.
1:18.2	For persuadable voters, personality usually matters more than policy,
1:22.8	including climate.
1:24.1	Climate change is not a top-tier issue for these swing voters. It kind of falls in the
1:29.5	middle between not being a hoax and not being an emergency. Basically, it's kind of a problem
1:34.7	that's out there. Rich Tao is president of Engages, a communications firm. For the past 15 months,
1:40.5	he's conducted focus groups with swing voters in key districts, including Youngstown, Ohio, Appleton, Wisconsin, and Erie, Pennsylvania.
1:48.0	But not everyone is convinced that concentrating on this small group of voters is the most effective strategy.
1:54.0	I would rather focus on people who have skin in the game, pun intended, and who are ready to hit the pavement. Tiffany Cross is co-founder and managing editor of the Beat DC, an author of
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