The 74 Million Voter Question: Are People of Color Becoming Swing Voters?
Let's Find Common Ground
USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future
5 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Center Co-Director Mike Murphy is joined by a group of experts to discuss how both parties should reorient their platforms to speak to minority voters as they become the majority in the U.S. and the higher numbers of voters of color who voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
Featuring:
Musa al-Gharbi - Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in Sociology at Columbia University
Robert A. George - Columnist, Bloomberg Opinion
Mike Madrid - Republican strategist; Spring 2019 Fellow, Center For the Political Future
Shaniqua McClendon - Political Director, Crooked Media and Spring 2021 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 respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations. |
| 0:30.1 | Okay, hello, and welcome to a USC Center for the Political Future Bully Pulpit series on a fascinating topic, which we like to call |
| 0:39.5 | the 74 million vote question about our voters of color becoming swing voters. We're going to take a |
| 0:46.3 | look at part of that coalition that voted for Donald Trump, who of course lost, but still managed |
| 0:52.0 | to get the second most popular votes in American presidential history. |
| 0:55.5 | I'm Mike Murphy. I'm the co-director of the USC Center for the Blakle Future. So greetings from me |
| 1:00.1 | and our staff and my partner in crime, who's not with us today, but here in spirit, Bob Schrum. |
| 1:06.4 | Now, I'm going to introduce our esteem panel here and give you an idea of who we brought in to express their point of view about this fascinating topic. |
| 1:15.4 | We have Professor Musa Al Garby, who is a sociologist at Columbia University. |
| 1:20.0 | He's the Paul, and I always mangled names, so I apologize if I get this wrong, the Paul F. Laser Fellow in the Department Department of Sociology and a Melon-Soyer fellow |
| 1:29.7 | on trust and mistrust of experts for the interdisciplinary center on innovative theory and empirics |
| 1:35.7 | in partnership with the American Assembly of Columbia. His work focuses on protecting |
| 1:40.7 | civil rights and civil liberties, especially with regards to race and religion, |
| 1:45.6 | as well as ensuring the U.S. national security, foreign policy, and domestic law enforcement |
| 1:51.1 | organs are as effective, beneficent, and restrained as possible. |
| 1:55.6 | Now, we also have my old friend Robert George, another disappointed victim of the current |
| 2:00.7 | Trump Republican Party. He is a columnist |
| 2:03.7 | for Bloomberg opinion. He's formerly an editorial writer through the New York Daily News and the New York Post, |
| 2:09.2 | and he's a conservative and libertarian blogger and pundit. You've seen him on TV. He's worked in the |
| 2:14.8 | past for the Republican National Committee and for Newt Gingrich, the former |
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