The 74 Million Voter Question: Why Did Trump Get So Many Votes?

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🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Center Director Bob Shrum is joined by authors Thomas Frank and Theodore R. Johnson, Strategist Patrick Griffin, and Former Congresswoman Mimi Walters to discuss how Donald Trump built the second-largest voting bloc in U.S. election history

Featuring:
Thomas Frank - Political Analyst; Author of "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism"

Patrick Griffin - Founding Partner and CEO, Merrimack Potomac + Charles (MP+C); Fall 2019 Visiting Fellow, Center for the Political Future

Theodore R. Johnson - Fellows Program Director at the Brennan Center for Justice; Author of "When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America”

Mimi Walters - Former U.S. Representative (R-CA) and Fall 2020 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.
0:11.0	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.
0:29.4	Good afternoon. I'm Bob Shrum, the director of the Center for the Political Future at USC Dornseif.
0:35.9	Welcome to this next program in our series, The Bulley Pulpit, a session on,
0:41.6	quote, the 74 million voter question. Why did Donald Trump get so many votes? Let me express our
0:48.5	gratitude to our guests and introduce them. Thomas Frank is a political analyst, a historian, and a writer, a founder of Baffler Magazine,
0:57.6	and the author of a famous and landmark book, What's the Matter with Kansas, the New York Times
1:02.4	bestseller? His new book, which I hope will touch on today, in fact, we will touch on it,
1:07.4	is entitled The People Know, a Brief History of Anti-Populism.
1:12.3	Theodore Johnson is a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU.
1:17.4	Ted's work explores the role of race in politics, issue framing, and policy outcomes.
1:23.7	His forthcoming book is entitled, When the Stars Begin to Fall, Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America.
1:32.6	Pat Griffin is a strategist. He's been a fellow at the center. He's a legend in New Hampshire Republican politics.
1:42.2	And I'm so glad to welcome him back. Mimi Walters is a former U.S.
1:47.1	representative for California's 45th congressional district, a veteran of the California State
1:52.4	Senate and Assembly, and the former mayor of Laguna Nigel. I'm proud, too, that she was one of our
1:57.9	Center Fellows last semester. We're going to have a free-flowing
2:01.2	discussion for about 45 minutes, then a half hour of Q&A from the audience. Let me start
2:07.1	with this, and we can just go around. I think a lot of Democrats were shocked that 74 million
2:13.3	voters supported Trump after four years of what they saw as a chaotic presidency.
2:19.2	How much were they motivated by economic anxiety, by the changing demographics of the country,
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