The Golden State: Blue LA and the Purple Congressional Battlegrounds

Let's Find Common Ground

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🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

FOX 11 News Co-Anchor Elex Michaelson joins political insiders, strategists, and education experts for a discussion on how California and Los Angeles were impacted by the elections. They also talk about the Los Angeles mayoral election, the future of Gavin Newsom’s political career, control of the Senate, and the future of the Democratic and Republican parties in California.

Featuring:

Barbara Boxer: Former U.S. Senator (D-CA); Former Fellow, USC Center for the Political Future
Addisu Demissie: Principal and Co-Founder, 50+1 Strategies; Political Strategist, Gavin Newsom's 2018 gubernatorial campaign and Cory Booker's 2020 presidential campaign
Christian Grose: Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, USC Dornsife; Academic Director, USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy
Ira Reiner: 39th Los Angeles County District Attorney; Former Los Angeles City Attorney and Controller, Fall 2022 Fellow, USC Center for the Political Future
Tom Ross: President and CEO, Swing Strategies political consulting firm
Elex Michaelson: Host, "The Issue Is"; Co-Anchor, FOX 11 News; Winner of multiple Emmy and Golden Mic awards

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0:00.0	Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.8	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.
0:29.8	Thank you all for being here in such an important conversation, and what a great group
0:34.5	we have here as well. Of course, we've got Barbara Boxer, former senator,
0:40.3	which is also a former fellow for the USC Center for the political future, which is awesome.
0:46.3	Adi Sun Demisi is here as well.
0:49.3	He is the principal and co-founder of 50 plus one strategies.
0:53.3	He's political strategist he ran gana
0:55.9	newsome's campaign which seemed to work pretty well a year's ago uh he also uh ran cord
1:01.5	booker's campaign for the senate and his presidential campaign um and was just a part of the
1:06.1	karen bass for mayor campaign which also seemed to do pretty well.
1:17.3	Christian Gross is here, an associate professor of political science and public policy at Dornseif and the academic director of the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy.
1:23.1	I was just with yesterday.
1:24.6	Yesterday.
1:25.8	Which is on the issue with this week.
1:27.4	Everybody wants to watch Friday at 1030.
1:29.2	It's shameless plug.
1:29.9	I'll get a few of those in.
1:32.1	Ira Reiner is here as well.
1:34.7	The 39th Los Angeles County District Attorney,
1:37.5	a former Los Angeles City Attorney and Controller
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