The Pandemic Election
Let's Find Common Ground
USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future
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🗓️ 14 April 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Co-Directors of the USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the presidential election. Bob Shrum, the former senior strategist for Al Gore, John Kerry, and a host of Democratic senators and governors, and Mike Murphy, the former senior strategist for John McCain and Mitt Romney and a political analyst for NBC News, discuss the latest on changing voter attitudes toward the Trump administration, voting while sheltering in place and the dilemmas and opportunities of the Biden and Sanders campaigns.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Election R&D from the University of Southern California's 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 each other |
| 0:22.2 | and respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations. |
| 0:29.6 | Hello out there. My name is Erica Maldonado Singh. I'm the community engagement manager |
| 0:34.2 | at the U.S.D. Dornsside Center for the Political Future. Thank you so much |
| 0:37.8 | for joining us this afternoon. I want to welcome you to this Dornside dialogue, focused on what we're |
| 0:43.0 | calling the pandemic election. If you'd like, you can begin to submit your questions now in the Q&A box |
| 0:49.0 | at the bottom of your screen. Our speakers will do their best to respond to as many as they can. |
| 0:55.6 | Now I'll turn it over to Amber Miller, Dean of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. Hi, everybody. Welcome. |
| 1:02.3 | And thanks for joining us at our first online Dornsafe Dialogue of 2020. The goal of this series is to |
| 1:08.4 | invite our extended Dornseif community to hear from our top-level scholars, |
| 1:12.6 | writers, and thinkers about issues of importance to all of our lives and our communities. |
| 1:17.5 | This week will start by talking about our 2020 election. It seems like a world ago that |
| 1:23.9 | this primary election was on the front page of our newspapers, given what we've all been dealing with over the past month. |
| 1:30.6 | But we still have an important election this coming November and important news, as of just yesterday, about Bernie Sanders dropping out of the race. |
| 1:38.1 | We are fortunate at USC Dornsife in our Center for the Political Future to have a center that's led by two of the most renowned, |
| 1:45.6 | accomplished and often hilarious political strategists out there, Bobstrom and Mike Murphy. |
| 1:51.0 | I know you're here to hear from them and not me, so I'll give you a brief introduction to the two |
| 1:55.8 | of them and then pass it off to them. Mike Murphy is an accomplished Republican strategist |
| 2:00.6 | who's worked on six |
| 2:01.6 | Republican campaigns. You may remember him from the 2000 GOP primaries as a senior strategist |
| 2:08.3 | for Senator John McCain. He also appears frequently on NBC, CNN, NPR, and other venues to talk |
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