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🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Award-winning journalist Hank Plante joins political insiders, journalists, and education experts for a discussion on the 2022 midterm election results. Panelists also talk about Nancy Pelosi stepping down as House Democratic leader, the reliability of polling, and messaging strategies of both political parties.

Featuring:

Elan Carr: Former U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism; Former Deputy District Attorney of Los Angeles; Fall 2022 Fellow, USC Center for the Political Future
Bill Carrick: Political Strategist, President Bill Clinton, Robert Luna, Eric Garcetti, Dick Riordan, Dianne Feinstein, and more
Seema Mehta: Staff Writer for the Los Angeles Times covering the 2022 midterm elections
Symone Sanders: Former Senior Advisor and Chief Spokesperson to Vice President Kamala Harris; Former Fellow, USC Center for the Political Future
Lynn Vavreck: Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics and Public Policy, UCLA; Contributing Columnist to The Upshot at The New York Times
Hank Plante: Emmy and Peabody-winning political journalist

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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 respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.2	Good morning and welcome to our annual Warshaw conference on practical politics, both those of you
0:35.2	who are here in person and folks who are on Zoom and on our
0:40.1	live stream and ultimately on Facebook.
0:43.0	I'm Bob Shrum, the director of the Center for the Political Future, and I'm here with Mike
0:47.2	Murphy, my longtime political opponent and friend and the co-director of the center.
0:53.4	I believe this conference will be an exciting and
0:55.6	revealing examination of the 2022 midterm election that defied history and confounded pundits.
1:02.4	But first, let me turn this over to Mike. Thank you, Bob, and welcome everybody, both through
1:07.2	the magic of electrons and here in person. It's great to see a lot of familiar faces, and thank you all for your support of the Center for the Political Future.
1:16.2	A few words about the center before we dive into midterm, madness, and beyond as we take a look at what was really a most remarkable midterm, I think, in my 30-plus years of hanging around politics. And we're going to
1:29.1	dive into every aspect of it and look a little bit at the future. 24, being political junkies,
1:35.4	we're more than happy to get going on the next one already. So the center exists to do multiple
1:42.2	things. First, we help kids here find and discover the world of practical politics.
1:47.3	We have a muscular internship program because we believe nothing is a better experience
1:52.1	for somebody interested in this than actually going out into the world and doing it
1:55.8	to kind of butt-wards what they learn here, studying all the classical political science things.
2:01.0	We also try to be, as Bob likes to say, active in the public square,
2:05.9	by holding panels like this.
2:07.6	We've done a ton of stuff, even during COVID electronically.
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