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🗓️ 8 March 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Spring 2021 Center Fellow Shaniqua McClendon is joined by North Carolina Representative Rachel Hunt and Former U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Comstock to discuss the importance of electing more women to national, state, and local offices, and how political parties are addressing issues important to women voters.
Featuring:
Barbara Comstock - Former U.S. Representative (R-VA) and Spring 2021 Fellow, Center for the Political Future
Rachel Hunt - North Carolina Representative (D-Mecklenburg)
Shaniqua McClendon (Moderator) - Political Director at 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 respected truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations. |
0:30.1 | Welcome back. I'm Bob Shrum, the director of the Center for the Political Future at USC Dornseif. |
0:36.8 | As we all know, this is Women's History Month. |
0:39.7 | Appropriately, we're going to talk about women voters and the future of the two major parties, |
0:45.3 | Democrats and Republicans. |
0:47.4 | I want to introduce the folks who are going to be part of this. |
0:50.5 | First, our moderator, and I want her to be more than a moderator, I hope, our absolutely |
0:55.5 | spectacular fellow this semester, Shaniqua McClendon, who's the political director of Crooked Media, |
1:02.5 | where she leads their political strategy and civic engagement program, like Vote Save America, |
1:08.0 | and also created their successful 2020 volunteer engagement and fundraising program. |
1:13.0 | She served on Capitol Hill as a policy advisor to Senator Kay Hagan and legislative director to |
1:18.9 | Congresswoman Alma Adams. As I said, she's a fellow and doing an unbelievable job. |
1:25.0 | Students really love her. Rachel Hunt is a Democratic representative in the |
1:30.1 | North Carolina House of Representatives representing Mecklenburg County. She's a lawyer, college counselor, |
1:36.2 | and the daughter of someone for whom I have enormous admiration, former North Carolina |
1:42.2 | Governor Jim Hunt. She's in her second term and is vice chair |
1:45.9 | of the Education Community Colleges Committee. And Barbara Comstock, who was also a spectacular |
1:52.7 | spring 2021 fellow at the Center for the Political Future, she was elected to Congress in 2014, |
1:59.8 | served two terms representing Virginia's 10th congressional district, I think was a victim of the backlash against Donald Trump when she lost her seat in 2018. |
2:10.8 | She's previously worked as a strategic advisor to both Mitt Romney and George W. Bush's presidential campaigns. |
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