A diverse panel of top political journalists including Sarah McCammon from NPR, Eugene Daniels from Politico, Greg Sargent from the New Republic, and David Drucker from the Dispatch will break down the state of the campaign only weeks before Election Day. They’ll discuss what the polls are showing, what they’re picking up from sources in both parties, and what will happen on Election Day. The conversation includes a look at what might happen after the election in American politics. Moderated by Brian Rosenwald, RBX Project Manager and Scholar in Residence, College of Liberal and Professional Studies.
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This event is part of a co-branded series of events in partnership with the SNF Paideia Program, Robert A. Fox Leadership Program/Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies (PORES), Red and Blue Exchange (RBX), and many other campus collaborators.
About the panelists:
Eugene Daniels is a Playbook co-author and White House Correspondent for POLITICO. He has covered the Biden administration, with a specific focus on Vice President Kamala Harris since the inauguration. Since joining POLITICO in 2018, he has covered the midterms, the Democratic presidential primary and general election through print, video journalism, podcasts and live events. During the country’s reckoning with race in 2020, Daniels moderated POLITICO’s Confronting Inequality Town Hall series that examined how inequities in policing, housing, healthcare, education and employment permeate and plague the United States. Daniels is a senior MSNBC political analyst where he appears often sharing scoops, reporting and analysis of the biggest news in D.C. He is also currently the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. Prior to POLITICO, he covered the 2016 primary, general election and national politics as a political reporter at Newsy.
David M. Drucker is the author of In Trump’s Shadow; The Battle for 2024 and the Future of the GOP, a deeply reported, forward-looking, behind-the-curtain examination of the Republican Party and the beginnings of the 2024 presidential campaign. Drucker is Senior Writer for The Dispatch, breaking news and providing sharp analysis on campaigns, Capitol Hill and broad political trends. He is a regular panelist on MSNBC’s flagship morning program, “Morning Joe,” NewsNation’s “The Hill,” “Sunday, w/ Chris Stirewalt,” a weekly guest on Salem Radio’s nationally syndicated “Hugh Hewitt Show” and appears on a variety of programs across media platforms. Prior to The Dispatch, Drucker was a senior correspondent for the Washington Examiner, and a reporter for Roll Call, a newspaper in Washington covering Capitol Hill and congressional campaigns. Before that, Drucker covered California politics, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, from the Sacramento bureau of the Los Angeles Daily News.
Sarah McCammon is a National Political Correspondent for NPR and co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast. She is a frequent guest host for NPR news programs. McCammon has covered several presidential elections, including the 2016 campaign, when she reported on the rise of the Trump movement, divisions within the Republican Party over its future, and the role of religion in those debates. Her work has won numerous awards, among them a 2023 Edward R. Murrow Award for her coverage of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, a 2023 Wilbur Award for religion reporting, a Gracie Award in 2020 for her reporting on reproductive rights, and a National Press Club Journalism Award for team coverage of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in 2018. McCammon is the author of The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church, a 2024 book that is part memoir and part journalism. She has appeared on numerous television programs including CNN’s “Inside Politics,” MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes,” PBS “Newshour,” and CSPAN’s “Washington Journal.”
Greg Sargent is a staff writer at The New Republic and the host of the podcast The Daily Blast. A seasoned political commentator with over two decades of experience, he was a prominent columnist and blogger at The Washington Post from 2010 to 2023 and has worked at Talking Points Memo, New York magazine, and the New York Observer. Sargent is also the author of the critically acclaimed book An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics.
This event is cosponsored by the Gamba Family Red and Blue Exchange, an initiative of the SNF Paideia Program at the University of Pennsylvania, the Penn Political Union, and the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy. Generous funding is provided by the Gamba Family and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
