With the Bark Off: Conversations on the American Presidency

A Conversation with Victoria Soto and Julian Zelizer

Episode Summary

Joining us to discuss the 2020 presidential election are two prominent political analysts: MSNBC Contributor Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, Assistant Dean for Civic Engagement and a Lecturer at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin; and CNN Contributor Julian Zelizer, Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University.

Episode Notes

In today’s episode, we take a look at the upcoming presidential election that will pit President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence against Democratic challengers Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Joining us to offer their analysis and perspectives are two prominent political analysts. 

Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, a contributor to MSNBC, is the Assistant Dean for Civic Engagement and a Lecturer at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. 

Julian Zelizer, a contributor to CNN, is a Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the author of nineteen books on American political history, including his latest, Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker and the Rise of the New Republican Party.  

Copies of Zelizer’s previous book, “The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society,” are available for sale from The Store at LBJ.