Join us on Election Day for the final part of our 2020 Election Series. On this Election Day Special, Political Communications Professor Dan Schnur of USC, UC-Berkeley, and Pepperdine will be joined by Todd Purdum, former writer at the Atlantic, POLITICO, and Vanity Fair. 

On November 3rd, millions of Americans will cast their ballots in person, joined by millions more who already voted by mail. As the day begins to unfold, join us for an overview of how we got here, and most importantly, what to look for tonight and into the future. 

Todd S. Purdum recently wrote for The Atlantic as a staff writer and California correspondent covering politics and culture. He has also been senior writer at POLITICO and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He was formerly with The New York Times, where he worked for 23 years, covering politics from city hall to the White House. He also served as diplomatic correspondent and Los Angeles bureau chief. During the 2016 presidential election, Purdum wrote extensively about Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and the legacy of Barack Obama. He recently published Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution (2018).

Dan Schnur (Moderator) is a Professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communications, the University of California – Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies and Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy, where he teaches courses in politics, communications and leadership. Dan was the director of the Sacramento Bee’s “California Influencers” series, in which he led a weekly online conversation among 100 of the state’s most respected experts in politics, government and public policy around the 2018 election. He is also a board member of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council & Town Hall.