Robby Mook is a nationally recognized political strategist, who has organized winning organizations at the local, state and national level. Mook served as Campaign Manager for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, where he built a $1 billion, 50-state, 4,500-person organization. He also ran Terry McAuliffe’s winning campaign for Governor of Virginia, U.S. Jeanne Shaheen’s first winning campaign for U.S. Senate and led the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2012, when Democrats gained 8 seats. Mook is now President of the House Majority PAC, which is dedicated to protecting and expanding the Democratic House Majority. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a CBS contributor.
The 2020 Election
Event Overview
This special webinar, co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, is the second in a series focused on providing an expert, inside look at the upcoming presidential election.
Former Congressman Steve Israel, Director of the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs at Cornell, will lead an in-depth conversation with two top communication strategists: Robby Mook, President of the House Majority PAC, and Sean Spicer, Host of Spicer & Co. and former White House Press Secretary.
Israel, Mook, and Spicer will take an in-depth look at how candidates are being forced to rethink classic methods of campaigning in an environment that is unlike what we have ever seen before. What changes have the campaigns already implemented, what still needs to be done, and what messaging will best mobilize voters in these fraught times?
What You'll Learn
- What campaigns are doing to adapt to the virtual world when traditional methods like rallies and knocking on doors are affected by the pandemic
- How both presidential campaigns can mobilize and excite their voters
- What the campaigns should focus their messaging on in order to be successful
- How the Black Lives Matter movement is influencing the strategies of each campaign
Speakers
Mr. Sean Spicer is the President of RigWil LLC, a strategic consulting firm that provides insights to C-suite corporate and association executives. Additionally he is a founding Partner of point1, a mail, digital, and consulting firm that works with top Republican candidates in key races across the country. Sean also serves as a spokesman and senior advisor to the America First Action SuperPAC, the only SuperPAC sanctioned by the President. In August 2019, President Trump announced Sean’s appointment to the Board of Visitors at the US Naval Academy.
Sean built a decades-long career in Republican politics, witnessing and shaping the inner workings of Washington, DC, from every vantage point – as a House of Representatives communicator, heading up incumbent retention at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, in George W. Bush’s White House as Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, as the Chief Strategist and Director of Communications at the Republican National Committee, top advisor to presidential campaigns, and of course, White House Press Secretary. Sean made his way up through the ranks and has experience at every level in Washington.
Former Congressman Steve Israel left Capitol Hill – unindicted and undefeated – to pursue a career as a writer. In addition to writing two critically acclaimed satires of Washington, he heads Cornell University’s nonpartisan Institute of Politics and Global Affairs in New York City. Mr. Israel was a member of Congress for 16 years. He left in 2017, having served as House Democrats’ chief political strategist from 2011 to 2015 as Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. President Bill Clinton called him “one of the most thoughtful Members of Congress” — which, Mr. Israel notes, isn’t really saying much at all. He is a regular political commentator on MSNBC and his insights appear regularly in The New York Times and The Atlantic, as well as The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. He was profiled on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” and appeared on the CBS institution “60 Minutes.” As the Director of Cornell’s Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, Mr. Israel leads the only academically based institute of politics in the New York City metropolitan area. Its mission is to raise the discourse and foster a deeper understanding of political issues and geopolitics.
Robby Mook is a nationally recognized political strategist, who has organized winning organizations at the local, state and national level. Mook served as Campaign Manager for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, where he built a $1 billion, 50-state, 4,500-person organization. He also ran Terry McAuliffe’s winning campaign for Governor of Virginia, U.S. Jeanne Shaheen’s first winning campaign for U.S. Senate and led the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2012, when Democrats gained 8 seats. Mook is now President of the House Majority PAC, which is dedicated to protecting and expanding the Democratic House Majority. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a CBS contributor.
Mr. Sean Spicer is the President of RigWil LLC, a strategic consulting firm that provides insights to C-suite corporate and association executives. Additionally he is a founding Partner of point1, a mail, digital, and consulting firm that works with top Republican candidates in key races across the country. Sean also serves as a spokesman and senior advisor to the America First Action SuperPAC, the only SuperPAC sanctioned by the President. In August 2019, President Trump announced Sean’s appointment to the Board of Visitors at the US Naval Academy.
Sean built a decades-long career in Republican politics, witnessing and shaping the inner workings of Washington, DC, from every vantage point – as a House of Representatives communicator, heading up incumbent retention at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, in George W. Bush’s White House as Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, as the Chief Strategist and Director of Communications at the Republican National Committee, top advisor to presidential campaigns, and of course, White House Press Secretary. Sean made his way up through the ranks and has experience at every level in Washington.
Former Congressman Steve Israel left Capitol Hill – unindicted and undefeated – to pursue a career as a writer. In addition to writing two critically acclaimed satires of Washington, he heads Cornell University’s nonpartisan Institute of Politics and Global Affairs in New York City. Mr. Israel was a member of Congress for 16 years. He left in 2017, having served as House Democrats’ chief political strategist from 2011 to 2015 as Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. President Bill Clinton called him “one of the most thoughtful Members of Congress” — which, Mr. Israel notes, isn’t really saying much at all. He is a regular political commentator on MSNBC and his insights appear regularly in The New York Times and The Atlantic, as well as The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. He was profiled on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” and appeared on the CBS institution “60 Minutes.” As the Director of Cornell’s Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, Mr. Israel leads the only academically based institute of politics in the New York City metropolitan area. Its mission is to raise the discourse and foster a deeper understanding of political issues and geopolitics.
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