Listen to the heated Harvard meeting between the top Trump and Clinton campaign aides
You can now listen to the bitter meeting between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s top campaign staffers Thursday night at Harvard.
As has been reported by those in attendance, the Campaign Managers Conference—a post-election tradition to provide a “first draft of history” and debrief on the presidential campaign—at times devolved into an acrimonious war of words between the Clinton and Trump teams, clearly still raw from the campaign.
Courtesy of Harvard’s Institute of Politics, which has hosted the forum since 1972, you can now listen entire event:
https://soundcloud.com/harvardiop/roundtable-discussion-the-general-election
The entire two-and-a-half hour discussion is well worth listening to, as top Trump and Clinton aides reflect on the campaign and freely debate their former rivals.
In case you’re mostly interested in the widely-reported flare-ups from the event, here are a few markers:
32 minutes: Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Clinton pollster Joel Benenson tersely trade jabs in a debate over flag burning.
56 minutes: Members of both camps get into a tense exchange over Clinton’s lead in the popular vote. Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway tells her side, “Hey, guys, we won. You don’t have to respond.”
1 hour, 21 minutes: Jennifer Palmieri, the communications director for the Clinton campaign, gives an impassioned explanation of why she thinks her candidate was so disliked by the public.
1 hour, 40 minutes: The topic of Trump adviser Steve Bannon results in perhaps the most heated part of the debate.
Palmieri: “If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician, I am proud to have lost. […] I would rather lose than win the way you guys did.”
Conway: “No you wouldn’t. That’s very clear, respectfully. No, you wouldn’t.”
2 hours, 28 minutes, 50 seconds: Clinton adviser Mandy Grunwald pays the Trump team a compliment, of sorts: “I don’t think you give yourself enough credit for the negative campaign you ran.”
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