After stunning the nation, and the world, with his win in 2016, President Trump is facing re-election at a moment of racial unrest, economic uncertainty and a global pandemic.
How did we reach this point? What, if any, lessons from previous presidential elections can be applied to the 2020 Road to the White House? Can President Trump duplicate his efforts this year, bringing together a coalition of voters looking for someone to 'disrupt' the establishment again? Having re-elected four of the last five incumbent presidents, what must Democrats do to win back The White House? This course will frame America's current political environment, while providing historical context and background in order to better understand a divided and highly partisan America.
About the Instructor: Professor Steven L. Scully is an adjunct faculty member at UCDC and currently serves as C-SPAN's Political Editor. Scully earned his undergraduate degree from The American University in Washington, D.C and earned a Master of Science from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Illinois. He is past president of the White House Correspondents' Association, served as the back-up moderator during the 2016 presidential debates, and was recently inducted into the Pennsylvania Broadcasting Hall of Fame. According to John Oliver (This Week with John Oliver), Professor Scully is the most patient man on television.
UCDC faculty are currently working to adapt their more traditional, in-person courses to a virtual environment for the Fall 2020 term.