In the second installment of our election week series, Road to Now contributors Matt Negrin & Alex Trowbridge of Bloomberg Politics offer up another round of Path to the Present (the podcast inside a podcast) to explain the role that surrogates have played in Presidential Elections in the past and present. Through their own research and interviews with Donald Trump’s Senior Advisor/Surrogate Boris Epshteyn & Hillary Clinton surrogate/US Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Matt & Alex discuss what motivates individuals to speak on behalf of a candidate, what we can learn from speaking with surrogates, and what makes a surrogate good (or bad) at their job.
Links:
-Alex Trowbridge on twitter
-Matt Negrin on twitter
Other RTN Episodes featuring Matt Negrin & Alex Trowbridge:
-Episode 20: Debate Extravaganza!: The History of Presidential Debates and Media Spin
-Episode 3: Alexander Trowbridge and Matt Negrin on the Media
And here’s some of Matt & Alex’s fine work at Bloomberg Politics: