The 2024 U.S. election promises to be a defining moment in American history. As Americans prepare to head to the polls in November to elect the next U.S. president, this event offered a comprehensive analysis of the key issues, campaign strategies, and electoral dynamics shaping this high-stakes contest.
On Sept. 5, Rice University’s Baker Institute Presidential Elections Program hosted Peter Baker and Susan B. Glasser. Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, and Glasser is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Together the two authored “The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III.” Baker and Glasser gave an overview of the lead-up to the 2024 U.S. election and also discussed the Honorable James A. Baker, III’s role in leading five presidential campaigns.
It was free and open to the public.
This event kicked off Election 2024: Policy Playbook, a joint initiative of Rice University and the Baker Institute for Public Policy that aims to provide nonpartisan expert insights on key issues at stake in the 2024 election. More information will be available soon.
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Agenda
6:00 pm CDT — Reception
6:40 pm CDT — Introductions
6:45 pm CDT — Discussion
7:30 pm CDT — Audience Q&A
7:50 pm CDT — Closing Remarks
Participants
Introduction
The Honorable David M. Satterfield
Director, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy; Janice and Robert McNair Chair in Public Policy; Former Ambassador to Lebanon and Turkey
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Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for MSNBC. In addition, he is a regular panelist on PBS’s Washington Week. Prior to joining The New York Times, he was a reporter for The Washington Post for 20 years. Baker has covered five presidencies, from Bill Clinton through Joe Biden, and won the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Coverage of the Presidency twice, the Aldo Beckman Memorial Award for White House reporting twice, and the Merriman Smith Memorial Award.
In between stints at the White House, Baker and his wife, Susan B. Glasser, spent four years as Moscow bureau chiefs for the Post, chronicling the rise of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Baker also covered the early months of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
His books include “Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House” and “The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton,” as well as those co-authored with Glasser, “Kremlin Rising,” “The Man Who Ran Washington,” and “The Divider.” The pair most recently completed a biography of former Secretary of State James A. Baker, III as well as a book detailing Donald Trump’s time in the White House.
Susan B. Glasser is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes a weekly column on life in Washington. Glasser has served as the top editor of several Washington publications, including Politico, where she founded the award-winning Politico Magazine, and Foreign Policy, which won three National Magazine Awards, among other honors, during her tenure as editor in chief.
Before that, she worked for a decade at The Washington Post, where she was the editor of Outlook and national news. She also oversaw coverage of the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, served as a reporter covering the intersection of money and politics, spent four years as the Post’s Moscow co-bureau chief, and covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. She edited Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, early in her career.
Her books include “Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution,” “The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III,” and, most recently, “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017–2021,” a best-selling history of Donald Trump in the White House, which she co-authored with her husband, Peter Baker.
Moderator
Theo Baker
Investigative Reporter; Student, Stanford University
