USF Road to the White House 2024 - Barton

Today we went to Fox News' Town Hall with Nikki Haley hosted by John Roberts. I thought this was a super neat experience as we got to watch the process of live television being made. After, we got the change to say hello and get a picture with Nikki Haley.  Then, the other Trump interns and I went to a campaign office in Columbia where we met some other campaign managers and interns from USC who were all extremely helpful and intelligent. We did some more phone banking before heading back to the hotel for dinner.   

  My first day campaigning for Trump in SC was super exciting! We got to learn about and participate in phone banking and canvassing. At the end of the day, we got to meet with former White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley. He was so insightful and gave us an opportunity to ask any questions! Made it on the leaderboard for phonebanking in the Trump office!

  Our first day of in-person class on Thursday, January 11th, my class participated in an activity called "citizenship bingo" in which we were tasked with going around the classroom and asking others a question on our bingo board, that was taken from the U.S. Citizenship Test. Then we needed to write the answer and the students name - their last name. 

  We were assigned groups in order to research and present each candidate running for the 2024 presidential election. I was paired with Grace and Olivia and we were assigned President Joe Biden for our research presentation!

  We took pictures for Bay News 9 and USF in our new matching "Road to the White House 2024" T-Shirts! Check out our article here !

The next few classes we were tasked with reading Redlawsk's book  Why Iowa?,   and evaluating his analysis of the importance of the Iowa caucus through a 4-5 page paper. I found this interesting because when we were reading this book and making our case, the Iowa Caucus was occurring in real time!

We were tasked with reading and evaluating Professor Dante Scala'a book,  Stormy Weather.  In this book he discussed the importance of the New Hampshire Primary and this was interesting because we had just seen the odd results of New Hampshire this year.