Reborn in 2010, the AI ​​in my mind is too powerful.

Chen Yiran returned to Delaware Newark on November 14 and participated in the donation ceremony in a small hall next to the principal's office.

Since there weren't enough guests (less than twenty), the development office temporarily pulled in a few student council members who weren't in class to make up the numbers.

This was also Chen Yiran's idea; there was no need for such a grand donation ceremony.

So the process was very simple: Patrick Harker stood in front of a makeshift foam backdrop, read a five-minute script, and then presented Chen Yiran with a commemorative crystal cup.

After taking some promotional photos, Patrick Harker asked, "Would you like to say a few words on tomorrow's National Agenda? You're an international student who also runs a business in the American tech industry, so you could offer some different perspectives."

Chen Yiran decisively refused: "I'm not very knowledgeable about politics. I'm a technician. I'll just sit and listen tomorrow."

Harker expressed his understanding, finding it perfectly reasonable. It's quite normal for a 22-year-old tech genius to have no interest in politics, especially since Chen Yiran has a unique style online. If he were to actually discuss politics, it would likely be populism, which would seem somewhat out of place at tomorrow's event.

The National Agenda is an annual lecture series launched by the Center for Political Communication at the University of Delaware. Each semester, a theme is set, and prominent figures from the political and media circles are invited to have face-to-face conversations with students.

The theme for 2012 was "The Road to the White House," and previous sessions had featured NBC News' chief White House correspondent, a Republican pollster, and a current U.S. Representative from Delaware.

The evening of November 15th was the last event of the year and a major event following the election, with the theme "Election Aftermath".

Both speakers are alumni of the University of Delaware.

One is David Plow, Obama's campaign manager, senior White House advisor, and Obama's most trusted team manager, strategist, and chief architect.

In 2008, he developed a grassroots mobilization strategy, breaking through the constraints of corporations through a gradual fundraising tactic and implementing targeted fundraising in key states. This helped Obama defeat Hillary Clinton in the party primaries against all odds and ultimately defeat Republican John McCain.

When Obama lost his first televised debate in 2012 while seeking re-election, it was he who encouraged Obama and stabilized morale, ultimately leading to Obama's successful re-election.

Another is Steve Schmidt, John McCain's chief strategist in 2008, who is now the vice president of public affairs at Edelman, one of the world's largest public relations firms. He is also a resident political commentator for NBC and MSNBC.

The host was Ralph Beglette, director of the Center for Political Communication at the University of Delaware and a former CNN world affairs correspondent.

The event was held at 7:30 p.m. in the Mitchell Hall event hall.

There were about six hundred seats, with the front row reserved for donors and school leaders. Chen Yiran and Ha Ke sat in the first row. Chen Yiran was there to broaden his horizons; this was his first time witnessing a political dialogue up close.

After a brief opening, Berglet invited Plov and Steve Schmidt up to the stage. Although they had been fierce opponents in the election, the two acted very naturally, even appearing quite familiar with each other, clearly old acquaintances.

Plov's first words after sitting down set the tone: "Many people will overinterpret this election. Obama won, but he won on policy trust, not just on demographics. Latinos, African Americans, women, and young voters voted for us not because they liked the Democratic Party label, but because they trusted our positions on economic, educational, environmental, and social issues."

Steve Schmidt took the phone but didn't continue the conversation: "The day after the election, John called me. He said, 'Steve, the stages leading up to victory are often accompanied by extreme difficulties.'"

Plov thought for a moment and said with a smile, "John always likes to quote that Eastern philosopher."

"That's right, it's another quote from Mao's Selected Works."

The audience erupted in laughter and applause. In fact, various politicians in the Western world frequently quote Mao Zedong's Selected Works. John McCain, a conservative Republican, was surprisingly obsessed with Mao's Selected Works, repeatedly quoting his words directly in public.

Steve Schmidt continued, "Of course, I don't want him to be so optimistic. The problems facing the Republican Party are darker than dawn. In 2004, Bush got 40% of the Latino vote. This year, Romney only got 25%. The Republican Party has been trying to win over the fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States, and as we all know, they have completely alienated them."

Republicans have lost five Senate seats they could have won in the past two election cycles. Delaware in 2010 was one of them. Christine O'Donnell is a real farce.

The audience started to laugh. This was really interesting and quite famous in Delaware. Chen Yiran also laughed heartily and inexplicably thought of Trump.

Christine O'Donnell is a member of the right-wing conservative Tea Party, a product of populism, whose level of abstraction is comparable to many Chinese internet celebrities. She once claimed to be a witch in 1999 and ran for U.S. Senator from Delaware three times starting in 2006. Of course, she may also have needed to divert campaign funds to pay rent.

When she ran for office in 2011, she even had to release a special post to clarify that she was not a witch and that in 1999 she was just a 30-year-old girl who was inexperienced in the ways of the world.

This kind of scum, with the support of Tea Party members, actually won the Republican primary and was put forward to fight against the Democrats. The disastrous result was predictable.

Steve Schmidt added insult to injury: "Conservatism is a serious governing philosophy. But in the minds of voters, it has become utter madness. I think the Republican Party has to do one thing: cut ties with the conservative entertainment complex."

Glenn Baker, Rush Limbo. These guys make tens of millions of dollars a year creating division. They're entertainment industry workers, not political leaders. If the Republican Party doesn't distance itself from these people, we'll become a purely Southern white party in two more elections.

Plov took over the conversation, and unlike Steve Schmidt, who had already switched jobs to become a political commentator, his words had a more official tone.

He calmly shifted the topic from the Republican Party's predicament to the shared responsibility of both parties, emphasizing the word "mandate": "If there is any mandate in this election, it is not the Democrats. It is both parties sitting down at the table to address the fiscal cliff."

Obama's team is already working on a plan. Tax rates, spending cuts, the debt ceiling—it's all on the agenda. We are the world's largest economy, and we should be able to do better than we are now, but only if someone on both sides is willing to take the first step.

Beglette then interjected with a pivotal question: "Speaking of President Obama, I'd like to ask what were the defining moments of this election?"

Plov barely hesitated.

"The first debate. Obama's performance in Denver was, in a sense, a failure of our organization. We had a good grasp of Romney's capabilities, but we didn't execute that that night. Throughout Obama's campaign, we've always had some near-death experiences."

The two then discussed some interesting anecdotes from the campaign, such as Romney saying at a rally that 47% of voters were not worth his attention because these Obama supporters lived off the government and did not pay personal income tax.

However, Obama did not respond to this statement during the subsequent campaign, mainly for fear of provoking the majority of those who had been honestly paying their taxes.

At the end of the conversation, Beglette steered the conversation toward technology.

"The weapon of the 2008 election was email," Plov said. "That's fossilized now. The new weapons for 2012 are social media and targeted data. We already have dozens of software engineers on our campaign team."

Steve Schmidt added, "I know there was a small team on the Republican side who had their system crash on Election Day morning and had to spend the whole day printing paper voter lists."

Those in the technical audience booed sympathetically. Steve Schmidt shrugged.

Plov added another detail: "Twitter's speed in judging public opinion is now faster than any other media commentary. Within ten minutes of the first debate ending, Twitter had already made its decision—'Obama lost.' Once this consensus is formed, no subsequent efforts can reverse it."

Beglette asked a question that many in the room wanted to hear: Christie and Obama.

The day after Hurricane Sandy made landfall in New Jersey, Republican Governor Christie, also an alumnus of Delaware, accompanied Obama throughout his visit to the disaster area. This greatly displeased Romney's campaign team.

"Based on internal Democratic polls, Sandy has no measurable impact on the election," Plow said. "But the fact that a sitting president and a sitting governor being friendly with each other is news speaks volumes about our state of affairs."

Steve Schmidt said, "Christie is a powerful leader who did what a governor should do. Any criticism of Christie just removes a problem-solver from the Republican Party's table."

Beglette then asked the two to make a prediction: Who will run in 2016?

Plov shut up, but Steve Schmidt did not.

"Hillary Clinton, I'm not sure if Biden will run for vice president, but Hillary definitely will."

Sometimes the timing is just so coincidental, or it's possible that the host had already received some signals beforehand.

In short, not long after the topic of the 2016 presidential candidates was raised, a number of people in black suits entered the venue and began their inspection.

Chen Yiran gave Nuno a reassuring gesture, and Nuno's 10-person team stopped moving, but still silently kept an eye on the men in suits.

A moment later, applause erupted throughout the venue as Biden, an alumnus of the University of Delaware and the current U.S. Vice President, entered the stadium.