Great. Thanks team.
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Dieter, Austin
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 7:45 PM
To: RR2
Cc: Walker, Eric
Subject: RE: Trump framing document - for research review
Just a couple things in yellow. Thanks!
From: Roberts, Kelly
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 7:39 PM
To: Dieter, Austin; Graham, Caroline
Subject: RE: Trump framing document - for research review
To bullets section I only have that one change below after Trump's comments earlier today
From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 7:25 PM
To: RR2
Subject: Trump framing document - for research review
Please give this one last check. Per Luis - the language is locked. We're just looking for any factual errors. Thanks all.
Dangerous Donald Trump Lacks the Judgment or Temperament to be President
Donald Trump's recklessness would hurt our economy, diminish our standing in the world, and make our communities less safe. Trump is dangerous, and he lacks the judgment or temperament to be president.
His impending nomination is a reminder that for years the Republican Party has elevated extreme voices, using divisive campaigns that sought to exploit unfounded fears for political gain. And just like Republicans in Washington have done for years, Dangerous Donald is only looking out for himself. His plans would benefit those at the very top and would drag our country back to where we were when the last Republican president left office losing 800,000 jobs a month. The American people can't afford to let him bully his way into the Oval Office.
Dangerous Donald Trump has already damaged America's relationships across the globe. His record of denigrating women has only gotten worse throughout this campaign, at the same time that his divisive rhetoric has made our communities less safe. And his business record is riddled with embarrassing failures that make it clear the American people can't afford to let him get anywhere near the White House.
National Security: Even as a candidate, Dangerous Donald has damaged America's relationships across the globe. In the White House, he would undeniably make America less safe.
*         Donald Trump has no foreign policy experience and rather than seeking the advice of well-respected experts, Trump relies on his own misinformed ideas and in his own words, on his "good brain."
*         Trump has falsely claimed that he knows "more about ISIS than the generals" and recommended that the U.S. military commit international war crimes.
*         Trump's threat to pull back from our most important military alliances
like NATO, pull aid from our allies like Israel, and his gushing praise for dictators would put our country on a dangerous path.
*         Trump has refused to rule out using nuclear weapons on European territory, and wants to allow countries that don't currently have nuclear weapons to get them, reversing long-held goals of international nuclear disarmament.
Wrong on Women: Dangerous Donald has a decades-long record of denigrating women and promoting misogyny. His policies would make it harder for women to make their own choices when it comes to their healthcare or their career.
*         Trump once said you had to  treat women "like s**t" and has spent decades doing so himself by calling women names - "fat pig," "slob," or "bimbo" - and saying a man needs a woman to support him at home rather than always be "griping and bitching."
*         Trump would take away a woman's right to make her own healthcare choices and has said women who had abortions should be punished - but not the doctors that performed them - and opposed exceptions for health of the mother because he thought women would use a cold as an excuse to have an abortion.
*         Trump thinks ensuring equal pay for women should just be left up to "the marketplace" and once suggested family leave policies should actually be scaled back and noted pregnancy was "an inconvenience for a business." Trump complained that when he employed mothers, they were not giving him "100 percent."
Divisive and Dangerous: Dangerous Donald exploited racial anxieties and cultural fears in the pursuit of getting elected - to the point where his rallies have sparked violence against people of color, protestors, and the media.
*         Trump spouts hateful and dangerous lies about Muslims and called to surveil mosques, to ban Muslims from entering the country and to create a database of all Muslims in America - including U.S. citizens - and could not answer when pressed on how this would be any different from Nazi Germany.
*         Trump called Mexican immigrants "rapists" and criminals and said they brought disease into the country, said you needed to check if Native Americans were "real Indians," and claimed that a "well-educated black has a tremendous advantage" - but apparently not an advantage in finding housing in Trump properties, because in the 1970s, the Trump Organization was sued for discriminating against Blacks and Puerto Ricans.
*         Trump has been endorsed by former  KKK leader David Duke, and his candidacy has been used as a recruiting tool for the white supremacist movement, which is no surprise since Trump refused to disavow David Duke and the KKK four times in one interview.
*         Trump has fostered violence against protestors at his rallies, suggesting that a Black Lives Matter protester maybe "should have been roughed up," promising to pay the legal fees if someone would "knock the hell" out of a protester and reminiscing about the old days when a protester would be "carried off on a stretcher."
*         Trump repeatedly threatened the First Amendment by calling to "open up" libel laws so he could sue reporters whenever they printed a story he did not like, made it a practice of banning media outlets he did not like from covering his rallies, and thought "closing" parts of the Internet was a rational strategy to combat ISIS.
Bad at Business, Bad for the Economy: Though he plays the part of a wealthy and successful businessman, Dangerous Donald's real life record is riddled with embarrassing failures and cheap schemes designed to turn a quick buck at the expense of everyday Americans.
*         Despite his tough talk on trade deals and the loss of American jobs, Donald Trump manufactured his clothing line in countries he rails against, like China and Mexico.
*         Dangerous Donald owes everything to the tens of millions of dollars in loans and bailouts he received from his family.
*         Dangerous Donald's businesses have repeatedly gone bankrupt, leaving investors, contractors and small businesses holding the bag for his disastrous business decisions.
*         During one of his business bankruptcies, his personal finances were at the mercy of banks who put him on an "allowance" of $400,000 per month.
*         His Trump "University" fleeced thousands of Americans simply looking to get ahead.
*         Trump's unfounded predictions
of recession under President Obama and warnings against investing in the stock market are reckless.
*         Economists have actually predicted Trump's policies could start an international trade war and even destabilize the global economy
.
*         Trump's tax plan would overwhelmingly benefit the rich while costing the country $9.5 trillion to implement -- more than any other Republican plan proposed. It also violates his pledge not to increase the national debt.
*         Trump actually said at one of the Republican Party's debates that "wages are too high" and opposed raising the minimum wage
*         Trump wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would jeopardize health care for 20 million Americans who've been able to get coverage under Obamacare.
Republicans couldn't unite against him and failed to stand up to him during their primary because they were playing to the same extreme base of their party. Democrats will be united and hold Donald Trump accountable every day until November 8th.
Eric Walker
walkere@dnc.org
732-991-1489
@ericmwalker


Got it! Sorry I missed that meeting yesterday — just heard that there was some takeaway that we should discuss.
But if we’re all on the same page, then I’m more than happy to save everyone the space on their calendar!
From: "Miranda, Luis"
>
Date: Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 10:46 AM
To: Matt Compton
>, Lauren Dillon
>, Elizabeth Eadie
>, Cate Domino
>, Conference Room Fishbowl
>
Subject: RE: Social Process Discussion
We’re not in disagreement on this. Happy to save us the trouble of having to meet. When I ok’d the tweet TJ was supposed to run it through the usual process, just like when I approve a press release it still goes to RR2. Ultimately Comm can still override thematic changes, but we definitely want the substance to be right. The only issue yesterday was I didn’t see a reason to get into it in a big group setting, and to Cate’s credit she was poised and professional as usual. But yes, I’ll reiterate to my team to continue to run everything we do through the same process.
Thanks.
[X]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 – MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
-----Original Appointment-----
From: Compton, Matt
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 10:42 AM
To: Dillon, Lauren; Miranda, Luis; Eadie, Elizabeth; Domino, Cate; Conference Room Fishbowl
Subject: Social Process Discussion
When: Thursday, April 28, 2016 2:30 PM-3:00 PM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
Where: Fish Bowl
When: Thursday, April 28, 2016 2:30 PM-3:00 PM. (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Where: Fish Bowl
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From: Monica Biddix
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 2:15 PM
To: Helmstetter, TJ
Subject: Re: FW: TODAY AT NOON ET: CALL WITH STATE PARTY COMM DIRECTORS
[IDP_new_logo.jpg]
For Immediate Release:
May 4, 2016
Contact:
Monica Biddix
mbiddix@iowademocrats.org
DES MOINES- In response to Donald Trump becoming the presumptive Republican nominee for  President, IDP Chair Andy McGuire issued the following statement:
“Donald Trump is one of the most dangerous people ever to be nominated for President, and we cannot trust him to lead our nation. His foreign policy stances threaten our national security and alienate our allies. Trump’s proposed trade war with China would cause catastrophe, resulting in job losses and an overall economic downturn. As a candidate, Trump has not ruled out waterboarding as a form of torture. He does not have the temperament, judgment or experience to effectively negotiate with foreign leaders.”
“Donald Trump oozes with misogyny and his treatment of women as objects is deplorable. His call for women who have abortions to be punished is a threat to women’s health care. Trump’s promise to repeal the Affordable Healthcare Act would jeopardize the health care of 20 million Americans. Donald Trump is not a champion of the working class and is head of an empire built upon the exploitation of working families. His inflammatory comments regarding immigrants, the building of walls and border closings is not in line with our nation's history of welcoming others. His use of ethnic slurs, racial outbursts and divisive rhetoric threaten the rights and liberties of minorities.”
“Trump cannot be trusted to lead our nation. He cannot be trusted to appoint a nominee to the vacant seat on the Supreme Court. It is now official that Sen. Chuck Grassley is holding the seat open for a Donald Trump nomination. This is not in our nation’s best interest, and today, the Iowa Democratic Party reiterates its call on Grassley to do his job and hold a hearing. ”


The thesis: we hand out thumb drives at events, which could infect the reporters/attendees' computers. So that means that we're bad at cybersecurity. Okay.
Buzzfeed: These Experts Think The DNC And RNC Are Both Horrible At Cybersecurity
Both the Democratic and Republican National Committees have handed out hundreds of thumb drives to reporters ahead of their national conventions, in a move cybersecurity experts call "borderline stupidity."
posted on May 5, 2016, at 4:47 p.m.
SAN FRANCISCO - Keeping America safe from the armies of hackers at the shores, has come up a lot in the 2016 election cycle but if the Republican and Democratic National Conventions are anything to go by, whichever party wins the race for president has not studied up on their cybersecurity basics.
Reporters who registered for the Republican and Democratic National Conventions were given tote bags by convention organizers filled with instructions and logistical information. Buried inside the totes were thumb drives, also known as USB flash drives, with information on the upcoming events.
"Who does that anymore? It's just asking to get infected with any variety of malware," said Ajay Arora, CEO of VERA
, a cybersecurity firm. "Those thumb drives are the number one way to infect a computer... It is borderline stupidity to give them out to people, or for people to even think of using them."
Thumb drives are known within the cybersecurity world for their fundamental security weaknesses, because when someone plugs a thumb drive into their computers they are opening up their system to anything on that drive - from the best hotels to stay in during the Republican National Convention to a virus that silently uploads itself onto the hard drive. Neither the Republican or Democratic National Committees replied to a BuzzFeed News inquiry about the thumb drives.
Jason Haddix, director of technical operations at Bugcrowd
, a security-testing startup, said that in the past he would help private companies test their internal security by dropping random USB sticks around their building and parking lot.
"We would drop them off or even hand them out as freebies to see who would fall for it and use the thumb drives. We had them install a program where we could show the company exactly which employee was using it and how we easily we could track their computers," Haddix said. It's the kind of trick hackers might use if they were trying to infect a company's internal system, and it shows how easy it is to move malware from a thumb drive onto a computer.
Arora said it's been at least five years since he's seen a thumb drive handed out at a conference in the U.S., though he admits he normally attends cybersecurity events where "no one is dumb enough to do this anymore."
"These politicians are saying they want to decide what to encrypt, and what to regulate and give back doors to, are these same people who are turning around and saying here, take this piece of hardware which is proven to be the worst thing security wise, and put it into your computer," said Arora. "They turn around and do a 1.0 mistake, which shows just how unqualified they are being able to talk about security and cybersecurity, let alone legislate on it."
Eric Walker
walkere@dnc.org
732-991-1489
@ericmwalker


Window closing on this. Need to know asap if we want to offer Jake Tapper questions to ask us.
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 28, 2016, at 1:11 PM, Manriquez, Pablo
> wrote:
Lmk and I'll call Jason. Might wanna loop Freundlich &/or Dillon here to see if there's any newsworthy oppo Luis can drop
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Begin forwarded message:
From: "Seher, Jason"
>
Date: April 28, 2016 at 1:01:18 PM EDT
To: "ManriquezP@dnc.org
"
>
Subject: Pablo!
Thanks for facilitating Luis coming on today, and bearing with us through a meelee of GOP nonsense and cancellations and all that.
Any particular points he'll want to make? We're gonna stay Dem focused...
Thanks!
Jason
Jason Seher | CNN
Writer/Producer | The Lead with Jake Tapper
(202) 772-2640 | (856) 979-8021


So what do you think if I tell her this?
"There is a lot of reporter interest and plenty of outlets are chasing the story after the Ann Gearan story claimed the DNC would be offering concessions, but so long as you haven't called the people you'll be appointing to confirm they will definitely be on, we can probably hold it, work the story over Saturday and Sunday, and have our roll out on Monday morning. If the campaigns told these people they would definitely be on, then it will be pieced together more quickly. For a Monday roll out we would want a call with Cummings and a reporter tomorrow or early Sunday, with your calls to the members to confirm their appointment on Sunday afternoon."
________________________________________
From: hrtsleeve@gmail.com [hrtsleeve@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 6:36 PM
To: Miranda, Luis; Tracie Pough; Banfill, Ryan
Subject: Platform drafting rollout
Luis, I do want to go with the Monday morning WP/New Day/Andrea Mitchell plan for the rollout. I asked Leah to hold and said I would be happy to talk to her. She is concerned it will leak before then but I think we can mostly keep it contained.
Please let me know what you think.
DWS


Eric Trump on Kelly File:
- Says Donald Trump does not need Paul Ryan's endorsement
- Has the support of millions of voters
- Donald Trump has never walked the halls of Congress, needs to get to know these people
- Not sure how much he will change. GOP should embrace him
On May 11, 2016, at 4:28 PM, Sarge, Matthew
> wrote:
Before my must-see interview w/ @realDonaldTrump, @EricTrump has special insight into his dad's political rise. Don’t miss it TONIGHT 9p ET!
Original Tweet:


Watch
From: "Kasnetz, Joel"
>
Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 6:50 PM
To: "Sarge, Matthew"
>, Comm_D
>
Subject: RE: Video Request: Christie Press Conference
Talks about Trump transition team in 3rd paragraph
Chris Christie On His Role As Transition Chairman For Donald Trump: “But As Some Of You May Know About Presidential Transitions, The Chairman’s Running The Show And I Will Do That And I Will Make The Major Decisions That Need To Be Made, Of Course In Consultation With The Candidate.” CHRISTIE: “I’m honored to be asked by Donald to have the responsibility of putting together a plan that will carry his first 200 days in office and a plan that will help him to populate the 4,000 federal jobs he’ll need to fill in a relatively short order if he were to become president. That’s not something, none of that stuff can be done in 75 days between the election and the inaugural. And so we’re going to begin work earnestly now that the announcement’s been made and I’ve been asked. Listen, in terms of time, the fact is that in the beginning, there will be some decent time for me to put a good team together. But as some of you may know about presidential transitions, the chairman’s running the show and I will do that and I will make the major decisions that need to be made, of course in consultation with the candidate.” [NJTV, 5/11/16
]
Chris Christie On Traveling Out-Of-State While Serving As Donald Trump’s Transition Chairman: “I’ve Always Been Able To Manage My Time Pretty Well And I Don’t Think It Will Take Me Out Of State Much At All. Maybe To Washington D.C. Every Once In A While.” “But in the end, a lot of the work will be done by men and women who will volunteer their time as traditionally has happened across the country to bring their expertise to bear on all the different issues that a new president would have to confront. So I can’t give you an exact amount of time, Michael, but I’ve always been able to manage my time pretty well and I don’t think it will take me out of state much at all. Maybe to Washington D.C. every once in a while.” [NJTV, 5/11/16
]
--

Christie: Today I’m pleased to announce that the growing health and solvency of our trust fund, which now has a positive balance of $1.8 billion will allow for yet another tax cut to be realized by our employers. We had announced just a few weeks ago a $200 million tax cut effective July 1. We’re now announcing that we will increase that tax cut on July 1 by another $180 million making for a total tax cut of $380 million for our employers as of July 1.
-
Christie: I want to save Atlantic City. So does the Senate president. I would hope that the speaker would too. But if he’s going to force Atlantic City to bankruptcy, that’s going to be his call. I’ve done my job. I’ve said what I’d sign. And, by the way, when Sen. Sweeney and Assemblyman [Lou] Greenwald came out with a compromise, I said I’d be willing to look at it. But that wasn’t good enough either. The only person who’s not come to the table with anything, the reason he doesn’t have a seat at the table? You got to bring something to the table. What’s he brought, except defiance? So, I want to save Atlantic City, the Senate president wants to save Atlantic City and I think a majority of the state Legislature wants to. But speaker is bringing nothing to the table. Once again today he comes with nothing. Promised a vote today. He was going to get this thing passed. He didn’t, again. So what’s next now, Mr. Speaker? He can send out as many press releases as he wants blaming me but if I don’t have anything on my desk to sign, and he can’t point me to the inherent authority he says I have, well what am I supposed to do?
Christie: I’m honored to be asked by Donald to have the responsibility of putting together a plan that will carry his first 200 days in office and a plan that will help him to populate the 4,000 federal jobs he’ll need to fill in a relatively short order if he were to become president. That’s not something, none of that stuff can be done in 75 days between the election and the inaugural. And so we’re going to begin work earnestly now that the announcement’s been made and I’ve been asked. Listen, in terms of time, the fact is that in the beginning, there will be some decent time for me to put a good team together. But as some of you may know about presidential transitions, the chairman’s running the show and I will do that and I will make the major decisions that need to be made, of course in consultation with the candidate. But in the end, a lot of the work will be done by men and women who will volunteer their time as traditionally has happened across the country to bring their expertise to bear on all the different issues that a new president would have to confront. So I can’t give you an exact amount of time, Michael, but I’ve always been able to manage my time pretty well and I don’t think it will take me out of state much at all. Maybe to Washington D.C. every once in a while.
Aron: And Christie was asked whether becoming transition chair lessens his chances of being Trump’s running mate. He said that’s up to Donald, but he sounded like he wouldn’t mind. I’m Michael Aron. Mary Alice, back to you.
From: Sarge, Matthew
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 4:24 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: RE: Video Request: Christie Press Conference
"Donald Trump is a very persuasive guy" but recalls 4 years ago "I was on the short list the last time so it doesn't mean a heck of a lot"
VP "not something we discussed" when Christie asked to lead Trump transition
From: Sarge, Matthew
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 4:12 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: Video Request: Christie Press Conference

Sounds like Christie will serve as Trump running mate if asked


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Plus Walter. Garcia, Please start pitching right away to the Arizona Republic.
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Walsh, Tom
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 10:29 AM
To: Jefferson, Deshundra; Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark
Cc: Pratt Wiley
Subject: Final AZ voting op-ed from DWS attached -- ready for pitching


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The role is an obvious promotion for Manafort, but sources stressed it should not be seen as a demotion for campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
Did Donald get demoted then?
Trump On His Campaign Team: "I'm The Strategist." "Trump's campaign employs a core team of about a dozen people; his campaign lists 94 people on the payroll nationwide, according to the latest Federal Election Commission filing (Hillary Clinton has 765). Trump has no pollsters, media coaches, or speechwriters. He focus-groups nothing. He buys few ads, and when he does, he likes to write them himself. He also writes his own tweets, his main vehicle for communicating with his supporters. And it was his idea to adopt Ronald Reagan's slogan 'Make America Great Again!' 'I'm the strategist,' Trump told me. Which would make him, no matter what your feelings about his beliefs or his qualifications to govern a country, one of the greatest political savants of the modern era." [New York Magazine, 4/4/16
]
From: Bennett, Eric
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 1:51 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: ABC News: Trump Campaign Announces Expanded Role For Paul Manafort
Trump Campaign Announces Expanded Role For Paul Manafort

By JOHN SANTUCCI  NEW YORK, NY - May 19, 2016, 1:45 PM ET
Donald Trump will change the role for one of his campaign's top advisors, ABC News has learned.
Sources within the campaign said that Trump will name Paul Manafort to the new role of Campaign Chairman and Chief Strategist.
Manafort, who was brought on board early last month as a convention manager, was originally tasked with trying to secure Trump the necessary delegates to avoid a fight at the Republican convention.
With Trump now the likely presumptive nominee for the GOP, Manafort's new role is a natural growth of the campaign as they begin to build a team ready for the general election, according to the sources. The role is an obvious promotion for Manafort, but sources stressed it should not be seen as a demotion for campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
Campaign spokesperson Hope Hicks confirmed the move, adding that Lewandowski will, "continue overseeing day to day operations and will work with Manafort on political strategy and communications, among other things, through the general election."
Manafort is arguably more from the establishment than most of Trump's relatively young staff, who helped the Republican front-runner in early primary victories.
His particular experience is relevant to Trump's position. Manafort played a significant role in the 1976 convention where Gerald Ford ended up winning the nomination in spite of a fight from Ronald Reagan and Bob Dole.
In later years, Manafort went on to work for Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Manafort was on Capitol Hill earlier today meeting with Republican leadership.
"There's a growing number of people supporting us. We feel very comfortable that even more will be supporting us next trip," Manafort told ABC News. "They all recognize now that we definitely can win, and they want to know what kind of issues we will be stressing, which we'll be doing in the next month or two."
Trump will be returning to the campaign trail with a rally today in New Jersey that will also serve as a fundraiser for Governor Chris Christie.


Watch here
From: Sarge, Matthew
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2016 7:50 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: RE: Video Request: Trump Rally in Lynden WA at 6pm ET
Trump testing out some new lines of attack against HRC
And continuing to go hard on the Clintons' marriage
Trump Campaign Rally in Lynden WA at 6pm ET:
Broke all time vote record
- Don't want to be complacent just because we already won
Crooked Hillary running ads against me
Supposedly most talented GOP field
- Knocked them off one-by-one
- Perry, Rand Paul endorsed me
Complains about an idiot that was on the Kelly File last night
- Abraham Lincoln couldn't have broken 50% with so many people in the field
Ben Carson got me in some trouble yesterday for saying I might name a Democrat as VP
- He didn't mean that, he got misquoted
The only one I like better than Mike Huckabee is his daughter
Hitting Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham as dishonorable
- China was begging for a low energy president
- I will gain votes from Jeb Bush not coming to the convention
- They say I'm not a true conservative. Who cares? We have to straighten out our country
Build the wall
- Have to keep the drugs out. The heroin is killing our children
- A Mars bar costs more than the heroin, it's so plentiful
The last person Crooked Hillary Clinton wants to run against is Trump
- She will be worse than Obama
- Goofy Elizabeth Warren. Done nothing in the Senate.
- You're not allowed to say Indian, so I'll say Native American
- She said she thought she was Native American because her mom had high cheekbones
- Whole career is a fraud
- HRC is too smart to pick Elizabeth Warren
Brags about Tom Brady... in Washington
Washington economic stats
Hits HRC as being "trigger happy" on foreign policy
- She has a bad temperament. Her husband found that out a few times
Iran Deal
- Kerry is an idiot
- Hate to generalize, but over history, Persians are great negotiators
- He got injured in a bicycle race at 73 years old. I promise to never be in a bicycle race
Bad decisions in Iraq
- Now Iraq is Harvard for terrorists
- Iraq didn't knock down the WTC
- "The Iraqis did not knock over the World Trade Center, if you had any questions"
- "Libyan oil is the best oil. My oil experts tell me this"
HRC was sleeping at 3am for the phone call
HRC wants to abolish the 2nd amendment
- Wants to take your guns and bullets away
HRC might appoint 5 new justices
- You would have a Supreme Court that would destroy our country
HRC buying $90 million in ads against me
- Her husband was biggest abuser of women in history of politics
- TRUMP: "I'm like a baby. A baby."
- Trump mocks Bill Clinton "I did not have sex with that woman" line
Sympathizing with Bernie Sanders
- No fan of the guy, but system is rigged
Don't wait until the 24th to vote
We can win Washington state in November. And Oregon
"Be careful of Trump"
Go home and vote
________________________________
From: Sarge, Matthew
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2016 6:11 PM
To: Research_D
Subject: Video Request: Trump Rally in Lynden WA at 6pm ET


Segment 3: Javier Becerra, Jan Brewer, Amanda Carpenter, Nina Turner
Campaign officials close to Cruz said he wanted Rubio to be his VP pick. Rubio never expressed any interest at all. Rubio thought two senators from DC teaming up would only contribute to Trump's outsider perspective. Do you think it would have worked?
Carpenter: Yes, it would have unified the party and presented a clear alternative to Trump. It was a missed opportunity.
Brewer: Rubio is a great guy, Cruz is a great guy, but the public has spoken very clearly and loudly that they want someone who will represent the people.
Assuming HRC is the nominee, how big a challenge do you think Trump will be to her?
Becerra: you have to take everyone seriously but Trump doesn't even seem to take himself seriously. HRC will outwork everyone and earn the votes she needs, already has more votes than he does.
Do you think whoever loses the Democratic nomination should be the nominee's VP?
Turner: not necessarily. The race is still going on and Sanders still has a chance. Democrats would do well not to take Trump for granted, this will be a real race.
Now that Trump has locked up the nomination there is a lot of speculation about who is VP will be. Who is the favorite?
Brewer: I would be very willing to consider the VP slot. He doesn't necessarily need to pick a women.
Carpenter: he wants someone who would be able to work with Congress on his behalf. Gingrich might be his only choice.
Becerra: he will have to find someone he is willing to share the stage with.
Turner: Should chose Kasich because of Ohio connections. Condi Rice is an intellectual and could bring some diversity to that campaign.
________________________________
From: Crystal, Andy
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2016 9:41 AM
To: Comm_D
Subject: RE: CNN SOTU
Segment 2: John McCain Interview
He looked pretty miserable during this interview.
Lindsey Graham said he would not support Trump or HRC. Are you ready to support Trump?
I've said all along that I will support the Republican nominee. HRC will cause the economy to continue to stumble along and put us in the economic malaise that we have had for 8 years.
Is party leadership out of touch with what the base of the party wants?
Have to draw the conclusion that there is some distance, maybe not a disconnect, between party leadership, members of Congress and many of the voters that selected Trump to be the nominee. A lot of it is older, white, blue collar workers who see no prospect of a job. Young people who have large student debt. The perception that there is gridlock in Washington has given rise to both Trump and Sanders.
Should leadership listen to those that are disconnected a little better?
You have to listen to people that have chosen the nominee of our Republican party, it would be foolish to ignore them.
Is there anything about Trump's foreign policy that is better than HRC's?
Trump emphasizes American leadership abroad. Obama does not want to lead. HRC does not have one accomplishment as Secretary of State that she can point to.
The Republican Party must maintain its viability as a party. McCain believes the greatest president of the 20th century was Reagan. McCain will continue to make sure America's policy adheres to peace through strength.
Do you have confidence that Trump can be like Reagan?
He could be a capable leader. It is obvious there has to be outreach on his part and heal many of the wounds.
McCain has never seen the personalization of a campaign like this where a people's integrity and character are questioned and it really bothers him. You can violently disagree with someone on issues but to attack their character and integrity, those wounds take a long time to heal.
Would you be seen on the same stage as Trump?
A lot of things would have to happen for that. Trump would need to express his appreciation for veterans, not John McCain, but veterans that were incarcerated as prisoners of war. He needs to retract his statement that he doesn't like people who are captured because it offends a body of American heroes out there.
Is Trump good or bad for your reelection bid?
I said that there is a Hispanic vote which I have to continue my good relationship with because of the turmoil that exists within this whole national campaign. Anyone that doesn't agree with that is unaware of the passing scene.
Would you want Trump to retract his statements about undocumented Mexican immigrants, when he called them rapists and criminals?
Oh, I don't know. It is important that we understand the importance of the hispanic vote in America.
*He didn't condemn the rapists and criminals comments.
What was the VP speculation game like for you in 2008 and how did you end up with Palin?
Contrary to what has become popular opinion, Palin energized our ticket. She beat Biden in a debate. Of course she made some mistakes but so did I. He will not put his failure on Palin and he is very proud of her. She was treated terribly by the mainstream media.
What advice would you give Trump as he selects a VP?
Someone who would unite the party. Joni Ernst would be tremendous. Paul Ryan was helpful to the Romney ticket but I'm not sure he would want to do that again.
________________________________
From: Crystal, Andy
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2016 9:22 AM
To: Comm_D
Subject: CNN SOTU
Segment 1: Sarah Palin Interview
**In the last question, she basically says that Americans don't really care about abortion and they wan
Speaker Ryan said he is not ready to support Trump. If Ryan doesn't support Trump, should he still be Speaker of the House?
Paul Ryan is going to end up like Eric Cantor - his political career is over. He needs to listen to the will of the people.
It screws Ryan's chances to run in 2020 if the Republican Party wins now.
Are you planning on supporting Ryan's primary challenger?
Yes, will do whatever she can for Ryan's opponent. Ryan's problem is that he has become so disconnected from the people who elected him. Paul Ryan and the establishment feel threatened at this point that their power, prestige, purse will be adversely affected by the change that is coming with Trump.
Ryan said he was very concerned with the tone Trump has taken, the Muslim ban, deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants, comments about women. You don't believe he is concerned with these things?
Those concerns are relatively speaking superficial, talking about tone and certain verbiage as opposed to what Ryan would have chose to talk about.
The people of America care about getting things done finally, taking our government back and putting it on our side.
This weekend Trump went after HRC and her husband's infidelity. What do you think of that line of attack?
A lot of people may be obsessed with public figures personal lives but for the most part Americans are concerned with things like who will be able to appoint the next SCOTUS justice. People care about that much more so than Bill Clinton's obvious indiscretions and Donald Trump having been divorced a couple times and owning up to it.
Are you willing to be vetted for Trump's VP slot?
I think i am pretty much as vetted as anyone in the country could be vetted at this point.
She wants to help and not hurt - she is a realist and realizes there are a lot of people out there that would consider her a burden on the ticket. She just wants Trump and America to win.
Republicans are worried about his poor standing with women voters, 7 of 10 have an unfavorable view of him. Do you wince when he says things like "women have it better than men" on the trail?
Heck, no. He is saying what a lot of other people are thinking, he just happens to be the most candid about it. She knows Trump and appreciated that he has respect for women - he listens to the prominent women in his life like his daughter and wife.
John McCain has publicly maintained that Trump would not have much of an impact on his campaign in Arizona but behind closed doors he said Trump might hurt his reelection bid - over 30% of voters in Arizona are Hispanic. How is Trump going to improve his standing with Latino voters?
Palin gives a lot more credit to Latino voters than the mainstream media would in terms of believing that they all have a herd mentality and vote for only one candidate.
Wishes politicians wouldn't worry about racial divides that are for the most part made up by those that thrive on division.
Trump recently said he wants to change platform as it relates to abortion to include exceptions for rape, incest, life of mother. Do you agree?
She does not want the platform to change. When it comes to abortion, it is very sensitive and a personal issue. The platform is the way it should be right now. When we can agree that the platform should stay as it is now, then we can talk about things that people are really concerned about and that is debt, open borders, illegal immigrants coming over and receiving freebies instead of our people and especially vets, growing government - the intrusion that the failed liberal agenda perpetuates.
**She is basically saying that the American people aren't really concerned about a women's abortion rights and would rather focus on other issues.


Gender gap
From: Miller, Lindsey
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 9:06 PM
To: Peterson, Kelsey; Comm_D
Subject: RE: VIDEO REQUEST chain: Fox News
Can we pull the discussion that just happened about Trump, HRC and the gender gap with the two? Megyn talks about the high negatives Trump has with a lot of groups
From: Peterson, Kelsey
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 7:22 PM
To: Miller, Lindsey; Comm_D
Subject: RE: VIDEO REQUEST chain: Fox News
Jan Brewer
From: Miller, Lindsey
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 7:14 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: VIDEO REQUEST chain: Fox News
Jan Brewer on now


Noted businessman Herman Cain on now ~7:45
From: Nordyke, Hannah
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 7:40 PM
To: Oslund, Joseph; Comm_D
Subject: RE: Video Requst: Fox Business Coverage
Watch
From: Oslund, Joseph
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 7:02 PM
To: Nordyke, Hannah; Comm_D
Subject: RE: Video Requst: Fox Business Coverage
Ed Rollins on now, on a panel
From: Nordyke, Hannah
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 6:42 PM
To: Oslund, Joseph; Comm_D
Subject: RE: Video Requst: Fox Business Coverage
Watch
From: Oslund, Joseph
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 6:14 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: Video Requst: Fox Business Coverage
~6:12 pm
Former NJ Gov Christie Todd Whitman saying she will write in instead of vote for trump, say that she puts her country in front of her party, etc.


Trump on now
Thanks!
Lauren Hendricks


Watch here
From: Miller, Lindsey
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 3:45 PM
To: Research_D
Subject: Video Request: Trump advisor on CNN
Happening now. You will recognize him by the hair


Said Trump now represented everyone running on the GOP ticket
Refused to outright say his old clients represented a conflict considering Trump will now be receiving classified briefings. He just kept saying that they weren't his clients anymore and he doesn't expect that he'll be getting the briefings himself.
From: Kane, Michael
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 12:04 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: Video request: Manafort on MSNBC
Happening now, thanks.


Just talked to Deshundra - tweaked one part about a lawsuit that Cruz defended as Solicitor General. Everything else looks great.
From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 5:40 PM
To: Jefferson, Deshundra; Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark; Walsh, Tom
Cc: Pratt Wiley; RR2
Subject: RE: Please read: My Vote, My Voice
All three member offices signed off on this so I have no substantive edits - just one add before Ted Cruz's name.
Research -anything wrong from a facty perspective?
From: Jefferson, Deshundra
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 5:21 PM
To: Miranda, Luis; Walker, Eric; Paustenbach, Mark; Walsh, Tom
Cc: Pratt Wiley
Subject: RE: Please read: My Vote, My Voice
This is the final version of North Carolina op-ed:
Before H.B. 589 was signed into law, North Carolina had one of the strongest rates of voter participation in the nation. The regressive law rolled back the early voting period, eliminated same-day registration, and imposed restrictive photo ID requirements.
While we are disappointed the U.S. District Court upheld H.B. 589, we are hopeful the courts and the American people will ultimately see these laws for what they truly are - a cynical political ploy to make it harder for women, people of color, students, the elderly and working families to exercise their fundamental right to vote.
When regressive state legislatures like the one in North Carolina limit the ability of people to vote, we are hurting the low-wage workers with two jobs, the single mother who goes to work early each morning and picks up her children late at night, and the elderly widower without a car who relies on his adult children to get to the polls.
This purely partisan law was passed without any support from Democrats because its intent was clear from the very beginning - to systematically limit access to the polls in order to sway elections. Tellingly, the N.C. General Assembly waited until the U.S. Supreme Court had eliminated the pre-clearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act before advancing these discriminatory voter-suppression measures.
At the time this bill was passed, the North Carolina State Board of Elections identified only two instances of potential voter impersonation in a 14-year period. Senator Thom Tillis, then-North Carolina House Speaker, even acknowledged in an interview that fighting so-called voter fraud was not the primary reason for passing the bill.
Sadly, several other states have joined North Carolina in limiting individual's ability to vote.
In April, students at a Marquette University polling station in Wisconsin faced two-hour wait times just to cast a ballot. After the polls officially closed, a Wisconsin Republican Congressman bragged to a TV reporter that the state's restrictive photo ID law would help the GOP defeat Democrats in the fall.
In Texas, Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz recently filed an amicus brief in support of the state's restrictive photo ID law. He also led the fight as Texas Solicitor General to limit voter registration efforts suppress the vote in communities of color by vigorously defending a discriminatory law against a civil rights lawsuit.
While Democrats have gone to court in Arizona to reverse this culture of discrimination and disenfranchisement, Republicans are going to court to defend laws designed to decrease voter turnout because they believe that when fewer people vote, they have a better chance of winning. Make no mistake, this is part of a consistent and concerted effort by Republicans to silence voters who do not agree with their agenda.
We expect that these laws, like the one passed here in North Carolina, will ultimately be declared unconstitutional, and will continue the fight at the Congressional level to restore the critical protections of the Voting Rights Act.
-- CBC Chairman Representative G.K. Butterfield
-- Representative David Price
-- Representative Alma Adams
From: Jefferson, Deshundra
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 5:14 PM
To: Miranda, Luis; Walker, Eric; Paustenbach, Mark; Walsh, Tom
Subject: RE: Please read: My Vote, My Voice
Please hold off. They have more edits coming.
From: Jefferson, Deshundra
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 4:55 PM
To: Miranda, Luis; Walker, Eric; Paustenbach, Mark; Walsh, Tom
Subject: Please read: My Vote, My Voice
Below is a LTE that I am submitting to The News & Observer on behalf of North Carolina's Democratic Congressional delegation. We are limited to 500 words.
North Carolina had one of the strongest rates of voter participation in the nation before H.B. 589 was signed into law. The law rolled back the early voting period, eliminated same-day registration, and imposed restrictive photo ID requirements.
While we are disappointed the U.S. District Court upheld H.B. 589, we are hopeful the courts and the American people will ultimately see these laws for what they truly are - a cynical political ploy to make it harder for women, people of color, students, the elderly and working families to cast a ballot. These groups of voters are the majority of Americans and represent the Democrat's core constituency.
When we limit the ways that people can vote, we are hurting the low-wage workers with two jobs, the single mother who goes to work early each morning and picks up her children late at night, and the elderly widower without a car who relies on his adult children to get to the polls.
This purely partisan law was passed without any support from Democrats because its intent was clear from the very beginning - to systematically limit access to the polls in order to sway elections. Tellingly, the General Assembly waited until the U.S. Supreme Court had eliminated the pre-clearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act before advancing these discriminatory voter-suppression measures.
At the time this bill was passed, the North Carolina State Board of Elections identified only two instances of potential voter impersonation in a 14-year period. Senator Thom Tillis, then-North Carolina House Speaker, even acknowledged in an interview that fighting so-called voter fraud was not the primary reason for passing the bill.
Sadly, several other states have joined North Carolina in making it harder to cast a vote.
In April, students at a Marquette University polling station in Wisconsin faced two-hour wait times just to cast a ballot. After the polls officially closed, a Wisconsin Republican Congressman bragged to a TV reporter that the state's restrictive photo ID law would help the GOP defeat Democrats in the fall.
In Texas, Senator Ted Cruz recently filed an amicus brief in support of the state's restrictive photo ID law. He also led the fight as Texas Solicitor General to limit voter registration efforts in communities of color, vigorously defending a discriminatory law against a civil rights lawsuit.
While Democrats have gone to court in Arizona to reverse this culture of discrimination and disenfranchisement, Republicans are going to court to defend laws designed to decrease voter turnout because they believe that when fewer people vote, they have a better chance of winning. Make no mistake, this is part of a consistent and concerted effort by Republicans to silence voters who do not agree with their agenda.
We expect that these laws, like the one passed here in North Carolina, will ultimately be declared unconstitutional, and will continue the fight at the Congressional level to restore the critical protections of the Voting Rights Act.
-- CBC Chairman Representative G.K. Butterfield
-- Representative David Price
-- Representative Alma Adams
[SigDems]
Deshundra Jefferson, Southern Regional Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
JeffersonD@dnc.org
| (202) 863-8112


As much as I love them, I really need to talk to DWS herself -- especially since she did CNN and MSNBC last night. Thanks...let me know what you think you can do.
On May 18, 2016, at 12:32 PM, Manriquez, Pablo
> wrote:
If DWS can't, can I get you another spox (perhaps Luis Miranda or Mark Paustenbach)?
On May 18, 2016, at 11:22 AM, Cordes, Nancy
> wrote:
Hi there -- thanks to both of you.
We can do the 4pm hour...though of course if something opens up earlier, we're all for it. I have one other interview at 2pm at Russell Rotunda and otherwise we're free. Thanks!
On May 18, 2016, at 11:17 AM, Manriquez, Pablo
> wrote:
Hi Nancy,
Working to schedule this in now. In theory, could you do 4 o'clock hour? Thanks!
On May 18, 2016, at 11:08 AM, Miranda, Luis
> wrote:
Hi Nancy, we'd like to do this so it's a matter of scheduling. I'm copying our booker Pablo to work with you on it.
From: Cordes, Nancy
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 10:07 AM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: Hi Luis -- can I interview DWS today
Kentucky/Oregon results, Nevada convention, party unity. Happy to come to the DNC or go wherever would be most convenient. We can keep it relatively quick - 10 minutes? Thank you so much. It's for my piece tonight for CBS Evening News and I'll do a second piece for CBS This Morning. We can also post in its entirety on the web and air chunks on radio and CBSN.
Thank you -
Nancy
(202) 839-2374
Pablo Manriquez
Democratic National Committee
Phone: 202.572.5488
Email: pablo@dnc.org
web: democrats.org
Twitter: @Pablo_DNC
Pablo Manriquez
Democratic National Committee
Phone: 202.572.5488
Email: pablo@dnc.org
web: democrats.org
Twitter: @Pablo_DNC


Let's tee this up for tomorrow.
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 6:32 PM
To: Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark; Freundlich, Christina
Subject: quick hit idea
SL: Will any former GOP nominee or president endorse Trump?
Body:
Looking pretty bleak...
Texas Tribune: Bush 41, 43 Have No Plans to Endorse Trump
Huffington Post: Mitt Romney Lambasts Donald Trump As A 'Phony' And 'Fraud' In Blistering Speech
Arizona Republic: John McCain joins Mitt Romney in hammering Donald Trump
All eyes on you, Bob Dole!
Eric Walker
walkere@dnc.org
732-991-1489
@ericmwalker


Thanks much, Jeremy. Very helpful.
Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202.863.8148
paustenbachm@dnc.org
> On Apr 27, 2016, at 7:15 AM, Brinster, Jeremy
wrote:
>
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> Comparing vote totals, turnout was down everywhere compared to 2008 Dem primaries. Only slightly down in some states. Way down in PA, way down in RI.
>
> On Apr 27, 2016, at 6:40 AM, Dillon, Lauren
wrote:
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> Sent from my iPhone
>> On Apr 27, 2016, at 6:35 AM, Paustenbach, Mark
wrote:
>>
>> Do we have any helpful turnout numbers yet?
>>
>> Fox Business cited this Breitbart article that posted yesterday.
>>
>> Chair emphasizing that the GOP this cycle had so many presidential candidates compared to the few Dems.
>>
>> Exclusive Data Analysis: Democrat Turnout Collapses Down More Than 4.5 Million, Nearly 20 Percent In 2016 Versus 2008 - Breitbart
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>> Mark Paustenbach
>> National Press Secretary &
>> Deputy Communications Director
>> Democratic National Committee
>> 202.863.8148
>> paustenbachm@dnc.org


Saved here:

Ezra
From: Sarge, Matthew
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 7:39 PM
To: Comm_D
Cc: djtspeaks@hillaryclinton.com
Subject: Video Request: Trump Denied Dating Model, Called Her a ‘F**king Third-Rate Hooker’
Please Save embedded audio
Trump Denied Dating Model, Called Her a ‘F**king Third-Rate Hooker’
Victoria Zdrok claimed Donald Trump was a narcissist who wore too much hairspray. He claimed never to have met her, and that she was unattractive to date.
In a public-spirited exercise in gossip archeology, D-list celebrity interviewer and former ‘Howard Stern Show
’ regular Chaunce Hayden, the publisher of Metropolis Nights magazine
, has rediscovered a 12-year-old recording of his phone call with Donald Trump
concerning a Playboy and Penthouse model Trump claimed never to have dated.
While Hayden has previously marketed his chat with The Donald to various and sundry web sites over the years (Radar Online and Gawker included), it is well worth taking out of mothballs now that the reality show billionaire is the presumptive Republican nominee with a shot at being elected president of the United States.
The model in question is Victoria Zdrok
, 43, a Ukranian-born former Playboy Playmate and Penthouse Pet who, in a 2004 interview with Hayden, published in his now-defunct magazine Stepping Out, was less than charitable about her close encounter with the man who will likely face former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
in 2016 general election.
In the interview, Zdrok claimed Trump had called Playboy to get a date with her, and they “ended up going out four times.” She said she had gotten a call from Playboy Promotions saying Trump was “looking for a new girl for his ad campaign for one of his casinos in Atlantic City…It turns out he was never actually looking for a model. He was just trying to pick me up.”
“First of all, he’s really arrogant,” Zdrok told Hayden. “He’s really into himself! On a date all he does is talk about himself. He loves himself! The first thing he says to me on our date is that he’s taller and better looking than what he looks like in pictures, and that people don’t realize it. He said, ‘People don’t realize how handsome I am!’ He actually loves himself! I never met a more narcissistic person than Donald.
“You feel just like a piece of jewelry when you’re with him. For him it’s all about looks, appearances, and signing autographs. He just loves it.”(Zdrok didn’t respond to an email from The Daily Beast; neither did Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks.)
While all the above might have a certain ring of familiarity to anyone who has followed the future GOP standard-bearer’s Twitter feed, campaign rallies, and debate performances, Trump was at pains to deny, in his phone call with Hayden, that he had even met the woman, let alone dated her.
He begged Hayden not to go with the story, but, alas, the real estate and casino mogul—who was starring in NBC’s The Apprentice, then in its first season—was less than persuasive.
“Donald Trump wasn’t paying my bills,” Hayden told The Daily Beast.
Zdrok also told Hayden that all Trump did on their dates was “talk about his ex-girlfriends. He couldn’t stop talking about Ivana (his first wife) and Marla [Maples, his second wife] and how skinny and horrible Marla looks now and that she looks like shit since she cut her hair off.
“He just loves to talk about which women are in love with him and always calling him. He loves to talk about how women are chasing him all the time, which doesn’t make a girl feel special on a date. The other thing he talks about is what a great lover he is. He said to me, ‘Once you made love to me, you’ll never be able to make love to anybody else.’”
Zdrok, who told Hayden she had not slept with Trump (she did not want to be “another notch on his belt”), accused him of being racist.
“He would always talk about this one girl, a supermodel, and how he would give her the best orgasms of her life. And how she misses him so much. He told me he really likes this girl but he would never go out with her because he found out she was half-black and that would be bad for his reputation. I thought that was very racist.
“He didn’t like that she was some weird ethnic mix so he wouldn’t go out with her publicly, but that he really missed her and she was wonderful in bed. He needed somebody more mainstream.”
(Many pieces have surmised that the supermodel in question was Kara Young, who Trump dated in 2001
.)
Judging by Trump’s liberal use of curse words and otherwise coarse misogynistic language in his pleadings with Hayden to not publish the interview with Zdrok, he was also—at least by the naïve standards of a simpler time—less than presidential.
“I don’t even know who the hell she is,” Trump insisted to Hayden, after boasting about the ratings of his reality television show. “It’s the biggest thing [NBC has] had sinceFriends.”
In an assertion that, more than a decade later, is unlikely to help his candidacy with Republican women in the suburbs, but will probably have negligible impact on his ardent supporters, Trump said that he could not have possibly gone out with Zdrok because “she looks like a fucking third-rate hooker. Gimme a break. I never took her out. She’s full of shit. Chaunce, look, I have good taste in women. Take a look at her picture. It’s all bullshit. I never took her out.”
It was “bullshit, total bullshit” that he was considering Zdrok for an advertising campaign, Trump added. “I use models, not Playboy people for that.”
Trump claimed in the call that Zdrok would call his office “ten different times, like five years ago,” asking that he take her out. “I never took her out, and based on that picture I would never take her out. She’s not even attractive, she’s not a good-looking girl… Who the hell wants a Penthouse Pet? Penthouse is gone, it’s bankrupt, it’s over.”
Being a 35-year-old Penthouse Pet was “pretty pathetic” according to Trump.
Ever since The Apprentice had become successful had women claiming to be ex-girlfriends materialized, he said.
“Two of them I did date, they said nice things about me,” Trump said, restating again that Zdrok’s claim was “total bullshit.” While it would be easier not to make a big deal out of it, Trump said, claims like Zdrok’s were “just so fucking false I don’t like them to get away with this crap.”
As for Zdrok, she also claimed to have been up close and personal with Trump’s famous, shape- and color-shifting thatch of hair.
“His orange hair was very odd,” she said. “He uses so much hair spray. I would never dream of touching it. But he doesn’t care. He really thinks he’s one of the most handsome people on earth. He really does.
“After four dates I stopped going out with him. I just said, ‘I’ll call you back’ and never did. So he moved on. I just couldn’t take hearing about him talk about himself. He’s so condescending. There’s no romance. It’s all about him.”


As of now, only hits I have for tomorrow are
Henry on Cavuto - 12:15
Luis on Tapper - 4 o'clock hour
Sent from my iPhone


Good, couple small eds
From: Price, Jenna
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 4:01 PM
To: RR2
Subject: FOR RESEARCH- FW: Draft VA Voting rights remarks
For Immediate Release
May 12, 2016
Contact: DNC Press – 202-863-8148
Remarks from the DNC Press Call with Virginia Democrats on Voting Rights Restoration in Virginia
Last month, Governor Terry McAuliffe signed an executive order restoring voting rights for more than 200,000 people with felony convictions. The Governor’s actions overturned a lingering vestige of the Jim Crow laws that kept African Americans from voting, but Virginia Republicans are accusing him of “political opportunism.” As our nation moves forward, it is deeply disturbing that one of the country’s major political parties is attempting to drag us backward.
Today, the DNC and the Virginia Democratic Party hosted a press call to discuss the restoration of voting rights for people with felony convictions in the Commonwealth and the Republicans’ campaign of misinformation with Assistant Democratic Leader Congressman James Clyburn, Congressman Bobby Scott and local voting rights advocate
Terry Garrett.
Below find remarks from the call as prepared for delivery:
Assistant Democratic Leader Rep. Jim Clyburn
The right to vote is the cornerstone of democracy and the foundation upon which all other rights are built. The Voting Rights Act has been the single most important tool to protect the right to vote over the last half century until Shelby County v. Holder opened the door for underhanded schemes that reduced electoral power in communities of color. We see that clearly in states like North Carolina where one bad law reversed an entire generation of electoral progress.
In Arizona, the DNC, the DSCC, the Arizona Democratic Party, and impacted voters took the extraordinary step of suing the state of to correct the problems that led to five-hour lines during the presidential primary. Republican-controlled state legislatures across the country are passing restrictive voting laws, under the guise of fighting voter fraud, but they have only made it harder for groups that tend to vote Democratic – people of color, women, and students – to cast their ballots.
Governor McAuliffe are is doing the opposite, they are trying to make it easier to vote but Virginia Republicans are resistant to his attempts to make the Commonwealth a more fair, and inclusive society. Virginia’s felony disenfranchisement law was passed to keep African-Americans from gaining political power.
Make no mistake – the GOP seems to believe their path to victory lies in restricting access to the polls. So if you ask me, the real political opportunism lies with the Republican Party. It’s time to close the door on these types of laws but the Republican Party is dead sent set on being on the wrong side of history. I have stood on the front lines of the fight for civil rights, and I applaud Governor McAuliffe for doing the right thing.
Representative Bobby Scott
The Virginia Republicans need to end their campaign of misinformation. Virginia Republicans have been desperately trying to paint Governor McAuliffe’s executive order as “political opportunism,” in order to divert attention from their defense of an overtly racist law. Yesterday, the Governor’s Office released a demographic breakdown of the 200,000 people whose voting rights will now be restored. What stood out for me was that 45.9 percent of disenfranchised voters are African-Americans even though blacks only account for 19.4 percent of the Commonwealth’s entire population. That clearly illustrates that the impact of this law was most keenly felt by African-Americans.
Governor McAuliffe’s actions are consistent with just about every other state in the Union. There’s nothing partisan, unusual or suspect about restoring voting rights for people who have paid their debt to society. Denying them that right is partisan. Denying them that right is unusual given that Virginia is only one of four states that requires people with felony convictions to petition the Governor to have their voting rights restored. And denying that right is suspect given the origins of the felony disenfranchisement laws.
Virginia Republicans are using every scare tactic they can dream up to attack the Governor’s motivations. They claim that this gives license to rapists and murders to sit on juries, while ignoring the fact that 79 percent of the people whose rights were restored had non-violent felonies. They also claim that this is a partisan ploy that will give Democrats the edge in November. If that’s truly the case, then Republicans have been coasting into office all these years by limiting Democratic turnout.
I have a challenge for the Republican Party of Virginia. I want them to prove that they are not motivated by political opportunism by repealing the Commonwealth’s restrictive photo ID law, by implementing early voting, and to fully fund the replacement of our aging voting equipment. I challenge them to break down the unnecessary barriers that were erected to keep people of color away from the polls. If they are serious about protecting the integrity of our democracy then they should be willing to work with Democrats at the congressional level to restore the critical protections of the Voting Rights Act.
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Not necessary if it will take a bit of time but I think you could start Robinson at “it’s hard to use superlatives” because he fumbles a bit in the beginning.
From: Jakubiec, Matthew
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 1:33 PM
To: Video-Vetting_d
Subject: Trump Reckless Econ Commentary Reel
Here’s is the quick 3-clip reel with commentary about Trump’s economic comments, let us know your thoughts:

Clip 1
Romans: “Negotiating the terms of an IOU is not something anyone would never do, not something that gets thrown out there for a Republican presidential candidate to say that was pretty alarming.” [New Day, CNN, 5/9/2016, VIDEO
]
Clip 2
Robinson: “He managed also this week, and Andrea mentioned it to say what –  it's hard to use superlatives – could be the most irresponsible thing said so far in this whole campaign, which is what he said about the debt.” SCARBOROUGH:  “That the United States is not going to pay its debt obligations.” ROBINSON: “We'll just pay them a certain amount on the dollar, right? Which is exactly, we want to be Greece.” [Morning Joe, MSNBC, 5/9/2016; VIDEO
]
Clip 3
HEILEMAN: “I agree business is a problem, I actually just think it’s all a problem because again, you got to have stability. This is why I think Trump is so wrong about the notion unpredictability is a virtue.” [With All Due Respect, Bloomberg, 5/9/16; VIDEO
]


Clinton: 'No way' I won't be Democratic nominee
POLITICO
By NICK GASS
05/19/16 02:17 PM EDT
Hillary Clinton on Thursday said there is "no way" that she will not be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016, and that Bernie Sanders would do well to unify behind her as the party's standard-bearer against Donald Trump
"I will be the nominee for my party, Chris," the former secretary of state told CNN's Chris Cuomo in an interview from Park Ridge, Illinois. "That is already done, in effect. There's no way that I won't be."
As for Bernie Sanders, Clinton said "he has to do his part to unify."
"He said the other day that he'll do everything possible to defeat Donald Trump. He said he'd work seven days a week. I take him at his word," Clinton said. "I think the threat that Donald Trump poses is so dramatic to our country, to our democracy and our economy that I certainly expect Sen. Sanders to do what he said he would."
Clinton dodged a question from Cuomo on whether she would choose Sanders as her running mate.
"What brings us together is Donald Trump. I think that's what brings us together," she said, after remarking that would be a discussion for later.
Assessing her chances against Trump, Clinton said the party would unify.
"That doesn't mean we won't have some vigorous discussion and debate about issues, about the platform, about all of the process of a convention. I welcome that. I think that's healthy. I think bringing people into the party giving them a voice at the end is going to help us in the fall. I think as I said I will certainly do my part and more to reach out and bring in Sen. Sanders' supporters and I have every reason to expect he'll do the same," she said.
"I think we'll have a great convention in Philadelphia and then we'll go out and carry on the campaign against Donald Trump," Clinton continued. "And the Republicans. And I really believe that we're going to have a strong, compelling case to make about the choice that the American people will be facing. And I feel, you know, very optimistic about how the election will come out and I also feel optimistic about the country."


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From: "Garcia, Walter"
>
Date: May 8, 2016 at 1:21:48 PM EDT
To: Comm_D
>
Subject: Politico: GOP likely to revoke Nevada's early-state status
GOP likely to revoke Nevada's early-state status

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The RNC’s Rules Committee is expected to address the issue of Nevada's voting slot when it convenes in July prior to the national convention in Cleveland. | Getty
GOP likely to revoke Nevada's early-state status
'Nevada does nothing for us,' says one RNC committeeman.
By Kyle Cheney
05/08/16 07:54 AM EDT
Nevada is likely to lose its place as the first Western state to vote in the Republican presidential nomination contest, several GOP leaders tell POLITICO.
For three successive elections, the state has been grouped in the vaunted class of early-voting states, joining Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina as the bellwethers that garner the most attention from presidential candidates and help winnow voters’ choices. But for the third straight primary season, Nevada’s caucuses have been wracked by embarrassing procedural errors
, low turnout, confusion among attendees
and questions about the integrity of the process
.
Story Continued Below
Republican National Committee members say there’s growing momentum behind an effort to strip Nevada of its early place in line — handing it instead to either Colorado or Arizona.
“The long knives are out for Nevada,” said one RNC committeeman. “Nevada does nothing for us.”
The review of the state’s pecking order is likely to be just one piece of the GOP’s wholesale review of a nominating process that just produced one of the most acrimonious primary seasons in memory and ended with Donald Trump as the party’s nominee.
The RNC’s Rules Committee is expected to address the issue when it convenes in July prior to the national convention in Cleveland. And its recommendations will be passed to a committee of convention delegates that has the ultimate say.
The early states are the subject of perennial debate among Republican leaders, who wonder whether they’re the best suited to thin the field of presidential contenders. Texas’s GOP chairman Tom Mechler and Utah RNC Committeewoman Enid Mickelsen proposed in January to eliminate all four early states’ protected status – and they’ve been targeted before. Typically, those debates fade once the presidential nomination process is over – and the presumptive GOP nominee generally defends these states’ hallowed position.
But Nevada, a state where Trump crushed rivals by more than 20 percentage points, is unlikely to escape the axe this time, Republican leaders argue.
“They will not tamper with the [broader] rule,” said one national convention delegate and veteran Republican leader. “But Nevada is likely to go.
Bruce Hough, Utah’s RNC committeeman, supports eliminating all early states in favor of a randomized primary calendar. But he argued that Nevada, in particular, hasn’t earned its status.
“You have to demonstrate that you have a solid political organization, which your party is capable of running,” he said. Hough noted that Nevada’s neighbors came to its aid in 2012 to help the state through its caucus woes. “It was almost like a shadow party there four years ago,” he said. “There are a bunch of issues they have to resolve.”
Nevada GOP chairman Michael McDonald did not respond to requests for comment. But not all Nevada GOP leaders are planning to go quietly. Nevada’s RNC Committeewoman Diana Orrock said she’s open to an early-state rotation – but only if it applies to all four regions of the country. She’d fight any effort to single out Nevada for punishment.
“I will vigorously fight against that because it should be equally applied,” she said. Noting that the state only has six electoral votes, Orrock added, “If we don’t have early carve-out status, candidates aren’t going to bother coming to Nevada.”
Not all Nevadans are surprised they’d be in the party’s crosshairs.
“As much as I would hate to see the caucus stripped from NV, given how hard many of us worked to get it, the concern is understandable,” said Peter Ernaut, a veteran Nevada GOP strategist who’s advised Gov. Brian Sandoval and Sen. John Ensign. “Maybe it's time to take the microphone away until some level of civility returns. I am tired of my home state being a public spectacle. Nevada is better than this.”
Most RNC members contacted declined to be named to avoid antagonizing colleagues in Nevada, but seven interviewed agreed that momentum is growing to box out Nevada from the 2020 early-state group.
“They had that embarrassment four years ago when they couldn’t figure out who won,” said one RNC committeeman. “As a state they have little credibility with other members.”
Instead, RNC members are looking for a state with more strategic value. Like Nevada, Colorado and Arizona feature large Latino populations. And Colorado, in particular, has become a crucial swing state in the general election. Though Nevada, too, is considered a swing state, its caucuses – 130 locations across 17 counties this year – lend themselves to low turnout and do little to build up the Republican Party for the fall campaign, the RNC officials argued.
Colorado is preparing to vie for the opportunity to supplant Nevada.
“We are absolutely working on the strategy to try to put ourselves in that position,” said Colorado GOP chairman Steve House.
House has pushed state lawmakers to enact legislation establishing a statewide presidential primary, which he said RNC members would view favorably. The bill is being actively considered by lawmakers but has only cleared early procedural hurdles.
House said Colorado Democrats are generally on board as well. “If we can turn this into a presidential primary state, then we can make a very good case for being the first state in the West,” he said.
Hough, the Utah RNC committeeman, said other states should be in the mix too – including his own.
“If you want to reward Republicanism, then why not Utah that has had a great string of Republican governors and dominant state legislatures?” he wondered. “I don’t hold any hope that little old Utah would be in the mix. But hey, I would certainly argue the case.”
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From: Press Texas Democratic Party
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 4:25 PM
To: Press Texas Democratic Party
Subject: SHOT/CHASER: Campaign Clarifies Cuban-American, Canadian-born Ted Cruz is NOT an Immigrant
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For Immediate Release
May 3, 2016
Contact: Tariq Thowfeek, (832) 429-8217, press@txdemocrats.org
SHOT/CHASER: Campaign Clarifies Cuban-American, Canadian-born Ted Cruz is NOT an Immigrant
SHOT: Ted Cruz’s wife calls him an “immigrant” on campaign trail
Heidi Cruz was campaigning for her husband in Indiana when she said, “Ted is an immigrant. He is Hispanic. We can unify this party." [Austin American-Statesman, May 2, 2016
]
CHASER: Cruz campaign quickly backtracked and told the Washington Examiner she misspoke, saying, "Heidi was referring to Ted as being the son of an immigrant."
To clarify, “Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and lived there until his family moved to the U.S...” The article noted, “Another reason Cruz would want to distance himself from the "immigrant" label could be his stance on undocumented immigration -- especially when it comes to Mexico.”
"Yes, we should deport them, we should build a wall, we should triple the border patrol," he [Ted Cruz] has said.”
“...now that Cruz has been mathematically eliminated from clinching the GOP nomination, his campaign's efforts to clarify his wife's statement might not be worth it anyway.”
Read the full story here
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Sean Sorbie
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Democratic National Committee
Office: (202) 488-5004
Cell: (727)458-8583
[SigDems]


happening now on abc go but probably others as well
Thanks


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Hi Dave,
This sounds great. We have a deep pool of talented voices who I think could be very helpful here. Here to help!
Pablo
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On May 2, 2016, at 7:48 PM, Miranda, Luis
> wrote:
Thanks Dave. Good to see you too. I’m copying Pablo Manriquez who leads our booking team in case I hadn’t before. It would be great to get him connected to the producers for the shows.
Hope you’re well rested after the hectic weekend! – Luis.
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 – MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Gorab, Dave
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 1:06 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: Following Up
Luis:
Nice to see you this weekend.   Just letting you know I’ve reached back out to April and Kyle and we have a meeting planned for Wednesday morning.  I’d like to particularly focus on ideas for a voter registration campaign and ways Sirius XM can reach our audience on channels including, but not limited to, Progress, Urban View, and POTUS.  Please let me know if you have any further thoughts on this and/or other ideas you’d like added to our agenda.  We certainly want to continue our booking efforts across the platform, as well.
Best regards,
Dave
Dave Gorab
Vice President & General Manager
Talk Programming
212-584-5235


I will blast
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[DNC]
Rachel Palermo
Democratic National Committee
PalermoR@dnc.org
202-863-8041
From: Helmstetter, TJ
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 3:04 PM
To: Brinster, Jeremy; RR2
Subject: RE: For Research: Vox: trumps's trans position is incoherent
Ok. We'll cut off the third section and say Read more here: link
Jenna/Rachel - can you blast?
From: Brinster, Jeremy
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 3:03 PM
To: Helmstetter, TJ; RR2
Subject: RE: For Research: Vox: trumps's trans position is incoherent
We can't leave that line about Clinton towards the end in. The rest looks fine to me, but I'm not sure if or how we want to excerpt the rest.
From: Helmstetter, TJ
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 3:00 PM
To: RR2
Subject: For Research: Vox: trumps's trans position is incoherent
Research, any flags on this? if not, we'll blast
From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 2:58 PM
To: Helmstetter, TJ; Freundlich, Christina; Paustenbach, Mark
Subject: RE: Vox: trumps's trans position is incoherent
Fine here.
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Helmstetter, TJ
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 12:52 PM
To: Freundlich, Christina; Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis
Subject: RE: Vox: trumps's trans position is incoherent
Mark/Luis, okay to blast?
From: Freundlich, Christina
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 12:48 PM
To: Helmstetter, TJ; Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis
Subject: RE: Vox: trumps's trans position is incoherent
I like that idea. This is good.
From: Helmstetter, TJ
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 12:32 PM
To: Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis; Freundlich, Christina
Subject: FW: Vox: trumps's trans position is incoherent
I'd like to blast this instead of us doing a round-up/statement. Great explainer, including how trump's language is dog whistling
From: Helmstetter, TJ
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 12:29 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: Vox: trumps's trans position is incoherent

Donald Trump's position on transgender rights is incoherent, not "nuanced"
The Washington Post picked an interesting word
to describe Donald Trump's new position on legal protections for transgender people: "nuanced."
A better word, however, might be "incoherent."
Trans people are "a very, very small portion of the population, but as I said, you have to protect everybody, including small portions of the population," Trump told the Post. But he added that it should be left to the states, most of which he said would "make the right decisions." So he would rescind the Obama administration's guidelines
telling federally funded schools to respect the rights of trans people, including their right to use a bathroom that aligns with their gender identity.
In other words, Trump thinks trans people should be protected by the law, but he wants to take away the only federal policy clearly doing just that in public schools. Pressed on this incoherent position, he invoked the old mantra of "states' rights."
As a concept, leaving something to the states makes sense if there's something local and state governments can do better than the federal government, or if it would be too burdensome or unwieldy for the federal government to get involved. A good example of that: fire departments. There's really no reason to think a federal fire department would be particularly more effective in a big city or county than a local one. (Obviously, some exceptions may apply with wildfires and in sparsely populated or low-income areas.)
Discrimination in schools is not one of those issues. The history and current experience make that very clear.
States have and still are failing at prohibiting discrimination
We have seen how this plays out already - in the 1960s, when the federal government had to step in to force schools to stop discriminating against black people. It's one of the big reasons the Civil Rights Act passed in the first place.
Similarly, the federal government passed Title IX in the 1970s after it became clear that states were failing to ensure equal opportunities for women in schools.
Now the country is seeing the same kind of failure with trans people. For one, most states do not have explicit anti-discrimination protections for trans people in the workplace, housing, education, or public accommodations (hotels, restaurants, and other places that serve the public). So it's not explicitly illegal under most states' laws to fire, evict, or refuse service to someone entirely because she's trans.
In fact, some states are actively discriminating against trans people. That's what North Carolina did when it passed a law
that banned local nondiscrimination ordinances that include sexual orientation and gender identity, and banned trans people from using the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity in schools and government buildings.
Some people might wonder why denying trans people access to the bathroom for their gender identity is discrimination. It's simple: Forcing trans people to use the bathroom that doesn't align with their gender identity acts as a reminder that, as far as society has come on some LGBTQ issues, it's still not completely willing to accept trans people and their identities - even if trans people pose no danger to anyone else
. So to trans people, this is just another slight by society. And it's a slight most states allow - and that North Carolina explicitly embraced.
This is why the Obama administration got involved. If the country believes that anti-LGBTQ discrimination should be illegal (and majorities do in every state
), but states aren't stopping that discrimination from happening, it makes sense for the federal government - which has historically done this when states fail - to intervene, especially in schools the federal government funds. That's exactly what happened.
Trump's position sounds more like a dodge
[Donald Trump in West Virginia.]Mark Lyons/Getty ImagesDonald Trump in West Virginia.
Given this history and Trump's position, it's odd that Trump would say this issue should be left to the states.
It does, however, make sense if you see it as a dodge. After all, "states' rights" has long been the mantra of national-level politicians who want to stay out of touchy issues when they know where the country or their party is going. For example, Hillary Clinton said in 2006 that same-sex marriage should be left up to the states
. And John McCain said the same of same-sex marriage
in 2008.
Trump seems to be in a similar position. He says he wants to protect trans people. But he probably realizes that some members of the Republican Party, particularly religious conservatives, wouldn't appreciate that position. So "states' rights" it is.
TJ Helmstetter
Deputy Director of Regional and Specialty Media
Democratic National Committee
202.863.8022 - desk
973.464.9224 - cell
HelmstetterT@DNC.org


Quick edit..
From: Paustenbach, Mark
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 4:22 PM
To: Miranda, Luis; Freundlich, Christina; Walker, Eric; Walsh, Tom
Subject: FOR COMMS REVIEW: DNC Communications Director: Democrats United and Ready to take on Trump
SL: DNC Communications Director: Democrats United and Ready to take on Trump
DNC Communications Director Luis Miranda today laid out how Democrats will be united and ready to hold the GOP's presumptive nominee Donald Trump accountable in the general election. Close to three-fourths of Democratic voters in recent primaries have said they're excited by our primary, a testament to the strong and substantive campaigns our candidates have run focused on moving our country forward. The contrast couldn't be clearer with dangerous Donald Trump whose offensive and divisive campaign has already begun to alienate even our closest allies.
Link to YouTube:  (starting at 2:07)
Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
W: 202.863.8148
paustenbachm@dnc.org