I'll blast
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[DNC]
Rachel Palermo
Democratic National Committee
PalermoR@dnc.org
202-863-8041
From: Lykins, Tyler
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 4:56 PM
To: Freundlich, Christina; Price, Jenna; RR2
Subject: RE: FOR RESEARCH: Draft DWS Call Excerpts
Sorry, that works for me.
From: Freundlich, Christina
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 4:55 PM
To: Lykins, Tyler; Price, Jenna; RR2
Subject: RE: FOR RESEARCH: Draft DWS Call Excerpts
Tyler?
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 1:29 PM -0700, "Price, Jenna"
> wrote:
This is Christina emailing from Jenna's computer
Please see the changes I made to this opening paragraph. I just looked at the second sentence and it didn't really make sense. Do you think this still works?
Today, DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz hosted a press call to discuss the state of the race and preview Donald Trump's meetings with Republican leadership tomorrow. From the party's senior leaders to the voters of Nebraska and West Virginia yesterday, Republicans have started to fret about their own deepening divide, and are now embracing their divisive and dangerous standard bearer. Democrats, on the other hand, have shown in state after state that our voters are excited about our primary, and optimistic about both of our candidates. Despite the historic chaos among Republicans, it's now clear that Donald Trump is the Republican Party.
From: Lykins, Tyler
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 4:09 PM
To: Price, Jenna; RR2
Subject: RE: FOR RESEARCH: Draft DWS Call Excerpts
Good here
From: Price, Jenna
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 4:05 PM
To: RR2
Subject: FOR RESEARCH: Draft DWS Call Excerpts
For Immediate Release
May 11, 2016
Contact: DNC Press - 202-863-8148
Remarks from DNC Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz Press Call on the State of the Presidential Race
Today, DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz hosted a press call to discuss the state of the race and preview Donald Trump's meetings with Republican leadership tomorrow. From senior leaders to the voters of Nebraska and West Virginia yesterday, Republicans have started to fret about their party's deepening divide to embrace their divisive and dangerous standard bearer. Democrats, on the other hand, have shown in state after state that our voters are excited about our primary, and optimistic about both of our candidates. Despite the historic chaos among Republicans, it's now clear that Donald Trump is the Republican Party.
Please find remarks below as prepared for delivery:
Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Of course we now know that Donald Trump is the Republican presumptive nominee, but we wanted to take a moment to discuss the historic and unprecedented division taking place on the Republican side --- especially visible this week as Donald Trump prepares to sit down tomorrow with Senate Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan. The irony is that Trump's impending nomination is the result of years of the Republican Party elevating extreme voices, and using divisive campaigns that sought to exploit unfounded fears for political gain. They've made their bed, and now they're lying in it. With his lock on the Republican nomination, Donald Trump has ensured that his party's problems won't be limited to convention chaos -- he's going to force GOP races big and small across the country to own his ugly, divisive and dangerous rhetoric all the way to the general election.
...
There has never been a situation in which the sitting Speaker of the House of Representatives simply doesn't want to support his party's nominee. It's stunning that Paul Ryan had to say he was willing to step down as the Chair of his party's convention. The distress amongst party leaders is palpable. The list of Republican leaders who refuse to support Donald Trump got longer this week, with Ted Cruz joining Ryan, and a slew of former GOP presidential candidates and Republican presidents who are equally dismayed at his divisive and dangerous rhetoric. In exit polls yesterday, just ten percent of Republican voters in West Virginia and three percent in Nebraska said they think their party is united. Majorities of Republican primary voters in recent weeks have expressed concern about their party's division. When you look at the trend lines nationally on our side, In contest after contest, Democratic voters are reporting their enthusiasm for both of our candidates.
The national polls favor Democrats who have seen week after week that our voters are excited about our primaries and enthusiastic about our candidates. Democrats are building the infrastructure for the general election, and we're doing it with enthusiastic voters because they see our candidates have the right ideas to build on the progress of the last seven years. So we're very confident that we're well positioned heading into the general election and that we'll have the strongest candidate. But we're not taking anything for granted, we're going to hold Trump and Republicans up and down the ballot accountable for their repeated promises to drag our country right back to the reckless policies that were in place in 2009 when the last Republican president left office; when we were losing 800,000 jobs a month; and, when countless Americans lost their homes and savings.
So that's another reason that this Trump - Ryan - McConnell meeting matters. It's a reminder that what the Republican presumptive nominee is promising is the same brand of trickle-down economic policies that help those at the top while costing hardworking Americans. Despite their fretting over his divisive and dangerous rhetoric, when you look under the hood, Trump doesn't look much different from Ryan or McConnell, and certainly like many of the down ballot Republicans. Despite his attempts at slight-of-hand, for example, it's clear that Trump's reckless tax plan is modeled on what the Republican Party has done for years, built on the same failed foundation of rewarding those at the top
by slashing the top income tax rate. Trump's plan would bring that tax rate to 25 percent from 39.6 percent. That would give
the "top 0.1% of income earners like himself an average tax cut of more than $1.3 million." Republicans in Congress also want to lower
the individual tax rate for the wealthiest Americans to 25 percent. Trump also plans to substantially
reduce the corporate tax rate, instead of fixing loopholes that allow some large companies to pay no federal income tax at all. Paul Ryan and his colleagues have also proposed cutting corporate taxes down to 25 percent - making Trump's 15 percent plan even more extreme than the Ryan Budget.
It's the same old Republican playbook. And it's consistent with Trump's history of making money off the backs of hardworking people. Trump's Republican bona fides go further. He actually said at one of the Republican Party's debates that wages were "too high". He not only opposes raising the federal minimum wage but thinks there shouldn't be a federal minimum wage at all. Now he tries to play sleight of hand, but that's what he promised. And Trump's statement this past week that the United States of America, as a country, shouldn't honor its debt and just print more money is flat out dangerous. But it's consistent with McConnell and Ryan, who have allowed their colleagues in Congress to bring our country to the brink of default by playing games with the debt ceiling, and threatening our credit rating. Put simply, Trump and the Republicans he's meeting with cannot be trusted on the economy, they have already proven that. When they win, the American people lose. Trump is divisive and dangerous, and he lacks the judgment and temperament to be president. The contrast couldn't be clearer with our candidates, who I'm proud of, who have run substantive and spirited campaigns.
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Bumping this. Thanks!
From: Crystal, Andy
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 8:09 PM
To: Research_D
Subject: Video Request: Paul Ryan Morning Joe Tomorrow
.@SpeakerRyan
joins us TOMORROW #morningjoe
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Deadbeat Donald!
Love it.
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From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 10:21 AM
To: Berns, Jeremy; Comm_D
Subject: RE: WaPo: Trump’s income tax returns once became public. They showed he didn’t pay a cent.
Wow. Could blast this out too.
SL: BREAKING: New report shows Deadbeat Donald didn't pay a dime in tax
Key point:
The only window into Trump’s handling of his income taxes came during the 1981 New Jersey report after Trump’s application for a casino license.
State records show that Trump claimed that his combined income in 1978 and 1979 was negative $3.8 million, allowing him to pay no taxes. A few years earlier, he had told the New York Times he was worth more than $200 million.
From: Berns, Jeremy
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 10:04 AM
To: Comm_D
Subject: WaPo: Trump’s income tax returns once became public. They showed he didn’t pay a cent.
Trump’s income tax returns once became public. They showed he didn’t pay a cent.
By Drew Harwell May 20 at 9:45 AM
The last time Donald Trump’s income-tax returns were made public, the bottom line was striking: He had paid the federal government $0 in income taxes.
The disclosure, in a 1981 report by New Jersey gambling regulators, revealed that the wealthy Manhattan investor had for at least two years in the late 1970s taken advantage of a tax-code provision popular with developers that allowed him to report negative income.
Today, as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Trump regularly denounces corporate executives for using loopholes and “false deductions” to “get away with murder” when it comes to avoiding taxes.
“They make a fortune. They pay no tax,” Trump said last year on CBS. “It’s ridiculous, okay?”
The contrast highlights a potentially awkward challenge for Trump.
He has built a political identity around his reputation as a financial whiz, even bragging about his ability to game the tax code to pay as little as possible to the government — a practice he has called the “American way.” Moreover, he has aggressively pursued tax breaks and other government supports to bolster his real estate empire. But that history threatens to collide with his efforts to woo working-class voters who resent that they often pay higher tax rates than the wealthy who benefit from special loopholes.
Trump’s personal taxes are a mystery. He has refused to release any recent returns, meaning the public cannot see how much money he makes, how much he gives to charity and how aggressively he uses deductions, shelters and other tactics to shrink his tax bill.
Trump, who said last week on ABC that his tax rate is “none of your business,” would be the first major party nominee in 40 years to not release his returns.
In an interview this week, Trump said that he has paid “substantial” taxes but declined to provide specifics.
He reiterated that he fights “very hard to pay as little tax as possible.”
“One of the reasons is because the government takes your money and wastes it in the Middle East and all over the place,” he said.
Trump’s contradictory approaches have been apparent for years.
He criticized the 2012 Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, for delaying the release of his returns. Romney, a former private-equity executive, had come under fire for paying a low tax rate because most of his income came from investments.
“It’s a great thing when you can show that you’ve been successful, and that you’ve made a lot of money,” Trump said at the time.
Romney eventually released returns showing that, for his 2011 taxes, he chose not to take certain deductions, bringing his tax rate more in line with that of average Americans.
Trump, early in his campaign, seemed ready to give voters a look at his tax filings.
In January, he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he was ready to disclose his “very big . . . very beautiful” returns.
But as his campaign gained momentum, Trump backed away from his promise. He first claimed that ongoing audits by the Internal Revenue Service prevent disclosure.
Then last week, he told the Associated Press that voters are not interested in seeing his tax filings and that “there’s nothing to learn from them.”
Trump’s new position has unnerved some tax experts, who see value in the tradition of transparency by presidential contenders.
“At some point, he could be the tax-collector-in-chief. He’d supervise the IRS, making sure all of us live up to our own tax responsibilities,” said Joe Thorndike, a director at Tax Analysts, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group that specializes in tax policy. “People deserve to know . . . how a person like that plays the game.”
Trump’s stance has become an issue in the campaign.
Romney said on Facebook last week that refusing to release the returns should be “disqualifying” for any nominee and speculated that Trump’s returns could be hiding a “bombshell of unusual size.”
Trump’s likely Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, who has disclosed decades of tax returns, released a 60-second ad last week asking, “What’s Donald Trump hiding?”
“You’ve got to ask yourself: ‘Why doesn’t he want to release it?’ ” Clinton said at a New Jersey rally last week. “Yeah, well, we’re gonna find out.”
Bob McIntyre of the liberal group Citizens for Tax Justice suspects Trump’s tax returns, if made public, would undermine the political image the candidate has crafted of a brilliant businessman with what his campaign has called “tremendous cash flow.”
Trump may be worried that “he’d show very little income on his tax returns compared to his wealth claims,” McIntyre said, adding that Trump’s returns could also show that he “writes off everything he has in his life — the hairdo, the plane — as business expenses.”
Trump has repeatedly said that he would be open to sharing his returns. In 2011, he said he would release them after Barack Obama released his long-form birth certificate but never did after the certificate’s release. In 2014, he said he would “absolutely” release them “if I decide to run for office.” Last year, he said he would release them when “we find out the true story on Hillary’s emails.”
To back his refusal, Trump has released a letter from his tax lawyers that said his tax returns had been audited by the IRS since 2002, and that audits on the returns since 2009 were still underway.
The lawyers’ letter also said returns from 2002 to 2008 had been closed administratively by the IRS, meaning their audits had been completed. Trump said in an interview he would still not release those returns because “they’re all linked.”
But experts say that Trump is free to release his tax records. President Richard Nixon released his returns while under audit. Nothing, including an audit, “prevents individuals from sharing their own tax information,” an IRS spokesman said.
The only window into Trump’s handling of his income taxes came during the 1981 New Jersey report after Trump’s application for a casino license.
State records show that Trump claimed that his combined income in 1978 and 1979 was negative $3.8 million, allowing him to pay no taxes. A few years earlier, he had told the New York Times he was worth more than $200 million.
Tax analysts say it is possible that Trump pays very low income taxes, or no taxes at all, using tactics available to wealthy investors and developers, such as depreciating the value of real estate.
When asked this week whether he pays income taxes, Trump said, “I will give that to you as soon as I get my audit finished.” He added later, “But with that being said, when you’re in the real estate business, you do have certain tax advantages.”
Trump has benefited from public money by aggressively seeking large tax reductions at developments including Trump Tower.
His first major development, the Grand Hyatt Hotel in midtown Manhattan built in partnership with Chicago’s wealthy Pritzker family, was made possible with the help of a New York City tax subsidy worth $400 million over 40 years, according to city records.
It was New York’s first-ever tax abatement for a commercial property, secured by Trump with help from his developer father’s political allies, according to “The Deals and the Downfall,” a biography on Trump’s developments by investigative reporter Wayne Barrett.
Trump has defended his use of public tax assistance to boost private projects. He said opponents of such government supports, including some conservatives, are out of touch with reality.
“The true conservative philosophy is that a thing like that shouldn’t happen. But they’re in the world of the make-believe,” Trump said in an interview. “The real world is that without certain tax abatements, you have a choice. The job could get built . . . or you don’t have to have anything. It could just go stagnant, and a town can die.”
Trump’s strategy to ease his company’s tax burden has resulted in sore feelings in some communities, where local governments rely heavily on tax receipts from large businesses.
In Ossining, N.Y., home to a Trump National Golf Club, town officials say that a tax break being sought by the company would cost their coffers more than $200,000 a year.
In seeking the reduction, Trump’s lawyers have claimed that the club is worth far less than the roughly $15 million value assessed by the city.
Trump’s lawyers have filed papers with the state claiming that the “full market value” of the property is $1.4 million. The same golf course appears on Trump’s new financial disclosure form released this week as part of his presidential campaign — valued by him at more than $50 million.
Trump lawyer Alan Garten did not respond to questions about the discrepancy.
Ossining Town Supervisor Dana Levenberg, a Democrat, expressed frustration that Trump seemed to be gaining “at other people’s loss.”
“It’s hard to look at someone who talks about their wealth frequently and think they got that successful on other people’s backs,” she said.


Good afternoon,
Face the Nation is focusing on the Egypt Air tragedy on Sunday and the chair will not be on the program. So our plan to make news on FTN has fallen through.
The chair and I were just talking about a back-up plan and she asked me to share this idea with the team:
* Like we were going to do on FTN, have the chair appear on Andrea Mitchell's MSNBC program midday Monday to make the announcement.
The other elements that have been discussed would still remain in place. All this does is push the announcement back 24 hours.
Please share your thoughts.
Thank you,
Ryan
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Hi Sean, you should reach out to Sen. Schumer’s office and/or the DSCC. Thanks.
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 – MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Sean Langille
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 1:32 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: DC EXAMINER: Media Request
Luis,
I am seeking a surrogate/analyst to preview what the Senate would look like under Sen. Schumer and what kind of priorities Senate Democrats would seek to accomplish. This would be a brief 5-10 min. on camera interview, filmed at our 15th ST, NW DC offices. Let me know what we can work out for today or tomorrow.
Best,
--
Sean Langille
Digital Engagement Editor
Washington Examiner
Office: 202- 459-4955
Cell: 202-642-6365
@SeanLangille


April 29, 2016
*In recognition of Mental Health Month, Reps. Matsui, Kennedy, Tonko, Loebsack, and Napolitano will be hosting a Twitter Storm from 2:00 to 3:00 pm ET on Monday, May 2nd. Members’ offices are encouraged to participate. Look for suggested content to be distributed by the host offices soon! Suggested hashtag: #mhm2016
Sample TWEETS:
#DoYourJob → Instead of voting on #budget or acting on 3 major public health crises, @SpeakerRyan has recessed the House. Let's work!
.@SpeakerRyan
has recessed the House w/out a #budget vote or action on health crises. #DoYourJob for the American people who sent us here!
GOP is so vexed by their #budget debacle that they want to scrap the Budget Committee altogether? ¯\_(◔̯◔)_/¯ ... Americans deserve better.
MUST READ via @bpolitics News: Congress Has No Good Reason to Delay Zika Funding →
Time to act, @HouseGOP. We must urgently address these 3 public health emergencies: #Zika virus, opioid addiction & the #FlintWaterCrisis.
.@SpeakerRyan
, we MUST act immediately. // BREAKING: Brain damage in #Zika babies is far worse than expected →
#ACAworks! // @SpeakerRyan's Big Plan To Replace Obamacare Is An Old Idea That Doesn’t Work →  via @HuffingtonPost
.@HouseDemocrats
are fighting to ensure that #LGBT students have equal protection under the law. Let's move #EqualityForward in America!
FACT of the day:
"The American people have waited more than 2,200 days – and endured 63 House GOP votes to repeal or undermine the Affordable Care Act – to see the Republican fantasy plan to replace the ACA. And even though Republicans have admitted that they’re never going to actually produce a replacement bill, Speaker Ryan finally teased out the big idea that the GOP spent six years thinking up: ‘An Old Idea That Doesn’t Work,’ according to The Huffington Post." – Press Office of the Democratic Leader
Link:
CLIP of the day:
Democratic Leader Pelosi Holds Weekly Press Conference
Link:
QUOTE of the day:
"More than two months after the White House asked Congress for more than $1.8 billion to fight the Zika virus, Congress has yet to provide it. President Barack Obama, Republicans claim, has failed to explain in sufficient detail how his administration would spend the money. Perhaps his 25-page proposal, sent to House Speaker Paul Ryan in February, got lost in interoffice mail. If so, no worries: There’s also a summary on the Web. Most of the money -- about $1.5 billion -- will go to the Department of Health and Human Services to help states control the mosquito that carries the virus, expand programs to test for it, and work on developing a vaccine." – Bloomberg New, Editorial Board, Congress Has No Good Reason to Delay Zika Funding
Link:
HASHTAGS to use:
#Budget
#Zika
#Opioid
#EqualityForward
#MiddleClassFirst
#PuertoRico
#WomenSucceed
#20MillionStrong
#ACAworks
#DoYourJob
#SCOTUSnominee
#ProtectSeniors
#LetsGetOnWithIt
#FlintWaterCrisis
#ActOnClimate
#RestoreTheVRA
#RestoreTheVOTE
#StopGunViolence
#HonorWithAction
#StandWithPP
#ActOnClimate
#PeopleOverPolitics
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Thanks to Levi for Tracking!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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Best,
Sean Sorbie
Tracking Coordinator
Democratic National Committee
Office: (202) 488-5004
Cell: (727)458-8583
[SigDems]


Great here
From: Walsh, Tom
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 12:22 PM
To: Helmstetter, TJ; Paustenbach, Mark; Banfill, Ryan; Miranda, Luis; Walker, Eric
Subject: For edits: Draft DWS Statement on International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
For Immediate Release
May 17, 2016
Contact - DNC Press 202-863-8148
DNC Chair Statement on International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
WASHINGTON-  DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz issued the following statement:
"On International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia we reaffirm the dignity and worth of those in the LGBT community. Observing this day is especially important this political season, when negative rhetoric aimed at our LGBT brothers and sisters, and efforts to pass anti-LGBT legislation in states around the country threaten to inflame hatreds and deepen divisions in our communities. These actions are wrong, and do nothing but encourage bullying, cruelty and harassment, and we must stand against them.
"Our nation has made tremendous strides in the fight for full equality, but we have much farther to go before homophobia, transphobia and biphobia become a thing of the past. Until then, Democrats will continue to openly and proudly fight with the LGBT community, activists and allies to elect leaders and enact policies that advance acceptance and LGBT rights as our common cause."
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Thanks Luis.  Bill good to reconnect.  We used to talk a while back when I was Gephardt's flack.
We'll know a lot more about where we are tomorrow since both campaigns have suspended talks until after the primary.
From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 5:26 PM
To: Sammon, Bill; Erik Smith
Subject: Connecting you...
Hi Erik, I'm connecting you here with Bill Sammon who is the Vice President of News and Washington Managing Editor for Fox News Channel. As you know Fox recently hosted Senators Clinton and Sanders for a Town Hall. Bill and his team led that effort, and they are interested in being considered for the possible additional May debate. I had a good conversation with Bill yesterday and laid out the process, so I wanted to make sure he's in touch with you directly.
Thanks, - Luis.
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC


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Politico: Sanders allies plot post-primary war on Trump
Draft plan also proposes alternate 'convention' event for Bernie.
By GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI
A group of senior Bernie Sanders staffers and volunteers is circulating a draft proposal calling on the senator to get out of the presidential race after the final burst of Democratic primaries on June 7, and concentrate on building a national progressive organization to stop Donald Trump.
Operating under the assumption that Sanders will win the California primary but still fall far short of amassing enough delegates to claim the Democratic nomination, the document calls for the Vermont senator to exit the race and launch an independent political group far larger than any other recent post-campaign political operations, such as those started by Howard Dean or Barack Obama.
The working title for the roughly 1,600-word document: "After Winning on June 7th Bernie Sanders Should Suspend his Campaign and Launch an Independent Organization to Defeat Donald Trump."
At the same time, people closer to Sanders and his campaign team have been holding their own big-picture conversations about the shape of the post-primary Sanders machine for months, zeroing in on specific questions in recent weeks about what the goals should be, and how it would work.
Both efforts to sketch out the Sanders end-game are working under the premise that Hillary Clinton will likely be the party's nominee - but a standard-bearer who will struggle to bring Sanders voters along with her. That's led some of the discussions to focus on how best to use Sanders' vaunted email list to energize his backers against Trump, and whether to help down-ballot candidates who share Sanders' views.
For the moment, Sanders remains publicly focused on amassing delegates via the remaining primaries so he can reach the Democratic convention in July with a significant force that can shape the proceedings. But even as he racks up victories - most recently in Indiana and West Virginia - he's faced repeated questions about his intentions, with some of his highest-profile supporters questioning his plan to stay in through July.
The group of over a dozen Sanders backers crafting the proposal - a collection of volunteers and current and former Sanders staff members, all veterans of other high-profile campaigns, including Barack Obama's, who insist on anonymity - believes that leaving an imprint on the party platform is an overrated goal. They suggest that the Vermont senator should exit the race if it's clear he cannot win - a call similar to the one made by Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, his lone Senate endorser - rather than spend the five weeks before the convention in limbo.
That approach would allow Clinton to confront Trump more directly, and earlier than expected: even Priorities USA Action, the main pro-Clinton super PAC, has signaled that it wishes to go on the offensive sooner than originally planned by revealing this week that it will move up the start time of its ads from June 8.
"Senator Sanders should proceed to lay out his plan to build an organization, completely independent of the Clinton campaign that will single-mindedly devote itself to educating Americans about the threat of right wing (some say fascist) takeover and the task of identifying and mobilizing voters to defend our democracy in November 2016 and beyond. Call it Revolution 2016 or another name that best speaks to base and message and its focused task over the next 5 months might be to mobilize voters under 30 (with likely positive impacts on Senate and Congressional races)," reads a copy of the draft proposal obtained by POLITICO.
While Sanders will likely speak at July's official Democratic convention in Philadelphia, the document proposes that he and his aides host a 'convention' event of their own to spur excitement and launch this group: "the best organized independent expenditure organization in history [that will] give the vast (and deeply anti-establishment) base a vehicle into which they will whole heartedly pour their energy."
Such an effort, they write, would help bridge the gap between Clinton and the "large cadre of young, newly political Sanders supporters [that] sees rejection of Hillary and the Democratic Party establishment as core to their identity."
If the group was at first focused primarily on combating Trump, the thinking goes, it would provide those Sanders fans with justification for eventually voting for Clinton.
"This is a populist year in American electoral politics with signs that it may mark the beginning of a populist era. It would be very unwise for the decidedly un-populist Hillary Clinton to move with too much confidence towards a full-on confrontation with Donald Trump," they continue. "A Sanders led (as opposed to Sanders-centered) independent entity could provide a much needed, articulate and energized economic populist voice to the anti-Trump effort without the intrinsic compromising effect posed by close association with Neoliberal Democratic elites, as well as weaning the volunteer base off total reliance on individual candidates during one-off election cycles."
The still-circulating proposal - by far the most advanced version of a post-primary discussion to surface - acknowledges that there are significant kinks still to work out in the post-primary plan, first and foremost how to fund the proposed independent entity.
While Sanders has sustained his campaign with an online fundraising juggernaut, the pace of its donations has already slowed and it's unlikely that he would be able to keep up a constant money flow beyond the campaign season. As a result, acknowledge the proposal drafters, he would be faced with the question of accepting big checks from individual donors - a direct contradiction with a central tenet of his current campaign.
"Bernie Sanders may either believe that it is a principle, even outside of a candidacy, or feel that he is boxed in by the rhetoric of the campaign," they write. "Controls could easily be applied - such as an open process governed by a diverse panel of volunteers who could accept or reject large donations, e.g. in excess of $10,000 - but in the end Bernie Sanders himself would have to decide where his priorities lie."
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[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Daniel Strauss
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 12:47 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: RE: FOR DEEP BACKGROUND
One more question: who are the three folks the chairwoman picked who Sanders nominated?
From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 11:44 AM
To: Daniel Strauss
>
Subject: FOR DEEP BACKGROUND
How does the Democratic party platform writing process work? When do the drafting committees start getting appointed and meeting?
*         The Platform Drafting Committee is a subcommittee of the Convention's Platform committee. It is made up of 15 people, appointed by the DNC Chair. We don't have any announcement to make on timing as of yet, however, they'll be appointed sometime in the coming weeks.
*         Because the Party's platform is a statement of our values, the DNC is committed to an open, inclusive and representative process. Both of our campaigns will be represented on the Drafting Committee, and just as we did in 2008 and 2012, the public will have opportunities to participate.
Is there a list of who is on the party platform committee?
*         Below you'll see our release on the Chair's appointments to the Platform committee  (and other committees). In addition to the Chair's appointments (25 for each committee for a total of 75 plus the leadership) there are 162 members of each committee who are elected in every state and territory according to the results of the primaries and caucuses. Those elections are ongoing and must conclude by June 25th.
For Immediate Release
January 22, 2016
Contact: DNC Press - 202-863-8148
DNC Holds Executive Committee Conference Call
WASHINGTON - Due to today's inclement weather throughout the country, the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) Executive Committee held their Executive Committee meeting via conference call today, hearing from special guests such as Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey, Pennsylvania Democratic Party Chair Marcel Groen, and Democratic National Convention Committee CEO Leah Daughtry on preparations for the Democratic Convention to be held in the City of Brotherly and Sisterly Love in July. The previously-scheduled in-person meeting in Philadelphia, including a tour of the convention sites, was cancelled due to expected inclement weather.
Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz also delivered remarks during today's call. In addition, the DNC Executive Committee voted to ratify the Chair's 2016 Party Leader and Elected Official Member appointments to the Convention Standing Committees: Credentials, Platform, and Rules. The slate of the Chair's appointments is attached in PDF format.
DNC rules provide for the Chair to appoint 75 Party Leader and Elected Official Members to the three Convention Standing Committees.  These Party Leader Members serve in addition to and together with the over 160 members that are elected in each and every state to those same committees.
"I am extremely proud of the experienced group of individuals who are ready and dedicated to serving our Party on the Convention Committees," said DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. "This slate represents the great variety of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences that make up our Party. We wanted to make sure that the diversity of our party was reflected to the highest levels in terms of race, gender, age, and geography and feel confident that these individuals will do a tremendous job in this capacity."
The bulk of the Standing Committee members will be elected from the states and territories during the delegate selection process.
The Chair also appointed Committee Co-Chairs as follows:
*         Credentials Committee: Lorraine Miller and Jim Roosevelt
*         Rules Committee: Former State Senator Leticia Van de Putte and former U.S. Congressman Barney Frank
*         Platform Committee: Governor Dan Malloy and former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin
###


Good!
First it's important the DNC was in this, but second the message we wanted came across, even if just a part of it, it's an important part.
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-------- Original message --------
From: "Paustenbach, Mark"
Date: 04/24/2016 5:56 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Cc: "Miranda, Luis"
Subject: AP - Big Story: Clinton, Trump stream ahead as rivals show signs of fading
Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz downplayed tensions between Sanders and Clinton, whose rivalry has become increasingly nasty in recent weeks.
"Regardless of the intensity of what's played out here ... we are going to be unified," she declared.

Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202.863.8148
paustenbachm@dnc.org


There was a large protest outside. Video team can you do a cursory search of the Omaha news stations for coverage of that protest? Thank you
From: Spolarich Jr., Gary
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 6:02 PM
To: Sarge, Matthew; Comm_D
Subject: RE: Video Request: Trump Rally in Omaha NE at 5pm
Watch here
From: Sarge, Matthew
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 5:50 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: RE: Video Request: Trump Rally in Omaha NE at 5pm
Trump Rally in Omaha NE at 5pm
Trade deficit
-          Practically no tax on imports
-          But can't get our products into China and Japan
-          Kobe beef. It's old. Who the hell want it?
-          On a federal level, it's ridiculous. We're being outdealt on trade deals
When my opponents say something bad about me, it's okay to hit them
-          I won't call Jeb Bush low energy. I won't
-          Lindsey Graham is so nasty. That's why we can't beat ISIS-need new thinking
-          Bragging about how Rick Perry called him a cancer, but now endorses him
So many negative ads run against me
-          Doral, Adam Scott, etc
-          Didn't think I could win Florida
Bernie Sanders is stealing my language on Rigged System
-          There system has super delegates, so it's more obvious
Not using teleprompters
-          Because I'm smart
-          Allows me to tailor my speeches
Take a look at Hillary
-          Look at where she's getting her money
-          Bad judgment. Dishonest
Comments on Gov. Ricketts
-          I don't think his brother likes me as much
Talking about a crazy pundit
-          Blond woman, but I'm not allowed to say that or they'll me sexist
-          Only care about the women now. To hell with the men. I've had massive numbers with the men
I like ethanol. Who the hell else likes ethanol besides Trump?
Bad jobs numbers. You had a terrible killing in Omaha by an illegal immigrant
Talking about protesters
HRC wants to give Obamacare to illegal immigrants
-          Our country will be destroyed
Tells Nebraskans to go vote so they can break vote records
From: Sarge, Matthew
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 5:03 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: Video Request: Trump Rally in Omaha NE at 5pm
ABC Go


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 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 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 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 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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Trump as well.
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MONDAY: @realDonaldTrump & @tedcruz each sit down with @seanhannity - 10p ET on #FoxNews!

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TRUMP BELIEVED THAT THERE SHOULD BE "PUNISHMENT" FOR A WOMAN WHO GETS AN ABORTION
Trump: "There Has To Be Some Form Of Punishment" For Women Getting An Abortion. TRUMP: MATTHEWS: "Do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no as a principle?" TRUMP: "The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment." MATTHEWS: "For the woman?" TRUMP: "Yes, there has to be some form." MATTHEWS: "Ten cents?  Ten years?  What?" TRUMP: "Let me just tell you -- I don't know.  That I don't know.  That I don't know." [MSNBC Town Hall, MSNBC, Green Bay WI, 3/30/16]
From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 10:03 AM
To: Crystal, Andy; RR2
Subject: RE: Trump/Grassley SCOTUS
Cool. Research, can we get a bullet for his interview where he said that women should be punished for abortion?
TJ can you work up a hit for Iowa re: Bill Prior?
I'll flag for Kaylie over at NARAL.
From: Crystal, Andy
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 9:55 AM
To: RR2
Subject: RE: Trump/Grassley SCOTUS
Trump has also said that abortion would be an important issue for selecting a justice:
TRUMP SAID ABORTION WOULD  BE AN IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR SELECTING A JUSTICE BUT DID NOT SAY IT WOULD BE PART OF HIS LITMUS TEST
Donald Trump Said Abortion Was An Important Issue To Him But Did Not Say If He Would Have A Pro-Life Litmus Test For Supreme Court Appointments. TAPPER: "Let me ask you about a few social issues... just because I'm not -- they haven't been issues you have been talking about for several years. I know you're opposed to abortion." TRUMP: "Right. I'm pro-choice." TAPPER: "You're pro-choice or pro-life?" TRUMP: "I'm pro-life. I'm sorry." TAPPER: "Pro-life.  So how important is that issue to you now? When President Trump picks Supreme Court justices, would that be a litmus test?" TRUMP: "It is. It is. Look, you have a lot of pro-choice people out there. But that is an issue, it's very interesting, because, in terms of polling, the pro-choice is actually going down a little bit. You know, it's very interesting." [State Of The Union, CNN, 6/28/15]
Trump On Abortion As A Litmus Test For Supreme Court Appointees: "Well, I Would Certainly Be Asking Them The Question." TRUMP: "My statement on that happens to be, you know, if the mother will die. And you're going to know that. And the problem with the life: If you say life, what does life mean? You have a cold and you're going to end up having an abortion. So I have the three exceptions and pretty much the standard three exceptions that many Republicans have." CHUCK TODD: "Is this going to be a litmus test for the Supreme Court nominees that you pick?" TRUMP: "Well, I think I would certainly be asking them the question. And I think it would be, if not a litmus test, it would certainly be helpful in terms of my choices. I mean, I want great jurists. I want great intellects. And certainly that would be helpful to me." [Meet The Press, NBC, 8/16/15]
Trump On Selecting Supreme Court Nominees: "I'd Go Pro-Life." "'You know I'm pro-life,' he offered, responding to a question about how a President Trump might choose Supreme Court nominees.  Picking senior jurists 'is a very important decision. One of the most important,' he said. 'The next president could have three or four.' 'I'd go pro-life,' Trump said after a brief pause. 'I'd go pro-life.'" [Daily Mail, 5/22/15]
Trump: Abortion "Would Be, If Not A Litmus Test, It Would Certainly Be Helpful In Terms Of My Choices." CHUCK TODD: "Is this [abortion] going to be a litmus test for the Supreme Court nominees that you pick?" DONALD TRUMP: "Well, I think I would certainly be asking them the question. And I think it would be, if not a litmus test, it would certainly be helpful in terms of my choices. I mean, I want great jurists. I want great intellects. And certainly that would be helpful to me." [Meet the Press Extended, NBC, 8/17/15
]
In 2000, Trump  Supported His Sister's Statement That A Federal Judge's Personal Views On Abortion Were Immaterial To Their Potential Appointment. "When my sister Maryanne Barry Trump, one of the brightest and most capable people on the federal bench, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing on her elevation to a federal judgeship in the Third Circuit Court, Smith insisted on asking her views on abortion. She patiently explained to the good senator that her personal views on the issue were meaningless; a federal judge's job is to uphold the law as it is written, not to interpret from the bench based on his or her personal views. Maybe if my sister had spoken more slowly he would have understood her." [Donald Trump, The America We Deserve, 2000]
TRUMP CRITICIZED THE COURT'S ROE V. WADE DECISION
Donald Trump: Roe V. Wade Evinced The United States' Slide "Toward A Culture Of Death." "Over time, our culture of life in this country has started sliding toward a culture of death. Perhaps the most significant piece of evidence to support this assertion is that since Roe v. Wade was decided by the Supreme Count 43 years ago, over 50 million Americans never had the chance to enjoy the opportunities offered by this country. They never had the chance to become doctors, musicians, farmers, teachers, husbands, fathers, sons or daughters. They never had the chance to enrich the culture of this nation or to bring their skills, lives, loves or passions into the fabric of this country. They are missing, and they are missed." [Donald Trump Op-Ed, Washington Examiner, 1/23/16
]
Donald Trump: "The Supreme Court In 1973 Based Its Decision [In Roe v. Wade] On Imagining Rights And Liberties In The Constitution That Are Nowhere To Be Found." "The Supreme Court in 1973 based its decision [in Roe v. Wade] on imagining rights and liberties in the Constitution that are nowhere to be found. Even if we take the court at its word, that abortion is a matter of privacy, we should then extend the argument to the logical conclusion that private funds, then, should subsidize this choice rather than the half billion dollars given to abortion providers every year by Congress. Public funding of abortion providers is an insult to people of conscience at the least and an affront to good governance at best." [Donald Trump Op-Ed, Washington Examiner, 1/23/16
]
Donald Trump: If Abortion Is A Matter Of Privacy, As The Supreme Court Ruled In Roe v. Wade, Then Only Private Funds Should Be Used For Abortion And No Public Funds Should Ever Go To Abortion Providers. "The Supreme Court in 1973 based its decision [in Roe v. Wade] on imagining rights and liberties in the Constitution that are nowhere to be found. Even if we take the court at its word, that abortion is a matter of privacy, we should then extend the argument to the logical conclusion that private funds, then, should subsidize this choice rather than the half billion dollars given to abortion providers every year by Congress. Public funding of abortion providers is an insult to people of conscience at the least and an affront to good governance at best." [Donald Trump Op-Ed, Washington Examiner, 1/23/16
]
Donald Trump: The Supreme Court's Decision In Roe v. Wade Showed The Court's "Utter Contempt ... For Federalism And The 10th Amendment.  "If using taxpayer money to facilitate our slide to a culture of death were not enough, the 1973 decision became a landmark decision demonstrating the utter contempt the court had for federalism and the 10th Amendment. Roe v. Wade gave the court an excuse to dismantle the decisions of state legislatures and the votes of the people. This is a pattern that the court has repeated over and over again since that decision. Roe v. Wade became yet another incidence of disconnect between the people and their government." [Donald Trump Op-Ed, Washington Examiner, 1/23/16
]
From: Crystal, Andy
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 9:52 AM
To: RR2
Subject: Trump/Grassley SCOTUS
Couple things here:
Attached the doc I put together a while back when Trump was supposedly releasing his list of potential nominees.
Here's the article where Grassley said he believes Trump would nominate the right type of justice based on the fact Trump previously mentioned Bill Pryor as a potential nominee.
Des Moines Register: Grassley: Trump Would Nominate 'Right Type' To Court
Last week, Grassley said it would be a 'gamble' to let Trump fill the vacancy:
Huffington Post: Chuck Grassley Admits It's 'A Gamble' To Let Trump Fill SCOTUS Vacancy
Bill Pryor's Greatest Hits:
*         Called Roe v. Wade "the worst abomination in the history of constitutional law."
*         Opposes abortion even in cases of rape or incest.
*         Urged Congress to repeal Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
*         Was the only Attorney General in the nation to file an amicus brief to the Supreme Court arguing that the federal remedy for victims of sexual assault in the Violence Against Women Act was unconstitutional.
*         In 2005, Lambda Legal called Pryor "the most demonstrably antigay judicial nominee in recent memory."
And here is a release Rachel and I put together about all of Trump's potential nominees to prepare for him possibly releasing a list. He should definitely be pressed to release it now - all of these judges fall right into our narrative over the past few weeks (terrible for women, for voting rights, for the LGBT community). It never went back around RR2 so here it is:
SL: Whom Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell and Chuck Grassley Are Holding Out For
Mitch McConnell and Chuck Grassley have long been waiting for this day - to see whom their party's frontrunner would consider nominating to the Supreme Court. The day has finally come, and it's nothing pretty.
"The Supreme Court nominating process is serious, Donald Trump is not. Again and again he has demonstrated he lacks the experience and temperament to be an effective commander-in-chief. So it comes as no surprise that his list of top picks for the Supreme Court is full of red flags.
"The justices judges he wants to elevate to our highest court have a history of making the same sort of unpredictable, extreme decisions that we see every day from Trump. It's bad enough that Senate Republicans refuse to uphold the Constitution, do their jobs and hold hearings on President Obama's eminently qualified nominee. But, it's worse that the reason for the obstruction is their hope that Trump would get to nominate one of these judges.," - DNC Press Secretary Mark Paustenbach
No one is more qualified to immediately serve on the Supreme Court than Chief Judge Merrick Garland - but Senate Republicans continue to say they won't meet with Chief Judge Garland, hold a hearing or vote on his nomination.
So instead, let's take a closer look at whom the Republicans are holding out for:
Diane Sykes
*         Throughout her career, Diane Sykes has supported partisan republican efforts to restrict access to the ballot box. voter obstruction measures. In 2014, she voted in favor
of upholding Wisconsin's restrictive photo voter ID law, one of the strictest in the nation, which could block 300,000 registered voters
in Wisconsin from casting their ballots. law only eight weeks before an election in which Scott Walker was in a tight gubernatorial race. Sykes also joined authored an opinion that same year that declared major portions of gutted major portions
of Wisconsin's campaign finance reform law unconstitutional, giving special interest groups more influence in our elections.
*         In 2013, Sykes authored an opinion restricting that restricted a woman's access to birth control, which was described as the "broadest ruling"
so far by a federal appeals court barring enforcement of the birth control mandate in the Affordable Care Act.
Bill Pryor
*         After George W. Bush nominated Bill Pryor to the Eleventh Circuit, Senate Democrats filibustered his nomination
because of his extreme positions on abortion. Pryor opposes abortion
even in cases of rape or incest, and he called
Roe v. Wade "Tthe worst abomination in the history of constitutional law."
*         In 2009, Pryor authored the Eleventh Circuit's decision upholding Georgia's strict voter ID law. Years earlier, he urged Congress
to repeal Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
*         Pryor was the only Attorney General in the nation to file an amicus brief
to the Supreme Court arguing that a provision in the Violence Against Women Act that allowed victims to file suit in federal court was unconstitutional that the federal remedy for victims of sexual assault in the Violence Against Women Act was unconstitutional.
*         Pryor has a long history of opposing LGBT rights. In fact, in 2005, Lambda Legal called
Pryor "the most demonstrably antigay judicial nominee in recent memory."
*         Editorial boards across the country denounced Bush's nomination of Pryor to the Eleventh Circuit, including the Washington Post, New York Times
, and numerous local outlets.
Brett Kavanaugh
*         As a Circuit Judge, Brett Kavanaugh was one of the staunchest critics of President Obama's environmental rules efforts to combat climate change and he authored an opinion
that struck down the EPA's cross-state air pollution rule.
*         Throughout his career, Kavanaugh has used his judicial authority to increase the influence of money in politics. In 2009, he authored an opinion
that ruled that the government can't restrict political spending by nonprofit groups or political committees. In addition, Kavanaugh authored an opinion
that upheld South Carolina's restrictive voter ID law.
*         Kavanaugh has argued
that a president may refuse to enforce a law if he or she personally deems that law unconstitutional, even if the Supreme Court has previously upheld it. should have the authority to decline
to enforce a statute that regulates private individuals when the president deems the statute unconstitutional, even if a court has held or would hold the statute constitutional.
Paul Clement
*         Paul Clement has taken action on his out-of-touch views on immigration, serving as lead counsel to defend SB 70, Arizona's extreme immigration law. Republicans have continually hired Paul Clement to defend their out of touch views on immigration, health care, and LGBT rights.
*         Governor Jan Brewer hired
Clement as lead counsel to defend SB 70, Arizona's extreme immigration law
.
*         Clement has "pledged to the destruction
" of the Affordable Care Act, which would take away quality, affordable health insurance from millions of 20 million Americans. He served as lead counsel
in the lawsuit that first challenged the authority of the ACA.
*         In 2011, Clement was hired
by John Boehner hired
Clement to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court, and in 2012, Clement was hired
by Governor Nikki Haley hired
Clement to defend South Carolina's strict voter ID law.
*         Clement also represented
corporate interests the International Franchise Association in a lawsuit to block Seattle's $15 an hour minimum wage law.
Steven Colloton
*         Steven Colloton has consistently held dangerous positions on women's health. He joined an opinion
that found the opt-out provision to the ACA's contraception mandate unenforceable against non-profit organizations restricted women's access to birth control under the Affordable Care Act. He also voted to uphold a South Dakota law requiring
physicians to disclose an increased risk of suicide to women seeking safe and legal abortions.
Don Willett
*         As a judge on the Texas Supreme Court, Don Willett has time and again ruled in favor of special interests at the expense of consumers and workers. In fact, Willett ruled in favor of
corporate interests 81 percent of the time.
*         Willett authored an opinion
that protected industrial plants and refineries from liability suits by contract workers who claimed their they were injured on the job due to the negligence of their employers. Texas Watch, a nonpartisan citizen advocacy organization, called
Willet's majority opinion in this case "the most activist decision in years" that would allow companies to "avoid accountability for workplace safety violations."


NRCC hit on ME-02 Dem Candidate, Emily Cain
From: Katie Baker
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 12:16 PM
To: Wei, Shu-Yen
Subject: Fwd: FW: Will Emily Cain change her presidential tune?
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Corey Hascall
>
Date: Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:50 AM
Subject: FW: Will Emily Cain change her presidential tune?
To: Jeremy Kennedy
>, Katie Baker
>
Cc: Dan Gleick
>
And this was yesterday’s hit, FYI.
From: Chris Pack
>
Date: May 4, 2016 at 4:22:02 PM EDT
To: Chris Pack
>
Subject: Will Emily Cain change her presidential tune?
[ there –
Remember when Extreme Emily Cain endorsed Hillary Clinton before she went on to get shellacked by Bernie Sanders, 64% to 35% in the Maine Caucuses?  Suffice to say, Cain’s endorsement was not exactly in line with Maine Democrats.
But now that Bernie Sanders is vowing
to take his fight for the Democratic nomination to a contested convention, will Extreme Emily Cain change her tune by finally joining a majority of Maine Democrats who support his candidacy?
NRCC Comment: “Emily Cain got ahead of herself by endorsing FBI target Hillary Clinton who got smoked by nearly 30 points in the Maine Caucuses.  Now that Bernie Sanders is promising a contested convention, will Cain stand with her Democratic base or will she snub Maine Democrats by continuing to support Hillary Clinton?”–NRCC Spokesman Chris Pack
--
Chris Pack
Regional Press Secretary
National Republican Congressional Committee
@ChrisPack716
--
Katie Baker, Communications Director
Maine Democratic Party
kbaker@mainedems.org
Cell: 740-485-1125
Twitter: @muckrakerbaker


Looks great, I just added a period below at the end of the quote
On May 8, 2016, at 12:11 PM, Miranda, Luis
> wrote:
this is fine so ok to ignore my other email
________________________________
From: Garcia, Walter
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2016 12:06 PM
To: Walker, Eric
Cc: Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis; Manriquez, Pablo; RR2
Subject: FOR RESEARCH APPROVAL: McCain blast
New quote below. Ready for research.
Sent from my iPhone
On May 8, 2016, at 10:39 AM, Walker, Eric
> wrote:
One add to the headline so people know what it's referring to. Adding research to move this along
On May 8, 2016, at 10:38 AM, Paustenbach, Mark
> wrote:
THOUGHTS IN CAPS
Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202.863.8148
paustenbachm@dnc.org
On May 8, 2016, at 10:05 AM, Garcia, Walter
> wrote:
SL: Senator McCain: "Oh, I don't know" if Trump should retract "rapists" comment
Body:
"Oh, I don't know." That was Senator John McCain's response THIS MORNING WHEN ASKED on CNN if he thought DONALD Trump should take back his comments calling Mexicans 'rapists.'
See the exchange below:
(Screenshot:
"By refusing to condemn Trump's unconscionable remarks, Senator McCain will own them from now until Election Day. The fact that Senator McCain is supporting Trump and standing by his discriminatory comments about Hispanic-Americans confirms that the GOP is now the party of Trump." -- DNC National Press Secretary Mark Paustenbach


Ya sorry I missed this - my bad.
From: Freundlich, Christina
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 1:24 PM
To: Walker, Eric; Price, Jenna; Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis
Subject: RE: Trump on Veterans Round Up
Okay. Jenna drafted yesterday so I just wanted to make sure we closed the loop on this.
From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 1:24 PM
To: Freundlich, Christina; Price, Jenna; Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis
Subject: RE: Trump on Veterans Round Up
I think what HFA did is fine. They would have done a roundup if there were enough clips but they just sent out New Day + Military Times story
From: Freundlich, Christina
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 1:18 PM
To: Price, Jenna; Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis; Walker, Eric
Subject: RE: Trump on Veterans Round Up
Is this something we want to move forward with? HFA did a roundup on this already.
Most of the clips were McCain focused - I am hesitant to raise up McCain since his race is shaping up to be competitive.
From: Price, Jenna
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 12:49 PM
To: Freundlich, Christina
Subject: Trump on Veterans Round Up
SL: Donald Trump doesn't understand the issues that affect our veterans, nor does he seem to care
TOPPER:
Recently in an interview on New Day, Donald Trump declined to support the G.I. Bill outright. His comments were so offensive that 50 veterans, including some Republican Senators, called for an apology.
[SCREENSHOT]
For someone who promised their administration would treat veterans "really, really well" by raising $6 Million in missing donations, it comes at no surprise that Donald Trump would oppose legislation that has helped millions of veterans obtain jobs, housing, education and economic security.
Donald Trump's platform on veterans is as much of a failure as his policies on foreign affairs, as he continues to ignores the needs of Americans who have risked their lives to defend our country. Foreign policy experts and U.S. military leaders alike are "terrified, shocked and appalled
" by the idea of Trump as president.
But one thing is obvious: Donald Trump doesn't understand the issues that affect our veterans, nor does he seem to care. By putting his out-of-touch ideology ahead of the interests of veterans, once again, Trump has showed that he does not have the temperament or judgment to be president.
See what people are saying:
Donald Trump Doesn't Know What the GI Bill Is (or Anything Else)
HUFFINGTON POST // JON SOLTZ
...
Clearly, Donald Trump has no idea what the GI Bill is - landmark legislation (which was recently updated) that still provides education and job training opportunities to our veterans, so they can better compete with others in their generation who chose getting a degree, or an early start to their career, over military service. It's part of the compact we make with those who serve, and a promise on which we cannot afford to renege.
...
Maybe he cares so little about learning about what the GI Bill is, because he cares so little about veterans. Most of the money he raised "for veterans," when he bailed on a Republican debate, still hasn't been given to veterans' groups.
Regardless, like on pretty much every issue, Trump talks long and loud, to hide the fact that he is utterly and totally clueless. Whether it is his disastrously stupid idea to try to squirm our way out of repaying debt, or thinking you can cut the GI Bill because you're renegotiating trade deals, the amount of things that Trump doesn't know, and doesn't understand, could fill up the crumbling and decrepit Trump Taj Mahal.
Pathetic.
Trump faces mounting attacks on veterans issues
MILITARY TIMES // LEO SHANE III
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump took heavy criticism over his treatment of veterans this weekend from Democrats and his own party.
"What he said about me, that's fine," McCain said. "I don't require any repair of that. But when he said 'I don't like people who were captured,' then there's a great body of American heroes that would like to see him retract that statement. "In a Sunday interview on CNN, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., expressed serious concerns about Trump as the next commander in chief, particularly in light of comments he made last fall mocking McCain for being captured during the Vietnam War.
McCain's comments come amid a flurry of high-profile party leaders who say they won't endorse the presumptive Republican nominee for president. Last week, Air Force Reserve veteran Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he would not back his one-time campaign trail rival and even would skip the Republican convention this summer.
Trump has repeatedly denied that his comments were a slight to prisoners of war, and maintained that veterans know he has the utmost respect for those who served in the military. McCain disagreed.


This is really great. As she mentions, Trump has cited her several times as proof that he's not sexist. She says that he is...
Trump Touted The Fact That He Put A Woman In Charge Of Construction Of Trump Tower As Proof That He Believed In Gender Equality. “The 68-story Trump Tower, on Fifth Avenue right next to Tiffany’s, was the tallest entirely glass-exteriored building in Manhattan when it opened in 1983. That helped pioneer the modern luxury-building industry. One of the things I’m most proud of about that building is that the person I put in charge of overseeing construction was a 33-year-old woman. I made that decision in 1983, when the fight for gender equality in business was really beginning. None of the people who whine about the way I talk to women mention the fact that I voluntarily promoted gender equality in a male-dominated industry.” [Donald Trump, Crippled America, 11/3/15]
________________________________
From: Sarge, Matthew
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 9:51 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: Guardian OpEd: Former Trump Exec, Barbara Res
Trump hired me as a powerful woman. I saw how sexism became his trademark
Barbara Res
In a victory speech on Tuesday, Donald Trump told
a crowd of adoring supporters that Hillary Clinton was playing “the woman card”. He alleged that Clinton wouldn’t get many votes if she were a man: “I don’t think she’d get 5% of the vote,” he said. Trump, of course, claims to be “great for women”. He has said this many times – and he mentions me as direct proof.
In the 1980s, Donald Trump
hired me to be vice-president of his company, in charge of the Trump Tower construction. I certainly benefited from being given the position, which was a daring move back then. There were no women in construction in those days. At the time, I applauded him for being forward-thinking.
But his rationale in hiring me was colored by his general opinion of the sexes. He said that men, in general, are better than women, but “a good woman is better than 10 good men”. He based this on the fact that women had to be smarter, try harder and work harder just to compete in a man’s world. I had proven to him that I had the markings of “a killer”, just the type to represent him on the construction site. I wonder if Trump still requires his female executives to be killers.
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Trump has said some very sexist things in print and on camera about women. Does this reflect the real Donald Trump or, as he puts it, just entertainment? He chose to appear on the cover of Playboy magazine with a naked woman. He chose to be interviewed by Howard Stern where he discussed and rated women’s physical attributes. Trump used the print media to describe how he thought women wanted and expected to be treated poorly. How can he distance himself from his own words and acts?
The Trump I started working with in 1978 was very different from who he is today. He used to be deferential to women. He had tremendous respect for his mother and I think this influenced his treatment of women. He did not talk about them disparagingly. He did not discriminate against women in hiring.
When he put Ivana in charge of the Plaza Hotel, he said he would pay her in dresses, a remark that devalued her contribution and hurt her badly. When his breakup happened, he bragged about being with so many women, it distracted him from his work. He boasted about newspaper headlines detailing his sex life. I heard him talk, for the first time, about women’s bodies. Those sexist comments attributed to him recently come as no surprise. Neither do his remarks about Hillary Clinton.When I worked there, Trump had several extremely strong, outspoken women whom he listened to. Even his wife, Ivana, was put in a position of great power and trust. But over the years, I saw him change. As Trump became more famous, his behavior towards women worsened. He started talking about movie stars who wanted to date him, even while he was still married.
Trump’s positions on the issues are anti-women on their face. He is opposed to reproductive freedom. This is a fundamental right and important to most women in the electorate. He is opposed to the Affordable Care Act, which has empowered women. He is opposed to raising the minimum wage, which affects women more than men. He is in favor of deporting undocumented migrants who have raised families in the United States. A cabinet full of women would not mitigate the impact of his stance on these matters.
Trump would be well served to listen to his advisers with regard to his treatment of Clinton and women’s issues. But he continues to show that he is not being “handled”, and it’s likely he will go on with this bluster and braggadocio. Trump has threatened to go after Clinton and no doubt, he will do it in a way that reeks of sexism. Trump probably thinks his comments about women and treatment of Hillary will win him more of the men’s vote. He will need as many as he can get if that’s true, because he won’t be getting many from women.


Who gives final sign off here before I blast? Comms or Research_D?
On May 8, 2016, at 10:31 AM, Freundlich, Christina
> wrote:
Yes. Let's also write at the top
Just X weeks ago, the republicans won this coveted honor as well. (Hyperlink)
I know we blasted out last time they got it.
_____________________________
From: Garcia, Walter
>
Sent: Sunday, May 8, 2016 9:26 AM
Subject: WaPo: The Republican Party’s Worst Week in Washington
To: Comm_D
>
Blast?
The Republican Party’s Worst Week in Washington

[ (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
This is the week that the Republican Party's worst nightmare came true: Donald Trump emerged as the presumptive presidential nominee after crushing the competition in Indiana's GOP primary.
The party didn't handle it so well.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan kicked it all off, telling CNN's Jake Tapper that he simply can't support Trump yet
. "I’m just not ready to do that at this point," Ryan said. "I’m not there right now. And I hope to, though, and I want to."
The hits just kept coming.
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham, a one-time presidential candidate, quickly made clear that his criticism of Trump wouldn't end now that the real estate mogul was the party's only remaining choice. "I also cannot in good conscience support Donald Trump because I do not believe he is a reliable Republican conservative," Graham said as a part of an extended tweetstorm
explaining why he wouldn't be voting for his party's nominee or attending the national convention in July.
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Graham's announcement was quickly followed by a similar one from Jeb Bush. In a Facebook post
, Bush lambasted Trump as someone " who has not demonstrated that temperament or strength of character. He has not displayed a respect for the Constitution. And, he is not a consistent conservative. These are all reasons why I cannot support his candidacy."
Trump was positively Trumpian in his response to all of the mishigas he has created within the party he will represent this fall. A Trump spokeswoman suggested that it might be time for someone other than Ryan to be speaker
. And Trump unleashed this doozy on Graham
: "Every time I see Lindsey Graham spew hate during interviews, I ask why the media never questions how I single-handedly destroyed his hapless run for president."
What's next is anybody's guess. The party appears to be teetering on the edge of a full-blown split between those who believe that now that the voters have spoken it's time to get behind Trump and those who view backing the billionaire as an abandonment of the true principles of conservatism.
And there's no one able stop it. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has the most difficult job in America. Trump lacks the unity gene. Lots of other eminences grises within the party -- the Bushes, Bob Dole, and so on and so forth -- are on opposite sides of the divide and seem to have no interest in serving as a bridge.
That means it's likely that the schism will get worse before it gets better. If it gets better. A party being torn in two is bad enough. That process happening within 184 days until a presidential election and in full view of the general public is even worse. And this might not even be the bottom yet.
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Democratic National Committee
Phone: 202.572.5488
Email: pablo@dnc.org
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Cool, let's see who gets back to me and then go from there. Thank you!
From: Sarge, Matthew
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 8:02 PM
To: Freundlich, Christina
Cc: Dillon, Lauren; Roberts, Kelly; Comm_D
Subject: Re: FLAG: Trump Touting Endorsements From "Tough Ones" Tyson, Knight
We have plenty of other past praise of Tyson (and rape defenses) that could be rolled in as well
On Apr 27, 2016, at 7:37 PM, Freundlich, Christina
> wrote:
Thank you. I am going to pass this along to a couple of columnists
From: Dillon, Lauren
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 7:37 PM
To: Roberts, Kelly; Comm_D
Subject: FLAG: Trump Touting Endorsements From "Tough Ones" Tyson, Knight
From: Roberts, Kelly
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 7:30 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: Trump Touting Endorsements From "Tough Ones" Tyson, Knight
At IN rally Trump is touting his endorsements from Bobby Knight and Mike Tyson. Saying he likes endorsements from the "tough ones." Also the ones with an offensive history when it comes to rape. And the Tyson assault happened in Indiana....
Bobby Knight is the guy who once said the following of handling stress: "I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it.''
Original Tweet:
Trump is now embracing his endorsement by Mike Tyson who was convicted of raping a woman in Indiana
Original Tweet:
Mike Tyson, "one of the tough guys," whose endorsement Trump just touted is a former Indiana resident in Plainfield Correctional Facility
Original Tweet:


Hi everyone,
Attached is a script for a video about how Trump is lying about his self-funded campaign. Let me know if you have any questions!


[ GOP DAILY ROUNDUP
5/2/16
DONALD TRUMP
TED CRUZ
EVENTS
DONALD TRUMP
TRUMP: “WE CAN’T CONTINUE TO ALLOW CHINA TO RAPE OUR COUNTRY”: “Donald Trump on Sunday compared the U.S.'s trade deficit with China, which he regularly laments and vows to tackle as president, to rape. ‘We can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing,’ Trump said during his second rally Sunday in Fort Wayne, Indiana, referring to China's high number of exports relative to the U.S.” [CNN, 5/2/16
]
TRUMP SAYS U.S. SHOULD SHOOT DOWN BARREL-ROLLING RUSSIAN PLANES “AT A CERTAIN POINT”: “Donald Trump said on Monday that, ‘at a certain point,’ the United States should shoot at Russian planes that barrel roll over U.S. Air Force planes… ‘Normally, an Obama, let’s say a president, because you want to make at least a call or two, but normally Obama would call up Putin and say, “Listen, do us a favor, don’t do that, get that maniac, just stop it.” But we don’t have that kind of a president. He’s gonna be out playing golf or something,’ Trump said. ‘But I don’t know, at a certain point, you can’t take it,’ the businessman continued. ‘I mean, at a certain point, you have to do something that, you just can’t take that…But it should certainly start with diplomacy and it should start quickly with a phone call to Putin, wouldn’t you think?’ He went on to say that, if diplomacy didn’t work, the U.S. should open fire. ‘And if that doesn’t work out, I don’t know, you know, at a certain point, when that sucker comes by you, you gotta shoot,’ Trump said. ‘You gotta shoot. I mean, you gotta shoot. And it’s a shame. It’s a shame. It’s a total lack of respect for our country and it’s a total lack of respect for Obama. Which as you know, they don’t respect.’” [Buzzfeed, 5/2/16
]
TRUMP IS DRIVING IMMIGRANTS TO BECOME CITIZENS IN THE TENS OF THOUSANDS: “Nationwide, naturalization applications are up 14 percent in the last six months of 2015 compared with the same period in 2014, according to the government. And the pool of future U.S. citizens is large. Nearly 9 million legal permanent residents, or green-card holders, are eligible to become Americans. Of those, about 4 million are Hispanic… Erica Bernal of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials said the tenor of the presidential campaign is galvanizing Latino immigrants. She said today's movement is reminiscent of the 1990s when Latinos in California rose up against Proposition 187, which sought to deny government services to those in the state illegally. The courts overturned it.” [AP, 5/2/16
]
1992: TRUMP SAYS MIKE TYSON TOLD HIM RAPE VICTIM “WANTED IT REAL BAD”: “Wrote New York magazine in their cover profile of Trump: Donald is discussing his buddy Mike Tyson. Tyson told Trump the woman who put him in jail ‘wanted it real bad.’ Trump feels Tyson is doing time on a bad rap: ‘She knocked on his door at 1 a.m. and was up and dancing at eight the next morning.’ This speech is another of the set pieces he is so fond of delivering. When he defended Tyson and suggested a payoff and community service for the champ, his mother got so angry she raised her voice to him for the first time in his 46 years.” [Buzzfeed, 5/2/16
]
TRUMP ON MIKE TYSON ENDORSEMENT CRITICISM: “WE WILL TAKE THE ENDORSEMENT”: “Donald Trump responded to criticism from Carly Fiorina that he was touting in Indiana the endorsement of Mike Tyson, who was convicted of rape in the state. ‘Well, a lot guys have endorsed me, a lot of people,’ Trump said on the Mike Slater Show on Friday. ‘I noticed that Mike Tyson endorsed me over the internet and we will take the endorsement.’” [Buzzfeed, 4/29/16
]
TRUMP LACKS A PLAN FOR FUNDRAISING AND VETTING A RUNNING MATE: “On the cusp of the Republican nomination, Donald Trump has no blueprint for raising the estimated $1 billion he'd need to take on the Democrats and no process in place to begin vetting vice presidential contenders, according to multiple people familiar with the campaign. He says he has no plan to win a contested convention in Cleveland, confident he can succeed on the first ballot. And one month into the leadership of Paul Manafort, the strategist Trump hired in late March to professionalize his campaign, the internal squabbling hasn’t died down.” [Bloomberg, 4/29/16
]
ENDORSEMENT TRACKER - REP. JIMMY DUNCAN [R-TN]: “Donald Trump has notched the endorsement of one the House’s longest serving Republicans. Rep. Jimmy Duncan (R-Tenn), who has served in Congress since 1988, ‘enthusiastically’ endorsed Trump on Saturday, citing the presidential candidate’s trade rhetoric. ‘Every country wants into our markets. We have tremendous leverage on trade we have not used. Donald Trump will do that,’ he said in a statement.” [Politico, 5/2/16
]
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TED CRUZ
HEIDI CRUZ SAYS “TED IS AN IMMIGRANT”: “At a campaign stop just days before the critical Indiana primary, Heidi Cruz, wife of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, said one of her husband's strengths in the campaign is that he ‘is an immigrant.’ ‘Ted is an immigrant,’ Mrs. Cruz said, emphasizing the word ‘is.’ ‘He is Hispanic.’ Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada but who is an American citizen by birth, has come under withering fire from rival Donald Trump over his Canadian birth. Trump has questioned whether Cruz is constitutionally eligible to be president.” [Washington Examiner, 5/1/16
]
CRUZ WINS MOST OF THE DELEGATES AT WEEKEND STATE CONVENTIONS - AZ, VA: “In Arizona, Cruz loyalists won nearly all but two of the 28 at-large delegate and about half of the 27 congressional district delegates. All of the state’s 58 delegates are bound to Mr. Trump on the first ballot, but could switch sides in later ballots. Only about a dozen of Mr. Trump’s supporters won delegate slots at the state convention in Mesa, Arizona. At the state GOP convention in Virginia, Mr. Cruz’s supporters won 10 of the 13 at-large delegates. Mr. Trump won three.” [Washington Times, 5/1/16
]
CRUZ CAMPAIGN’S CONFIDENCE SHRINKS: “In interviews, several aides, speaking on the condition of anonymity, expressed growing alarm that Cruz would lose Indiana’s primary on Tuesday - an outcome that would be a major blow to his hopes of holding Trump below the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination on the party convention’s first ballot. The aides concede that, without a win in an Indiana primary where 57 delegates are at stake, Cruz’s shot at the nomination would significantly narrow.” [Politico, 4/30/16
]
WHY RUBIO HASN’T ENDORSED CRUZ: “Marco Rubio won’t be endorsing Ted Cruz during the Republican presidential primary, but he’s likely to back the Texas senator at a contested convention - if it gets that far. The de facto plan, Rubio’s backers say, is designed to help Cruz. It also, however, protects Rubio's political future, including if he decides to make another run for the White House…’At this point, No. 1, it’s not a year where endorsements matter very much,’ Rubio told POLITICO. ‘And No. 2: I’ll just let it play itself out and work through it. I really want to come back and focus 100 percent on my work in the senate.’” [Politico, 5/2/16
]
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EVENTS
MONDAY, MAY 2, 2016
DONALD TRUMP: 4:00 PM Rally in Carmel, IN [Trump Campaign], and 7:00 PM Rally in South Bend, IN [Trump Campaign].
TED CRUZ: 9:00 AM Retail Stop Bravo Cafe in Osceola, IN [eventbrite], 12:15 PM Retail stop with Mike Pence in Marion, IN [eventbrite], 2:00 PM Rally in Fort Wayne, IN [eventbrite], 5:30 PM Retail Stop Wagon Wheel Market in Bloomington, IN [eventbrite], and 7:30 PM Rally with Glenn Beck in Indianapolis, IN [eventbrite].
TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2016
DONALD TRUMP: Election Night Event Trump Tower in New York, NY [@katieglueck].
TED CRUZ: Indiana GOP Presidential Primary.
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Lauren Hendricks


OK.
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 – MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Manriquez, Pablo
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 10:52 AM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: Re: Curious -
They’ve cancelled nothing lately. Wolf has been wanting her all week but we couldn’t make it work. CNN’s good in our book.
On May 13, 2016, at 10:48 AM, Miranda, Luis
> wrote:
Send me details asap on recent CNN cancellations or things they’ve turned down so I have something to push bac on Feist with.
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 – MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Feist, Sam
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 10:03 AM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: Curious -
Why DWS do fox? The questions could not be more predictable…
Hope you’re well.
Separately, has your chair ever impersonated her spokesman on a call with reporters? I would love to see DWS impersonating Luis Miranda.
Pablo Manriquez
Democratic National Committee
Phone: 202.572.5488
Email: pablo@dnc.org
web: democrats.org
Twitter: @Pablo_DNC


5/11/2016 NATIONAL VIDEO REPORT
CBS
This Morning
There was a report about Donald Trump's upcoming meeting with Speaker Paul Ryan and his mixed support from congressional Republicans, including the lack of support from Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio. The report also included a brief interview with Rep. Chris Collins. [Watch
]
There was a report about Sen. Bernie Sanders winning the West Virginia primary. [Watch
]
John Dickerson discussed the challenges Donald Trump will have in unifying the party and getting support from Speaker Paul Ryan.  [Watch
]
Peggy Noonan discussed Donald Trump's upcoming meeting with Speaker Paul Ryan, Trump's comments on relying on large rallies, and the Democratic primary. [Watch
]
There was a report about Mayor Sadiq Khan's response to Donald Trump's comments about excluding Khan from his proposed Muslim ban. The report included interviews with Mayor Sadiq Khan and Mayor Anne Hidalgo. [Watch
]
CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley
There was a report about Mayor Sadiq Khan's response to Donald Trump's comments about excluding Khan from his proposed Muslim ban. [Watch
]
There was a report about Donald Trump's mixed support from congressional Republicans. [Watch
]
There was a report about the Democratic primary and Sec. Hillary Clinton's plan for new federal subsidies to cap childcare spending at 10% of family income. [Watch
]
ABC
Good Morning America
There was a report about Sen. Bernie Sanders winning the West Virginia primary. [Watch
]
There was a report about Donald Trump narrowing down his list of possible running mates, Trump's upcoming meeting with Speaker Paul Ryan, and Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio's lack of support for Trump. [Watch
]
There was an interview with Vice Pres. Joe Biden. [Part One
] [Part Two
]
ABC World News with David Muir
There was a report about Sec. Hillary Clinton relying on women voters to beat Donald Trump if she is the nominee, Trump's support from white nationalist William Johnson, and Trump narrowing down his list of possible running mates. [Watch
]
NBC
Today
There was a report about Donald Trump narrowing down his list of possible running mates, Trump's upcoming meeting with Speaker Paul Ryan, Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio's lack of support for Trump, and Vice Pres. Joe Biden's comments on Sec. Hillary Clinton. [Watch
]
There was an interview with Sen. Marco Rubio. [Watch
]
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt
There was a report about Donald Trump narrowing down his list of possible running mates and Trump's mixed support from congressional Republicans. [Watch
]
CNN
New Day
There was a report on Donald Trump meeting with the RNC tomorrow and on Donald Trump wanting to unite the party. [Watch
]
There was a report on former Sec. Hillary Clinton closing in on the Democrat nomination. [Watch
]
There was a report on Donald Trump and media's relationship. [Watch
]
There was an interview with Sidney Blumenthal. [Watch
]
There was an interview with Rep. Xavier Becerra. [Watch
]
There was an interview with Jeff DeWitt. [Watch
]
OutFront
There was an interview with Tad Devine. [Watch
]
MSNBC
Morning Joe
There was an interview with Rep. Tom Cole.  [Watch
]
There was a discussion on Donald Trump not focusing on data-driven campaign operations. [Watch
]
Hardball With Chris Matthews
There was an interview with Paul Manafort. [Watch
]
All In With Chris Hayes
There was an interview with Jeff Weaver. [Watch
]
FOX
Fox and Friends
There was an interview with Donald Trump. [Part One
, Part Two
]
There was a recap of the West Virginia and Nebraska primaries. Steve Doocy said Debbie Wasserman Schultz engineered Sen. Bernie Sanders entering the race to be a "foil" to Sec. Hillary Clinton but it is now backfiring as Sanders continues to win primaries. [Watch
]
There was a report that evangelical voters are looking for Donald Trump to choose a Vice President that they can support or they will not help him win the general election. [Watch
]
There was an interview with Rep. Scott Desjarlais about Donald Trump's upcoming meeting with members of Congress. [Watch
]
There was a panel discussion on Donald Trump being more popular among veterans than Sec. Hillary Clinton. [Watch
]
There was a report on accusations of charity fraud in the Clinton Foundation and Republican donors that are now giving money to Sec. Hillary Clinton with Donald Trump as the GOP nominee. [Watch
]
There was an interview with Laura Bush and Jenna Bush Hager about presidential transitions and their new children's book. [Watch
]
On the Record with Greta van Sustren
There was an interview with Jan Brewer. [Watch
]
The O'Reilly Factor
There was an interview with Donald Trump. [Watch
]
The Kelly File
There was an interview with Herman Cain. [Watch
]
Hannity
There was an interview with Corey Lewandowski. [Watch
]
There was an interview with Mike Huckabee. [Watch
]
Special Report
There was an interview with Katrina Pierson. [Watch
]
There was an interview with Debbie Wasserman Schultz. [Watch
]
FBN
Mornings with Maria
Steve Forbes sat down for an interview. [Watch
]
PBS
PBS NewsHour
There was a segment on the state of the upcoming Democratic and Republican primaries. [Watch
]
There was a segment on President Barack Obama's visit to Asia. [Watch
]
There was a political panel to talk about the state of Donald Trump's campaign and the Republican Party. [Watch
]
UNIVISIÓN
¡Despierta América!
There was a report on the results of the West Virginia and Nebraska presidential primaries, highlighting Vice President Joe Biden's comment that Sec. Hillary Clinton will likely win the Democratic primary. [Watch
]
There was a report on San Francisco, the nation's first sanctuary city, considering increasing its cooperation with ICE following the death of Kate Steinle. [Watch
]
Noticiero Univisión
There was a report on Sen. Ted Cruz's Capitol Hill presser yesterday and new polling showing a tight race between Donald Trump and Sec. Hillary Clinton in key swing states. [Watch
]
Noticiero Univisión: Edición Nocturna
There was a report on the results of the West Virginia and Nebraska presidential primaries. [Watch
]
TELEMUNDO
Noticiero Telemundo
There was a report on San Francisco, the nation's first sanctuary city, considering increasing its cooperation with ICE following the death of Kate Steinle. [Watch
]
There was a report on increased Hispanic voter registration due to Donald Trump, with comments from Trump spokesperson Carlos Limon. [Watch
]
ENTERTAINMENT
ABC
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Jimmy Kimmel talked about the state of the Republican Party. [Watch
]
NBC
The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Fallon talked about the state of the 2016 Republican and Democratic primaries. [Watch
]
In the "Pros and Cons" segment, Jimmy Fallon talked about what it would be like to be Donald Trump's vice president. [Watch
]
Laura Bush sat down for an interview. [Watch
]
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seth Meyers talked about the state of the 2016 Republican and Democratic primaries. [Watch
]
In the segment "A Closer Look," Seth Meyers talks about the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union. [Watch
]
CBS
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
There was a segment on the state of 2016 Democratic and Republican primaries. [Watch
]
Stephen Colbert talked about the current state of the Republican Party. [Watch
]
Comedy Central
The Daily Show
Trevor Noah talked about the LGBT discrimination taking place in North Carolina. [Watch
]
There was a segment on the state of the Republican Party. [Watch
]
There was a panel on race relations in America. [Watch
]
The Nightly Show
Larry Wilmore talked about the current state of Democratic and Republican politics. [Watch
]


EXCLUSIVE: Evangelical leaders to quiz Trump on faith and values
Donald Trump has agreed to meet privately with some of the nation’s most prominent Evangelical leaders – a meeting seen as critical to garnering support from social conservatives, Fox News has learned.
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“Our goal is to be able to have a conversation that could lead to a better understanding of what Donald Trump has to offer to the country,” said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins.
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Perkins is one of the key conservative leaders spearheading the gathering – set for June 21 in New York City. Perkins, along with Bill Dallas of United in Purpose, worked with Dr. Ben Carson to arrange the meeting.
As many as 500 conservative leaders from around the nation are expected to attend the invitation-only event.
The meeting was convened by a who’s who among Evangelicals – including Southern Baptist Convention President Ronnie Floyd, James Dobson, Ralph Reed, Penny Nance, Bob McEwen, Tim Wildmon of the American Family Association, Kelly Shackleford of First Liberty, and mega-church pastors Jack Graham and Ed Young.
“I want to be actively supportive of a candidate who can help turn this nation around,” Perkins told me. “With Trump – I’m not there yet. I hope to be there – but I’m not there right now.”
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Perkins said Trump will not be delivering a speech. He will be there to answer questions. There will be no straw poll. There will be no endorsement from the conservative leaders.
“There is no preconceived outcome here,” he told me. “I’m hoping we can have a conversation that could lead to helping conservative leaders make a decision about what to do in this election.”
The meeting comes as a small, but vocal number of Christian leaders is urging people of faith to stay at home on Election Day.
And that’s why Tony Perkins is worried.
“Our goal is to be able to have a conversation that could lead to a better understanding of what Trump has to offer to the country,” he said. “If we don’t try, the outcome is not going to be good.”
Specifically, the leaders want to hear detailed plans on potential Supreme Court nominees and the vetting process. They also want to hear about Trump’s policies regarding religious liberty, pro-life issues and possible vice presidential candidates.
“A vice presidential pick is going to be very crucial,” Perkins said. “Mr. Trump doesn’t have a track record – so I am going to rely very heavily on who he is going to pick as a running mate.”
Floyd, the president of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, said he just wants to do the right thing.
“The vast majority of Southern Baptists are very much where I am today – we’re trying to figure this out,” he told me. “We’re trying to navigate through these waters that are very uncertain and very difficult.”
Floyd had strong words for Christian leaders who are suggesting voters should simply stay home.
“We cannot change what exists or even alter it or adjust it sitting on the sidelines and prognosticating about the situation,” he said. “We have a biblical responsibility, but we also have a responsibility as citizens of the United States to express the privileges afforded to us – that men and women have died on the battlefield to give us – and I’m not walking away from that.”
Floyd said the conversation with Trump is a way for Christians to share their hearts with him.
“None of us have endorsed Mr. Trump, nor have we condemned Mr. Trump,” he said. “This is about the possibility of being able to appoint the next four Supreme Court justices. This is about the dignity of human life from the womb to the tomb. This is about religious freedom. I’m not about to sit at home and not express something. I’m accountable to God and I believe I’m accountable to my fellow Americans.”
But at the same time, he acknowledged that many people of faith are struggling to come to terms with some of Mr. Trump’s past statements – statements that are contrary to biblical teachings.
“Could you vote for him? That’s the question at hand,” Floyd said.
Todd Starnes is host of Fox News & Commentary, heard on hundreds of radio stations. His latest book is "God Less America: Real Stories From the Front Lines of the Attack on Traditional Values.
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If Luis and team agree, pop this into the right format and I'll send through the scheduling loop to find our if she's open.
Sent from my iPad
On May 5, 2016, at 9:26 AM, Manriquez, Pablo
> wrote:
Note: Team Hayes is happy to pre-record at her convenience.
On May 5, 2016, at 12:26 PM, Manriquez, Pablo
> wrote:
Is she available any evening next week in the 8PM hour EST?
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