Has this gone out? If not, can someone on call please send?
Sent from my iPhone
On May 8, 2016, at 1:57 PM, Miranda, Luis
> wrote:
DSCC is good. Let's blast
Sent via the Samsung GALAXY S®4, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message --------
From: "Miranda, Luis"
>
Date: 05/08/2016 12:26 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: "Brinster, Jeremy"
>
Cc: "Garcia, Walter"
>, "Walker, Eric"
>, "Paustenbach, Mark"
>, "Manriquez, Pablo"
>, RR2
>
Subject: RE: FOR RESEARCH APPROVAL: McCain blast
Mark, did you get DSCC thumbs up? If not I'll send it to them now.
________________________________
From: Brinster, Jeremy
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2016 12:23 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Cc: Garcia, Walter; Walker, Eric; Paustenbach, Mark; Manriquez, Pablo; RR2
Subject: Re: FOR RESEARCH APPROVAL: McCain blast
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


Also just want to flag that Obama nominated Bill Pryor to the US Sentencing Commission. I've discussed this in the past with Dillon/Mark, I don't think it should be a problem. The Sentencing Commission is completely different from his role as a judge. Obama would never appoint someone like Pryor to a judicial role.
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."


Yep, he’ll be there. Our team is really looking forward to our ongoing Wednesday at 8:20 AM :) Thanks again for setting it up!
Are there any other segments I can help you fill this week or next?
On May 11, 2016, at 5:14 AM, Mclellan, Jennifer
> wrote:
Pablo –
I never heard back about Luis. Is he coming in or doing this by phone?  Please let me know ASAP.  I’ll have to get his name on security.
Jennifer McLellan
Senior Producer, “The Morning Briefing” / Mon-Fri, 6-9am et
P.O.T.U.S  Ch. 124
Sirius XM Satellite Radio
1500 Eckington Place, NE
Washington DC 20002
202-380-1389 (o)
202-230-4881 (BB)
From: Mclellan, Jennifer
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 12:54 PM
To: 'Manriquez, Pablo'
>
Subject: RE: Should we go with Luis Miranda at 8:20 tomorrow?
If he can – that would be great – here at 8 am – on-air from 8:20-8:35!  If not then landline phone works.  But maybe in-studio to launch the weekly hit makes sense.  What’s his full title…for Promo
Jennifer McLellan
Senior Producer, “The Morning Briefing” / Mon-Fri, 6-9am et
P.O.T.U.S  Ch. 124
Sirius XM Satellite Radio
1500 Eckington Place, NE
Washington DC 20002
202-380-1389 (o)
202-230-4881 (BB)
From: Manriquez, Pablo
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 12:36 PM
To: Mclellan, Jennifer
>
Subject: Re: Should we go with Luis Miranda at 8:20 tomorrow?
Yes, indeed! Thanks, Jennifer! Let me see if he can make it in-studio?
Sent from my iPhone
On May 10, 2016, at 12:16 PM, Mclellan, Jennifer
> wrote:
Jennifer McLellan
Senior Producer, “The Morning Briefing” / Mon-Fri, 6-9am et
P.O.T.U.S  Ch. 124
Sirius XM Satellite Radio
1500 Eckington Place, NE
Washington DC 20002
202-380-1389 (o)
202-230-4881 (BB)
From: Manriquez, Pablo
Sent: Friday, May 6, 2016 7:40 PM
To: Mclellan, Jennifer
>
Subject: Re: Great talking with you yesterday
Hi Jennifer,
For the first segment, I’m looking to get you DWS or Luis Miranda. I’ll let you know which will be joining on Monday if it’s not too late!
Thanks again and have a great weekend !
On May 4, 2016, at 7:35 PM, Mclellan, Jennifer
> wrote:
Great!
Jennifer McLellan
Senior Producer, POTUS Ch. 124
From: Manriquez, Pablo
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 06:08 PM Eastern Standard Time
To: Mclellan, Jennifer
Subject: Re: Great talking with you yesterday
Awesome. Let’s make it a weekly then! Checking DWS’s schedule.
On May 4, 2016, at 2:07 PM, Mclellan, Jennifer
> wrote:
Pablo,
8:20 AM ET is locked-in for you.  Would WEEKLY work for you guys?! (you wrote weekly below) That would be great.  I was thinking bi-weekly only because I didn’t want to over-whelm you.  But we would love weekly.
Of course…the #1 launch guest would be Wasserman-Shultz BUT I can see how that may be tough.  Remember we can pre-tape just about anytime from here to next WED.  Let me know what our chances are. Other than that…I think the top Comm. Director would be awesome.  Get an overview of 2016 from the DNC perspective.   Goals, hopes etc.
Jennifer McLellan
Senior Producer, “The Morning Briefing” / Mon-Fri, 6-9am et
P.O.T.U.S  Ch. 124
Sirius XM Satellite Radio
1500 Eckington Place, NE
Washington DC 20002
202-380-1389 (o)
202-230-4881 (BB)
From: Manriquez, Pablo
Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2016 1:55 PM
To: Mclellan, Jennifer
>
Subject: Re: Great talking with you yesterday
8:20AM ET would be great!
Thanks, Jennifer!
I’ll alert our team so we can plan for that hit on a weekly basis!  Do you have any priorities/wishlist for who should do the first segment?  Thanks again! I think this is going to be really great
All the best,
Pablo
On May 4, 2016, at 1:17 PM, Mclellan, Jennifer
> wrote:
Pablo –
So great meeting you via phone and talking about maximizing our relationship with you and the DNC.  Per our conversation, looking at the calendar, I think having a regular bi-weekly hit with you guys would be great on WEDNESDAYS.  We could do 6:20, 6:40, 7:20, 7:40 or 8:20 AM ET.  By phone. ONLY about 7-8 minutes.  Topic/s will vary depending on news of the week OR what the DNC would like to discuss.
Let me know what time you think would work best and we’ll lock it in starting NEXT week, WED MAY 11th.
Jennifer McLellan
Senior Producer, “The Morning Briefing” / Mon-Fri, 6-9am et
P.O.T.U.S  Ch. 124
Sirius XM Satellite Radio
1500 Eckington Place, NE
Washington DC 20002
202-380-1389 (o)
202-230-4881 (BB)
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
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


Need to talk re: NYT
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC


will send complete logistics briefing as soon as I have the details from fox news team.
\
On May 12, 2016, at 2:59 PM, Manriquez, Pablo
> wrote:
WHO: DWS and Bill Hemmer
WHAT: State of the race interview, live, 6 minutes on America’s Newsroom HQ.
WHEN: 9:45AM ET tomorrow, per Kate’s guidance
WHERE: DNC Studio
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


Did you guys see this quote?
"I am the king of debt. I do love debt. I love debt. I love playing with it." Trump said.
Sent from my iPhone
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Date: May 6, 2016 at 12:16:06 PM EDT
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Subject: Wonkbook: 'King of debt' Trump says U.S. can get out of paying it all back
By Max Ehrenfreund Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday said he might seek to pay back investors in U.S. government debt less than they were owed "if the economy crashed," raising doubts about whether Treasury bonds would be reliable in a future administration. The comments were striking because, historically, U.S. government debt has been treated as sacrosanct, …
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By Max Ehrenfreund
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday said he might seek to pay back investors in U.S. government debt less than they were owed "if the economy crashed," raising doubts about whether Treasury bonds would be reliable in a future administration.
The comments were striking because, historically, U.S. government debt has been treated as sacrosanct, the safest investment in the world, and a pillar of global financial stability.
Speaking on CNBC, Trump said he embraces the idea of taking on debt, given that borrowers can try to tweak the terms later on. Indeed, as a businessman Trump has used the bankruptcy laws
on several occasions to reduce his companies' debts.
"I am the king of debt. I do love debt. I love debt. I love playing with it." Trump said.
"Do you believe that we, in terms of the United States need to pay a hundred cents on the dollar, or do you think that there's actually ways that we can renegotiate that debt?" CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin asked him.
"Yeah, I think -- look, I have borrowed, knowing that you can pay back with discounts. And I have done very well," Trump said.
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Hey guys – I think they’ll probably take a spokesperson, doesn’t need to be Debbie. But passing along for you to decide.
From: karenmorgan@thewriteeidea.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 4:41 PM
To: Helmstetter, TJ
Subject: DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Hello T.J.
I am sorry I didn't get a chance to meet you when you were in Flint for the debate but maybe we will meet at the Democratic Convention.
I am contacting you because Bankole Thompson Editorial Columnist at The Detroit News and host on Detroit's newest radio station Superstation 910 am ( he is a former host on WDET public radio in Detroit where he interviewed the chair on what was then an overcrowded Republican field of candidates and the difference between that race and the Democratic race) would like to interview Rep. Schultz on his show Friday April 29, 2016. He would like to discuss the recent caucuses as well as Ted Cruz's decision to name Carly Fiorina as his running mate and their attraction to potential voters.
Redline airs every Friday from 12:00m-2:00pm. We would prefer to have her at 1:00pm as that is our most listened to hour but we will take her anytime she is available during the show. If she is not available this week, perhaps she could join us next week.
Thank you for your assistance in this matter,
Karen Morgan
Producer
Redline
(313) 377-0673


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Hillary Clinton Statement on New Department of Labor Overtime Rules
Today, in response to final overtime rules released by the Department of Labor guaranteeing overtime to workers who earn up to $913 a week or $47,476 over a year—more than double the previous threshold of $455 a week—Hillary Clinton issued the following statement:
"I applaud President Obama and Secretary of Labor Perez for these final overtime rules, which will lift up workers nationwide and help get incomes rising again for working families. Within the first year these rules are in effect, millions more workers will be eligible for overtime, finally getting paid in full for the hours they are putting in on the job.
"But we have more work to do. No one who works 40 hours a week should have to raise a family in poverty. No one should have their fundamental rights to organize and bargain collectively stripped away by Republicans and their corporate allies. That’s why we need to raise the federal minimum wage back to the highest it’s ever been in this country and make sure it keeps rising over time, protect workers’ rights and safety on the job, and restore the basic bargain that built America’s mighty middle class—that if you work hard and play by the rules, you can get ahead and stay ahead."
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Thanks Tom. Copying Mark. Sam, if you want to meet with one of us to think through pivots, we can do something early next week with either Mark or I.
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Walsh, Tom
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 12:15 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Cc: Andrew Brown; McCabe, Sam
Subject: RE: Talking Points for Sam
TP's below - let me know if you need anything else.
DVTF
We're focused right now on the presidential, but we're also looking ahead, to building the long-term infrastructure our party needs to be successful.
*         We can be proud as Democrats of what we've achieved, winning the White House the last two presidential elections, but also what we've been able to do over the last 7 years under Democratic leadership.
*         But the landscape has been much tougher to Democrats down the ballot. Since 2008, we've lost 69 House seats, 13 Senate seats, more than 900 state legislative seats, 30 state legislative chambers and 11 governorships.
*         We lost our majorities in Congress in 2010, and despite making significant investments, 2014 was a tough year.
So early last year the Chair commissioned a Democratic Victory Task Force to look at what we needed to do as a Party in a holistic way.
*         We wanted to build toward another White House victory, but we recognized that there was a major need to protect and build on our strengths, and fix our weaknesses.
*         The Task Force issued a set of recommendations and this past November we released their final report and Action Plan.
Here's what you need to know about that, and what it means.
*   The DNC has reinvigorated our State Party Partnerships, to ensure that we are supporting Democrats in all 50 states.
*   We're investing in infrastructure to ensure that the hard work and knowledge our teams build up in every campaign continue to help Democrats in the next cycle, and the one after that.
*   And we want more voices involved all across the country, helping tell the story of our party, its values, and how Democratic leadership is affecting the lives of millions.
Voter File
More than ten years ago the DNC began a national voter file, so that every state party works together - so we know where our voters are.
That gave us a powerful edge over Republicans, who have a completely fragmented approach to their voter files. And it made the difference in 2008 and 2012.
Now, for the first time ever, all of our major Presidential Primary campaigns had access to our voter file from the beginning. That means that both of our major campaigns started this election with a better voter file than President Obama's team had at the end of 2012.
And because they're both using it,
*   every single door that our candidates have knocked on
*   every single phone call their volunteers have made,
*   every voter contact at a town hall or county fair...
...Is now a part of our national database and is going to make a tremendous difference for whoever emerges as our nominee.
And in 2014, we expanded our data-sharing agreement to include campaigns down ballot, so it's not just the presidential campaigns that benefit, it's our entire party.
We're also modernizing the Party in other ways
*   Since 2013, we have quintupled the size of our digital team, to boost fundraising and provide training and support to our state parties.
*   We've organized a team of experts in messaging, branding, and polling to review the way we communicate, and we've built an in-house Communications team to hold Republicans accountable every single day.
*   We've built out a state-of-the-art media monitoring operation to track and inform our rapid response operation.
*   And our teams are providing training, disseminating best practices, sharing technology and design assets, and building community among State Party staff and the rest of the Democratic family.
Trump Contrast
*   Trump won't rely on data, just earned media and large rallies:
*   Republicans have already buried their post-2012 autopsy report's calls for inclusiveness, so it's not surprising that Donald Trump is also dumping their efforts at data and analytics.
*   Democrats are happy to maintain the substantial digital edge we've had in the last two presidential elections, and we're going to continue to build on our ability to engage and understand voters.
*   Remember that Hillary Clinton has earned 2 million more votes than Trump, and Bernie Sanders earned more votes than Ted Cruz and John Kasich through last week's primaries, so we won't argue with Mr. Trump's strategy.
Q&A:
Primary on Dem side
*         We're working with both of our campaigns and have always been neutral.
Sanders Campaign Lawsuit:
*         It has been dismissed, there's nothing to add beyond the official statements our senior staff made.
Data integrity post December incident:
*   We've moved past it and working well with both of our campaigns, AND campaigns up and down the ballot. All of that is feeding into our modeling heading into the general election, which gives us a big advantage over the GOP, who have not been using the same list, don't have agreements with all the states, and have had a fragmented approach to the interfaces their campaigns have used.
What about the separate October incident the Sanders camp had flagged?
*   We're confident in the integrity of our system. [Pivot to...] Our data edge gives us an enormous edge over Republicans up and down the ballot.
Being taken over by presumptive nominee
*   We're working with both campaigns. Above my pay grade on the how and when, but because we're well integrated with both already, it should be seamless.
From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 11:19 AM
To: Walsh, Tom
Cc: Andrew Brown; McCabe, Sam
Subject: Talking Points for Sam
Hi Tom, Sam MCabe is going to speak at a Microsoft panel next week that is open press. He has his core tech/data file talking points, but we need to give him some of the general points on the following. Can you please flesh it out for him with our stock language? Thanks.
*         DVTF --- national voter file
*         Investing in states and infrastructure
*         Confident we'll be united, and both of our candidates have been using our list... every door, every call
*         Trump won't rely on data, just earned media and large rallies:
o   Republicans have already buried their post-2012 autopsy report's calls for inclusiveness, so it's not surprising that Donald Trump is also dumping their efforts at data and analytics. Democrats are happy to maintain the substantial digital edge we've had in the last two presidential elections, and we're going to continue to build on our ability to engage and understand voters. Remember that Hillary Clinton has earned 2 million more votes than Trump, and Bernie Sanders earned more votes than Ted Cruz and John Kasich through last week's primaries, so we won't argue with Mr. Trump's strategy.
And Q&A for what NOT to talk about:
*         Primary on Dem side --- other than to say we're working with both of our campaigns and have always been neutral.
*         Lawsuit: It has been dismissed, there's nothing to add beyond the official statements our senior staff made.
*         Data integrity post December incident:
o   We've moved past it and working well with both of our campaigns. AND campaigns up and down the ballot. All of that is feeding into our modeling heading into the general election, which gives us a big advantage over the GOP, who have not been using the same list, don't have agreements with all the states, and have had a fragmented approach to the interfaces their campaigns have used.
*         But what about the separate October incident the Sanders camp had flagged?
o   We're confident in the integrity of our system. Our data edge gave us....pivot.
Being taken over by presumptive nominee
*         We're working with both campaigns. Above my pay grade on the how and when, but because we're well integrated with both already, it should be seamless.
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC


North Carolina is trying to book their ED for TV interviews. Georgia is working with Rep. Johnson to push paper, and book TV.
From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 6:32 PM
To: Regional Press
Subject: RE: Press events re: this week’s Trump/Ryan meeting
Alright y’all – TJ has events happening in Ohio and Iowa.
What else do we have?
From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 9:18 AM
To: Regional Press
Subject: FW: Press events re: this week’s Trump/Ryan meeting
Hey Regionals – please start calling your battleground state comms directors this morning to get these events off the ground.
You should also be interfacing with your counterparts in CE / Political to make sure they are engaged and helping with the lift – can also be a broader discussion about preparing lists / comms plans for the general.
Thanks all
From: demcommunications@googlegroups.com
On Behalf Of Walker, Eric
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 9:13 AM
To: demcommunications@googlegroups.com
Subject: [COMMUNICATIONS] Press events re: this week’s Trump/Ryan meeting
Hey everyone –
Tomorrow, Donald Trump is coming to Washington D.C. to meet with Paul Ryan, Reince Priebus, and Mitch McConnell. The Ryan meeting is the highlight because Ryan has withheld his endorsement of Trump thus far. This is an ideal opportunity to highlight the historic mess that is the Republican Party, with the Speaker of the House of Representatives not ready to fully endorse his Party’s nominee, and a slew of former GOP presidential candidates, former Republican presidents and vulnerable Senate and House candidates trying to distance themselves from their standard bearer.
We’re asking state party communications directors to put together events around Thursday morning’s Trump-Ryan meeting to deliver the message that while Trump and Ryan may have a personal disagreement, they are both pushing the same divisive and dangerous agenda. We’re also asking state party communications directors to echo these events with op-eds and letters to the editor in local papers, and surrogates on television and radio.
Attached please find a packet with materials to put together an event. In this packet you’ll find:
·         Sample talking points / message guidance
·         A sample advisory
·         A sample press release
·         A sample op-ed
·         Four sample letters to the editor
DNC can offer national surrogates to appear via satellite or phone on local television and radio broadcasts to amplify the message. Please reach out to walker@dnc.org
if you would like to book one of our surrogates. Members of Congress and Senators who are currently in Washington can also use our studio to do local hits.
Here’s what we’re looking for in terms of event logistics:
·         Types of speakers:
o   State Party Chairs, Vice-Chairs, and EDs
o   Local Elected Officials
o   Allied Groups – Planned Parenthood, NAACP, Mi Familia Vota, etc.
o   Labor
o   People sharing personal stories
·         About 15-20 supporters
·         Signs that say “Reject the Trump-Ryan Agenda” – we have a mockup that can be found here
.
·         A big push to get local TV to the event – studies show that local TV is the dominant player in most markets and Americans trust local TV news about 20 points more than they trust national TV news.
The Republican Party has elevated offensive policies and extreme voices using divisive campaigns for years, and now they’re stuck with Donald Trump’s reckless and dangerous campaign heading into the general election. We have to make sure we hold Republicans in Congress and in every state accountable for their Party’s dysfunction as they chaotically tumble toward the general election.
And while Republicans argue, Democratic voters are overwhelming in agreement that our primary has been exciting, and large majorities would support either one of our candidates.
This meeting is also a reminder that what Trump has promised and what Republicans up and down the ballot have pushed for is the same brand of trickle-down economic policies that help those at the top while costing hardworking Americans. It’s the same old Republican playbook of cutting taxes for the rich at the expense of middle-class families, opposing measures like equal pay and paid family leave, and reckless policies that would only to drag America back into a recession
. We can’t afford to go back to losing 800,000 jobs a month as the last Republican president left office.
Eric Walker
walkere@dnc.org
732-991-1489
@ericmwalker
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From weekend. CA Dem quote that we FWD is included at end.
Pete Wilson says Ted Cruz is ‘not anti-immigrant’
BY DAVID SIDERS
Former Gov. Pete Wilson, endorsing Ted Cruz for president on Saturday, did not mention Proposition 187, the 1994 initiative Wilson championed to restrict state services to undocumented immigrants.
The measure – while overturned by the courts – did lasting damage to the Republican Party’s effort to recruit Latino voters in California.
But Wilson volunteered this about the Texas senator, whose position on illegal immigration, like Donald Trump’s, includes building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border: “He is not anti-immigrant. He, as am I, is for legal immigration of the kind that has made this country great.”
Wilson endured a strained relationship with party activists for years after he left office 1999, with many conservatives unwilling to forgive him for raising taxes and supporting abortion rights. But his relationship appeared to improve when, during the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis in 2008, he called President Barack Obama a socialist.
In 2012, Wilson was in Tampa to announce California Republicans’ support for Mitt Romney on the convention floor.
He received a standing ovation on Saturday.
Wilson, a former U.S. senator, assemblyman and San Diego mayor, cast Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner, as an unpredictable executive who cannot be trusted to nominate conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices.
“Heaven knows what justices Donald Trump would pick,” he said. “We can’t afford a wild-card when it comes to a president who will be making critically important Supreme Court appointments.”
Wilson likened Cruz’s candidacy to that of former President Ronald Reagan.
“America today is in desperate need of a strong, winning Republican leader,” Wilson said. “And my friends, thankfully, that strong Republican leader has stepped forward in our moment of extreme need.”
John Burton, chairman of the state Democratic Party, was happy to weigh in with a mention of Proposition 187.
“Former California Governor Pete Wilson, who was the champion of the mean-spirited and unconstitutional Proposition 187, has endorsed Ted Cruz for president,” Burton said in a statement. “Gov. Wilson can explain to Sen. Cruz the benefits of having strong anti-immigration policies in California – they have worked so well for the Republican Party here.”
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Email: GarciaW@dnc.org
Twitter: @WalterGarcia231
[SigDems]


Luis --> do you want me to send all invitations to you or would you prefer I send them to Rachel to put into a spreadsheet for you?
From: Kate Houghton
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 10:46 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Cc: Anna Stolitzka; Bonosky, Garret
Subject: Re: Invitations for Saturday...
Adding my team.
On Apr 26, 2016, at 10:41 PM, Miranda, Luis
> wrote:
Can you please forward me the actual invitations for the WHCD pre-receptions Saturday? Thanks.
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC


We did that video yesterday – a mashup of all the ways he’s dangerous. So if this isn’t going to happen then let’s kill the idea. Sorry all.
From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 6:46 PM
To: Compton, Matt; Walker, Eric; Christopher, Rebecca; Video-Vetting_d
Subject: RE: New video: GOP's worst week ever
Ok, change of concept then. We don't want to be flip about the danger his fp actually represents.
Sent via the Samsung GALAXY S®4, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message --------
From: "Compton, Matt"
>
Date: 04/28/2016 6:43 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: "Miranda, Luis"
>, "Walker, Eric"
>, "Christopher, Rebecca"
>, Video-Vetting_d
>
Subject: Re: New video: GOP's worst week ever
I don’t think we can make a video about the “Worst Week Ever” with a tone that’s ominous and foreboding.
If we want to make a different video — one focused just on Trump’s foreign policy proposal — we certainly can.
But that’s not the concept we discussed this morning and that the video team has been working on.
From: "Miranda, Luis"
>
Date: Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 6:37 PM
To: "Walker, Eric"
>, Rebecca Christopher
>, Video-Vetting_d
>
Subject: RE: New video: GOP's worst week ever
We have to change the tone. our direction and framing on Trump and his foreign policy speech should go back to our standard framing on how he is dangerous. Let’s stop using the rambling and incoherent frame. Please see how we are to talk about his foreign policy speech below. That means music shouldn’t be silly but ominous, and focus should be on contradictions, problems with what he’s saying, less focus on style.
As he’s done throughout his campaign, Dangerous Donald Trump is proving that on foreign policy, he lacks the judgment, experience, and temperament to be our next commander-in-chief. Trump would alienate allies and deal with friend and foe alike with reckless disregard, with poorly conceived ideas that would undermine our national security and make the American people less safe.
Don’t take our word for it, see what people are saying about his remarks below:
A Trump-First Foreign Policy
WALL STREET JOURNAL //
His maiden policy speech on Wednesday, devoted to foreign affairs, earns an “incomplete” at Trump University.
…
The 5,000-word speech lacked specifics by normal political standards, if not his own. The central motif, like all of Mr. Trump’s political thought, is that the businessman has the brains and strength to solve a given problem, and everybody else is a pathetic loser, so trust his instincts and temperament.
…
For prepared remarks, or for that matter even an after-dinner talk, Mr. Trump’s speech was especially rife with contradictions. He said the conduct of foreign policy must be “more unpredictable. We are totally predictable. We tell everything.” He also said the conduct of foreign policy must be “disciplined, deliberate and consistent.”
…
Mr. Trump isn’t known for close readings of his briefing books, if such documents exist, and deep policy knowledge is obviously not the source of his political appeal. But Americans typically prefer Presidents who are conversant about the world’s biggest problems beyond a sound bite or two…
Mr. Trump promised to “win our new future struggles, which may be many, which may be complex, but we will win if I become President.” He won’t become the GOP nominee much less President if voters don’t trust him with nuclear weapons…
Donald Trump’s Strange Worldview
NEW YORK TIMES // THE EDITORIAL BOARD
...
No one’s fears are likely to be allayed by this speech, which was clearly worked up by his new campaign advisers and read from a teleprompter. It did not exhibit much grasp of the complexity of the world, understanding of the balance or exercise of power, or even a careful reading of history.
...
Mr. Trump repeatedly states outright falsehoods, often based on wrong assumptions. He’s been refuted before on his claim that the Islamic State is making “millions of dollars a week” by selling Libyan oil. There is zero evidence of that. The nuclear deal with the United States and other major powers has not made Iran a “great power,” nor has Tehran violated the conditions of that pact, as Mr. Trump has said.
Mr. Trump says he knows how to negotiate, and to him that seems to mean putting forward maximal positions that he can then walk back. That won’t work in foreign policy. Mr. Trump did not display any willingness to learn or to correct his past errors. For someone who claims he is ready to lead the free world, that is inexcusable.
Trump's unreal foreign policy: Our view
USA TODAY // EDITORIAL BOARD
As anyone who watches reality television knows, the genre might be entertaining, but its correlation to actual reality is tenuous.
Which is a good place to start with the  much-awaited foreign policy speech delivered Wednesday in Washington by presidential candidate Donald Trump.
As with The Apprentice, the show that helped him become a household name, the Republican front-runner sought to provide appealing fare for a certain class of people. In this case, the primary audience was voters opposed to trade, resentful of immigrants, distrustful of foreign governments, and wistful for a time when America wielded more power in a simpler world.
In reaching out to this group, Trump vividly portrayed a world that does not exist: America’s allies would be more respectful after being lectured to, while its enemies would be dealt with by bluster. China would fall into line after enduring unspecified economic pressure. And troubled regions of the world would be stabilized through U.S. disengagement.
…
Things might happen that way on TV. But not in reality. Or perhaps we should say real reality.
Donald Trump shows dangerously incoherent foreign policy
THE SACRAMENTO BEE // THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Then, he gave a rambling, vague and incoherent speech Wednesday full of platitudes and contradictions, and suggested he would undermine international alliances that have helped keep America safe since World War II.
It was billed as a major foreign policy address, but voters looking for reassurances about Trump as commander in chief can’t feel that much more comfortable. Our longtime allies certainly won’t be confident.
Don’t be fooled by Trump’s foreign policy speech
WASHINGTON POST // ANNE APPLEBAUM
If you weren’t already convinced that parody is now the central art form of our era, then Donald Trump’s grand foreign policy speech yesterday was the proof.
…
The multiple inconsistencies and internal contradictions have already been listed by others. On the one hand, he said that “your friends need to know that you will stick by the agreements that you have with them.” On the other hand, he threatened to “walk” if those same friends didn’t pony up to his demands. He wants to invest heavily in the military, but he wants to stop using the military. He doesn’t want to do “nation-building” but does want to promote “regional stability.” There was no sense that he knew what either of those terms actually meant.
…
Anyone who sits down and analyzes the speech from start to finish will, of course, worry about the contradictions, the inconsistencies, the impossible claims, the detachment from reality.
From Donald Trump, a Foreign Policy Speech Heavy on Slogans and Light on Details
WALL STREET JOURNAL // AARON DAVID MILLER
Those expecting a coherent, well-ordered view of the world and a strategy to match it would have been disappointed listening to Donald Trump’s foreign policy address on Wednesday. The speech was a collection of bromides, slogans, aims, and promises wrapped in Mr. Trump’s conviction that he can solve America’s problems in a cruel and unforgiving world–all without specifying how.
…
Nobody expected great detail on how exactly he would accomplish all of his plans. But in what was billed as a major foreign-policy address, the absence of guidance on how he would achieve his goals was striking. The best he could do about better burden sharing with our NATO allies was to suggest a summit to discuss the matter.
…
His implication that only he knows how to fix what ails the republic suggests a self-absorption that goes well beyond the normal ego and narcissism required to run for president. Mr. Trump’s preference for celebrity (his) over substance and his reliance on one-liners over serious analysis of complicated problems point up potential for conflict, at minimum, should he win the nation’s most-demanding job, a position that requires prudence, curiosity, and a willingness not only to ask questions but also to home in on the right ones.
Trump struggles to explain 'America first' foreign policy
ASSOCIATED PRESS// LOLITA C. BALDOR AND SAGAR MEGHANI
Donald Trump strained to lay out a clear vision of his "America first" foreign policy on Wednesday, vowing to substitute hard-headed realism for what he called a post-Cold War era replete with U.S. national security failures.
Yet the Republican presidential front-runner outlined no strategy for how he'd make the United States at the same time a "consistent" and "unpredictable" force in the world. And he didn't appear to allay the concerns of U.S. and international critics — Republicans at home as well as Democrats — who see him as unfit for the responsibilities of commander in chief.
…
Trump also contradicted his own broad-brush approach to foreign policy. He said at one point that the best way to achieve his goals was through "disciplined, deliberate and consistent" policy. Later, however, he exhorted the nation to "be more unpredictable" in how it combats enemies.
Graham tears into Trump’s ‘pathetic’ foreign policy speech
THE HILL // JESSIE HELLMAN
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tore into Donald Trump’s foreign policy address Wednesday in a series of tweets, saying, “Ronald Reagan must be rolling over in his grave.”
The outspoken senator called Trump’s speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington pathetic and incoherent.
“Trump speech is pathetic in terms of understanding the role America plays in the world, how to win War on Terror, and threats we face,” Graham wrote.
“Trump’s FP speech not conservative. It’s isolationism surrounded by disconnected thought, demonstrates lack of understanding threats we face.”
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[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 – MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 6:32 PM
To: Christopher, Rebecca; Video-Vetting_d
Subject: RE: New video: GOP's worst week ever
Awesome. 2 adds from me.
Can we get a Fareed clip talking about Trump’s speech? Feel like he’s very recognizable
And has there been any discussion on television about how the Republican Party has its highest disapproval in 24 years? I’ve seen a some print pickup but no TV yet. That could be a good kicker.
Thanks guys
From: Christopher, Rebecca
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 5:10 PM
To: Video-Vetting_d
Subject: New video: GOP's worst week ever
Hi everyone,
We’re putting together some of the worst moments the GOP had this week for a fun recap. Script is attached — let me know if you have any flags and thank you!


Good.
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 7:11 PM
To: Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark; Walsh, Tom; Freundlich, Christina
Subject: DRAFT Ryan / Trump LTEs
Economy 1:
The Republican Establishment is struggling to come to terms with Donald Trump as their standard-bearer, claiming that he doesn't truly represent their values. But from the Donald's opposition to raising the minimum wage to his plan to cut taxes for the rich, Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan are cut from the same cloth.
In addition to proposing Bush-like tax cuts for the rich, Trump's claims that the U.S. can never default on its debt because the treasury can always print more money demonstrates a dangerous cluelessness about how the economy works. His views that we can negotiate partial debt payments with foreign creditors is as reckless as it is inaccurate.
In Trump's world, that's business as usual. Trump's businesses have repeatedly gone bankrupt, leaving investors, contractors and small businesses on the hook for his bad business decisions. We shouldn't subject the country's economy to Donald Trump's bankrupt business practices. The only deal to be had with Donald Trump is a bad one.
Economy 2:
The more I read about Donald Trump's tax proposals, the more I am terrified of a Republican presidency. These policies would hurt hard-working Americans like me, the way they did under Bush. Trump's tax plan would cost $9.5 trillion by slashing taxes for billionaires, while standing staunchly against a minimum wage increase. Trump even made the outrageous claim that wages were too high. His plans are the same, trickle-down tax plans that Speaker Paul Ryan has tried and failed to advance in Congress, in which the rich get richer at the middle-class's expense.
We shouldn't be surprised by the con that Trump and the GOP are running. The last Republican administration left our country in a recession, and this one would be no different.
Voters should not be fooled by Donald Trump's faux-populism. He has built his fortune by taking advantage of working people, and his tax plan would mean a big windfall for himself, once again giving middle-class families the short end of the stick.
Women's Health:
Donald Trump made his views about women's health crystal-clear when he said that there should be "some form of punishment" for women seeking an abortion. That's a terrifying thought when you consider that Republicans want Donald Trump to pick the next Supreme Court Justice.
But while Trump says he wants to punish women, Paul Ryan and Republicans in Congress are already doing it. Ryan has pushed an anti-choice agenda for years, including a partisan, political investigation of Planned Parenthood.
Instead of supporting policies that women actually want - equal pay and paid family leave - the Trump-Ryan Agenda prioritizes defunding Planned Parenthood and repealing the Affordable Care Act, showing how far the Republican Party has turned away from most Americans.
Each time we see Trump and Ryan actively fighting against women and families, we should be reminded that we need to keep a Democrat in the Oval Office come November.
Immigration:
When people act like Trump is engaging in a hostile takeover of the Republican Party - they're missing the point. Trump's radical positions and outrageous rhetoric on immigration didn't come out of nowhere. They were born out of years of inaction by Republicans in Congress, Speaker Ryan, who recently met with Donald Trump, has held up comprehensive immigration reform for years, and has instead poisoned the well on this issue.
Ryan might not call immigrants "rapists" or say that they are bringing "crime" or "drugs," but the sentiment is the same. It's not only discriminatory and counter-productive - but it hurts our economy. Comprehensive immigration reform would grow jobs and add to the deficit, but Ryan and Trump are more concerned with scoring political points than fixing problems.
Americans deserve better than Ryan and Trump's fearmongering on immigration. We should reject both of these leaders at the ballot box in November.


Repeated entitlements comment from his MSNBC interview a bit earlier
Q: What exactly do you do for Trump?
Don't want to be piegeon-holed into any one thing
Need to deal with problems - big problem now is unity
Very gratified with the meeting with the Speaker and Trump
Trump is not a politician so he doesn't know political speak.
Q: NYT said your job is to get former rivals on board? Instrumental in setting up Ryan meeting?
Meeting would occur anyway
Trump is said to be against entitlement reform. He isn't against it, but he said it would be cruel and unusual to attack entitlements first. Wants to handle economy first, then do entitlement reform if it is still necessary
Q: Doesn't want any changes to SS and Medicare right?
Most important issue is economy. Need to decrease deficits instead of increase
Q: Graham tweet on Trump. Did you set that up?
I had nothing to do with that call
November will be an election that will determine what kind of country we are going to be
Q: Trump said you will help him pick a veep
My role is to talk about what kind of person we are looking for
I have a shifting role with him
Q: other candidates that ran really liked you. Is one of your assignments to get the other candidates to support Trump? Is that possible?
All things are possible. I would love to see a situation where all 17 of us could sit in a room for a discussion - with no media involved
This isn't about any one person, this is about America
Q: Could  you get Cruz or Jeb to endorse Trump?
I think if they think about the future of the country, they will come to the right conclusion
I would've hoped we learned from this process in 2012.
Great societies never have learned from others' mistakes, causing their downfall
Q: Open to being his VP?
I have no desire whatsoever to be anything in government
It would have to be an extraordinary circumstance and I don't see that occurring
From: Bennett, Eric
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 12:58 PM
To: Research_D
Cc: DJTspeaks@hillaryclinton.com
Subject: Video Request: Carson on CNN
I'm about to interview @RealBenCarson right at the top of the hour. He's deeply involved in helping @realDonaldTrump right now. #Wolf @CNN
Original Tweet:
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Correct, roger that. Thanks!
Sent from my iPhone
On May 2, 2016, at 3:21 PM, Bonosky, Garret
> wrote:
This is for May 3 correct?
7:00pm -> does not work we will be going through airport security at jfk
8:35pm -> we will be on a flight (8:00pm departure) to Los Angeles
6:00am CNN -> I believe mark and Luis have some hesitations on new day
Garret Bonosky
Deputy Director
Office of the Chair
Democratic National Committee
On May 2, 2016, at 3:19 PM, Banfill, Ryan
> wrote:
Bumping it to you to check availability.
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Manriquez, Pablo"
>
Date: May 2, 2016 at 12:10:50 PM EDT
To: "Miranda, Luis"
>, "Paustenbach, Mark"
>, "Walker, Eric"
>, Ryan Banfill
>
Subject: DWS tomorrow in NYC
Starting the chain. Let me know what we can do and I’ll start locking them in.
OPEN - Fox News Latino Election Invite with Henry Munoz
6AM hour - CNN New Day
7PM hour - Fox News Super Tues Special
8:35PM - Fox News Radio hit
Pablo Manriquez
Democratic National Committee
Phone: 202.572.5488
Email: pablo@dnc.org
web: democrats.org
Twitter: @Pablo_DNC


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Here's the current plan.
Will move Wall Street Journal to an 11:30am-12:30pm meeting -- not a lunch.
Monday
3:45pm                        (tentative) Off-the-Record Meeting with Bloomberg News/Politics
editors OR Free time
4:45pm-5:50pm                      Bloomberg TV: “With All Due Respect”
Location: 731 Lexington Avenue (East 58th Street and Lexington Avenue)
Contact: Querry Robinson, qrobinson@bloomberg.net
,
4:45pm                                                Arrival time for hair and makeup
5:20pm-5:45pm                                  Hit Time
5:50pm                                                Leave Bloomberg Studio
Tuesday
6:30am-7:45am             (tentative) Network Morning Show
10am                           (tentative) MSNBC / Meeting with Mika Brzezinski and Phil Griffin
12pm                           Off-the-Record Lunch Meeting with the Wall Street Journal Editors
Glenn Hall, National Editor; Tim Layer, Deputy National Editor; Chuck Hawkins, Political Editor; and, Sheila Courter, Election Editor
Location: 1211 Avenue of the Americas
Contact: Glenn Hall, glenn.hall@wsj.com
, c: 917-359-4994, o: 212-416-2101
4:15pm-5:15pm          Buzzfeed News
-          Off-the-Record Meeting with Ben Smith, Editor-in-chief
-          Podcast Taping with Evan McMorris-Santoro, Chief Campaign Reporter
Location: 111 East 18th Street (between Park Avenue and Irving Place)
Contact: Meredith Kennedy, Meredith.kennedy@buzzfeed.com
, c: 914-318-9251


Elizabeth Warren Debuts as Slayer of Donald Trump on Twitter
By ASHLEY PARKER
MAY 9, 2016
Republicans spent an entire primary cycle searching for Donald J. Trump
's weak spot, to little avail.
But Elizabeth Warren
, a first-term Democratic senator from Massachusetts, seems to have come up with an answer - or at least a way to rattle the New York billionaire.
On Friday evening, tensions between Mr. Trump and Ms. Warren spilled into a Twitter war, which spanned four hours and more than a dozen posts and insults - "Goofy Elizabeth Warren," he called her; a sexist, racist, xenophobic "bully," she countered - on both sides.
The back-and-forth, which played out in public rat-a-tat-tat bursts, 140 characters at a time, also offered a vivid preview of how the six months until Election Day could unfold, with the popular Ms. Warren emerging as a unifier of the Democratic base and Mr. Trump - so far, at least - still unable to resist small provocations as he tries to become a more disciplined general election candidate.
Ms. Warren is one of the few high-profile leaders in either party to repeatedly challenge Mr. Trump with clarity and directness, portraying him as both dangerous and a charlatan. She began her assault in a March 21 Facebook post
, describing his candidacy as a "serious threat" and calling him "a loser" - one of the worst insults in the Trump lexicon.
And on Tuesday, the night Mr. Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee
, she again took to Facebook to denounce him
- a broadside that he seemed to be responding to when, just after 7 p.m. on Friday, he launched a series of Twitter posts deriding her as "goofy" and as Hillary Clinton
's "flunky."
"Goofy Elizabeth Warren and her phony Native American heritage are on a Twitter rant," Mr. Trump wrote
in one missive, refering to Ms. Warren's claims of Cherokee ancestry, which became an issue
during her 2012 Senate race. "She is too easy! I'm driving her nuts."
Mr. Trump first teased Ms. Warren about her ancestry claims in an interview
last summer with the New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, saying: "She's caught a little wave. Perhaps it's her Indian upbringing." He has since repeated the mockery, calling Ms. Warren "the Indian"
at a news conference in Washington earlier this year.
"Trump has built his campaign on racism, sexism and xenophobia," Ms. Warren wrote in her Facebook post on Tuesday. "I'm going to fight my heart out to make sure Donald Trump's toxic stew of hatred and insecurity never reaches the White House."
Ms. Warren and Mrs. Clinton, the expected Democratic nominee, have had a strained relationship at times, and Ms. Warren's decision not to endorse Mrs. Clinton so far has irked Democrats who would like to see the primary wrap up. But Ms. Warren is still often mentioned as a possible vice-presidential candidate for Mrs. Clinton, who has said
she wants a running mate who can act as an attack dog.
And Ms. Warren is embracing a role right now that Mrs. Clinton cannot.
Mrs. Clinton, the former secretary of state, has made clear that she hopes to hover at least slightly above the fray, causing some Democrats to fret privately that their party is not sharply attacking Mr. Trump, who has so far proven an elusive target.
Ms. Warren, it seems, is more than happy to fill the void.
In a dozen Twitter posts Friday evening, she not only called Mr. Trump a bully who can be defeated
"not by tucking tail and running, but by holding your ground," but also adopted Mr. Trump's Twitter
style, writing
:
Mary Anne Marsh, a Democratic strategist based in Boston, said that Ms. Warren had a history of speaking her mind - "to anybody, on any topic, at any time," she said - and that the political moment was ripe for that type of authenticity.
Ms. Warren appears to take seriously her role in uniting the party. And in an emailed statement, she cast herself as someone willing to challenge Mr. Trump. "Republicans waited way too long to stand up and tell the truth about Donald Trump's record, his temperament, and why he is unfit to be president," she said. "We can't repeat that mistake."
But Ms. Warren may also be trying to blunt Mr. Trump's efforts to woo supporters of Mrs. Clinton's primary opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, no matter how unlikely Mr. Trump is to bring them to his side in large numbers. She is the person most closely aligned with Mr. Sanders's brand of anti-Wall Street populism, and her imprimatur could help Mrs. Clinton while the Democratic primary goes on.
In some ways, Mr. Trump is reprising the Native American attack that then-Senator Scott Brown used against her, unsuccessfully, in their 2012 contest. Ms. Marsh said that during that race, Ms. Warren won over some of the working-class men who had voted for Mr. Brown in his 2010 special election to the Senate, making her a particularly potent force on the Democratic side.
"She is probably the most effective voice to engage Trump and Trump supporters because she won his voters in her election here, and when it comes to helping them and creating jobs, she is wildly popular with them," Ms. Marsh said. "She has standing with Trump voters."
For Mr. Trump, whose preferred attack megaphone is often Twitter, engaging with Ms. Warren has its perils and could undercut his recent efforts to reassure party officials
that he has the temperament to be president. He also has high negative ratings among women, and attacking two of the most prominent female Democrats could backfire.
Ryan Williams, a Republican consultant, said Mr. Trump needed to "stop chasing every shiny object and going down every rabbit hole, and focus on the White House."
"I think Donald Trump needs to recognize that he's the nominee of the Republican Party and his target is Hillary Clinton, not Elizabeth Warren or anyone else," Mr. Williams said. "One of the main rules of politics is to never punch downwards, and he's punching way downward by engaging with a liberal senator who's not even at the ballot this year."
Mr. Trump's allies view the dust-up as simply Mr. Trump's being himself, and winning over voters in the process.
"Donald understands the power of Twitter," Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime Trump confidant, wrote in an email. "Nothing will galvanize the Republican Party like brawling with anti-business Fauxcahontas. Could not be a better contrast between Trump, who wants to create wealth, and Warren, who wants to distribute it."
And for Democrats still struggling to take on Mr. Trump, who helped splinter
his own party
before beginning to turn his attention to the Democrats, Ms. Warren has increasingly become a crucial figure in the fight, helping to write the blueprint against Mr. Trump one Facebook and Twitter post at a time.
"A lot of politicians don't know how to handle Trump," said Tommy Vietor, a former Obama administration official who worked on the president's 2008 campaign. "She's showing that the best way to respond is to punch back hard and to call him out."
Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.
Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
W: 202.863.8148
paustenbachm@dnc.org


They have specifically asked for today/tomorrow to react to Pence endorsement. Anything we can do to encourage bookers to use Zody is appreciated.
From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 12:31 PM
To: Helmstetter, TJ; Manriquez, Pablo; Paustenbach, Mark; Walker, Eric
Subject: RE: Request - JOHN ZODY//FNR//HALPERN//SUPER TUESDAY
Yes, high priority! This gives us major props
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 – MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Helmstetter, TJ
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 12:29 PM
To: Manriquez, Pablo; Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark; Walker, Eric
Subject: RE: Request - JOHN ZODY//FNR//HALPERN//SUPER TUESDAY
Thanks for doing this Pablo, Indiana will be happy with as much as we can do to get Zody on-air
From: Manriquez, Pablo
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 12:27 PM
To: Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark; Walker, Eric
Cc: Helmstetter, TJ
Subject: Request - JOHN ZODY//FNR//HALPERN//SUPER TUESDAY
Who: John Zody (Indiana Party Chair) & Jared Halpern
What: one on one election segment for Fox News Radio discussing Indiana primary
Where: 7pm – 9pm ET
When: Tuesday May 3
rd
plus TJ for awareness
Sent from my iPhone


Saved here
From: Bennett, Eric
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2016 6:29 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: Video Request: Cruz on NC bill
WATCH: @TedCruz tells @ABC women's restrooms shouldn't be used by the "PC Police" to drive ideological agenda.

Original Tweet:
Sent via TweetDeck
.@TedCruz
: "You don't have a right to impose your lifestyle on others."
Original Tweet:
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We've had an open invite since WHCD (will reup now). If she doesn't want it, happy to distribute
Sent from my iPhone


Morning guys, I know this is a busy day, but if you have it handy, do you mind sending me the rundown of Potus endorsements this cycle?  I have an older version, but want to make sure I have the most recent.
Also, I thought Juliet's story was about as expected-- not too terrible.
Thanks,
Jen


Ryan/Garret, does this work on her schedule?
all on 12 May --
*   Live interview scheduled in between 2:00 - 3:00 pm (Pacific Time) with various breaks in between.
*   A recorded interview between 9:00 - 10:00 am (Pacific Time).
*   A recorded interview between 10:00 - 11:00 am (Pacific Time).
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 – MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Manriquez, Pablo
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 5:21 PM
To: Banfill, Ryan
Cc: Walker, Eric; Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark
Subject: Re: Request - DWS//REBECCA COSTA//COSTA REPORTS//12 MAY
Hi Team: We need a decision on this ASAP or they’re going to bump DWS for Howard Dean…which is fine if she can’t make it but 2M listeners is a legit regional radio powerhouse.  Thanks!
On May 4, 2016, at 2:08 PM, Manriquez, Pablo
> wrote:
Roger, see below —
On May 4, 2016, at 12:57 PM, Manriquez, Pablo
> wrote:
WHO: DWS and Rebecca Acosta
WHAT: Live or pre-recorded one-on-one interview discussing state of the race in the context of the California Primary to air on the radio station KSCO AM 1080 / 104.1 FM. The audience for the Costa Report is reportedly 2 million listeners and 250k social media followers. The interview will be long-form for 30 minutes and, according to the show’s producer: "It would be an opportune time for her to be on and reach out to a talk radio audience that would open to another perspective on the Congresswoman's life and career.”  The radio station will promo DWS’s interview across several local marketing opportunities to be deployed before and after interview as a means to hype their conversation with DWS.
WHEN: We have 3 options, all on 12 May --
*   Live interview scheduled in between 2:00 - 3:00 pm (Pacific Time) with various breaks in between.
*   A recorded interview between 9:00 - 10:00 am (Pacific Time).
*   A recorded interview between 10:00 - 11:00 am (Pacific Time).
WHERE: At her convenience.
Pablo Manriquez
Democratic National Committee
Phone: 202.572.5488
Email: pablo@dnc.org
web: democrats.org
Twitter: @Pablo_DNC


Hi,
Erik Wemple called with questions about another debate in California. You can reach him at 202-334-9583.
Thanks!
Jenna Price
Democratic National Committee
pricej@dnc.org
215-578-9696
[SigDems]


May 6, 2016
Contact: Drew Hammill/Evangeline George
202-226-7616
Pelosi Statement on Conclusion of
Bipartisan Congressional Delegation Visit to Chile
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Members of the Congressional delegation meet with the
President of Chile Michelle Bachelet.
Santiago, Chile – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi today released the following statement after the bipartisan Congressional delegation concluded final meetings in Santiago with President of Chile Michelle Bachelet; Minister of Energy Máximo Pacheco; Deputy Foreign Minister Edgardo Riveros; Senate President Ricardo Lagos Weber; Chamber of Deputies President Osvaldo Andrade; and members of civil society.
“Our visit to Chile was distinguished by an emphasis on human rights and climate change in addition to security and trade.
“Upon arrival, we traveled to El Paraiso for a joint meeting with the President of the Senate, Ricardo Lagos and President of the Chamber of Deputies, Osvaldo Andrade, which focused on Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), reducing income inequality, and advancing human rights.  Both presidents made the point that domestic decisions related to the workforce were critical to raising income, not just advancing trade agreements.  Our inter-parliamentary dialogue continued over a dinner hosted by President Andrade with Members of the Chamber of Deputies.
“On Thursday, following our country team briefing, we met with members of civil society, including labor, trade, environmental, LGBT and women’s rights leaders who shared their views regarding Chile’s efforts to tackle inequality and discrimination.  These leaders also shared their views on the possible impact of the TPP on workers, the environment, and the indigenous communities in Chile.  We then proceeded to a meeting with American Chamber of Commerce representatives to continue discussing the TPP’s impact and the business climate in Chile.
“We then engaged in a security and TPP-focused discussion with Members of President Bachelet’s government, including Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Edgardo Riveros and his colleagues.  Later in the afternoon, we had a particularly enlightening meeting with the Minister of Energy Máximo Pacheco, who provided an impressive description of the work Chile is doing to confront the threatening issue of climate change, to reduce dependence on carbon and fossil fuels, and to implement its COP-21 commitment.
“It was an honor for our bipartisan delegation to be hosted at La Moneda by President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet.  We discussed bilateral and multilateral efforts to strengthen global security, civility and economic growth, and raise labor and environmental standards in the context of the TPP.  The delegation thanks President Bachelet for Chile’s cooperation, friendship, and commitment to advancing our shared values.  We also appreciated hearing her thoughts on how Chile has moved from the suffering of the past to the prospects of the future.
“Before meeting with President Bachelet, the delegation visited El Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos which served as an inspiration and a reminder that Chile has overcome the atrocities of the Pinochet era.  The visit has underscored the importance of opposing human rights violations wherever they occur in the world.
“We are grateful to Ambassador Michael A. Hammer and the U.S. Embassy Santiago team for their leadership and the work they do to uphold the United States’ values in Chile.
“We traveled to Latin America on a fact-finding mission.  I want to commend Richard Hanna (R-NY), Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Linda Sánchez (D-CA) and the entire delegation for their leadership and informed participation.  Our delegation engaged in an intense set of meetings that resulted in a better understanding of how to further advance relations with Mexico, Peru and Chile.”
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Ah, OK. I believe we figured out what the issue was there. It should be fixed now.
Sean Gray (sgray@MISDepartment.com)
Ticket Details
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Department: DNC Helpdesk
Type: 15 Minutes
Status: Work Complete
Priority: Low
Helpdesk:


New Day here
From: Kauffman, Nathan
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 6:40 AM
To: Sarge, Matthew
Cc: Comm_D
Subject: Re: Video Request: Trump Morning Shows 4/27
On the phone with msnbc now
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 26, 2016, at 9:04 PM, Sarge, Matthew
> wrote:
Trump on Wednesday 4/27
On CNN New Day
On MSNBC Morning Joe at 6:30am


Flagging for reporters
Trump Campaign Canceled A Reporter’s Interview After They Heard Him Speak Spanish
Adrian Carrasquillo
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Marcos Stupenengo, a freelance correspondent working for TV Azteca, got an interview with Donald Trump — initially. He had no trouble when he asked to come to Trump Tower in New York on Monday to interview the bombastic presumptive Republican nominee.
But as he waited to conduct the interview, Stupenengo received a call, and began speaking in Spanish. That’s when the Trump campaign informed him they had no interest in taking part in an interview with him, according to a source with knowledge of the incident.
Reached for comment, Stupenengo forwarded the request to the network. “I can say that after 13 years of journalism worse things have happened to me,” he wrote in an email, declining to comment further.
The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Stupenengo, who is from Argentina, studied journalism there before going to school in New York. He has green eyes and would appear to many to be a non-Hispanic white male.
A Spanish-speaking Secret Service agent with Trump apologized to Stupenengo, saying he was sorry and he didn’t know what was happening, the source with knowledge of the incident said.
Later, the reporter went to Clinton campaign headquarters to conduct an interview.
During his report, which will air in the evening, Stupenengo will say he was kicked out of Trump headquarters because he was speaking Spanish.
The incident with the Mexican TV Azteca is just the latest between the Trump campaign and major Spanish-language networks. Last summer, Trump got into it with Univision’s Jorge Ramos, who repeatedly tried to question him, before kicking Ramos out of a press conference. Trump also would not answer questions from Telemundo’s Jose Diaz-Balart during an event in a Texas border town last year.
Trump, who wrested the Republican nomination from 16 other contenders in part on the strength of his hardline immigration stance and controversial comments about Mexicans and immigrants, has seen his favorability with Latinos crater since then.
Two weeks ago, he flashed a broad smile in a tweet as he trumpeted a taco bowl made at one of his restaurants on Cinco de Mayo and again declared his love for Hispanics.
--
Walter Garcia
Western Regional Press Secretary
Democratic National Committee (DNC)
Email: GarciaW@dnc.org
Twitter: @WalterGarcia231
[SigDems]


Hi Luis,
I'm doing a piece on the last Democratic debate, the one that is supposed to be in CA, but nothing is on the books for.
Where does that process stand? Will there be a final debate as the parties involved agreed to?
Anything you can tell me on the record or on background would be helpful. Thanks.
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From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 10:26 AM
To: Wei, Shu-Yen
Cc: Palermo, Rachel
Subject: PLEASE SEND ME ASDC AGENDA


FYI.. This went out to the RBC and both campaigns.
From: Patrice Taylor
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 10:58 AM
To: Patrice Taylor
Cc: Federico, Courtney; Alecia Dyer
Subject: FYI-Letter from NVDP
Dear RBC Members,
The RBC Co-Chairs would like to share with you a letter they received from the NV Democratic Party.  We will keep you posted if there are additional developments.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Patrice


Ok
Sent via the Samsung GALAXY S®4, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message --------
From: "Dacey, Amy"
Date: 05/11/2016 12:28 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: "Miranda, Luis"
Subject: Heads up
Dws and I want to bring in SKD to talk to dws you and I about integration press plan ideas ..
I'm going to have Becca and garret to take lead on scheduling
Sent from my iPhone


Roberta Lange was just on MSNBC. They played some of the real bad phone messages she received. Roberta said she'd yet to hear anything from the Sanders campaign. MSNBC also played a video clip of Sanders at a press avail today in Puerto Rico; when asked about Nevada he walks away mid question. Andrea Mitchell concluded the interview by telling Roberta to "stay safe."
Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202.863.8148
paustenbachm@dnc.org
On May 17, 2016, at 10:38 AM, Debbie Wasserman Schultz
> wrote:
Damn liar. Particularly scummy that he barely acknowledges the violent and threatening behavior that occurred.
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
From: Paustenbach, Mark
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 10:15 AM
To: Miranda, Luis; Debbie Wasserman Schultz; Banfill, Ryan; Tracie Pough; Dacey, Amy
Subject: Weaver on CNN re Nevada
FYI, this morning on CNN Jeff Weaver was asked about the protests and threats of violence in Nevada. He begins by saying Sanders supporters should “act in a civil way” but then goes on to hit the state party. Here is a transcript:
Jeff Weaver--
… Well, look, the senator has been very clear, people who are supporting the senator should act in a civil way. They should obviously fight within the context, and by fight, I mean contest if there is a convention, they should be there, they should present their case. And then they should let the votes fall where they may. The situation in Nevada is a little bit different. Obviously no context justifies any kinds of threat or violence. But you know, we have been obviously campaigning in Nevada for almost a year, because of, you know, it's one of the early states. The state party there has a lot of problems. They've run things very poorly. It has been done very undemocratically. And there seems to be an unwillingness on the part of the Nevada democratic party to bring in all of the new people that Bernie Sanders has brought into the process. If you read some of the reports from what went on there, the chair was clearly ignoring votes from the floor at the Clark county democratic convention in Nevada. They tried to arrest their own credentials chair, because she was being too fair to the Sanders people. I mean, it is dysfunctional or worse out there in the Nevada state democratic party. Obviously it is not a reflection of all Democrats in Nevada, but the party hierarchy, there’s a lot of problems there. I mean they had a convention where they didn't have enough chairs for the number of people who were supposed to be there. Obviously you're trying to exclude people if the room is too small for the anticipated audience. So there is a lot of work to be done. We could have a whole show on the Nevada state democratic party. But regardless –
Chris Cuomo, CNN--
You're making the same case that Trump seems to be making, the system is set up against Sanders, the Democrats are against him, and that he should run for a third party.
Is Trump right?
Jeff Weaver--
No, Trump is wrong. You know, we have interacted with state parties all across the country. And some are more fair than others. Some are, I have to say, some are extremely fair. It just happens in Nevada not to be the case.
Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
W: 202.863.8148
paustenbachm@dnc.org
From: Spolarich Jr., Gary
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 8:47 AM
To: Sarge, Matthew; Comm_D
Subject: RE: Video Request: Jeff Weaver on New Day
Watch here
From: Sarge, Matthew
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 8:33 AM
To: Comm_D
Subject: Video Request: Jeff Weaver on New Day
On now. Thanks


Sent from my iPhone


On now
--
Walter Garcia
Western Regional Press Secretary
Democratic National Committee (DNC)
Email: GarciaW@dnc.org
Twitter: @WalterGarcia231
[SigDems]


Changes now reflected below.  Thanks!
Sent from my iPhone
On May 17, 2016, at 10:31 PM, Manriquez, Pablo
> wrote:
Hi Team -- 3 changes:
1. CNN "New Day" hit is now at 6:40am EST, NOT 6:20am EST.
2. CNN "Special" contact (4:30PM EST hit) is Tessa Carletta, 805 766 8724
3. MSNBC "Live" hit (2:50PM EST) host changed from Thomas Roberts to Erica Hill.
Complete broadcasts logistics briefing below. Will have final hit logistics for 1PM hit with Wolf Blitzer by 10am tomorrow. Thanks and have a great night!
What:             TV – CNN “NEW DAY”
When:              Weds, 18 May, 6:40AM ET
Where:             DNC Studio
Format:           Live
Who:               Chris Cuomo, Anchor/Reporter
Topic:             OR/KY Primaries, NV Dem Convention
Staff:               Ryan
Contact:          Melissa Giaimo, 202 297 5247
TIMELINE:
Arrival Time:  6:20AM ET
Makeup:         NO
Hit Time:        6:40AM ET
Cleared:          6:50AM ET
__
What:             RADIO – SIRIUS XM POTUS “MORNING BRIEFING”
When:             Weds, 18 May,
8:20AM ET
Where:            Dial-in
Format:           Live
Who:               Tim Farley, Anchor/Reporter
Topic:             Bernie accusations of undemocratic handling of Nevada
Call-in #:  Dial-in 866-668-9428
; Back-up 202-380-4880
Staff:               Ryan
Contact:          Jennifer McLellan, 202 230 4881
TIMELINE:
Call-In Time:  8:19AM ET
Makeup:         N/A
Hit Time:        8:20AM ET
Cleared:           8:27AM
ET
______
What:             TV – CNN “WOLF”
When:              Weds, 18 May
, Top of the 1pm
hour ET
Where:             Canon Rotunda
Format:           Live
Who:               Wolf Blitzer, Anchor/Reporter
Topic:             Oregon, Kentucky Primaries, Bernie accusations of undemocratic handling of Nevada
Staff:               TBD
Contact:          Greg Overzat, 202 641 0887
TIMELINE:
Arrival Time:  TBD
Makeup:         NO
Hit Time:        TBD
Cleared:          TBD
_______
What:             TV – MSNBC “LIVE”
When:              Weds, 18 May, 2:50PM ET
Where:             Canon Rotunda
Format:           Live
Who:               Erica Hill, Anchor/Reporter
Topic:             Oregon, Kentucky Primaries, Bernie accusations of undemocratic handling of Nevada
Staff:               TBD
Contact:          Justin Oliver, 718 213 6140
TIMELINE:
Arrival Time:  2:45PM ET
Makeup:         NO
Hit Time:        2:50PM ET
Cleared:          3PM ET
_______
What:             TV – CNN “SPECIAL”
When:              Weds, 18 May, 4:30PM ET
Where:             DNC
Format:           Pre-Tape
Who:               Victor Blackwell, Anchor/Reporter
Topic:             Oregon, Kentucky Primaries, Bernie accusations of undemocratic handling of Nevada
Staff:               TBD
Contact:          Tessa Carletta, 805 766 8724
TIMELINE:
Arrival Time:  4:25PM ET
Makeup:         NO
Hit Time:        4:30PM ET
Cleared:         4:40PM ET
Sent from my iPhone
On May 17, 2016, at 10:09 PM, Bonosky, Garret
> wrote:


Lol
yes, let's just push on social without the resumes line
Sent via the Samsung GALAXY S®4, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message --------
From: "Dillon, Lauren"
Date: 05/05/2016  1:42 PM  (GMT-05:00)
To: "Walker, Eric"
, "Miranda, Luis"
, "Paustenbach, Mark"
, "Freundlich, Christina"
, "Compton, Matt"
Subject: RE: would this be too much?
I don’t want to work with those assholes
From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 1:38 PM
To: Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark; Freundlich, Christina; Compton, Matt; Dillon, Lauren
Subject: would this be too much?
Could be social as well…
SL: Attn: Staffers Leaving RNC over Trump Nomination
Body: Hey y’all – we just saw the news.
If you don’t want to work for a party that nominates a racist, misogynistic xenophobe as its standard-bearer – the DNC is currently accepting resumes:
Eric Walker
walkere@dnc.org
732-991-1489
@ericmwalker


SHOT: A press release from the RNC promises
to build the "largest and most sophisticated data-driven turnout operation in history."
CHASER: Washington Post
, 5 hours ago: "A Trump campaign will only increase the Democrats' advantage in data and analytics"
Sad!
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"How do you like those glaciers, Debbie" -Wolf
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On May 13, 2016, at 11:46 PM, Manriquez, Pablo
> wrote:
"Do you like it in Alaska?" - Wolf
Sent from my iPhone
On May 13, 2016, at 11:39 PM, Miranda, Luis
> wrote:
You know I'm in Alaska
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-------- Original message --------
From: "Manriquez, Pablo"
>
Date: 05/13/2016 16:48 (GMT-09:00)
To: "Miranda, Luis"
>, "Palermo, Rachel"
>
Subject: Request - LUIS//FOX & Friends//Sunday
From Producer — "Could Luis join us on  “Fox & Friends Weekend”  Sunday morning for a LIVE 5 minute interview anytime between 6am – 10am ET?"
Pablo Manriquez
Democratic National Committee
Phone: 202.572.5488
Email: pablo@dnc.org
web: democrats.org
Twitter: @Pablo_DNC


Hi Ken, good talking with you. Here's a quote you can attribute to me if you do have any follow up:
The suggestion there's anything unusual about our joint victory funds has no basis in the law or reality, as recognized by numerous independent experts that have looked at this. The fact is both campaigns signed on to similar agreements. While only one campaign is currently using their joint victory fund we encourage both of our campaigns to identify opportunities to support the national and state Democratic parties now so that we can continue to build the infrastructure to help elect Democrats up and down the ballot in November.
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC