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Begin forwarded message:
From:
>
Date: April 26, 2016 at 6:53:20 PM EDT
To: Kate Houghton
>
Cc: "Bonosky, Garret"
>, "Kroll, Amy"
>
Subject: Re: Clean results statement for DWS review
Made a minor change. Will need to revise based on alternate results, which you know.
For Immediate Release
April 26, 2016
Contact: DNC Press – 202-863-8148
DNC Chair Statement on Tonight’s Primary Results
WASHINGTON - Tonight, voters went to the polls in five states. In Pennsylvania, exit polling showed that 71 percent of Democratic voters felt their primary had energized the party while 58 percent of Republican voters said their primary had divided the party – nearly the same in both cases as what New Yorkers reported last week. DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz issued the following statement on tonight’s results:
“Ranting and raving his way to five primary victories tonight, Donald Trump has secured his chokehold on the Republican nomination. For years, GOP leaders have pushed a cynical and feckless political strategy that exploits unfounded fears of immigrants, minorities, the poor, the LGBT community and more, all for political gain. They have sold hardworking Americans the empty promise of trickle-down prosperity, while strangling America’s middle class with backwards economic policies that only enrich those already at the top. Donald Trump’s impending nomination is the ultimate, sad culmination of the success of that strategy. Trump is
the modern Republican Party.
“It’s no surprise that at exit polls in contest after contest, more and more Democratic voters are reporting that our primary process has energized our party, while more and more Republicans report deep, dispiriting divisions in theirs.
“I want to congratulate Secretary Clinton on her victories tonight, and both of our candidates for continuing to run spirited, substantive campaigns worthy of the American people. It’s clear that when we get through our conventions, Democrats will emerge united having nominated the next president, while the GOP will have to wallow in the chaotic mess of their own making.”
###
DWS
On Apr 26, 2016, at 6:43 PM, Kate Houghton
> wrote:
For Immediate Release
April 26, 2016
Contact: DNC Press – 202-863-8148
DNC Chair Statement on Tonight’s Primary Results
WASHINGTON - Tonight, voters went to the polls in five states. In Pennsylvania, exit polling showed that 71 percent of Democratic voters felt their primary had energized the party while 58 percent of Republican voters said their primary had divided the party – nearly the same in both cases as what New Yorkers reported last week. DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz issued the following statement on tonight’s results:
“Ranting and raving his way to five primary victories tonight, Donald Trump has secured his chokehold on the Republican nomination. For years, GOP leaders have pushed a cynical and feckless political strategy that exploits unfounded fears of immigrants, minorities, the poor, the LGBT community and more, all for political gain. They have sold hardworking Americans the empty promise of trickle-down prosperity, while strangling America’s middle class with backwards economic policies that only enrich those already at the top. Donald Trump’s impending nomination is the ultimate, sad success of that strategy. Trump is the modern Republican Party.
“It’s no surprise that at exit polls in contest after contest, more and more Democratic voters are reporting that our primary process has energized our party, while more and more Republicans report deep, dispiriting divisions in theirs.
“I want to congratulate Secretary Clinton on her victories tonight, and both of our candidates for continuing to run spirited, substantive campaigns worthy of the American people. It’s clear that when we get through our conventions, Democrats will emerge united having nominated the next president, while the GOP will have to wallow in the chaotic mess of their own making.”
###


Donald Trump Jr. on now
From: Wei, Shu-Yen
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 9:47 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: RE: video request: Fox News
DWS coming up after commercial break
From: Wei, Shu-Yen
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 9:08 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: RE: video request: Fox News
And Randi Weingarten
From: Wei, Shu-Yen
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 9:08 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: RE: video request: Fox News
Chuck Rocha for Sanders now
From: Wei, Shu-Yen
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 8:56 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: video request: Fox News
Starting chain
__________
Shu-Yen Wei
Northeast Press Secretary
AAPI & Women's Media
Democratic National Committee
207-512-0005
weis@dnc.org


Outgoing call to +1 (202) 787-0754 (Other)
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Great thanks
Sent from Bloomberg Professional for iPhone
----- Original Message -----
From: Luis Miranda
To: KEVIN CIRILLI
CC: PaustenbachM@dnc.org
At: 04-May-2016 12:46:20
Hi Kevin, unfortunately she’s traveling and has a packed schedule. I’ll get you a quote from me, though, if that helps.
Also copying Mark Paustenbach, our national press secretary, so you guys can also be in touch.
Luis  Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 – MirandaL@dnc.org - @MiraLuisDC
From: Kevin Cirilli (BLOOMBERG/ NEWSROOM:)
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 12:38 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: Bloomberg request
Hey, I'm working on a story with my colleague Jennifer Jacobs about Trump having to fundraise and how he's working with RNC to do that now.
Can your boss jump on the phone for two minutes to talk about whether this will be problematic and undermine his argument as a candidate? Thanks. Kevin
I'm at 6106131339.
Sent from Bloomberg Professional for iPhone


Good, just made a track change to say "over 14 million" jobs.
From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 4:59 PM
To: RR2
Cc: Walker, Eric
Subject: FOR REVIEW: SAMPLE TRUMP-RYAN PRESS RELEASE
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC


Donald Trump Won’t Self-Fund General-Election Campaign
Presumptive Republican nominee plans to create ‘world-class finance organization’ to back campaign
By MONICA LANGLEY and REBECCA BALLHAUS
May 4, 2016 6:05 p.m. ET
Donald Trump
won’t self-fund his general-election campaign, and will instead create a “world-class finance organization,” the presumptive Republican nominee
said in an interview on Wednesday.
For a campaign expected to cost more than $1 billion, “I’ll be putting up money, but won’t be completely self-funding, as I did during the primaries,” Mr. Trump said on Wednesday. The New York businessman, who did receive some mostly, small unsolicited donations, lent his campaign $36 million of the $47 million he spent through March.
That plan represents a shift for Mr. Trump, who has for months portrayed his Republican opponents as “puppets” for relying on super PACs and taking contributions from wealthy donors that he said came with strings attached.
Mr. Trump is planning to use his expansive personal Rolodex to ensure his campaign has the resources to compete against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton
in November, while the campaign will tap into a new base of Trump supporters who aren’t on party rolls, two Trump advisers said.
The presumptive Republican nominee, known for operating on a tight budget in a primary where he enjoyed more than $2 billion in free media attention, is also likely to implement a business plan that may be less costly than traditional political campaigns, a senior aide said.
The campaign is also beginning to work with the Republican National Committee to set up a joint fundraising vehicle, after his last two rivals—Texas Sen. Ted Cruz
and Ohio Gov.John Kasich
—dropped out in the wake of Mr. Trump’s resounding Indiana win on Tuesday. He plans to actively help the Republican Party and other GOP candidates with fundraising through events, direct-mail and online appeals, an aide said.
Beginning to actively solicit donations, while a super PAC backing him also ramps up his activity, means the billionaire will no longer have that club to use against his Democratic opponent in the general election. The move is also likely to put off some Trump supporters, many of whom have said his self-funding makes them trust him more than other politicians.
Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
W: 202.863.8148
paustenbachm@dnc.org


From: Paustenbach, Mark
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 7:01 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: The Hill - Sanders drops lawsuit against DNC
April 29, 2016, 05:14 pm
Sanders drops lawsuit against DNC
By Ben Kamisar
THE HILL
Bernie Sanders
' campaign is dropping its lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee for restricting access to its voter files.
The move came Friday after an independent investigation into Democratic presidential campaigns' handling of party voter data.
The Sanders team said the investigation vindicated them and showed no evidence that they improperly accessed information belonging to Hillary Clinton
's campaign.
"An independent investigation of the firewall failures in the DNC's shared voter file database has definitively confirmed that the original claims by the DNC and the Clinton campaign were wholly inaccurate," the campaign said in a statement.
"The Sanders campaign never 'stole' any voter file data; the Sanders campaign never 'exported' any unauthorized voter file data; and the Sanders campaign certainly never had access to the Clinton campaign's 'strategic road map.'
The withdrawal of the lawsuits ends a months-long fight between Sanders and the Democratic party.
In December, the DNC alleged that Sanders staffers had improperly accessed Clinton's campaign information. A Sanders aide at the time denied wrongdoing, saying they had only tried to document the security error to alert the DNC. That initial finding prompted the party to briefly block the Sanders campaign's access to party files and data.
The Sanders campaign cried foul, accusing the DNC of tipping the scales to help front-runner Clinton less than two months before the Iowa caucuses.
The DNC rejected those charges, arguing they were acting to keep campaign data secure.
The final results of the investigation on Friday were not made public.
But Sanders' campaign claimed the investigation showed the unauthorized access came from "the DNC's security failures" and that only four campaign staffers, including one who was immediately fired, were aware they could access some of Clinton's data for a one-hour window.
The DNC said the investigation confirmed what they first learned.
"The forensic analysis conducted by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike confirmed that the DNC's initial findings, which were the basis of the temporary shutdown in December, were accurate," said DNC communications director Luis Miranda in a statement.
"The audit confirmed that one campaign gained unauthorized access to the data of another, and the audit further confirmed that the results of those searches were saved within the system and that data was exported. Following the conclusion of the audit that confirmed the DNC's original findings, the Sanders campaign withdrew its lawsuit."
The DNC also provided a timeline that notes that the four Sanders staffers "conducted 25 searches using proprietary Hillary for America score data across 11 states."
Both sides acknowledge that one summary sheet with data related to New Hampshire appeared to have been saved off-site, but the Sanders campaign argued that the file did not exist on their computers and was never seen by any Sanders staffer.
Sanders sits far behind Hillary Clinton in the delegate count and is effectively unable to steal the lead from her without convincing large numbers of superdelegates to switch their support.


Thanks, Tyler!
From: "Lykins, Tyler"
>
Date: Sunday, May 8, 2016 at 8:10 PM
To: Walter Garcia
>, RR2
>
Subject: Re: FOR RESEARCH APPROVAL: Reince hit
Good here.
From: "Garcia, Walter"
>
Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 19:58:42 -0400
To: RR2
>
Subject: FOR RESEARCH APPROVAL: Reince hit
Ready for research! Crossed-out “months” and “weeks” purposely.
From: "Paustenbach, Mark"
>
Date: Sunday, May 8, 2016 at 7:54 PM
To: Walter Garcia
>
Cc: "Miranda, Luis"
>, "Walker, Eric"
>
Subject: Re: FOR COMMS APPROVAL: Hit for Monday
Thanks. Ideas in CAPS. Use what you'd like.
Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202.863.8148
paustenbachm@dnc.org
On May 8, 2016, at 7:01 PM, Garcia, Walter
> wrote:
Re-upping this for you guys. Can someone sign off? Want see If someone from CA press will take as an exclusive. Thx!
SL: While Chairman Priebus is in Orange County later this week…
On Wednesday, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus will be making his way
[MAKE HIS WAY TO] Stanton, California, a city located in Orange County, for the grand opening of a Republican Leadership Initiative office. We know the Chairman has been having a rough couple of months weeks days, particularly now that Donald Trump will be his party’s nominee, but we wanted to make sure that he saw the following press release while he’s out in Orange County:
[SHORTENED]
“Thanks to Donald Trump and the GOP'S DIVISIVE RHETORIC AND POLICIES, what was once a Republican stronghold is now starting to turn blue. You would think that Republicans would’ve taken the time to heed the lessons of their own autopsy report, WHICH CALLED FOR OUTREACH TO HISPANICS, WOMEN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, BUT INSTEAD THEY NURTURED TRUMP'S RISE AND HAVE ALLOWED HIM TO SET THEM FURTHER BACK HEADING INTO NOVEMBER..” -- Walter Garcia, DNC Spokesperson
--
Walter Garcia
Western Regional Press Secretary
Democratic National Committee (DNC)
Email: GarciaW@dnc.org
Twitter: @WalterGarcia231
[SigDems]


NYT saying that he will lay-off "hundreds" of staff
Bernie Sanders to Cut Hundreds of Staff Members and Turn to California
NEW YORK TIMES // YAMICHE ALCINDOR
Senator Bernie Sanders
is planning to lay off "hundreds" of campaign staffers across the country and focus much of his remaining effort on winning California, he said in an interview Wednesday.
The Vermont senator revealed the changes a day after losing four of the five states
that voted Tuesday and falling further behind Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Despite the changes, Mr. Sanders said he would remain in the race through the party's summer convention and stressed that he hoped to bring staff members back on board if his political fortunes improved.
"We want to win as many delegates as we can, so we do not need workers now in states around country," Mr. Sanders said in the interview. "We don't need people right now in Connecticut. That election is over. We don't need them in Maryland. So what we are going to do is allocate our resources to the 14 contests that remain, and that means that we are going to be cutting back on staff."
When asked how many people would be let go, Mr. Sanders didn't give an exact number but did say many people would be affected.
"It will be hundreds of staff members," Mr. Sanders said. "We have had a very large staff, which was designed to deal with 50 states in this country; 40 of the states are now behind us. So we have had a great staff, great people."
He added that he hoped to work with the people his campaign is letting go in the future.
"If we win this, every one of those great people who have helped us get this far, they will be rehired," Mr. Sanders said. "But right now, we have to use all of the resources we have and focus them on the remaining states."
Mr. Sanders said he planned to move a number of staff members to California, where he hoped to hold rallies for "hundreds of thousands" of people in cities across that state.
"California will have the most staff," Mr. Sanders said. "Symbolically and in terms of delegates, if we can win the largest state in this country, that will send a real message to the American people and to the delegates that this is a campaign that is moving in the direction it should."
From: Helmstetter, TJ
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 4:17 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: FLAG: Sanders laying off staff

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Bernie Sanders' campaign started letting field staffers go on Wednesday, hours after five states in the Northeast voted and the Vermont senator fell further behind Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic nomination, five people familiar with the situation told POLITICO.
The extent of the cuts are unclear, but staffers who were working in states that voted Tuesday were told to look elsewhere for work rather than continue onto the next voting states, according to people close to the campaign.
Story Continued Below
"Wer'e 80 percent of the way through the caucuses and primaries and we make adjustments as we go along. This is a process that we've done before of right-sizing the campaign as we move through the calendar," said Sanders' campaign communications director Michael Briggs.
While Sanders has raised large amounts of money online, and started April with $17 million according to his most recent Federal Election Commission report, he has also spent at a very high rate, including $46 million in March. It is unclear how much money his campaign currently has on hand.
Sanders has had a large field organizing presence all over the country, and Wednesday's cuts are the first significant scaling back of his campaign apparatus now that the majority of states have voted in the primary.
While he insisted to an Indiana crowd on Wednesday that he is still in the race to win it, he has also suggested that he is aiming to influence the Democratic platform if Clinton is the candidate.
Still, Sanders is likely to win a handful of states in May, and he is competing heavily in California and Indiana.
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TJ Helmstetter
Deputy Director of Regional and Specialty Media
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202.863.8022 - desk
973.464.9224 - cell
HelmstetterT@DNC.org


Hi Luis, Mark, and Walker,
Just writing to let you know that I'm not feeling too well this AM, so I'm going to see the doctor. Will make my way to the office afterwards.
In terms of what I have going today, the main thing is the Orange County release. Still waiting to get confirmation from reporter that it'll get written up, but it's looking good. Also, the press conference in Washington state last Friday went very well. Sent coverage around on Saturday.
-Walter


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Thank you Lindsey.  Do you want me to reach out to them today or prefer I don't.  I used to work with them so I know them well.
From: Lindsey Reynolds
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 12:42 PM
To: Davis, Marilyn; Gomez, Bridgette
Cc: Thompson, Dejuana; Scott, Jillian; Alvillar, Raul; Chalupa, Ali; Miranda, Luis; Manriquez, Pablo
Subject: Re: Action on DNC tomorrow (Immigration Raids)
Yes, we know.
Once they arrive they will identify to Captain Wilson if they wish to speak with someone or have letters to deliver. This is when I reach out to CE/POL to send someone downstairs to receive the materials. I will keep you posted Bridgette once they arrive.
Cheers,
Lindsey
Lindsey Reynolds | Chief Operating Officer
Democratic National Committee
direct: 202.863.7166| cell: 202.215.9864
From: "Davis, Marilyn"
>
Date: Monday, May 16, 2016 at 12:38 PM
To: "Gomez, Bridgette"
>
Cc: "Thompson, Dejuana"
>, "Scott, Jillian"
>, "Alvillar, Raul"
>, "Chalupa, Ali"
>, Luis Miranda
>, "Manriquez, Pablo"
>, Lindsey Reynolds
>
Subject: Re: Action on DNC tomorrow (Immigration Raids)
+Lindsey for guidance
Marilyn D. Davis
National Director of Community Engagement
Democratic National Convention
M: 609-218-3254
Twitter: @marilynddavis
Facebook.com/marilynddavis
Sent from my iPhone, please excuse any typos
On May 16, 2016, at 12:33 PM, Gomez, Bridgette
> wrote:
Adding Luis and Pablo here too.
From: Gomez, Bridgette
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 12:29 PM
To: Davis, Marilyn; Thompson, Dejuana; Scott, Jillian; Alvillar, Raul; Chalupa, Ali
Subject: Action on DNC tomorrow (Immigration Raids)
Hey Team,
As you may have heard there will be an action happening tomorrow starting here at the DNC and ending at the WH around the raids that the administration announced last week:
*         Time: 10:00 AM
(rallying in front of the DNC then moving at 10:50 to ICE HQ 500 12th St Expy, then at 11:40 AM head to the final destination at the White House)
*         Turnout: 50-100
*         Lead by CASA
Not sure the protocol for when things like this happen.  I clearly know the group and can reach out to them, but wanted to know the protocol before I call them.
Thank you,
Bridgette
Bridgette Gomez
Hispanic Outreach Director
Democratic National Committee
430 South Capitol Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003
Phone: (202) 863-8028
Cell: (602) 818-4134
Email: gomezb@dnc.org


We got the list of names for Donald Trump the Democratic National Committee rejected
By Philip Bump
May 6 at 4:20 PM
Apparently intentionally, Democrats have seized upon the nickname "Dangerous Donald" to refer to their general election opponent this November. Get it? Donald Trump is dangerous, so: Dangerous Donald. And, as everyone knows, the way to beat a bully is by trying to out-bully him, but not quite as well, and in a very dad-joke-y way.
One of Trump's advantages in politics is that the things he says don't seem like they were workshopped to death, because they weren't, because he makes them up as he says them. Most politicians -- and most political communications -- go through all sorts of dumb testing and analysis and drafts and so on, until everything interesting (read: potentially negative to a voter) is leeched out, and all that's left is pre-breaded Chicken McNuggets.
And that's how you get "Dangerous Donald."
Except that now, thanks to an anonymous source, The Washington Post has exclusively obtained* the results of the Democrats' brainstorming session from which "Dangerous Donald" emerged. What's presented below is a complete list of the other ideas that the party rejected, some of which differ significantly in tone and focus.
Take a look:
[
All things considered, "Dangerous Donald" is probably actually the best one on that list.
________________________________
* "Exclusively obtained" in the sense of "making it up."
Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
W: 202.863.8148
paustenbachm@dnc.org


Kate, please review.
SL: DNC responds to Cruz vetting Carly Fiorina for VP
Following reports
that the Cruz campaign is vetting Carly Fiorina for Vice President, DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement:
"Carly Fiorina laid off 30,000 workers, outsourced American jobs, destroyed HP's stock value and took a $42 million golden parachute upon being fired. If a record like that passes Ted Cruz's vetting operation, it tells you everything you need to know about the Republican Party's misplaced priorities."
###


I'm free anytime till 8.
________________________________________
From: Tracie Pough
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2016 3:54 PM
To: P. Aikowsky; Banfill, Ryan; Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark
Subject: Conference call
Steve, Ryan, Luis and Mark. We need a conference call tonight to discuss new developments.  Let us know what time works.
- TP


Oh but not yesterday or today. That's from Friday.
________________________________
From: Palermo, Rachel
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 10:14 AM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: RE: Daniel STrauss Politico?
Sanders accuses DNC of tipping convention toward Clinton
By DANIEL STRAUSS
Bernie Sanders is accusing Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz of trying to tip the party convention in Hillary Clinton's favor, saying the chairwoman has packed the committees with Clinton supporters.
In a letter
to the chairwoman, Sanders noted that of the 45 names he submitted to Democratic National Convention committees, Wasserman Schultz appointed only three.
"I believe the composition of the standing committees must reflect the relative support that has been received by both campaigns," Sanders wrote in the letter dated May 6. "That was why I was so disappointed to learn that of the over forty people our campaign submitted at your request you chose to select only three of my recommendations for the three standing committees. Moreover, you did not assign even on of the people submitted by our campaign to the very important Rules Committee of the Democratic National Convention."
Sanders said that if the disagreement over convention committee appointments is not resolved, he would have his delegates move to change the platform on the floor of the convention.
"It is my hope we can quickly resolve this in a fair way," Sanders wrote. "If the process is set up to produce an unfair, one-sided result, we are prepared to mobilize our delegates to force as many votes as necessary to amend the platform and rules on the floor of the convention."
Sanders' chances of taking the Democratic nomination have decreased, as he has a deep disadvantage in both pledged and superdelegates. But the insurgent candidate has vowed to continue on, and his deep run into the primary gives him additional leverage to pull the party to the left.
In his letter, Sanders also mentioned the Democratic Party platform drafting committee. In the letter he recounted Wasserman Schultz had discussed changing the process for selecting members of the committee.
"In our conversation, you told me with respect to the platform Drafting Committee that you would consider allowing each campaign to submit ten names from which you would choose four from each and then you would add an additional seven," Sanders continued. "While having four members on the Drafting Committee is an improvement, it does not address the fact that up to this point Bernie 2016 has secured 45% of the pledged delegates awarded. Frankly, we believe that percentage will go up in the coming weeks and, of course, we hope it will end up being a majority."
Sanders argued that each campaign should be able to pick seven members for the committee with the fifteenth member being one picked by both campaigns.
"This process will also ensure that the chairs of the standing committees conduct their proceedings with fairness and transparency," Sanders argued.
In its response to Sanders letter, the DNC released a statement saying both campaigns would be represented at the convention.
"Because the Party’s platform is a statement of our values, the DNC is committed to an open, inclusive and representative process," the DNC said in a statement. "Both of our campaigns will be represented on the Drafting Committee, and just as we did in 2008 and 2012, the public will have opportunities to participate"
--
[DNC]
Rachel Palermo
Democratic National Committee
PalermoR@dnc.org
202-863-8041
From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 10:12 AM
To: Palermo, Rachel
Subject: Daniel STrauss Politico?
Did he write on the convention committees?


Ok I'll make the language change and blast.
From: Lykins, Tyler
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 10:43 AM
To: Walker, Eric; Freundlich, Christina; RR2
Subject: RE: for research -- WATCH: Roberts Gates Says Dangerous Donald is Unfit to be Commander-in-Chief
I think that's fine.
From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 10:42 AM
To: Lykins, Tyler; Freundlich, Christina; RR2
Subject: RE: for research -- WATCH: Roberts Gates Says Dangerous Donald is Unfit to be Commander-in-Chief
Can we say he woke up with a headache?
From: Lykins, Tyler
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 10:41 AM
To: Freundlich, Christina; RR2
Subject: RE: for research -- WATCH: Roberts Gates Says Dangerous Donald is Unfit to be Commander-in-Chief
Good.
One note below, h/t Austin.
From: Freundlich, Christina
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 10:27 AM
To: RR2
Subject: for research -- WATCH: Roberts Gates Says Dangerous Donald is Unfit to be Commander-in-Chief
Here is the link to the interview -- Watch here
- if you would like to see the questions
Starts at 14:52
WATCH: Roberts Gates Says Dangerous Donald is Unfit to be Commander-in-Chief
Donald Trump may have skipped this past weekend's White House Correspondent's Dinner, but he probably felt hung over
If Donald Trump is elected, are we safe? Is national security in good hands? WATCH
How do you think foreign leaders would see him? WATCH


Flagging that she is introducing Senator Casey after her remarks.
From: Kroll, Amy
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 10:53 AM
To: Walsh, Tom; Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark; Walker, Eric; Kate Houghton; Banfill, Ryan
Cc: Guerra, Liana
Subject: RE: For edits - Draft DWS Remarks for DNCC Exec Committee Reception
Ah Thank you!
From: Walsh, Tom
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 10:53 AM
To: Kroll, Amy; Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark; Walker, Eric; Kate Houghton; Banfill, Ryan
Cc: Guerra, Liana
Subject: RE: For edits - Draft DWS Remarks for DNCC Exec Committee Reception
Hold for now - still need comms approval and has to go to research for edits
From: Kroll, Amy
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 10:52 AM
To: Walsh, Tom; Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark; Walker, Eric; Kate Houghton; Banfill, Ryan
Cc: Guerra, Liana
Subject: RE: For edits - Draft DWS Remarks for DNCC Exec Committee Reception
Thank you, I will format and upload for DWS's approval. Ryan, any edits?
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Subject: For edits - Draft DWS Remarks for DNCC Exec Committee Reception
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz
DNC State of the Union Reception
5.5.16 Kimmel Center - 6 p.m.
6 min remarks
Intro
Thank you Governor Rendell! We're so lucky to have a true Pennsylvania legend serving so graciously as the Philadelphia Host Committee Chair.
Let me start by thanking everyone on the Executive Committee, all our community leaders and members of the Host Committee for your tireless work and commitment to our Party.
I know you lead busy lives, but we can't pull off a successful convention without you.
Let me also thank our CEO, the unparalleled Reverend, Leah Daughtry for her tireless work. We are so fortunate to have a lifelong Democrat of Leah's passion and expertise steering the ship;
And of course I need to thank the honorable Mayor Jim Kenney, as well as all the wonderful people of Philadelphia who he represents.
We are enormously grateful that you're hosting and warmly welcoming all the Democrats bringing their enthusiasm, energy, and passion as we arrive in greater and greater numbers over the next few months.
And I know Mayor Kenney appreciates all the commerce we'll be bringing with us as conference goers visit Philly's great restaurants, hotels and small businesses.
Gearing up
We're just 80 days away from our Convention, and we've been making all the right moves to ensure we'll be one hundred percent prepared at kickoff time.
We are on time, on budget and ready to run a beautiful convention.
But as proud as I am of what we're doing, I have to mention how proud I am of who is doing it.
Each day, as our numbers grow, we're making sure that our diversity does too.
As Democrats, we believe our diversity is our great strength.
That shows in the ranks of the DNC, where last year thirty-six percent of our employees were people of color. And we've awarded at least 35 percent of our contracts to companies owned by women, veterans, minorities, people with disabilities and members of the LGBT community.
And when the nation looks at our convention, they'll see a portrait of America.
Our Party Affairs and Delegate Selection team has worked tirelessly to ensure that every state party has an accessible and inclusive process for anyone to run to become a delegate. Whether it's a school teacher in Orlando, a plumber in Cleveland, or a high school student in Denver, our convention delegates will reflect the diversity our Party.
Dangerous Donald
But before anyone casts a vote to nominate the next Democratic president of the United States, let me give you a little update from the DNC.
Today, and every day until Election Day, we are laser focused on take down Dangerous Donald Trump - and winning seats up and down the ballot in every race across the country.
With every other candidate out of the race, Trump is the Republican Party.
We are going to hold him accountable for everything he has said and everything he has done. And we are going to hold the GOP accountable for everything they're doing to obstruct, offend, and drag our country backwards.
The facts are simple:
Dangerous Donald is unfit to be president. He only looks out for himself. He lacks the temperament and judgment to be commander in chief. And every aspect of his presidency would harm our country and damage our standing in the world.
Even as a candidate, Dangerous Donald has damaged America's relationships across the globe. In the White House, he would undeniably make America less safe.
He has no foreign policy experience - but don't worry about that - he said he'll rely on his "good brain," instead of listening to experts.
He has a decades-long record of denigrating women. Seven out of ten women disapprove of his candidacy.
He exploits racial anxieties and cultural fears to the point where his rallies have sparked violence against people of color, protestors, and the media.
And while he tries to paint a picture of his wealth and business success, his record is riddled with embarrassing failures and cheap schemes that are designed to turn a quick a buck at the expense of his workers or everyday Americans.
I'll spare you all the details, but trust me - that's the short version of what the American people are going to be hearing about Dangerous Donald over the coming months.
You know, there's a reason why we saw Republicans across the country this week tweeting photos of their burning voter registration cards this week.
Advantage, Democrats
Well, we have a message for anyone disillusioned and disaffected by this year's unprecedentedly nasty and divisive Republican primary - we have a message for anyone disgusted by Donald: You have a home in the Democratic Party.
We have the best candidates, the best ideas, and a fantastic record of social and economic progress under President Obama to run on - 73 consecutive months of private sector job growth and 20 million Americans who have health insurance who didn't before.
In poll after poll, Democratic voters are reporting that our primary and our candidates have energized our party.
In Nevada, voter registration among Democrats is beating Republicans two-to-one.
So no matter what challenges lie ahead in the planning and execution of our convention, let me just say, clearly and unequivocally - I am really, really glad we are not planning the Republican convention.
And I am absolutely optimistic about the future of the Democratic Party.
Conclusion
Finally, I'll just say, this convention is about so much more than the spectacle of big political speeches under red-white-and-blue balloons and confetti, although I think we might have some of that in store...
This is about the direction of our nation.
This is about the power of the people to come together and choose the best leader for the job.
And no matter which of our candidates they choose, they'll be fighting every day for all Americans.
We're fighting to level the playing field, raise wages, ensure equal pay, end discrimination, expand voting rights, make our country and our communities more secure and fighting to give hardworking Americans everywhere a fair shot.
When it comes time to nominate our choices for President and Vice President, with your help, we will unify, fight together as Democrats.
And friends, when the convention ends, we will go roaring into the general election with all the passion, grit and energy it takes to elect Democrats from the top of the ticket down.
So thank you for all your work, thank you for your commitment to our party, and enjoy the rest of the evening. Thank you.


Agree I was very relieved when I read this
From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 5:21 AM
To: Garcia, Walter
Cc: Paustenbach, Mark; Walker, Eric
Subject: RE: FLAG: WaPo: Obama, who once stood as party outsider, now works to strengthen Democrats
Yup. Thanks to you and walker for connecting Roberta. I think her line was helpful.
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Date: 04/25/2016 10:57 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: "Miranda, Luis"
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Cc: "Paustenbach, Mark"
>, "Walker, Eric"
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Subject: FLAG: WaPo: Obama, who once stood as party outsider, now works to strengthen Democrats
Not sure if you've already seen it, but flagging this article for you guys. Overall, not too bad for us. Some highlights below:
Organizing for Action (OFA), the nonprofit group that grew out of Obama's campaign operation, has continued to compete with the Democratic National Committee for Democratic dollars - first as a parallel organization within the DNC and then as a separate entity. In the first six months of 2013, the DNC raised $30.8 million, while OFA raised $13 million. And this was at a time when the DNC was carrying more than $18 million in debt.
Those fiscal constraints meant the DNC had to curtail the money it provided to state parties, a practice that DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) reversed in 2015 by increasing the monthly minimum transfer to each state from $5,000 a month to $7,500.
Close cooperation has taken time; OFA gave the DNC limited access to its list of supporters starting in 2013, but it turned over the entire list only in August 2015. Now, according to Nevada Democratic Party chair Roberta Lange, "That voter file is used by everyone in our state."
While many OFA volunteers have focused on local referendums and other local political battles, the group has earned the enmity of some party stalwarts for diverting resources. During a 2010 gathering of Democratic governors in Washington, according to multiple attendees, one governor asked a senior presidential political adviser, "Will the OFA please join the Democratic Party?"
...
He added that it will take the commitment of wealthy Democratic donors - not just top party officials - to target state contests the way Republicans have. "I think we all agree something has to be done," he said. "The question is how. It's not going to be the DNC."
...
The president may have been stating the obvious. But it reflected a shift in thinking among Democrats, who are working furiously to shore up state-level candidates to avoid getting beaten once again on redistricting. Since 2013, Obama has devoted considerable time to fundraising for the DNC and both congressional committees, doing more than 100 events for the DNC alone.
From: Walter Garcia
>
Date: Monday, April 25, 2016 at 10:53 PM
To: Comm_D
>
Subject: WaPo: Obama, who once stood as party outsider, now works to strengthen Democrats
Obama, who once stood as party outsider, now
works to strengthen Democrats
By Juliet Eilperin
Barack Obama rose to prominence as a different kind of Democrat, an outsider who was not part of the establishment and who would chart a separate course. Eight years later, the president finds himself working hard to restore a party from which he was once eager to stand apart.
Obama has presided over a greater loss of electoral power for his party than any two-term president since World War II. And 2016 represents one last opportunity for him to reverse that trend.
But it is also a challenge for the president who has experimented with establishing his own political base outside the Democratic National Committee and has downsized the scale of political operations inside the White House.
The first big tests of the rebuilding efforts come Tuesday in Pennsylvania, where Obama is taking the unusual step of wading into two contested Democratic primaries, endorsing Senate hopeful Katie McGinty and Josh Shapiro, a Montgomery County official and early supporter of his who is hoping to become state attorney general.
Should Democrats claim those two offices in the fall, it would represent a small dent in what has become a worrisome decline of power for the party below the presidential level under Obama's watch.
Between 2008 and 2015, Democrats lost 13 Senate seats, 69 House seats, 913 state legislative seats, 11 governorships and 32 state legislative chambers, according to data compiled by University of Virginia professor Larry J. Sabato. The only president in the past 75 years who comes close is Dwight D. Eisenhower, who saw a similar decline for the GOP during his time in office.
"The Republican Party is arguably stronger now than they've ever been in 80 years, despite not having the White House," said Simon Rosenberg, a longtime Democratic operative and president of NDN, a liberal think tank.
Democrats also are concerned about whether the coalition Obama galvanized in 2008, and then reassembled in 2012, will turn out when he is no longer on the ballot. The current Democratic presidential primary contest has so far fractured that coalition, with young people flocking to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont while many voters of color - especially older ones - back former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
Many factors have contributed to Republicans' gains on the state and federal levels, including a concerted push by their donors to target state races and a midterm election that allowed them to lock in favorable congressional district lines.
Obama's defenders contend that after major victories in 2006 and 2008, it was predictable that Democrats would lose significant ground in the midterm elections of 2010 and 2014. But, they add, the president's two successful White House bids have vastly upgraded the party's voter outreach infrastructure by expanding the national voter file the Democratic National Committee first started in 2006. And they point to the huge increases in the number of Democratic campaign volunteers - from roughly 252,000 in 2004 to 2.2 million in 2012 - as evidence of that upgrade.
"Barack Obama has single-handedly modernized the Democrats' ability to wage campaigns on the local level," said Jim Messina, who managed Obama's reelection campaign.
Rosenberg agrees, saying that the president built on the work of Bill Clinton, the only other two-term Democratic president of the last generation. "Clinton established the intellectual framework for the Democratic Party and Obama modernized its politics," Rosenberg said. "What isn't there yet is a large enough set of leaders from the next generation to carry it on."
Some of Obama's earliest decisions continue to reverberate negatively for Democrats.
Organizing for Action (OFA), the nonprofit group that grew out of Obama's campaign operation, has continued to compete with the Democratic National Committee for Democratic dollars - first as a parallel organization within the DNC and then as a separate entity. In the first six months of 2013, the DNC raised $30.8 million, while OFA raised $13 million. And this was at a time when the DNC was carrying more than $18 million in debt.
Those fiscal constraints meant the DNC had to curtail the money it provided to state parties, a practice that DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) reversed in 2015 by increasing the monthly minimum transfer to each state from $5,000 a month to $7,500.
Close cooperation has taken time; OFA gave the DNC limited access to its list of supporters starting in 2013, but it turned over the entire list only in August 2015. Now, according to Nevada Democratic Party chair Roberta Lange, "That voter file is used by everyone in our state."
While many OFA volunteers have focused on local referendums and other local political battles, the group has earned the enmity of some party stalwarts for diverting resources. During a 2010 gathering of Democratic governors in Washington, according to multiple attendees, one governor asked a senior presidential political adviser, "Will the OFA please join the Democratic Party?"
But this White House, unlike that of Bill Clinton, has always kept its political operation on a separate track.
Under Clinton, the political affairs office boasted roughly a dozen people - in addition to the deputy chief of staff who oversaw political affairs - and the president got a political briefing once a week.
By contrast, Obama limited election activity in the White House, a reflection of both his desire to keep any scandal at bay and the influence of White House chief of staff Denis McDonough, who has little campaign experience outside of working on Obama's first presidential bid.
Obama phased out the political affairs office after two years to move the operation to his Chicago campaign headquarters. He appointed David Simas, who directs the White House Office of Political Strategy and Outreach, to his current position only in January 2014, after congressional Democrats complained they did not have a direct White House contact for political matters.
Obama's senior political advisers from his first term - Messina, David Plouffe and David Axelrod, among others - have left to focus on ventures in the private sector and academia and scaled back their involvement in day-to-day Democratic politics.
Plouffe said it was natural for veteran strategists to move on but acknowledged that Obama's relationship with his top political operatives didn't automatically translate to other candidates. "You don't do your best work being a mercenary," said Plouffe, now a strategic adviser to the car service firm Uber.
He added that it will take the commitment of wealthy Democratic donors - not just top party officials - to target state contests the way Republicans have. "I think we all agree something has to be done," he said. "The question is how. It's not going to be the DNC."
Obama, for his part, has set limits for what he will do in connection with super PACs while in office. While he did fundraising events for the one that backed his reelection campaign, Priorities USA, McDonough and Obama's lawyers curtailed what the president would do two years later for the Senate Majority PAC, a similar entity supporting Senate Democrats.
In an April 2014 memo to then-Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), the PAC's counsel, Marc E. Elias, stipulated that to avoid any conflict of interest Obama would not actually ask potential Senate Majority PAC donors for money even when appearing at one of the group's events. After making this point on the memo's first page, he reiterated two pages later, with underlined emphasis: "Again, to be clear: the President will not solicit contributions at or in connection with any of these meetings."
After a protracted and bitter exchange, Reid's aides abandoned their effort to involve Obama in any more than a few super PAC events, and the president agreed to transfer $5 million from the DNC to both the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in the fall of 2014. During the 2012 cycle, the DNC made no transfers to the two committees.
But with his popularity high among Democrats and no election ahead of him, Obama has been working to shore up his party, both financially and politically. And his aides say Obama has turned controversial issues, including immigration, gay rights and climate change, to the Democrats' advantage.
"He will be aggressive, from the presidential level down to the state and local representative level," Simas said. "There's going to be a Democratic nominee and Democratic candidates. They are the ones who are going to be driving the campaigns, and the president will be there to be as helpful as possible."
Recently in Dallas, before dozens of guests who had each given thousands of dollars to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Obama diagnosed one of the problems: "Democrats just aren't very good at focusing on down-ballot races," he said, according to two participants.
The president may have been stating the obvious. But it reflected a shift in thinking among Democrats, who are working furiously to shore up state-level candidates to avoid getting beaten once again on redistricting. Since 2013, Obama has devoted considerable time to fundraising for the DNC and both congressional committees, doing more than 100 events for the DNC alone.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.), the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, said that when he asked Obama to make a series of primary endorsements this cycle, including one of McGinty, "He just did it with no muss, no fuss, in a very great way."
In December, the heads of three party committees met to develop a joint redistricting strategy, and Obama signed a redistricting fundraising appeal for the Democratic Governors Association in January. Even former members such as Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) have been asked to attend fundraisers on behalf of state lawmakers in states such as Ohio.
"We have to be better and smarter about playing that long game and making those investments," said Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), adding that while House Democrats will have "a very strong wind at their backs" this year, "The day after this election, we have to understand that the wind's going to be in our faces."
In 2014, many Democrats in conservative states were eager to tap Obama's fundraising prowess but were reluctant to appear side-by-side with a president with sagging popularity ratings. Already, 2016 is different.
Longtime Democratic strategist Donna Brazile said that for a long time Democrats wanted Obama's resources - including money and analytics - "but they didn't want his presence." When she called the White House last year to ask if the president would do robo-calls to African American voters during Louisiana's special election for governor, White House officials seemed surprised that Democrat John Bel Edwards even wanted their help. Brazile assured them that he did.
And Democrats increasingly believe that they will need Obama in the fall to regain some of the ground they've lost since 2008.
"Part of his legacy is to rebuild the bench," Brazile said.
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Ben Ray Luján (N.M.) said in an interview that the president will help in unifying the Democratic base.
"He's going to help boost turnout in November, which is critical when you're winning races on the margins," Luján said.


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Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 3:41 PM
To: MARILYN DAVIS
>
Subject: RE: DNC APAHM Plan
Updated APAHM plan.
From: Davis, Marilyn
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:42 PM
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What are you doing up so late?
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>
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 11:17 PM
To: MARILYN DAVIS
>
Cc: "Scott, Jillian"
>
Subject: DNC APAHM Plan
Koustubh “K.J.” Bagchi, Esq.
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Kasich talks a little about VP selection
PA - Trump leading 49/26/22 over Cruz, Kasich
IN - Trump leading 40/25/20 over Cruz, Kashic
Kasich interview
*         Club for growth calls a vote for you a vote for Trump
o   They're working aggressively against me because they're for somebody else
o   A vote for Cruz/Trump is a vote for HRC
o   HRC is 50-31 in NH over Trump, but losing to me 36-50
o   Voters in NH GOP primary support me over Trump.
o   Only I am leading Hillary, delegates at convention want to know who can beat her, because if we don't we lose SCOTUS, Senate, state and local raises
*         Same argument made in 1968 by Goldwater opponents, delegates didn't listen, so why listen now?
o   Goldwater got smoked, we lost everything in 68
o   I'm getting more and more support, message of growth/opportunity needs to be heard, not gloom and doom
o   WaPo says I don't do well because I'm not an apocalyptic candidate
*         Paul Manafort said Trump has been playing a part, image will change
o   I was the most unpopular governor in the country, and I turned that around by creating jobs, etc
o   You can't talk your way out of high negatives
*         Reports you've been vetting running mates,might announce in June
o   We have old names doing that, these things come quickly and you don't want to pull a name out of a hat
o   It's just starting
*         Delegates might be more attracted to a ticket, is that what you're doing
o   Maybe. These are things we're talking about as a group, at preliminary stage
o   Reagan tried to do it in 1976, he didn't win, but it worked out later. He influenced the country and there's something to be said about that
*         Adding more security in Ohio?
o   I shouldn't get into security details, but Secret Service, highway patrol, Cleveland police are all involved and prepared
o   We have good security people, will be ready
*         Trump had difficulty with your name, pronouncing it
o   I find these things amusing. When they're talking about you, that's a good thing. It makes me laugh, god bless him.
HRC up on Bernie 51-43 in PA, 49-44 in IN
Sanders interview
*         HRC has more votes and delegates, do you think rigged system is keeping Dems from voting for you?
o   No, we started 60 points behind HRC, now we're tied in national polls
o   Running against most powerful political organization in US
o   We've won 16 states, we win younger people in almost all contests, ideas we're talking about are future of Dem party
o   We look forward to fighting this out through CA
*         You talk about income inequality, but HRC is winning in those places where income inequality is high. You said poor people don't vote, but they have voted for HRC
o   Well, for a start, one of the challenges we have as a nation is very low turnout in general, worse for younger and low-income people
o   We're trying, with some success, to bring people into political process, we've got to do better
o   I would hope if I'm the nominee we'll see a very large voter turnout, change the dynamics of politics
*         Do you stand by idea you're not winning because poor people are not voting
o   The fact of the matter is we have low voter turnout, 3 m independents were ineligible to vote in NY
o   No doubt that among low-income Americans, very low turnout
*         Are you going to use your leverage to demand changes to Dem platform that HRC is not supporting
o   Not a question over if we're going to continue, can't say CA won't get to vote on who the nominee is.
o   We don't want to continue to have a rigged economy, continue to not deal with climate change
o   We are going to fight to end corrupt campaign finance system
o   Those issues are mobilizing American people
*         If HRC is the nominee, will you add min wage, fracking, etc positions to platform?
o   That was a very good start
o   Through in the fact we don't guarantee healthcare as a right
o   Tuition-free college
*         Tad Devine said you may re-evaluate tone after next week
o   I have not the slightest idea, you'll have to ask Tad
o   We're going to debate in a respectful manner, point out differences [min wage, free college, carbon tax]
o   My policy views are very different from Sec Clinton
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Trump on Fox & Friends
Defends Tom Brady
Cruz/Kasich alliance?
- Both are failed candidates
- Think it will backfire
- Proves system is rigged
HRC cabinet 50% women?
- Pandering
- Crooked Hillary only can play the woman card
- Haven't started on her yet
Would you have women in your cabinet?
- Yes.
- I would have women and the most capable people
Lena Dunham? Others moving to Canada?
- She's a B Actor and has no mojo
250 troops to Syria?
- Obama shouldn't announce
- Have to be unpredictable
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Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 7:14 AM
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I mean he directly says the election is between HRC and Trump. I feel like he'll say it no matter what, but obviously if he says that on a press call, it's going to be bad for us, especially with this week we've had.
From: Helmstetter, TJ
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 9:40 AM
To: RR2
Subject: Research: pls fact check Dan Gross remarks for 11:15AM
Just got these from Brady Campaign. Thanks
Thank you Congresswoman Esty and Congressman Aguilar.  Both of you are glowing examples of what it means to be a leader and to truly serve the American people, and I'm privileged that I can call you allies of ours in the fight to keep guns out of dangerous hands.
Unfortunately in our Congress today there are some politicians too beholden to the corporate gun lobby. They kowtow to the industry's giants and keep violent felons, domestic abusers, and even terrorists armed to the teeth with guns.
Earlier this week Senator Chuck Schumer fulfilled a personal promise he made to the Brady Campaign by introducing Brady Bill 2.0. This bill would expand Brady background checks to all gun sales, a policy supported by 90 percent of Americans, including 84 percent of gun owners and, yes, 74 percent of National Rifle Association members.
I'll say that again, 74 percent of National Rifle Association members support expanding Brady background checks to all gun sales to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers, violent felons, and people with dangerous mental illnesses. There's remarkable common ground shared by the American people. It doesn't matter whether you love or hate guns, nine out of ten Americans believe we would all be safer if there weren't thousands of guns sold every day, at gun shows and online, without background checks.
But the NRA's leadership and political champions, including Wayne LaPierre, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Donald J. Trump, have flouted the will of everyday NRA members to appease the gun industry.
As the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump has made gun violence in America a campaign trail punchline. In January, the front runner speculated that he could "stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody" without hurting his popularity. He has opposed expanded background checks despite the fact that they are supported by nearly three-quarters of the very same membership of the organization he'll address today.
It's interesting to me that Trump, who has branded himself as a populist candidate not beholden to any lobby or special interest group, continuously regurgitates the baseless talking points used by the corporate gun lobby and its allies in Congress.
Make no mistake: this presidential election represents a critical crossroads for this issue and for our collective safety. Lives are literally at stake. The choice between Hillary Clinton Democrats and Donald Trump will be a referendum on gun violence in America - and the result will make a big difference either helping to fight or fuel the problem.
Americans agree we can't afford a President who will put lives at risk by rolling back effective, life-saving gun safety measures and advocating for a world where everyone - from convicted violent criminals to domestic abusers to terrorists - can buy guns with no questions asked.
As he prepares to address the National Rifle Association as today's keynote speaker, I challenge Donald Trump to stand by the 74% of NRA members who want expanded Brady background checks and I call on him to support Senator Schumer's recently introduced Brady Bill 2.0 that expands background checks to all gun sales.
TJ Helmstetter
Deputy Director of Regional and Specialty Media
Democratic National Committee
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Ok.  I am getting off another call.  Will try her asap.
From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 6:03 PM
To: April Mellody
Subject: RE: Connecting you...
Nope, please just send her something or give her a call. Her number is 954-292-2553
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From: April Mellody
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 6:00 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: RE: Connecting you...
Sure.  Is she going to ask me a question or call?
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Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 5:49 PM
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Subject: RE: Connecting you...
Oh, and please copy me on the general language you provide her. She's writing now so the sooner the better. Thanks.
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From: April Mellody
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 5:31 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: Re: Connecting you...
Hey Luis - for future, that's my personal cell phone so if you could stick with email that would be great. No worries on this one. Such fun!  :-)
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On May 17, 2016, at 5:26 PM, Miranda, Luis
> wrote:
Hi Yamiche, I'm connecting you here with April who runs our convention communications team and can speak generally to security. However, as I said when we spoke on background, we won't respond specifically to any particular claim or suggestion at this point. April's number is 610-505-0382.
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC


“If you want the two damn delegates, you can have them,” Mr. Reid told Mr. Sanders, according to someone with firsthand knowledge of the discussions between the two senators. Though Mr. Reid has endorsed Mrs. Clinton, he has said that he believes Mr. Sanders has earned a right to remain in the race
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Huckabee Sanders on CNN
-          Trump hesitant to release because of poor "IRS track record on dealing with conservatives"
-          Americans not concerned about Trump's tax returns, more concerned with knowing Trump's tax policy
-          Financial disclosure more thorough anyway
OK if HRC didn't release her returns?
-          She has far bigger things to be concerned about
"Trump is committed to releasing those returns the minute the audit is complete"
From: Sarge, Matthew
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 9:42 AM
To: Comm_D
Cc: DJTspeaks@hillaryclinton.com
Subject: Video Request: Huckabee Sanders on CNN
Again
h/t Joe
On tax returns, etc.


Dear Mr. Miranda,
Please find attached your invitation to attend an Iraqi National Peace and Reconciliation Conference in Paris, France on May 28-29, as well as the conference program.
We welcome any questions or concerns, and do hope you can join us at the conference.
Thank you,
Patrick Gallagher


Incoming call from +1 (212) 765-6962 (Other) transferred by DNC Press
Duration: 02 Minutes 14 Seconds
+1 (212) 765-6962
Other:  +1 (212) 765-6962
Microsoft Lync


Ha! Susan, I like your spirit but you're dead wrong. Off the record, the point I was making is that you're misrepresenting the nature of my work. I was not involved in any activity that would trigger registration. Period.
________________________________
From: Susan Crabtree [scrabtree@washingtonexaminer.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2016 8:03 AM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: Re: When exactly...
Huh -- nobody put me up to this -- I read that you were hired by Trimpa in either Mother Jones or the Nation -- so no one ever paid you any money to work on Cuba related matters? Why would your name come up at all in these articles? I'm going to have to say that in the article I write -- that you're disavowing any involvement on the Cuba issue unless you explain to me exactly how you were involved -- unless of course the Nation or Mother Jones article got it wrong. If so, they should run a correction and I will talk to the pubs about that and then if they stand by their story, then that becomes the story I write.
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On May 20, 2016, at 10:55 PM, Miranda, Luis
> wrote:
Susan, Off the record, your premise is wrong. For starters I was never an employee of the Trimpa Group, and I am not a lobbyist. That's not what I do, so clearly whoever put you up to this didn't give you accurate information.
-------- Original message --------
From: Susan Crabtree
>
Date: 05/20/2016 07:07 (GMT-05:00)
To: "Miranda, Luis"
>
Subject: Re: When exactly...
Probably for Monday -- not sure I am writing anything -- just want to see why no one registered to lobby for the Cuba lobbying campaign that has been extensively written about.
Also,  I'm not sure that you were easy to get a hold of at that time -- in August of last year. I called and emailed repeatedly the logical place to reach you, the employer that seemed to be taking credit for the lobbying campaign for #CubaNow.
They told me to call James Williams, the point man, I guess, and I tried him every way I could but he never responded. Follow ups to Trimpa to reach you or anyone else about it were not responded to.
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On May 19, 2016, at 10:18 PM, Miranda, Luis
> wrote:
When are you writing for? I'm easy to find so the idea that you tried to reach me and couldn't didn't make sense.
________________________________
From: Susan Crabtree [scrabtree@washingtonexaminer.com
]
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 7:09 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: Re: When exactly...
Nice to hear from you. Last August before I went on maternity leave when I did the story. Wasn't going to bring up your name today but Josh was trying to get me to be more forthcoming about what I was getting at and I understood why he was doing that and thought o would just be forthcoming.
But I do have questions about your role in the Trimpa Group's lobbying on the Cuba issue. I contacted the Trimpa Group several times to try to reach you -- didn't know you had moved on to the DNC until yesterday.
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On May 19, 2016, at 6:44 PM, Miranda, Luis
> wrote:
Did you try to reach me?
Sent via the Samsung GALAXY S®4, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone


May 18, 2016, 04:22 pm
Van Jones: I wish Priebus was DNC chair
The Hill
By Jesse Byrnes
Liberal commentator Van Jones on Wednesday said he'd prefer the chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) to his own party's chair after a "leadership failure" on the Democratic side.
Jones knocked Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz for her response
to Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders
on Tuesday in light of the contentious Nevada Democratic convention.
"Debbie, who should be the umpire, who should be the marriage counselor, is coming in harder forHillary Clinton
than she is for herself. That is malpractice," Jones told CNN's Brooke Baldwin Wednesday.
"I wish Reince Priebus was my party chair. He did a better job of handling the Trump situation than I've see my party chair handle this situation," Jones said. "I'm ashamed to say that. Yeah, I said it."
The former Obama administration official and CNN analyst appeared on the network to comment on Democratic infighting
following a brouhaha at the Nevada convention over the weekend.
Schultz chided
Sanders, saying his response to the convention chaos was "anything but acceptable." She called on Sanders to condemn his supporters for "acting violently or engaging in intimidation tactics."
After Sanders's campaign manager Jeff Weaver accused Schultz of "throwing shade" at the Vermont senator "since the very beginning," Schultz responded
with "#SMH" - "shaking my head."
"I think they are fundamentally misreading and misunderstanding what the Sanders movement is," Jones said Wednesday of the response from Democratic Party leaders. "If you come out and just smash on one side, you lose your ability to be the arbiter."


I think their schedule for Thursday is packed but I will check now
From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 1:17 PM
To: Palermo, Rachel; Helmstetter, TJ
Cc: Walker, Eric
Subject: RE: For training David Pepper tomorrow
TJ, please ask if they need this on Thursday, I don’t want to do two of these, so if we have to do Pepper let’s do all three at the same time. If Pepper can’t on Thursday, let’s move forward with Marilyn, Amy and Walker for tomorrow.
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 – MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Palermo, Rachel
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 1:15 PM
To: Helmstetter, TJ; Miranda, Luis
Cc: Walker, Eric
Subject: RE: For training David Pepper tomorrow
Should I tell Becca (for Amy) and Marilyn know this is pulled down then?
--
[DNC]
Rachel Palermo
Democratic National Committee
PalermoR@dnc.org
202-863-8041
From: Helmstetter, TJ
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 1:14 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Cc: Walker, Eric; Palermo, Rachel
Subject: RE: For training David Pepper tomorrow
And, nevermind. Will let you know if they ask to reschedule.
From: Kirstin Alvanitakis
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 1:13 PM
To: Helmstetter, TJ
Subject: Re: still working on media training
ARGH we now need to cancel this. His flight was changed, and now he won't be in DC until Thursday morning. SORRY!!!
From: Helmstetter, TJ
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 1:06 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Cc: Walker, Eric
Subject: For training David Pepper tomorrow
Luis – see clips of David for you to review below. Where do you want David and Greg to meet you – the studio or your office?
From: Kirstin Alvanitakis
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 1:04 PM
To: Helmstetter, TJ
Subject: Re: still working on media training
OK, so I will put Luis down as the on-site contact. Will you be there as well?
I'll put down DNC HQ (430 South Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC 20003) as the location for now. Should we send Greg and David to the video studio or what?
Here are a few clips of David from the past few months:

Would love if we could get him to tighten things up -- a common thing I hear from reporters is, "OK, can I get that in like 10 seconds, instead of 30?" He tends to back into a soundbite instead of delivering it straight up, if that makes sense?
--
Kirstin Alvanitakis
Communications Director
Ohio Democratic Party
kirstin@ohiodems.org
c: 919.923.4055


Here's the quote from me and then background:
Because the Party’s platform is a statement of our values, the DNC is committed to an open, inclusive and representative process. Both of our campaigns will be represented on the Drafting committee, and just as we did in 2008 and 2012, the public will have opportunities to participate.
FOR BACKGROUND
·         The rules governing our process for appointments to convention standing committees were established in 2014 long before any candidates declared and follow the same process that have governed these appointments for many cycles.  The co-chairs of all of the committees and the At-Large members were elected by the DNC Executive Committee members in January 2016. That meeting was open to the public and all of the campaigns were participants in that process.
·         The overwhelming remainder (87%) of the Standing Committee membership is elected by each state’s National Convention Delegates after being nominating by the presidential campaigns, proportional to each campaign’s percentage of the state wide vote.
·         The Platform drafting committee is a subcommittee of the larger platform committee. Those members have not yet been named but the appointments will be made in consultation with both campaigns, as has been the case in past cycles.  Both campaigns are fully aware of our process.
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 – MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC


Saved here
From: Sarge, Matthew
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 2:00 PM
To: Comm_D
Cc: djtspeaks@hillaryclinton.com
Subject: Video Request: Trump in 2013 Music Video
Music video by Emin Agalarov, son of Putin-tied, Russian real estate oligarch
Featuring Donald Trump

I do not believe we have this saved yet