Great. One edit below. Hit RR2 when you're ready.
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Wei, Shu-Yen
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 2:22 PM
To: Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark; Walker, Eric; Walsh, Tom
Subject: RE: For Comms approval: release on APAHM video series (will only go to AAPI list)
Yup, see below, added to the bottom and the videos will be 2x per week (added in the first paragraph)
Sending to research if there are no objections
From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 2:02 PM
To: Wei, Shu-Yen; Paustenbach, Mark; Walker, Eric; Walsh, Tom
Subject: RE: For Comms approval: release on APAHM video series (will only go to AAPI list)
Also, any political comment we can make? Overwhelmingly voted for Democrats... for example?
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Wei, Shu-Yen
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 2:00 PM
To: Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis; Walker, Eric; Walsh, Tom
Subject: For Comms approval: release on APAHM video series (will only go to AAPI list)
For Immediate Release
May 2, 2016
Contact: DNC Press - 202-863-8148
DNC Debuts Video Series on AAPI Members of Congress to Celebrate  Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Washington - To commemorate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, the Democratic National Committee launched a twice-weekly video series that will showcase the diverse experiences of AAPI Members of Congress throughout the month of May. The first video features Rep. Grace Meng of New York's Sixth Congressional District, the first Asian American member from the state.
"The stories of our AAPI Members of Congress highlight the diversity of our community, from New York to California and the Pacific Islands" said Bel Leong-Hong, DNC AAPI Caucus Chair. "We are incredibly proud of these men and women and hope that their experiences inspire and encourage others to pursue public service."
Currently, all but one of the 14 AAPI Members of Congress are Democrats. The video series is a part of the DNC's ProgressAAPI brand, a series of programs, trainings and conversations. Due to Democrats' past successful outreach efforts Because the Democratic Party shares the same values of the AAPI community, values of inclusion, hard work, and opportunity, more than 50 percent
of AAPI registered voters identify as Democrats, and President Obama won 73 percent
of the AAPI vote in his last election.
WATCH HERE
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Watch here
From: Manriquez, Pablo
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 1:42 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: Fwd: Becerra to Ramos: "Scratch the surface of Donald Trump, and what do you find?"
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Sarah Lovenheim"
>
Subject: Becerra to Ramos: "Scratch the surface of Donald Trump, and what do you find?"
All,
House Democratic Chairman Xavier Becerra, the highest ranking Latino member of Congress and a surrogate for Secretary Hillary Clinton, spoke with Jorge Ramos yesterday about the state of the 2016 presidential race.
Please find a clip below, followed by Q&A excerpts, in which they discuss:
*   Republicans for Donald Trump
*   Senator Sanders' decision to stay in the race
*   The Chairman's support for Secretary Clinton
*   Donald Trump's hateful rhetoric and its impact on voter turnout
[Inline image 1]
Q&A excerpts --
RAMOS: Let me just begin with the Republicans: Finally Speaker Ryan met with Donald Trump. And of course they don't agree on many things but finally there was a press release in which they both agreed to make sure that Hillary Clinton doesn't become the next president. What do you think of that?
BECERRA: First: one - if you scratch below the surface of Donald Trump, what do you find? Congressional Republicans. So it should not surprise people that the congressional leadership is getting on board with Donald Trump.
The second thing it tells you is this: Republicans are more concerned about their party politics than they are about their principles. Because for them, to have said all of these negative things about Donald Trump and how they could not associate with Donald Trump -- and now they're saying he's their leader -- it shows you that they are so driven by the politics that they are willing to give up on their principles.
RAMOS: Let me ask you about the Democrats. Bernie Sanders campaign manager said in an interview that Democrats have to choose the best candidate to beat Donald Trump and that according to the polls, Sanders would do much better than Hillary Clinton. Does he have a point?
BECERRA: He has handled his campaign very, very well. He has animated,  excited a lot voters. And I believe that is going to be helpful going into November for our Democrats. I think it is pretty certain, though, that Hilary Clinton is our nominee. I'm working very hard on her behalf to make sure she's our next president.
RAMOS: Are you worried about her emails -- that you might get a surprise in the middle of the summer or after the conventions?
BECERRA: From everything I've seen here in Congress -- we've had hearings over these things for quite some time -- with all the testimony, I don't see that there's anything there. As the Secretary said, it is good that the FBI is doing a thorough investigation. She has welcomed that. She has testified. My sense is we're going to keep talking about the real issues: making sure Americans are working, making sure they're getting paid better wages. making sure everyone has health care and certainly, making sure that we tackle immigration reform.
RAMOS: In the last debate, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders -- they both promised us that they would not deport children -- nor immigrants who don't have a criminal record. Do you think if she becomes President she will be able to keep that promise?
BECERRA: I do believe so. Especially if she is able to get a Congress that works with her to pass immigration reform. So this way, she won't have to rely on executive action the way President Obama has had to rely on it because you had a situation where he had to make a system that's broken work the best it could. So I think that if the Secretary becoming President gets us immigration reform quickly, we won't have these situations.
Had we passed the Senate immigration bill three years ago, Jorge, we would not be dealing with this crisis at the border with children this way. It's a humanitarian crisis. Many of us have spoken to the immigration. We are asking that the Administration realize that the people from Central America are coming as a result of a crisis. It's a humanitarian crisis and we have to deal with it appropriately.
RAMOS: Recently I'm sure you read that story in the New York Times. They suggested that you are on a short list of possible vice presidential candidates. How does that work? Has someone from the campaign talked to you about it?
BECERRA: I wish I could tell you I've been considered before for vice president and I could tell you how it works. I have no idea how it works and all I know is I'm going to keep working to try to help elect Secretary Clinton.
RAMOS: As you know, Donald Trump has nicknames for everyone. Do you have a nickname for Donald Trump?
BECERRA: La Trompa. What else can I tell you?
RAMOS: Do you want to do the translation for that?
BECERRA: All you know is he says one thing but then does another. I don't know about folks who are watching but the last thing you want is someone who's making major decisions to always be able to say one thing and do another.
RAMOS: Sixteen Republican candidates underestimated Donald Trump and you know they all lost. Do you think Democrats are making the same mistake -- that they are underestimating Donald Trump?
BECERRA: Jorge, I think I may have even said this to you in an interview. But I know I've said this very early on. When Trump first came out with his very insulting comments about Latinos and immigrants, I said, you know what? We need to hear this. It is good to have this out in the open.
Because if this doesn't cause us as Latinos, as families of immigrants, to come out and vote and be supportive of those who are with us, then I can't tell you we're going to have success on immigration reform. I can't tell you we're going to do the best job of increasing wages. We need to see that this out there so those that attack us will see we respond.
RAMOS: Congressman Becerra, thank you for talking with us.
*****


Raul,
Please see the press request below. This should be a good story for us. Can you get me some of this background by 4pm?
Couple quick questions:
- On background, can we say where we've staffed up and how many? Is there a good story for us to tell/are the numbers significant enough?
- Also, can we say that they are former Sanders and Clinton staffers more generally? Have we done any outreach specifically to former campaign folks (I assume not)? I'll be sure to say on background that were are staffing up but that other states will definitely be added later.
- My plan is to give Ken a boilerplate response along the lines of: "These funds are critical to building a strong infrastructure in the states now, that will ultimately help elect Democrats up and down the ballot in November."
Thanks,
Mark
From: Thomas, Kenneth
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 10:53 AM
To: Paustenbach, Mark
Subject: coordinated campaign
Hi Mark - Do you have any details on the ramping up/staffing of the coordinated campaigns through the HVF? Told there were transfers of $1M in April and May to get these coordinated campaigns going - and some of the staffers are formerly w/the Clinton and Sanders campaigns. Told the focus is 8 states with competitive Senate races.
Wanted to touch base on this - filing a story tomorrow. Thanks. - Ken
Ken Thomas
National Political Reporter
The Associated Press
202-641-9543 (d)
202-365-2881 (m)
kthomas@ap.org
@KThomasDC
Gchat: kthomaswdc@gmail.com


Couple eds attached
From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 5:22 PM
To: RR2
Subject: FOR REVIEW: SAMPLE OP-ED
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC


Hi Daniel, Not sure it's worth the time if this is just a hit piece like Friday's. While you included the Chair's answer, the article didn't at all contextualize how the committees are organized.
This line was particularly bogus since it was put in there to dismiss her explanation instead of adding context:
That answer, however, carefully eludes the heart of the Sanders camp's grievance: that the allocation of the initial 75 DNC-nominated standing committee members doesn't in any way reflect the proportion of the vote the senator has won in the primaries and caucuses.
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Daniel Strauss
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 8:58 AM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: state convention schedule
Hey Luis
So me and Gabe are working on a story looking up at the upcoming Democratic state conventions before Philadelphia and we were wondering if you could pass along a complete list. No fingerprints from you is completely fine.
Daniel
Daniel Strauss
Politico reporter
Desk: 703-672-2725
Cell: 571-255-0819
dstrauss@politico.com


Hi everyone,
Attached is a script for a video we’d like to make based on Trump’s strange Cinco de Mayo tweet today — let me know if you have any questions!


great
From: Freundlich, Christina
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 6:16 PM
To: RR2
Subject: ready for research -- Trump Fails to Impress Foreign-Policy Experts
WATCH
Trump fails to impress foreign-policy experts
Politico // Michael Crowley
In his address to an elite, invitation-only Washington foreign policy audience Wednesday, Donald Trump promised that, as president, he would restore a "coherent" vision to America's role in the world.
But across the ideological spectrum, and even among natural allies, Trump's speech received a failing grade for coherence and drew snickering and scorn from foreign policy insiders who remain unconvinced that Trump is up to the job.
"It struck me as a very odd mishmash," said Doug Bandow, a foreign policy scholar at the libertarian Cato Institute, who shares many of Trump's beliefs about scaling back America's role abroad. "He called for a new foreign policy strategy, but you don't really get the sense he gave one."
Trump's speech was "lacking in policy prescriptions," and its "strident rhetoric masked a lack of depth," said Robert "Bud" McFarlane, a former national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan who attended the speech.
Speaking at Washington's Mayflower hotel, Trump mostly repeated familiar themes from his campaign, including promises to cut better trade deals with China, swiftly defeat the Islamic State, rebuild the military and reduce the expense America incurs in upholding international security from Europe to Asia.
Trump spoke from a teleprompter and in tones that were subdued by the standards of his raucous rallies. He also unveiled a new theme, saying that the U.S. would "finally have a coherent foreign policy" based on narrow self-interest, economic gain and global stability.
But Trump offered few specifics about his strategy, focusing on the alleged "disasters" created by past presidents and a foreign policy establishment who "frankly don't know what they're doing, even though they may look awfully good writing for the New York Times or talking on television."
Trump said he would surround himself with "talented experts" and "new people" to help him chart a global strategy. But even though he said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" earlier in the day that "I'll be naming them today," he did not do so.
The audience was heavier on celebrity journalists like Bob Woodward and Jake Tapper than on the sort of prominent foreign policy thinkers and former government officials typically present at similar appearances by presidential candidates. Trump has largely been shunned by foreign-policy veterans of past Republican administrations, more than 100 members of whom recently signed an open letter saying they would not join his administration; some have threatened to vote for Hillary Clinton over Trump in November.
One notable figure sitting in the front row as Trump repeated his call for better relations with Moscow - "I believe an easing of tensions and improved relations with Russia, from a position of strength, is possible. Common sense says this cycle of hostility must end" Trump said - was Russia's ambassador to Washington, Sergey Kislyak. (Trump "made some intriguing points, but we need to understand what is meant in the implementation," Kislyak told POLITICO after the speech. "It needs to be started carefully.")
Also in attendance was a Trump foreign policy adviser, Walid Phares, a Lebanese Maronite Christian who applauded vigorously when Trump said the U.S. had "left Christians subject to intense persecution and even genocide."
The address was hosted by The National Interest magazine, an intellectual journal not often spotted on Trump's private jet, but which promotes the so-called realist school of foreign policy, which holds that the U.S. should pursue narrowly-defined security interests with little concern for missions like promoting democracy or overthrowing repressive regimes.
Some of Trump's speech aligned with realist theory, including his disdain for U.S. interventions in the Arab world and what he called "the dangerous idea that we could make Western democracies out of countries that had no experience or interest in becoming a Western Democracy."
Under a Trump presidency, he said, "no American citizen will ever again feel that their needs come second to the citizens of foreign countries."
But experts called Trump's speech rife with internal tensions. He declared that "America First" would be the "major and overriding" theme of his presidency moments before hailing America's role in World War II - which was opposed by the isolationist America First movement of the early 1940s. He trashed President Barack Obama for failing to follow through with his threatened September 2013 air strikes in Syria, while also lamenting the chaos that has followed U.S. military interventions in Iraq and Libya. And Trump vowed to mend ties with U.S. allies who are fearful that America is withdrawing from the world, while insisting they pay more for their own security.
The speech was "completely contradictory, in the sense that the first message is that we should make allies pay not just for the cost of having troops in their countries but for the entire defense that the U.S. provides to Europe and Asia, which he estimated at trillions of dollars. And then in the next breath, he said that the U.S. can't be relied on and needs to be a better ally," said Thomas Wright, a Brookings Institution fellow who has written
extensively on Trump's foreign policy.
"There's just no way to reconcile these two statements. It certainly won't reassure anyone internationally, or anyone within the Republican foreign policy establishment," Wright added.
But Trump is also trying to broaden his electoral support, and some analysts said that the view of elites matters less than the populist soundbites about U.S. military and economic strength repeating on cable television Wednesday afternoon and evening.
Trump's complaint that America's NATO allies are not paying their fair share to support the European security alliance does echo at least one influential foreign policy thinker: Barack Obama, who in his address in Hanover, Germany, this week, scolded
Europeans for being "complacent" about their own defense. Obama has also complained about "free riders" from Europe to the Arab Middle East enjoying the benefits of U.S. protection without spending or risking more themselves.
Obama has not however, explicitly threatened " to let these countries defend themselves," as Trump did Wednesday.
Not everyone was totally dismissive of the Manhattan mogul's appearance, including Zalmay Khalilzad, a former U.S. ambassador and National Interest board member who introduced Trump on Wednesday.
"He offered a coherent framework not totally outside the mainstream American foreign policy debate," said Khalilzad, who held several senior foreign policy posts in the George W. Bush administration, including ambassador to Iraq and to Afghanistan.
"Of course," he added, "expectations were low."
Trump also left the hawkish Republican right deeply unimpressed. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of North Carolina, a former 2016 presidential rival to Trump, issued a series of derisive tweets during the address which he said was full of "disconnected thought" and demonstrated a "lack of understanding of threats we face."
"Ronald Reagan must be rolling over in his grave," Graham tweeted.
Michael Hirsh contributed to this report


That is early but could probably handle. Have to be done by 7:30 though, have another thing to do.
________________________________
Mitch Malasky
Media Center Director
202 314 2259
malasky@dnc.org
From: "Manriquez, Pablo"
>
Date: Monday, April 25, 2016 at 5:02 PM
To: Mitch Malasky
>
Cc: "Miranda, Luis"
>
Subject: Studio Weds Morning
Mitch — We might have a couple of early hits for DWS on Weds. 6AM hour EST.  Could studio handle? Sorry bro
Pablo Manriquez
Democratic National Committee
Phone: 202.572.5488
Email: pablo@dnc.org
web: democrats.org
Twitter: @Pablo_DNC


Stricter Rules for Voter IDs Reshape Races
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SAN ANTONIO — In a state where everything is big, the 23rd Congressional District that hugs the border with Mexico is a monster: eight and a half hours by car across a stretch of land bigger than any state east of the Mississippi. In 2014, Representative Pete Gallego logged more than 70,000 miles there in his white Chevy Tahoe, campaigning for re-election to the House — and lost by a bare 2,422 votes.
So in his bid this year to retake the seat, Mr. Gallego, a Democrat, has made a crucial adjustment to his strategy. “We’re asking people if they have a driver’s license,” he said. “We’re having those basic conversations about IDs at the front end, right at our first meeting with voters.”
Since their inception a decade ago, voter identification laws have been the focus of fierce political and social debate. Proponents, largely Republican, argue that the regulations are essential tools to combat election fraud, while critics contend that they are mainly intended to suppress turnout of Democratic-leaning constituencies like minorities and students.
As the general election nears — in which new or strengthened voter ID laws will be in place in Texas and 14 other states for the first time in a presidential election — recent academic research indicates that the requirements restrict turnout and disproportionately affect voting by minorities. The laws are also, as in the case of Mr. Gallego, reshaping how many campaigns are run — with candidates not only spending time to secure votes, but also time to ensure those votes can be cast.
Thirty-three states
now have ID laws, at least 17 of them — including Texas — requiring not just written proof of identity, but requiring or requesting a photograph as well.
Most research suggests that the laws result in few people being turned away at the polls. But a study of the Texas ID requirement by Rice University
’s Baker Institute for Public Policy released in August found that many more qualified voters, confused or intimidated by the new rules, have not tried to vote at all.
“What voters hear is that you need to have an ID,” said Mark P. Jones of the Baker Institute, an author of the study. “But they don’t get the second part that says if you have one of these types of IDs, you’re O.K.”
A second study
, by the University of California, San Diego
, concluded in February that the strictest voter ID laws — those that require an identity card with a photograph — disproportionately affect minority voters.
After Mr. Gallego’s narrow loss in 2014, researchers from the Baker Institute and the University of Houston’s Hobby Center for Public Policy polled 400 registered voters in the district who sat out the election. All were asked why they did not vote, rating on a scale of 1 to 5 from a list of seven explanations — being ill, having transportation problems, being too busy, being out of town, lacking interest, disliking the candidates and lacking a required photo identification.
Nearly 26 percent said the main reason was that they were too busy. At the other end, 5.8 percent said the main reason was lacking a proper photo ID, with another 7 percent citing it as one reason. Most surprising, however, was what researchers found when they double-checked that response: The vast majority of those who claimed not to have voted because they lacked a proper ID actually possessed one, but did not know it.
Moreover, Dr. Jones of the Baker Institute said, “The confused voters said they would have voted overwhelmingly for Gallego.”
Whether such voters would have changed the outcome of the election is unknown. But Mr. Gallego said the issue goes far beyond how the laws affect individual races.
“It’s tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people,” he said. “Turnout is good for the system.”
While the numbers vary, studies consistently indicate that a modest but significant
share of adult Americans — up to 13.6 percent — lack government-issued photo ID cards, like driver’s licenses and university IDs. And the studies consistently show that, compared with whites, the share of minorities without photo IDs is far higher.
In Texas, more than 600,000 people are eligible to vote or are already registered but have no acceptable photo ID, according to an analysis admitted as evidence in 2014 in a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the state’s law.
Most of the strict photo ID laws have been enacted in the past decade by Republican-dominated legislatures over Democratic objections. Many are in Southern states whose election procedures had been under federal supervision for compliance with the 1965 Voting Rights Act
until the Supreme Court invalidated key provisions of the act in 2013.
Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, who defended the state’s voter ID law against legal challenges when he served as attorney general from 2002 to 2015, says the law’s ID requirements have maintained election integrity and have not disenfranchised voters.
“As the Supreme Court has already held, the voter ID requirement is no more burdensome than other voting requirements, including registering to vote,” Ciara Matthews, a spokeswoman for Mr. Abbott, said in a statement. “That minimal burden is far outweighed by the state’s compelling interest in protecting elections and voter confidence in the outcome of those elections.”
Texas officials say they are spending millions of dollars to help voters understand and meet the new ID requirements, including deploying mobile offices to help citizens apply for election IDs. “We just haven’t seen any large-scale problem,” said Alicia Pierce, the communications director for the Texas secretary of state.
But in Wisconsin, Todd Allbaugh resigned as chief of staff to a leading Republican state senator last year after attending a party caucus in which, he said, some legislators “were literally giddy” over the effect of the state’s voter ID law on minorities and college students.
“I remember when Republicans were the ones who helped Johnson pass the civil rights bill in the ’60s — not Democrats,” Mr. Allbaugh said in an interview last week. “I went down to the office and said, ‘I’m done. I can’t support this party any more.’ ”
In North Carolina last week, a federal judge upheld
sweeping changes
to election rules, including a voter ID provision, that had been contested by the Justice Department and civil rights groups. Wisconsin’s voter ID law will get its presidential-election debut this year after first being rejected by the Supreme Court, then rewritten by Republican legislators.
Texas’ photo ID law, which took effect in 2013, remains in place despite being struck down three times in federal courts
, and faces another court test later this year.
To enter a voting booth in Texas one of the following is required: a Texas driver’s license, a Texas election or personal ID card, a Texas license to carry a handgun, a military ID, a passport or a citizenship card. People without the required identification can cast a provisional ballot, but they must produce an approved ID within six days or their ballot will be nullified.
The law’s critics say the list is notable for what government documents it does not include — a Texas university student ID, a tribal identity card or a state employee ID, to cite three examples that could be more likely used by Democratic voters than by Republicans.
Mr. Abbott, perhaps the law’s most ardent backer, has said that voter fraud “abounds” in Texas. A review of some 120 fraud charges in Texas between 2000 and 2015, about eight cases a year, turned up instances of buying votes and setting up fake residences to vote. Critics of the law note that no more than three or four infractions would have been prevented by the voter ID law.
Nationally, fraud that could be stopped by IDs is almost nonexistent, said Lorraine C. Minnite, author of the 2010 book “The Myth of Voter Fraud.” To sway an election, she said, it would require persuading perhaps thousands of people to commit felonies by misrepresenting themselves — and do it undetected.
“It’s ludicrous,” she said. “It’s not an effective way to try to corrupt an election.”
As attorney general, Mr. Abbott argued that the law’s critics “turn a blind eye to illegal voting and instead rail against voter ID as discriminatory.” That is not so, he wrote in 2012
: “States with voter ID laws have seen minority vote participation increase, not decrease.”
That is misleading, said Zoltan L. Hajnal, a political science professor at the University of California, San Diego, and an author of the study on photo ID laws and minority turnout. The relevant question, he said, is how minority turnout in states with photo ID laws compares with that in states without such laws.
His study, which relied on a sample of more than 50,000 verified voters collected annually since 2006, reached a stark conclusion. “We’re finding typically that strict voter ID laws double or triple the gap in turnout between whites and nonwhites,” he said.
The Texas law also has a smaller, but potentially significant consequence: Many voters who cast provisional ballots — because they either lack an ID or forgot theirs on Election Day — never return with proper documents to make their votes count.
For example, in Harris County, which includes Houston and is the state’s largest county, only 27 of 389 provisional voters later produced proper IDs in three elections in 2014 and 2015.
Finlay K. McCracken, 19, a history major at Trinity University in San Antonio, was among those whose vote went uncounted in November 2014. On Election Day, three months after moving there from Virginia, he presented an unexpired Virginia driver’s license and a voter registration card at his polling place, and was told neither was acceptable.
“It’s a valid ID,” he said. “Texas has a lot of gall to deny me the right to vote when I have a driver’s license from another state and a valid voter registration card.”
Sent from my iPhone


Thanks Eric!
Mark or Luis - please read and send to RR2 once this has your seal of approval.
From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 6:13 PM
To: Jefferson, Deshundra; Walsh, Tom; Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis
Cc: Helmstetter, TJ
Subject: RE: Scripts for the NRA Call
One add to Aguilar and I'm good.
From: Jefferson, Deshundra
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 6:07 PM
To: Walker, Eric; Walsh, Tom; Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis
Cc: Helmstetter, TJ
Subject: Fwd: Scripts for the NRA Call
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Jefferson, Deshundra"
>
Date: May 19, 2016 at 5:33:00 PM EDT
To: "Helmstetter, TJ"
>
Subject: RE: Scripts for the NRA Call
Do you want to take a look or should I submit these to the approval chain?
From: Jefferson, Deshundra
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 5:02 PM
To: Helmstetter, TJ
Subject: Scripts for the NRA Call
Importance: High
What is the speaking order? I would like to create a briefing report like I did for my rights restoration call last week; a copy is attached.
Rep. Pete Aguilar
Thank you for joining this call today. This issue is very personal to me given that San Bernardino, California is a part of my district. I left the House floor after the first votes that after the December 2, 2015, shooting to return to the district. No one ever thinks something like that will happen so close to home. Yet it did.
We have held so many moments of silence for those lost to gun violence. We have prayed for their families, and we have vowed to take steps so that this would never happen again. Our words are empty if our actions don't back them up.
No single reform could have stopped the tragedy that unfolded in San Bernardino, but that's not an excuse to ignore the need for a national discussion around gun safety.
The National Rifle Association is the most powerful gun lobby in the nation, and they have tried to shut down any attempts at sensible gun safety measures, even though a majority of their members think it's time to have reforms like universal background checks for all gun purchases. Despite the recent spate of mass shootings and terror fears, the NRA and their Republican friends in Congress even opposed a measure to bar suspected terrorists from buying guns.
Not too long ago, Donald Trump criticized Republican officials who "walk the NRA line and refuse even limited restrictions." Today, he's singing the praises of the Second Amendment as "a bedrock natural right." Trump's also pushed the real estate industry, as a group, to hire NRA lobbyists even though he claimed many of the NRA's positions were indefensible.
I don't know how officials at the NRA or the Republican Party sleep at night, knowing that we can and should do more to protect our communities. There's an emptiness to our unanswered prayers for change when we don't take steps to work for the type of change that we want. I don't want to hold another moment of silence - I want Congress to toward a sensible solution and I want the Republican Party to realize that they answer to the American public, not the NRA.
Rep. Elizabeth Esty
Hi everyone, thank you for joining us on the call and thank you to the other speakers for your attention to this issue.
Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut is in my district. I am sickened and horrified that in the three-and-a-half years since those shootings, nothing has been done on gun reform. I lay the blame on the NRA and the Members of Congress who are beholden to them.
Despite the fact that 90 percent of Americans supported action on gun reform after Newtown tragedy, the NRA and their allies worked to defeat the bill by spreading rumors and falsehoods. Meanwhile, news of shootings across the country dominate the headlines.
Both of our Democratic presidential candidates have proposed solutions to address this crisis, and President Obama's executive actions earlier this year addresses this crisis with expanding background checks, better enforcing laws already on the books, increasing mental health treatment, and funding research for gun safety technology.
Meanwhile the NRA is advocating for further deregulation of firearms, and they have found a willing audience in the Republican Party.
We've seen this play out over and over again over the years. With the help of the Republican Party, the NRA defeated a bill to extend a ban on assault weapons, blocked a bill that would have extended background checks to guns shows, and passed dangerous "stand your ground" laws in 23 states, including Kentucky.
The NRA and their legislative allies are making our country less safe. It is unconscionable that Donald Trump and top Republican leaders like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell continue to indulge this radical organization.
The NRA and its extreme, uncompromising leadership have blocked reasonable reforms to reduce gun violence. As a vice chair of the U.S. House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, I am a strong advocate for commonsense gun reforms in Congress. We cannot allow the NRA to control the White House come November, and we need to block their influence in Congress.
I am urging the media on this call and voters to hold these people accountable. We can't cross our fingers and hope against hope for an end to gun violence. We need to make it happen.
[SigDems]
Deshundra Jefferson, Southern Regional Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
JeffersonD@dnc.org
| (202) 863-8112


After they get nervous for our strong stand against Bernie violence, Brooklyn suddenly grows a backbone. Sad!
Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202.863.8148
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On May 20, 2016, at 8:56 PM, Miranda, Luis
> wrote:
In this, of all emails, did they really need to use "steel ourselves"?!
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Date: 05/20/2016 20:54 (GMT-05:00)
To: Comm_D
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Subject: Fwd: I’m going to be the Democratic nominee for president
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From: Hillary Clinton
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Date: May 20, 2016 at 7:34:24 PM EDT
To:
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Subject: I’m going to be the Democratic nominee for president
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Advice from my mom:
Friend --
Because of you, I am going to be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States.
And that means it's time to steel ourselves for the general election and a race against Donald Trump.
In moments like this, I think about some advice from my mom: Everybody gets knocked down in life. The real test is whether you get back up and keep going.
He's going to come after us with everything he's got. I need you with me now more than ever -- chip in to claim your free sticker and let me know you're by my side:
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Since you already went to Chuck I’ll wait for his response.
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202-863-8148 – MirandaL@dnc.org
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Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 9:13 AM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: Fwd: MSNBC’s Brzezinski: Wasserman Schultz ‘Should Step Down,’ Dem Primary ‘Has Been Unfair’ To Sanders
This is the LAST straw. Please call Phil a Griffin. This is outrageous. She needs to apologize.
DWS
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From: Kate Houghton
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Date: May 18, 2016 at 8:52:03 AM EDT
To: Debbie Wasserman Schultz
>, DWSChairOffice
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Subject: MSNBC’s Brzezinski: Wasserman Schultz ‘Should Step Down,’ Dem Primary ‘Has Been Unfair’ To Sanders
MSNBC’s Brzezinski: Wasserman Schultz ‘Should Step Down,’ Dem Primary ‘Has Been Unfair’ To Sanders
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On Wednesday, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski called for DNC Chair Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) to “step down” over her handling of this year’s Democratic presidential primary.
After playing a clip of Wasserman Schultz, Brzezinski said, “This has been very poorly handled from the start. Ot has been unfair, and they haven’t taken him seriously, and it starts, quite frankly, with the person that we just heard speaking. It just does.”
Brzezinski added of Wasserman Schultz, “She should step down.”
Brzezinski’s co-host, former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough wondered why Sanders would “get in line” for the Democratic Party, given that they “rigged the entire thing,” and that if he was in Sanders’ position, “I’d say, ‘Go straight to hell, I’m running as an independent.'”
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White House and Congressional Schedule
Friday, May 6
President's Schedule
In the morning, the President and Vice President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press.
In the afternoon, the President will meet with Secretary of Defense Carter.  This meeting in the Oval Office is closed press.
In-Town Travel Pool
Wires: AP, Reuters, Bloomberg
Wire Photos: AP, Reuters, AFP
TV Corr & Crew: CNN
Print: Daily Caller
Radio: Talk Media News
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9:30AM          In-Town Travel Pool Call Time
10:00AM        THE PRESIDENT and VICE PRESIDENT receive the Presidential Daily Briefing
Oval Office
Closed Press
4:00PM           THE PRESIDENT meets with Secretary of Defense Carter
Oval Office
Closed Press
Briefing Schedule
12:00PM         Press Briefing by Press Secretary Josh Earnest
Vice President's Schedule
In the morning, the Vice President will attend the President's Daily Briefing in the Oval Office.
Later in the morning, the Vice President will participate in the latest installment of "Live from the White House" by conducting a round of interviews with television anchors from Pittsburgh, Louisville, Nashville, Delaware, and Washington, DC to discuss the nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, and the importance of the Chief Judge receiving a fair hearing and up-or-down vote. These interviews are embargoed until 4:00PM EDT. The interviews will take place in Vice President's Ceremonial Office.
In the afternoon, the Vice President will depart Washington, DC en route Wilmington, Delaware.
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House
The House is expected to meet in a pro forma session.
Senate
The Senate is not in session.


A good story for us. Also, no DWS criticisms included.
Obama, who once stood as party outsider, now works to strengthen Democrats
By Juliet Eilperin
April 25 at 6:39 PM
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 comes 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 level, 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 robocalls 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 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.


May 5, 2016
Contact: Drew Hammill/Evangeline George
202-226-7616
Pelosi Statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Washington, D.C. - Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day:
"Each Holocaust Remembrance Day, we reflect on the memories of millions of men, women and children murdered for who they were and what they believed.  We pay tribute to the stories of the dead and those who survived.  In their name, we renew our vow to never forget, never stand silent, and never again permit such ghastly hate to grow in our world.
"This day reminds us of the terrible cost of bigotry, scapegoating and the hate-laced language that all too often metastasizes into unfathomable violence.  The warning of history is too clear to allow complacency in the face of hate.
"We must be fully engaged in confronting anti-Semitism and all other forms of prejudice and hatred.  The memory of the dead and the call of 'Never Again' summons each of us to greater vigilance and action.  As we pay tribute to the millions silenced forever, we pledge never to be silent ourselves in the fight against hate, injustice and discrimination."
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Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202.863.8148
paustenbachm@dnc.org
On Apr 27, 2016, at 8:10 PM, Freundlich, Christina
> wrote:
I think we should just do the first paragraph. It’s a funny / trolly release, we should keep it short and sweet.
From: Paustenbach, Mark
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 7:45 PM
To: Walker, Eric; Miranda, Luis; Freundlich, Christina
Subject: RE: DRAFT Video TBT - obama at the WHCD 5 years ago
Great.
See below for ideas in yellow.
Luis, what do you think?
Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
W: 202.863.8148
paustenbachm@dnc.org
From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 6:36 PM
To: Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark; Freundlich, Christina
Subject: DRAFT Video TBT - obama at the WHCD 5 years ago
SL: Video TBT: That Time President Obama Clowned Owned Trump at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner
Relive the glory:

“Five years ago, President Obama exposed Donald Trump as a clueless fraud. Trump’s foreign policy address yesterday is was further evidence showed that the GOP frontrunner is no more qualified for the presidency today than he was when he was negotiating disputes between Lil’ John, Meatloaf, and Gary Busey on Celebrity Apprentice.”
“All kidding aside, Trump would be an unmitigated disaster as commander-in-chief. His plan to bring back torture, ban Muslims from the United States, deport immigrant families, pull out of NATO, and end foreign aid to Israel is no laughing matter. Americans should be alarmed that a man like Donald Trump is tThe Republican Party’s presumptive nominee has has a real shot to capture the presidency, and already made America less safe with his reckless rhetoric and will do even more damage if allowed to run the White House like the set of a reality TV show. Democrats are ready to make sure this doesn’t happen and are committed to building upon President Obama’s last seven years of successful policies that put hard-working families first.” The Democrats are ready – will do everything in our power to make sure this dangerous individual is not given the keys to the White House.” – DNC National Press Secretary Mark Paustenbach
Eric Walker
walkere@dnc.org
732-991-1489
@ericmwalker


Hey Francesca,
Tomorrow works well.
Call any time.
Best,
Mark
Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202.863.8148
paustenbachm@dnc.org
On May 22, 2016, at 7:28 PM, Francesca Chambers
> wrote:
Yes, that would be very helpful. Sorry, meant to reply all! He was on the original message!
Mark are you able to talk on the phone tomorrow or Tuesday on background perhaps? I’ll be in LA but happy to work around your schedule.
Francesca Chambers
White House Correspondent
Daily Mail | 51 Astor Place, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10003
M: +1 913 755 8280
E: francesca.chambers@mailonline.com
From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2016 7:17 PM
To: Francesca Chambers
Cc: Paustenbach, Mark
Subject: RE: Preparations for Trump?
Plus Mark who can give you background on coordinated campaigns already coming together.
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From: Francesca Chambers
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Date: 05/22/2016 19:01 (GMT-05:00)
To: "Miranda, Luis"
>
Subject: RE: Preparations for Trump?
Hey there,
Reupping this. Heard elsewhere DNC has already begun hiring field organizers in key states, etc. – would love to do a story on that.
Francesca Chambers
White House Correspondent
Daily Mail | 51 Astor Place, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10003
M: +1 913 755 8280
E: francesca.chambers@mailonline.com
From: Francesca Chambers
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2016 4:43 PM
To: Paustenbach, Mark; 'Miranda, Luis'
Subject: Preparations for Trump?
Hey guys,
Happy Sunday.
I didn’t get a chance to write about the charirwoman’s comments at the Alaska convention this morning – I’m stretched thin, filling in for our reporter who normally covers the Sunday shows while she’s on vacation and on a flight to Puerto Rico to cover the election – but I’d really like to do a piece working off of her speech that details what the DNC is doing to prepare for Trump.
If there’s anything you could share, I’d be happy to do this over email or over the phone. The piece I have in mind would strictly deal with what the national party is doing so it can be prepared unlike Republicans, as the chairwoman mentioned.
Thanks, please let me know if this is something you can help with, or if you have any other story ideas for me. My colleague comes back Tuesday, so I’ll be back on my own beat and on the hunt for good content!
Francesca Chambers
White House Correspondent
Daily Mail | 51 Astor Place, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10003
M: +1 913 755 8280
E: francesca.chambers@mailonline.com
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Luis, can you review before we send?
Anu - You ROCK! Thanks.
M


I don't think they've posted the audio yet, but will flag it when they do
Exclusive - Donald J. Trump to San Francisco: Sanctuary Cities 'Unacceptable,' A 'Disaster' Creating 'Safe-Haven for Criminals'
Donald J. Trump, the billionaire businessman and presumptive 2016 GOP presidential nominee, told Breitbart News that he is shocked that San Francisco's local government would entertain the possibility of expanding its sanctuary status for illegal aliens after what happened to Kate Steinle
last year.
"Sanctuary cities are a disaster," Trump said when questioned. "They're a safe-haven for criminals and people that should not have a safe-haven in many cases. It's just unacceptable. We'll be looking at sanctuary cities very hard."
Trump's comments came in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News in his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower in Midtown, Manhattan last week. They come in response to efforts by far left progressive organizations in San Francisco to expand that city's sanctuary city laws.
As Breitbart News' Lee Stranahan reported from the scene last week at a city meeting, San Francisco city officials are aiming to expand their sanctuary city protections for illegal aliens there. As Stranahan was recording the event via video, several illegal alien sympathizers successfully sought to have him illegally removed by law enforcement from the public meeting.
When informed of what happened to Stranahan at the meeting during this interview, Trump said it was "unbelievable."
In subsequent reporting, Stranahan has exposed
the fact that the groups pushing this expansion of sanctuary city policies are actually radical progressives who want to hand several U.S. states in the American southwest back to Mexico. In other words, they want to-as some signs and hats have stated-literally "Make America Mexico Again."
Trump has repeatedly honed in on sanctuary cities-and specifically the Steinle murder-throughout the course of his campaign.


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From: "Jefferson, Deshundra"
Date: 05/13/2016  14:50  (GMT-06:00)
To: Regional Press
Subject: Georgia
CNN is doing a package on Georgia as a battleground state that will air next Saturday. Victor Blackwell will interview their Political Director and Field Director about their new field program, and what they’re doing to help elect more
Democrats in Georgia.
Will flag for video when we have more information about the air date.
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Good Morning America wants DWS on tomorrow/Thursday's show at approximately 7AM EST.
Is this of interest/possible?


Kentucky/Oregon results, Nevada convention, party unity. Happy to come to the DNC or go wherever would be most convenient. We can keep it relatively quick - 10 minutes? Thank you so much. It's for my piece tonight for CBS Evening News and I'll do a second piece for CBS This Morning. We can also post in its entirety on the web and air chunks on radio and CBSN.
Thank you -
Nancy
(202) 839-2374


Hey all - Ohio party wanted to check in on counter-convention. Can we huddle up sometime this week and chat about what we're going to be doing around it, and then set up a call with ODP for later in the week?
Thanks
Eric Walker
walkere@dnc.org
732-991-1489
@ericmwalker


Trump Rally in Evansville IN at 1pm
Can't have another effectively Obama again
Trump Introduces Bobby Knight
-          Talking about Bobby Knight endorsement
-          Explaining Knight's perfect season
Bobby Knight:
-          On Trump: "That son of a bitch could play for me"
-          Cites Trump being "Born in the USA" as a reason to support him
-          In voting, don't care about the party, care about the man
-          "I have never voted, and I'm not here to represent the Republican Party. Quite frankly, I don't give a damn about the Republicans"
-          Trump has created more jobs than any other American to date
-          "We, in a Trump Administration, will never have what happened in Benghazi."
Trump:
Gives a shout out to a random supporter, Chad, who was interviewed on TV this morning outside his rally
Cruz copies me and lies
We have a "smart movement"
-          "We have a movement going on. You know, in a way I call it the smart movement. We want to be smart again. We're not smart anymore, folks. We don't win anymore but we're not smart anymore. So we call it the smart movement, and that's what I want to have."
We have to beat Crooked Hillary Clinton
Praises Senator Corker
-          "Certain politicians are great"
Hitting Cruz
-          Losing in NY
-          Says Cruz was defending Carrier Air Conditioning
Trade
-          Carrier Air Conditioning was vicious in firing employees, Like on 'The Apprentice'
-          Mexico is a mini-China
-          Hitting Kasich and Bill Clinton on NAFTA
-          Nobody in our country, in my estimation, has ever read TPP
-          "We don't have anybody that reads documents"
Trump touting evangelical support and endorsements
"Like with the women, I won the women" in New York
-          Will be so much better for women than Clinton
-          We are in an evil world... One of the most evil times ever
The Clintons abandoned Arkansas
-          HRC won't win Arkansas. They don't like her
-          Clintons aren't real New Yorkers
Marco is a good guy and Jeb is "going to come around"
Big crowds, campaign as a movement
-          Many friends in Louisiana and Indiana
Rigged system
-          Complaining about Louisiana
-          Complaining about Colorado
-          Complaining about not all the delegates committing to him in PA
-          Boxer metaphor: "If I knock him on his ass, and he's unconscious, there's nothing they can do, Mr. Trump."
If I win in Indiana, it's over
Broken all-time GOP vote total record
Possible contested convention
-          Reince Priebus: "Nice guy"
-          Others would say Cruz bribes delegates, I would never say that
-          We will get it on first ballot, don't care about 2nd ballot
"I'm at a Holiday Inn. Can you believe it? And I do it!"
-          Complains about media saying he flies back to New York every night
Talks about his mother's advice on not eating with his mouth full
-          Hits Kasich
Cruz/Kasich alliance
-          In business, you get thrown in jail
-          Kasich is a difficult guy. Only a nice guy because nobody cared about him
-          "I don't want to be presidential. I want to win."
-          Makes them look desperate
-          Agreement was broken before ink was dry
-          Unfair to Kasich's people... Now he fired all of his people... That's not nice
-          Cruz looks like a fool because he can't make a deal. Did not write 'Art of the Deal'
Fiorina VP choice
-          She had one good debate on the children's stage
Trade deals
-          Carrier
-          35% tax
Corporate Inversion
Jokes: I bet Bobby Knight has never used bad language
Other countries will like us better with me as president
-          They are making a fortune off of us
Win, win, win
Make America Great Again
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Yup. Plus Rachel to schedule.
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Hey all - Ohio party wanted to check in on counter-convention. Can we huddle up sometime this week and chat about what we're going to be doing around it, and then set up a call with ODP for later in the week?
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Segment 1: Sarah Palin Interview
**In the last question, she basically says that Americans don't really care about abortion and they wan
Speaker Ryan said he is not ready to support Trump. If Ryan doesn't support Trump, should he still be Speaker of the House?
Paul Ryan is going to end up like Eric Cantor - his political career is over. He needs to listen to the will of the people.
It screws Ryan's chances to run in 2020 if the Republican Party wins now.
Are you planning on supporting Ryan's primary challenger?
Yes, will do whatever she can for Ryan's opponent. Ryan's problem is that he has become so disconnected from the people who elected him. Paul Ryan and the establishment feel threatened at this point that their power, prestige, purse will be adversely affected by the change that is coming with Trump.
Ryan said he was very concerned with the tone Trump has taken, the Muslim ban, deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants, comments about women. You don't believe he is concerned with these things?
Those concerns are relatively speaking superficial, talking about tone and certain verbiage as opposed to what Ryan would have chose to talk about.
The people of America care about getting things done finally, taking our government back and putting it on our side.
This weekend Trump went after HRC and her husband's infidelity. What do you think of that line of attack?
A lot of people may be obsessed with public figures personal lives but for the most part Americans are concerned with things like who will be able to appoint the next SCOTUS justice. People care about that much more so than Bill Clinton's obvious indiscretions and Donald Trump having been divorced a couple times and owning up to it.
Are you willing to be vetted for Trump's VP slot?
I think i am pretty much as vetted as anyone in the country could be vetted at this point.
She wants to help and not hurt - she is a realist and realizes there are a lot of people out there that would consider her a burden on the ticket. She just wants Trump and America to win.
Republicans are worried about his poor standing with women voters, 7 of 10 have an unfavorable view of him. Do you wince when he says things like "women have it better than men" on the trail?
Heck, no. He is saying what a lot of other people are thinking, he just happens to be the most candid about it. She knows Trump and appreciated that he has respect for women - he listens to the prominent women in his life like his daughter and wife.
John McCain has publicly maintained that Trump would not have much of an impact on his campaign in Arizona but behind closed doors he said Trump might hurt his reelection bid - over 30% of voters in Arizona are Hispanic. How is Trump going to improve his standing with Latino voters?
Palin gives a lot more credit to Latino voters than the mainstream media would in terms of believing that they all have a herd mentality and vote for only one candidate.
Wishes politicians wouldn't worry about racial divides that are for the most part made up by those that thrive on division.
Trump recently said he wants to change platform as it relates to abortion to include exceptions for rape, incest, life of mother. Do you agree?
She does not want the platform to change. When it comes to abortion, it is very sensitive and a personal issue. The platform is the way it should be right now. When we can agree that the platform should stay as it is now, then we can talk about things that people are really concerned about and that is debt, open borders, illegal immigrants coming over and receiving freebies instead of our people and especially vets, growing government - the intrusion that the failed liberal agenda perpetuates.
**She is basically saying that the American people aren't really concerned about a women's abortion rights and would rather focus on other issues.


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Exclusive: Evangelical Leaders Plan Meeting to Test Donald Trump’s Values
·         Elizabeth Dias
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A step that could lead to an eventual embrace of the presumptive Republican nominee
Top evangelical and social conservative leaders are planning a private meeting with Donald Trump to see if they will be able to address longstanding concern about his candidacy.
Former presidential candidate Ben Carson is working with Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, and Bill Dallas, who leads United in Purpose, to plan a closed-door session for about 400 social conservative leaders to meet with Trump in the coming weeks in New York City. A broader steering group of about 20 people includes people like American Values president Gary Bauer, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, and Family Leader president Bob Vander Plaats.
“We are looking for a way forward,” Perkins says. “The main thing here is this is to have a conversation.” He described the planned meeting as “a starting point for many.” The Trump campaign has not publicly confirmed that the meeting will take place.
For many of the expected attendees at the event, Trump was not their first choice as a presidential candidates. With the exception of Carson, who has endorsed Trump, the event organizers were not supportive of Trump in the primary, says Perkins, who supported Sen. Ted Cruz. The event is expected to be a closed-door interactive forum for attendees to ask questions of the candidate, likely in an interview format, not prepared speeches. This event is also not intended to focus on rolling out endorsements. “I don’t even know what it will lead to,” Perkins says. “It is just to have an honest conversation so that these leaders know what they need to do.”
Trump campaign surrogates are separately organizing a more official faith advisory committee for the candidate, with Mike Huckabee being discussed as a possible national chairman. Televangelist Paula White, a Trump supporter and a senior pastor of New Destiny Christian Center in Florida, have been organizing the group behind-the-scenes with Tim Clinton, president of the 50,000-member American Association of Christian Counselors, according to several people familiar with the project.
Trump’s team meanwhile announced Wednesday that he would send a video message to a conference of Latino evangelical leaders this weekend in Anaheim, organized by Samuel Rodriguez Jr., the president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. Hillary Clinton is also sending a video message.
All of these moves signal an attempt to unite a social conservative base that has been deeply fractured over the presumptive GOP nominee. Both the campaign and the constituents groups are testing whether Trump can win their support despite division in the primary—especially over Trump’s public refusal to ask for forgiveness, his past support for abortion, and his harsh rhetoric about women and non-whites, all things that have left leaders of many large coalitions in the lurch.
The day after Trump became the presumptive nominee, for example, the lay Catholic organization Catholic Vote—one of United in Purpose’s partners—called Trump too “problematic in too many ways” to receive their endorsement, citing concerns over his moral judgment, his past support for abortion, and his lack of “foundational principles from which he proposes to govern.” The group said it would “not necessarily” work actively to defeat Trump, but would turn its resources to critical Senate and House seats.
That is an issue Carson hopes to address with social conservatives. “Donald Trump is pro-life,” Carson says of these types of concerns. “Now he might not be quite as pro-life as I am, but he definitely believes in the sanctity of life, does not believe in abortion on demand. That is a misconception that people have.”
Carson is facilitating the gathering as the chairman of MyFaithVotes, a nonpartisan effort to mobilize 25 million Christian voters this election cycle. Invitations to the meeting are being organized by Perkins, the founder of the MyFaithVotes initiative Sealy Yates, and Dallas of United in Purpose, a 501c4 that helps conservative groups change American culture toward Judeo-Christian principles. United in Purpose has previously worked closely with Perkins, and has several dozen partners, including groups like Americans United for Life, Concerned Women for America, Catholic Vote, and the Faith and Freedom Coalition.
The ideal event, says Carson, would be “very similar to what happened a couple of weeks ago with Mr. Trump and people on Capitol Hill, getting an opportunity really to sit down face to face and interact with each other, and that allays a lot of anxiety on both sides.”
Ronnie Floyd, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, says Perkins has invited him to the meeting. The purpose is to have a conversation with Trump, says Floyd, “to get to know him, and for him to get to know us…who we are and what we care about.” For Floyd, that includes Trump’s positions on Supreme Court nominations, abortion and racial justice, and religious liberty.
Until now, Trump has largely skirted the traditional evangelical political apparatus in Washington, instead relying on unusual surrogates like televangelists to support his message among evangelicals. Whereas Jeb Bush approached Floyd, the Southern Baptist president, to meet last August, and Cruz visited Floyd’s church and met with him after the service, neither Trump nor his campaign has not reached out to Floyd. “As president of the Southern Baptist Convention, I feel like if they had done their homework in relationship to evangelical leaders, sooner or later, that I might receive a call from them, but I have not received that yet,” Floyd says of Trump’s team.
Several other social conservative leaders interviewed by TIME said they are just in the beginning stages of reaching out to the Trump campaign.
Penny Nance, president of the Concerned Women for America, says a campaign surrogate reached out in January to offer a group meeting with Trump. When Nance said she would only go if it were a substantive policy conversation, she said they were no longer interested, and they did not accept her offer for her to gather a team to really brief him on pro-life issues. CWA has half a million members, a cohort of Republican women with a reliable ground operation. “This is my fear, I work to get my members to, first to go vote, and I urge everyone to do the things that we do to get our favorite candidates to get elected, and all the hours and effort and money that people pour into these candidates, and then you wake up the next morning and realize it was all a ruse,” Nance says. “I did everything I could do to blow up the tracks in front of the Trump train, and it didn’t work, and so at this point you either jump on, or stand on the sidelines and wave.”
Tom McClusky, vice president of March for Life Action, says “there’s a lot of concern” in the pro-life movement now that Trump is the likely GOP nominee. In late April, Trump said he would add new exceptions to the Republican platform on abortion for rape, incest and life of the mother, raising big red flags for pro-life leaders. Lila Rose, president of the prolife educational nonprofit Live Action, called on him to not “dilute” the platform. Their fear with Trump is more than about just abortion. “Our theme for the March this year is that pro-life and pro-women go hand in hand,” McClusky says. “Some of his statements have been, to put it mildly, misogynist.”
Chad Connelly, RNC’s first-ever director of faith engagement, says he has not yet talked with Trump, and has had only limited interaction with Trump’s team. He is working a turnout operation on his own, a heavy lift given the presumptive nominee’s lack of evangelical strategy thus far. Connelly has so far visited 40 states, and has hired some part-time pastors that help in some states, focusing in Florida and Ohio. “I think our segment is the key this fall,” he says. “It is the key.”
Others like Ralph Reed, leader of the Faith & Freedom Coalition and a former senior advisor for the Bush-Cheney campaigns, are getting behind the presumptive nominee. Reed was neutral in the primaries, and now tells TIME that he will personally support Trump and do everything he can in his personal capacity to help Trump’s campaign in the general.
Reed is planning for 2016 to be the largest voter education program of his career. His team will make 200 million voter contacts, directed at 32.1 million faith-based voters primarily in battleground states like Iowa, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado, and Ohio. His voter education program budget is projected for $28 million, and will include one million door knocks, 25 million pieces of mail, and on average 7 digital messaging impressions per voter. Operations like this are often the lifeblood for a successful voter outreach—in 2014, Reed’s 30-second videos earned an 80% completion watch rate.
“[Evangelicals] don’t necessarily vote for the candidate who is most like them in terms of religious identity, that is just a myth,” Reed says. “If you understand they are issue driven, and it is a broad swath of issues on with they vote, if you understand that they are not driven primarily by appeals to religious identity, then you understand why Trump did so well in the primaries, and why he has the opportunity to over perform again in the general.”
David Lane of the American Renewal Project is planning a prayer rally in Cleveland the weekend before the Republican Convention begins. “I’m going to choose to believe that Donald Trump can be one of the top 4 presidents in American history,” he recently wrote to his followers. “We intend Evangelical and Pro-Life Catholic Christians to bring biblical-based values to the public square, bucking up a Trump Administration willing to confront totalitarian ‘Political Correctness.’”
Republican turnout for the first 31 primaries was highest since at least 1980, according to the Pew Research Center, and about half of that has likely been evangelical voters. Trump won a plurality of evangelical voters in the Republican primaries, with Cruz finishing a strong second, according to exit polls.


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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.
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Should I tell Becca (for Amy) and Marilyn know this is pulled down then?
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And, nevermind. Will let you know if they ask to reschedule.
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ARGH we now need to cancel this. His flight was changed, and now he won't be in DC until Thursday morning. SORRY!!!
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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?
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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?
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As Donald Trump Meets with Paul Ryan, Chorus of Republicans and Conservative Commentators Rejecting His Risky, Unpredictible and Divisive Candidacy Only Grows
Since Donald Trump became the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for president last Tuesday, the chorus of Republicans and conservative commentators from around the country rejecting his unpredictable, risky and divisive candidacy has grown daily. Donald Trump has for years proven himself to be a loose cannon whose hateful language and dangerous policies will do serious harm to working families and put America’s security at risk, and Republicans are continuing to acknowledge that a President Trump would be too big a risk.
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Speaker Paul Ryan [R-WI]
: "U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday that he can not currently support Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee. "I'm just not ready to do that at this point," Ryan told CNN, adding that he hopes to be able to do so in the future.""
Rosario Marin, former U.S. Treasurer under President George W. Bush
: “I have been the spokesperson for five presidential Republican campaigns. I have attended the previous five Republican national conventions. I’m not going this year, and I am not campaigning for him. I would never, never, ever vote for the little orange man."
Former Senator Gordon Humphrey [R-NH]
: ““Unequivocally, I am not supporting Donald Trump. … I think he is a sociopath.””
Former Romney staffer Garrett Jackson
: “Sorry Mr. Chairman, not happening. I have to put country over party. I cannot support a dangerous phony."
Former top Romney strategist Stuart Stevens
: “I think Donald Trump has proven to be unbalanced and uniquely unqualified to be president. I won’t support him… Everyone has to make their own choice. I think Trump is despicable and will prove to be a disaster for the party. I’d urge everyone to continue to oppose him.’”
Nevada Senator Dean Heller
: “I vehemently oppose our nominee and some of the comments and issues he brought up during the campaign."
Former McCain adviser Mark Salter
: “The GOP is going to nominate for President a guy who reads the National Enquirer and thinks it's on the level. I'm with her.”
Former VA Gubernatorial candidate, Ken Cuccinelli on Trump
: “When you’ve got a guy favorably quoting Mussolini, I don’t care what party you’re in, I’m not voting for that guy.”
Billionaire Bush-backer Mike Fernandez
: “If I have a choice — and you can put it in bold — if I have a choice between Trump and Hillary Clinton, I’m choosing Hillary.”
Former top Romney strategist Stuart Stevens
: “I think Donald Trump has proven to be unbalanced and uniquely unqualified to be president. I won’t support him… Everyone has to make their own choice. I think Trump is despicable and will prove to be a disaster for the party. I’d urge everyone to continue to oppose him.’”
Fox News’ Steve Deace
: “Apparently @secupp has a #NeverTrump list to see who keeps their word to the end. You can sign my name in blood.”
Washington Examiner’s Phillip Klein
: “I have officially de-registered as a Republican.”
Former RNC Chairman Mel Martinez
: “I would not vote for Trump, clearly."
Rep. Carlos Curbelo [R-FL]
: “I have already said I will not support Mr. Trump, that is not a political decision that is a moral decision.’”
Sen. Ben Sasse [R-NE]
: “Mr. Trump’s relentless focus is on dividing Americans, and on tearing down rather than building back up this glorious nation. … I can’t support Donald Trump.
Jennifer Rubin
: “But it is really fundamentally an issue of character. When people look at Donald Trump and they see how he treats women, they see his views on foreigners, they see his lack of personal self-control, his meanness. Just this week he was back lying again.”
Mac Stipanovich, former Chief of Staff to Gov. Bob Martinez
: “On a personal level, Trump is a boor, a bully, a carnival barker and an embarrassment. Politically, by intent or instinct, he is a neo-fascist… He appeals to our fears, preys on our anxieties and exploits our ignorance. A worse candidate to sit in the Oval Office for the next four years cannot be imagined."
Bill Kristol
: “You embrace the endorsement of a rapist in Mike Tyson, a man convicted of raping a 17-year old girl, and you don’t express any, when it’s pointed out to you, you don’t say, “Yeah, well that was horrible” […] On the day of the Indiana primary, he spins this conspiracy story […] about Ted Cruz’ father being complicit in the assassination of a president of the United States. […] You know, for me, the one thing, though […] —it was the mocking of the disabled New York Times reporter, which is such a humanely grotesque thing to do, and then he just lies and says “I didn’t do it.”
Washington Post: ‘I feel like I got smacked by a 2x4’: Va. Republicans react to
Trump as the likely nominee
: With the departure of Ted Cruz from the presidential race Tuesday night, many national Republican loyalists lamented the future of a party that could field a nominee as polarizing as Donald Trump. But the news was particularly jarring for Virginia Republicans fresh off two days of party warfare at a state convention where Cruz came out on top.”
Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin
: "With every noxious movement, dangerous leader and misguided endeavor, there are people who should know better but who cheer, enable or passively accept horrible ideas. To those cheerleading Donald Trump: Be prepared to shoulder a heavy burden, a soul-crushing weight for the next six months.
New York Times: With Donald Trump in Charge, Republicans Have a Day of Reckoning
: “Over the last two days, more than 70 Republican governors, senators, representatives, officials and donors were contacted directly or through aides for comments about Mr. Trump. Only about 20 replied, with many aides saying their bosses did not want to take a stand yet; others begged off by saying the officials were traveling or “too busy” to email, call or release a statement.”
Texas Tribune: Bush 41, 43 Have No Plans to Endorse Trump
: "For the first time since his own presidency, George H.W. Bush is planning to stay silent in the race for the Oval Office — and the younger former president Bush plans to stay silent as well. Bush 41, who enthusiastically endorsed every Republican nominee for the last five election cycles, will stay out of the campaign process this time. He does not have plans to endorse presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump."
Jennifer Rubin: Who wants to defend Trump for the next six months?
: “Donald Trump’s noxious behavior and erratic views force his supporters to condone all sorts of unacceptable things. Even his own advisers find it hard to excuse his conduct.”
Conservative blogger Erick Erickson
: “Reporters writing about the "Stop Trump" effort get it wrong. It's ‘Never Trump’ as in come hell or high water we will never vote for Trump”
Townhall editor Guy Benson
: “Much to my deep chagrin (& astonishment ~8 months ago), for the 1st time in my life, I will not support the GOP nominee for president.”
Redstate contributor Leon Wolf
: “I will never vote for Donald Trump. I will not vote for him in the general election against Hillary, and I would not vote for him in a race for dogcatcher. Heck, I would not even vote for him on a reality television show.”
Undersecretary of State under George W. Bush, Eliot Cohen
: “I will oppose Trump as nominee. Won't support & won't work for him for more reasons than a Tweet can bear.”
Rep. Louie Gohmert [R-TX]
: “Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert balked at backing Trump without an apology for his rhetoric toward Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and warned that Trump could cost Republicans a majority in Congress. “I had no fear of losing the House until I saw this weekend the commercial against Sen. John Boozman in Arkansas. They run quote after quote from Donald Trump’s mouth,” Gohmert told Fox Business Network. “This is a dangerous time.””
Bloomberg: Big-Spending Fracking Family Behind Cruz Won’t Back Trump
: “Add the conservative Wilks family of Texas, among the biggest spenders in the presidential race so far, to the list of donors who won’t support Donald Trump in the general election.”
Alan Steinberg, former regional EPA administrator under George W. Bush
: “Said he’s actually voting for Hillary Clinton, with whom he worked when she was U.S. senator for New York. “She can work with people on the opposite side of the political aisle,” he said.”
Loudon Times-Mirror [Virginia]: High-profile Virginia Republicans lining up against Donald Trump
: “Many long-time Virginia Republicans found themselves despondent Wednesday after Donald Trump became the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee. “Twenty-nine years of Republican activism down the drain,” former state Del. David Ramadan, a Dulles-area conservative, told the Times-Mirror. “I feel like someone stuck a knife in me.””
Wisconsin Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke
: Steineke  “who has called Trump “a liberal and a liar,” hedged in his opposition, but said Wednesday he does not currently support the presumptive nominee.”
Rep. Barbara Comstock [R-VA]
: “Comstock… listed several reasons why she felt the billionaire businessman was not a good role model, including his derogatory remarks about women and prisoners of war, and for not immediately disavowing the Ku Klux Klan.  ‘All of these things are hugely problematic and don’t represent our party,’ she said at that time. ‘I don’t think somebody should represent my party who disrespects America’s veterans. We’re the party of Lincoln. We’re the party of Reagan.’”
Andy Card, former White House Chief of Staff under President George W. Bush
: “When he started to gain traction, I became a cynic. I wasn’t sure he could make it. I was saying, ‘sane people will recognize this is not going to happen.’ Well, it happened. He scared me.”
Mitt Romney
: Politico: “Add Mitt Romney to the list of Republicans who won’t support Donald Trump as the presumptive party nominee… The former Massachusetts governor said he is ‘dismayed at where we are now’ and wishes Americans had ‘better choices.’”
Ward Baker, executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee
: “In a new sign of the Republican Party’s reservations about Mr. Trump, the top strategist in charge of defending Republican control of the Senate said in a briefing for lobbyists and donors on Thursday that the party’s candidates should feel free to skip the nominating convention in Cleveland in July.”
Lindsey Graham
:  “I do not believe he is a reliable Republican conservative…do not believe he is a reliable GOP conservative nor has he displayed the judgment and temperament to serve as Commander in Chief.”
Jeb Bush
: “Donald Trump has not demonstrated that temperament or strength of character. He has not displayed a respect for the Constitution. And, he is not a consistent conservative. These are all reasons why I cannot support his candidacy.”
John Weaver, Chief Strategist for John Kasich
: On working for Trump: “Under no circumstances. I’m an American first. And I don’t want to elaborate on that.” On whether Kasich would be Trump’s VP: “Under no circumstances. … If you’re the kind of conservative who believes that everyone matters, that this is about uniting … where does that fit into what Donald Trump has said?”
Ohio Auditor Dave Yost
: “an early resident of the never-Trump camp, took to Facebook to express his disappointment, writing of the New Yorker’s ‘utter lack of principled convictions.’”
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