Subject: Re: 2016 Map
From: Zac Petkanas <[email-masked]>
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 16:11:26 -0400

Awesome

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On May 4, 2016, at 4:04 PM, Miranda, Luis <[email-masked]> wrote:

Sweet! This is hugely helpful.

 <http://www.democrats.org/>*Luis Miranda, *Communications
Director

*Democratic National Committee*

202-863-8148 – [email-masked] - @MiraLuisDC
<https://www.twitter.com/MiraLuisDC>

*From:* Zac Petkanas [mailto:[email-masked]
<[email-masked]>]
*Sent:* Wednesday, May 04, 2016 3:23 PM
*To:* Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark
*Subject:* 2016 Map

Gentlemen -- I wanted touch touch base with some guidance of how we want to
be talking about the map for the general.  We don't want to name states
beyond the Obama map in 2012.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Zac

Trump Map:

·  This presidential election--like all of them in the last 20 years--will
be very competitive. We will have to fight hard for every vote.

·  We'll be examining this more closely as states move beyond the primaries
and some polarizing contests, but we expect the battleground states to look
very similar to 2012. Given the results in 2012, this would mean Trump
would have to make major inroads into states that President Obama won in
both 2008 and 2012 to win.

·  Since the last election, demographic changes have made states like
Florida and North Carolina even more competitive for Democrats.

·  When it comes to partisanship, we're a fairly evenly divided country,
but this is likely the first time in a generation where we may have a
better opportunity to appeal to more Republicans.

·  Biggest threat to Democrats holding the White House is complacency.
Every Democrat needs to take Donald Trump at his word that he will do
everything he says he will--and Democrats need to turn out for Hillary
Clinton and Democrats up and down the ticket.