Subject: “Trump of a Week” for Congressman Heck
From: Sarah Zukowski <[email-masked]>
To: Sarah Zukowski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 14:39:28 -0700

For Immediate Release

May 6, 2016

Contact: Sarah Zukowski, [email-masked]

“Trump of a Week” for Congressman Heck

Congressman Heck is supporting GOP presumptive Presidential nominee Donald
Trump and, with it, all of his anti-immigrant, anti-women rhetoric

Even Senator Dean Heller knows sharing a Trump-Heck ticket “doesn’t bode
well” for Congressman Heck

Las Vegas, NV – Dean Heller had a prescient week
<https://twitter.com/RalstonReports/status/727943167278899201>. Reince
Priebus had a "Baileys in his cereal
<http://www.mediaite.com/online/mike-allen-surprises-reince-priebus-with-baileys-irish-cream-for-his-cereal/>"
kind of week. Congressman Heck had a Trump of a week
<https://twitter.com/RalstonReports/status/727932873030799361>.

Only hours before Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee
this week, Congressman Heck reiterated to KSNV’s Jeff Gillan
<http://catherinecortezmasto.com/post/143842574864/new-video-on-day-trump-becomes-gop-nominee>
that he would support the Republican nominee. Days later, Congressman Heck
doubled down on supporting Trump; his campaign even used Trump’s talking
points! <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p6lBQwIgNQ&feature=youtu.be>
While Republicans like Speaker Paul Ryan are, as of now, declining to
endorse Trump’s anti-immigrant, misogynistic campaign, Congressman Heck
made clear multiple times just this week he is all aboard the Trump Train.

Sharing a ticket with Trump hurts Congressman Heck (and Republicans).

Even Congressman Heck’s fellow Nevada Republican Senator Dean Heller knows
it!

Donald Trump’s nomination “doesn’t bode well
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Xpont9D7c>” for Congressman Heck…“It’s
still going to be very very difficult for [Congressman Heck’s campaign] to
transfer a vote against [Trump] for him, especially when he’s running
against a hispanic woman -- [Democrats] have a great candidate on their
side.”

“Some of the worst comments I think Trump has made has affected the Latino
and Hispanic community in the Southwest - that’s the top of the ticket. I
don’t care what Trump says, those members of our community do not like him,
do not like him at all and they’re going to vote against him...the next
choice is the U.S. Senate race...and I think it will have an impact
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFgut4nsyCs&feature=youtu.be>.”

NBC News Battleground Map: Trump, GOP Begin with Disadvantage. Move Nevada
from “Toss-Up” to “Lean Dem” following Trump’s presumed nomination. [NBC
News
<http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/first-read-battleground-map-shows-disadvantages-trump-n569266>,
5.6.16]

UNR Political Scientist Eric Herzik: “I have never seen Latinos mobilized
this early…[Trump] is going to get killed in that demographic. And if that
demographic turns out in higher numbers, that’s problematic for Trump and
everybody down ticket.”

Las Vegas Review-Journal
<http://www.reviewjournal.com/politics/elections/trump-s-looming-nomination-poses-problem-gop-candidates-nevada>:
Trump’s looming nomination poses problem for GOP candidates in Nevada.
“Heck, who is trying to flip Reid’s Senate seat from blue to red, perhaps
has the most cause to fret.”

Congressman Heck’s support for Trump means he owns all of Trump’s
anti-women, anti-immigrant, vitriolic rhetoric.

UNR Political Scientist Eric Herzik:

Republicans on Nevada’s ballot “absolutely they should be nervous...Trump
has alienated immigrants, women and Latinos, a growing and powerful voting
force in Nevada...when Trump goes off on illegal immigrants and Mexican
criminals, it comes back on [Congressman Heck].” [Las Vegas Review-Journal
<http://www.reviewjournal.com/politics/elections/trump-s-looming-nomination-poses-problem-gop-candidates-nevada>
]

“[Congressman Heck] collects all the baggage with [Trump’s] comments about
Latinos, about illegals, about Muslims, about women. He has to defend
them...when you buy the Trump bag, you get everything that’s in it.” [KTVN
TV <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p6lBQwIgNQ&feature=youtu.be>]

Congressman Heck - we hope the #TrumpTrain has seat belts. It’s going to be
a bumpy ride and you’re in for the long haul!

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