Subject: RE: also, if you have time . . .
From: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
To: "Tobias, Andy" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 19:54:55 -0700

off the record, I agree. We have to blame Republicans in Congress for the rise of Trump. We've worked a lot of great language into our narrative about how whether you go back to the Southern Strategy Nixon used, or 2002's affirmative action focus, or 2004 DOMA, or 2005/2006 immigration...and then of course the Republican Congress helping fuel the Tea Party...that they made their bed and now they're lying in it. Unfortunately, there is a faction within Clinton world that seems to be in the mindset that they can win without anyone else, and they're promoting the idea that the focus should be on showing how Republicans are shunning Trump because he's so extreme. They worry that our narrative, the points you make about who to blame, make Trump look like everyone else, and thus a viable option.

I think we need downballot to be able to fuel the top of the ticket, so I disagree with their approach, and I'm never going to get state parties to welcome GOPers shunning Trump because we're trying to beat those too. Something for you to be aware of.

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From: Andrew Tobias [[email-masked]]
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2016 8:39 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: also, if you have time . . .

Maybe some of the language at the end of my post today could be helpful?

FWIW:

andrewtobias.com/column/lets-not-and-say-we-did<http://www.andrewtobias.com/column/lets-not-and-say-we-did>

Andy