Subject: FOR RESEARCH APPROVAL: McCain Hit
From: "Garcia, Walter" <[email-masked]>
To: RR2 <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 07:40:51 -0700

Ready for research.

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From: "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: May 8, 2016 at 10:38:15 AM EDT
To: "Garcia, Walter" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Cc: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>, "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>, "Manriquez, Pablo" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Subject: Re: FOR COMMS APPROVAL: McCain hit

THOUGHTS IN CAPS

Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202.863.8148
[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>

On May 8, 2016, at 10:05 AM, Garcia, Walter <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

SL: Senator McCain: "Oh, I don't know"

Body:

"Oh, I don't know." That was Senator John McCain's response THIS MORNING WHEN ASKED on CNN if he thought DONALD Trump should take back his comments calling Mexicans 'rapists.'

See the exchange below:

(Screenshot: https://youtu.be/j4tv27J5gy8)

"JOHN MCCAIN NEEDS TO QUIT PLAYING CUTE WITH DONALD TRUMP AND FINALLY TAKE A STAND AGAINST HIS DIVISIVE ANTI-IMMIGRANT RHETORIC. THE PEOPLE OF ARIZONA NEED THEIR REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS TO MAKE SURE THAT TRUMP'S BRAND OF EXTREMISM HAS NO PLACE IN OUR COUNTRY." -- DNC Spokesperson