Subject: RE: Face The Nation
From: "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>
To: Comm_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 08:45:48 -0700

Fifth segment: Panel: Ed O'Keefe, Molly Ball, Ramesh Ponnaru, Ezra Klein

O'Keefe:

Poll shows Trump up by 2 nationally.
53% Trump voters voting against Hillary, 48% of Hillary voters are voting against Trump. Lesser of 2 evils election
52% want experienced
43% want an outsider
6/10 say race won't be worthy of presidency

Ball:

Open question is whether Dems come home to Clinton the way Republicans have come home to Trump

Klein:

Trump has consolidated GOP, but Hillary has been unable to consolidate bc primary is still going on and bc Sanders voters are so
We will see if polls return to the

Ramesh:

2 extremely unpopular candidates. Audience for a 3rd party - Never Trump folks will cling to it.

Ball:

Folks who are there until the bitter end are usually the hardest to bring into the fold.

O'Keefe:

See the makings of a Tea Party movement on the left w. Bernie - challenging party establishment

Ezra:

Won't be hard to unify. Brings up 72% of Bernie supporters going for Hillary today, as opposed to 60% of Hillary supporters going for Obama this time 8 yrs ago.

O'Keefe:

Trump's comments about Clinton giving up security bc she opposes guns - that's exactly what Republicans want to hear. That's why Republicans are coming home.

Ramesh:

Muslim ban and the wall - he has said they are negotiating positions. Unusual for a primary winner that has to go to the right to consolidate support. Usually they move to the center.

Ball:

Big donors not supporting him - will be a problem. He would say that he didn't have traditional money or structure for GOP primary, and that was fine.
Trump is aiming to bring in a nontraditional donor base - Carl Icahn, other eccentric billionaires.

Ezra:

2 ways to win:

1)      Split election into Ds and Rs and win a narrow victory.

2)      Make Trump unfit for presidency. This way they can get the whole landslide victory.

Language they are using is designed to appeal to independents on the fact that Trump is not qualified.

Ramesh:

Candidate needs to sound different when he's talking about issues if he wants people to think he's qualified
Majority of Americans don't think he has the right temperament to be president, don't think he's qualified. Problem for Dems is that they are not weighing that concern heavily enough.

From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2016 11:27 AM
To: Comm_D
Subject: RE: Face The Nation

Third segment: tribute to Morley Safer

Fourth segment: Anthony Salvanto - Polling Director

Bernie winning based on HRC support evaporating. That won't happen
Superdelegates - no sign of switching
Poll: Hillary up 44-39 in Ohio
Much more polarized today than it was when Reagan won 25 percent of Dems. If 6 or 7 percent cross-over, that's huge.
Ohio poll:
36% say things are so bad we can take a chance on trump

Hillary up 43-42 in Florida

From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2016 11:18 AM
To: Comm_D
Subject: Face The Nation

First segment all about U.S. killing Taliban leader Mansour and plane stuff.

Only flag is Sully saying whatever happened, it didn't immediately destroy the plane (seems to throw cold water on bomb theory).

Second segment: Bernie

Thinks he can win a majority of remaining states
Over 400 superdelegates declared for Hillary Clinton before the race. I think we have a chance to win over superdelegates
If we do very well in next 6 states, we will have a majority of pledged delegates, or come very close to it.

Dickerson: Need to win each state by a 40-pt margin...

Bernie: Steep hill, but we've won races by more than 40 points. California very progressive state.
3% at beginning of the race

Taken on entire establishment this campaign
Hopes DNC will hold Hillary to her word to participate in California debate

Dickerson: target on DWS?

Bernie: No. Personally I like her. She's not the chair the DNC needs right now. Needs to bring working people back into the fold. What the Democratic Party is about is running around to rich people's homes and raising absurd amounts of money. We need to bring working people into the fold.

Going to take fight all the way to the convention. Wants to change superdelegates, open primaries, etc.

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