Subject: RE: for research - hit on McCain
From: "Palermo, Rachel" <[email-masked]>
To: "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>, "Lykins, Tyler" <[email-masked]>, RR2 <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 14:51:25 -0700

I'll blast in a few minutes.

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From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 5:48 PM
To: Lykins, Tyler; RR2
Subject: RE: for research - hit on McCain

Cool - jenna/rachel pls blast to national, ohio, and Arizona.

Thanks!

From: Lykins, Tyler
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 5:43 PM
To: Walker, Eric; RR2
Subject: RE: for research - hit on McCain

This is great. Suggested tweak to take or leave to the SL and one other small edit.

From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 5:32 PM
To: RR2
Subject: for research - hit on McCain

SL: McCain to skip 2016 GOP Convention, RNC, lies about past RNC attendance

Body: Today, vulnerable incumbent Senator John McCain said<http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/276860-mccain-to-skip-gop-convention> he would be skipping the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this year.

Why would he be skipping the convention, you ask?

"I have to campaign for reelection, and I have always done that when I'm up," he said. "We have a late primary in Arizona."

Fact-check: FALSE. The last time McCain was up for re-election in a presidential year, he didn't just attend the convention - he gave a major address<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S801XytVyc> defending George W. Bush! In fact, according to CNN<http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/19/politics/john-mccain-skip-republican-national-convention/>, "It would be notable if McCain were to skip, if for no other reason than he's had a speaking spot at every convention for more than 30 years."

The real reason McCain will skip his party's convention? He knows that his party's toxic presidential candidates have put the state of Arizona in play, and that his 36 30-year tenure in the Senate is being seriously threatened.

He's also probably part of 60 percent of Republican voters who say they're 'embarrassed'<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/us/politics/republican-democratic-voters-poll.html?_r=0> by the GOP presidential campaign.

"For those of you keeping score at home - the last GOP nominee is actively campaigning against his party's frontrunner, the previous GOP nominee is so nervous he won't event attend the convention, and the nominee before him probably won't be invited to speak, lest he remind voters what happened the last time a Republican was in the White House. What a disaster for the GOP." - Mark Paustenbach, DNC National Press Secretary

Eric Walker
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