Subject: RE: VP List
From: "Dillon, Lauren" <[email-masked]>
To: Tony Carrk <[email-masked]>, Kevin McKeon <[email-masked]>, "Brinster, Jeremy" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 15:37:29 -0700

And thoughts on Rick Perry?

From: Dillon, Lauren
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 6:36 PM
To: [email-masked]; Kevin McKeon ([email-masked]); Brinster, Jeremy
Subject: VP List

A few for you to weigh in on and the updated tier list is below.

*         What are our thoughts on Ben Carson (is reaching out to Paul Ryan some kind of test run)?

*         Thoughts on John Thune? (Says he's not interested<http://wnax.com/news/180081-sd-senator-john-thune-no-interest-in-trump-vp/>, but has been floated by Gingrich<http://time.com/4325470/newt-gingrich-on-donald-trump/> and Scott Brown<http://www.argusleader.com/story/blogs/jonathanellis/2016/05/05/scott-brown-thune-would-fantastic-running-mate-trump/83946356/> and is getting attention for leading the fight<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/technology/facebook-thune-conservative.html?_r=0> against Facebook now)

Here are the new tiers:

Tier 1

*         Chris Christie

*         Bob Corker

*         Jeff Sessions

*         Joni Ernst

Tier 2

*         Mary Fallin

*         Jim Jordan

*         Newt Gingrich

Tier 3

*         Renee Ellmers

*         Doug Ducey

*         Tim Scott

*         Tom Cotton

*         Marsha Blackburn

Nixed from the List

*         John Kasich

*         Marco Rubio

*         Carly Fiorina

*         Rick Scott

*         Kelly Ayotte

*         Nikki Haley

*         Susana Martinez

*         Scott Walker

*         Rob Portman

*         Mia Love

*         Jan Brewer

*         Pat McCrory

*         Pam Bondi

*         Deb Fischer

*         Martha McSally

*         Dan Sullivan

*         Thom Tillis

*         Dan Webster

*         Shelley Moore Capito

*         Justin Amash

*         Ken Cuccinelli

*         Richard Burr

*         Barbara Comstock

*         Cathy McMorris Rodgers

*         Jesse Ventura

*         Rudy Giuliani

Here are the changes we discussed on the call:

*         We talked about putting together a sample Top Hits outline

*         Joni Ernst to Tier 1

*         Newt Gingrich to Tier 2

*         Marsha Blackburn, Tom Cotton, and Renee Ellmers to Tier 3

*         Top Hits doc on Tim Scott

We talked about putting together the following for each candidate on Tier 1 &2:

*         Trump comments on the candidate

*         Comments from the candidate on Trump

*         Top Hits: 15 important issues, extreme on ___

*         Video bank

Do you think we need to do these things for tier 3 as well?