Subject: Dailies
From: "Haxo, Chris" <[email-masked]>
To: "Brinster, Jeremy" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 09:14:40 -0700

Thanks!

Corker

Foreign Policy

Bob Corker Favored Shrinking The National Security Council And Giving The Secretary Of State More Power. "Senators aren't too keen on a House Republican proposal to give them a say in who the president appoints as the head of the National Security Council, which the GOP and several former Defense secretaries complain has ballooned out of control... Senate Republicans and Democrats are concerned about the size of the NSC staff and what they argue is the outsize clout wielded by the powerful team inside the White House. But neither they nor Senate Democrats want to change the way the national security adviser is picked. 'I've watched as the State Department and secretary of state is marginalized because he's out the building,' said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.). Corker favors shrinking the NSC and believes the secretary of state should have 'much greater clout' than has been the case. 'But the confirmation issue,' Corker said, 'I have to think about, because in some ways you're elevating the position ... then you're creating a competing position to the secretary of state, so it has the opposite effect.'" [Washington Post, 5/2/16<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/05/02/the-house-wants-to-give-the-senate-veto-power-over-the-presidents-top-foreign-policy-adviser-senators-dont-want-the-job/>]

Misc. Social Media

Bob Corker: "Welcome Back, Officer Pedigo!" [@SenBobCorker, Twitter, 5/2/16]

Fiorina

VP Misc.

Salon: Carly Fiorina's Defense Of Her Repeated Attacks On Ted Cruz Showed That She Was Willing To Lie About Her Opponents To Win. "Fiorina had previously attacked Cruz for leading the government shutdown over Obamacare ('there's no honor in charging a hill that you know you can't take') and on CNN she elaborated that 'Ted Cruz is just like any other politician. He says one thing in Manhattan, he says another thing in Iowa, he says whatever he needs to say to get elected, and then he's going to do as he pleases.' That's pretty harsh! Here's what Fiorina had to say when confronted with her pointy words about the person who now wants her to be his vice president. "In a heated basketball game, since we're in the Hoosier State, players foul each other sometimes. In the heat of a political campaign, sometimes you say things that turn out not to be true." Well, no one doubts that untrue things are said on the campaign trail, but generally speaking it's a bad look to acknowledge that you lie about your opponents because you're so eager to win. And Fiorina might be able to explain away one pointed remark about Cruz by saying political passions got the better of her, but she spent quite a bit of time on the campaign trail attacking Cruz from a variety of angles." [Salon, 4/28/16<http://www.salon.com/2016/04/28/carly_fiorina_stumbling_already_her_lame_explanation_for_her_prior_attacks_on_ted_cruz_is_just_pathetic/>]

Carly Fiorina Criticized Mike Tyson's Endorsement Of Donald Trump. "Fiorina, standing beside Cruz as the two took questions from the media in Indianapolis, said she was 'interested to see' the endorsement and blasted the real-estate mogul for calling Tyson 'tough,' referring to when the boxer was convicted of rape in the 1990s, in Indiana, no less. 'Sorry, I don't consider a convicted rapist a tough guy,' Fiorina told reporters. 'And I think it says a lot about Donald Trump's campaign and his character that he is standing up and cheering for an endorsement by Mike Tyson.'" [Politico, 4/29/16<http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/04/mike-tyson-trump-carly-fiorina-222630>]

Bloomberg View: Ted Cruz's Was Desperate To Select Carly Fiorina His Running Mate. In Cruz's case with Fiorina, it's less a strategic move than a desperate one. Fiorina has no government experience and lost badly in her previous attempts for elective office. She brings no constituencies or Republican-aligned interest groups with her. After she was trounced in her Senate race in California, she moved away from the Golden State, with no love lost, so it isn't as if she is likely to be helpful in that important primary on June 7. Her national favorability numbers have been consistently below water. Cruz's move serves mainly to show the box he is in. He needs to do more than win in Indiana and California to have a shot at the nomination. Even if he can prevent Trump from wrapping up the nomination on June 7, the Texas senator will still need plenty of delegates, and he's now given away his biggest chit to someone who won't bring in any. Nor does Fiorina make sense as a running mate in the general election, if Cruz somehow prevails over Trump. She would likely draw fire for being unprepared for the presidency, given her complete lack of government experience. Because she was eliminated so early in the race for the Republican nomination, it isn't clear she was vetted the way most presidential candidates have been. It's possible, as Ross Douthat speculates, that Fiorina was the best person available -- that is, the best who would accept a 'running mate' position from a candidate who just got clobbered in several states, is unlikely to win the nomination except in a contentious convention fight, and wouldn't be a particularly strong nominee even in the best of circumstances." [Bloomberg View, 4/27/16<http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-27/cruz-s-choice-of-fiorina-is-a-risky-bet>]

Bloomberg View: As Ted Cruz's Running-Mate, Carly Fiorina Brought No Government Experience, Constituencies, Republican Aligned Interest Groups, Had Poor Favorability Numbers And Would Be A Poor Candidate For The General Election. In Cruz's case with Fiorina, it's less a strategic move than a desperate one. Fiorina has no government experience and lost badly in her previous attempts for elective office. She brings no constituencies or Republican-aligned interest groups with her. After she was trounced in her Senate race in California, she moved away from the Golden State, with no love lost, so it isn't as if she is likely to be helpful in that important primary on June 7. Her national favorability numbers have been consistently below water. Cruz's move serves mainly to show the box he is in. He needs to do more than win in Indiana and California to have a shot at the nomination. Even if he can prevent Trump from wrapping up the nomination on June 7, the Texas senator will still need plenty of delegates, and he's now given away his biggest chit to someone who won't bring in any. Nor does Fiorina make sense as a running mate in the general election, if Cruz somehow prevails over Trump. She would likely draw fire for being unprepared for the presidency, given her complete lack of government experience. Because she was eliminated so early in the race for the Republican nomination, it isn't clear she was vetted the way most presidential candidates have been. It's possible, as Ross Douthat speculates, that Fiorina was the best person available -- that is, the best who would accept a 'running mate' position from a candidate who just got clobbered in several states, is unlikely to win the nomination except in a contentious convention fight, and wouldn't be a particularly strong nominee even in the best of circumstances." [Bloomberg View, 4/27/16<http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-27/cruz-s-choice-of-fiorina-is-a-risky-bet>]

Carly Fiorina Said Donald Trump Was Prematurely Declaring Victory. Carly Fiorina is blasting Donald Trump for prematurely declaring the Republican presidential primary over. Trump earlier told the convention the nominating contest was effectively over and the party needed to rally around him. Fiorina disagreed in her speech Saturday night. Fiorina said: 'The 30-yard-line ain't a touchdown.' Fiorina ripped Trump as an impostor and part of a crooked political system that rewarded big donors. She said 'you cannot just throw an 'R' on your jersey and say you believe what our party stands for.'" [Associated Press, 5/1/16]

Internal Republican Report Warned Carly Fiorina That Her Golden Parachute From HP, Outsourcing Of Jobs, And Kind Words For Hillary Clinton Were "Political Vulnerabilities."
"Republicans warned Carly Fiorina six years ago that her golden parachute after getting fired from Hewlett Packard, her defense of companies which outsourced American jobs overseas and kind words for Hillary Clinton were political vulnerabilities, according to a detailed document produced by the National Republican Senatorial Committee's Research Department and obtained by WFAA. 'Fiorina said Hillary Clinton was treated unfairly during the [2008] presidential campaign,' the internal GOP report states. 'Women in positions of authority, particularly bold women who are trying to change things, are ... caricatured differently, commented upon differently and held to different standards. I watched all of this happen to Hillary Clinton,' the report continues taking a quote from a Newsweek magazine article in June 2008. The 24-page document titled 'Carly Fiorina Vulnerability Report' was created in 2010 when Fiorina unsuccessfully challenged Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer for her California Senate seat. The paper was designed to prepare the candidate and the party for critical questions Fiorina could face in that campaign." [WFAA, 5/1/16<http://www.wfaa.com/mb/news/politics/gop-report-reveals-fiorina-vulnerabilities/163158259>]

CA GOP Convention

Carly Fiorina's Appearance At The California Republican Convention "Was A Homecoming Of Sorts." "Ted Cruz's newly-selected running mate, Carly Fiorina, addressed the California Republican state convention in Burlingame on Saturday night.  Even though her ticket is mathematically eliminated from winning in the first round of voting at the national GOP convention in July, Fiorina suggested that a contested convention would open the door for Cruz...  Fiorina's Bay Area visit was a homecoming of sorts, given she lived in the Bay Area and served as the CEO of Hewlett Packard.  She moved to Virginia, however, after failing to win a challenge to U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer in 2010." [KTVU, 4/30/16<http://www.ktvu.com/news/135367921-story>]

Carly Fiorina Criticized Protections For The Delta Smelt Were A Product Of The "Tyranny Of The Left, The Tyranny Of Environmentalists." "Picking up on Sen. Ted Cruz's criticism of environmental protections for fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Carly Fiorina, Cruz's newly-announced running mate, moved Saturday to reinforce his presidential campaign's appeal to conservatives and farm interests in the Central Valley. Returning to California, where she lost her bid for U.S. Senate in 2010, Fiorina told delegates at the state Republican Party convention here that protections for the threatened Delta smelt were a product of the 'tyranny of the left, the tyranny of environmentalists.' Her remarks echoed those of Cruz, who told delegates earlier in the day that 'three-inch fish go great with cheese and crackers.'" [Sacramento Bee, 4/30/16<http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article74978877.html>]

Guns

Boston Globe: Carly Fiorina Blamed Government Corruption For Gun Violence, Didn't Support Closing The Gun Show Loophole, Requiring Background Checks At Gun Shows.
"It was back before the New Hampshire primary. The Globe editorial board was meeting with Fiorina at St. Anselm College in Manchester. The subject of gun violence, and gun control, came up. Carly, apparently thinking we were as easily fooled as Hewlett-Packard's executive-search committee, tried to trick-talk her way through our questions. She began by saying that we should start enforcing the gun laws we already have before we pass any new ones. Government's failure to do that, she opined, was why 75 percent of Americans in polls she had seen somewhere said that the federal government is corrupt, by which, according to Carly, they mean that they don't think it works for them. Well, hmmm. Be all that as it may, given that radical Islamist jihadis have urged their followers to buy weapons at gun shows, surely it would make sense to have background checks for all gun show sales. 'There are background checks,' Carly retorted. 'There are lots of background checks.' Not when so-called private sellers are peddling firearms at gun shows. No background check required. Not in 33 states, anyway. That's the so-called gun show loophole. So wouldn't it make sense to close it? Carly sidestepped. We kept pressing. She kept dodging. It got to be like the tail end of a checkers game, when you've got two kings left and the other player has but one, and so simply keeps sliding back and forth between those two spaces over in the corner. 'I am not a shill for the NRA,' she finally declared, sounding, well, like a shill for the NRA. 'All I am saying is, practically speaking, we have loads of background-check laws, we have loads of laws on the books, and we are not enforcing any of them.' My colleagues and I gave up. The discussion moved on to easier topics, which is to say, matters where the gun lobby didn't control the GOP candidates like so many string puppets." [Boston Globe, 4/29/16<https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/04/29/carly-fiorina-unhappier-days/VXsNA5g2r8yxtVhUIyUVHN/story.html>]

Boston Globe: Carly Fiorina Sounded "Like A Shill For The NRA." "It was back before the New Hampshire primary. The Globe editorial board was meeting with Fiorina at St. Anselm College in Manchester. The subject of gun violence, and gun control, came up. Carly, apparently thinking we were as easily fooled as Hewlett-Packard's executive-search committee, tried to trick-talk her way through our questions. She began by saying that we should start enforcing the gun laws we already have before we pass any new ones. Government's failure to do that, she opined, was why 75 percent of Americans in polls she had seen somewhere said that the federal government is corrupt, by which, according to Carly, they mean that they don't think it works for them. Well, hmmm. Be all that as it may, given that radical Islamist jihadis have urged their followers to buy weapons at gun shows, surely it would make sense to have background checks for all gun show sales. 'There are background checks,' Carly retorted. 'There are lots of background checks.' Not when so-called private sellers are peddling firearms at gun shows. No background check required. Not in 33 states, anyway. That's the so-called gun show loophole. So wouldn't it make sense to close it? Carly sidestepped. We kept pressing. She kept dodging. It got to be like the tail end of a checkers game, when you've got two kings left and the other player has but one, and so simply keeps sliding back and forth between those two spaces over in the corner. 'I am not a shill for the NRA,' she finally declared, sounding, well, like a shill for the NRA. 'All I am saying is, practically speaking, we have loads of background-check laws, we have loads of laws on the books, and we are not enforcing any of them.' My colleagues and I gave up. The discussion moved on to easier topics, which is to say, matters where the gun lobby didn't control the GOP candidates like so many string puppets." [Boston Globe, 4/29/16<https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/04/29/carly-fiorina-unhappier-days/VXsNA5g2r8yxtVhUIyUVHN/story.html>]

Misc. Social Media

Carly Fiorina: ".@realDonaldTrump Sad! [VIDEO]" [@CarlyFiorina, Twitter, 4/29/16<https://twitter.com/CarlyFiorina>]