Subject: FW: TrackerBASE Report: PRES Ted Cruz/ Carly Fiorina- Press Conference 4/29/2016
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:13:21 -0700

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Subject: TrackerBASE Report: PRES Ted Cruz/ Carly Fiorina- Press Conference 4/29/2016

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TO: Presidential

FROM: Luke McDonald

Location: Indianapolis, IN

Date: 4/29/16

RE: Ted Cruz/Carly Fiorina- Press Conference- Indianapolis, IN

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Event Details: Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina addressed the media in Indianapolis, IN.

Press: ABC

Attendee’s: Ted Cruz

Carly Fiorina

Summary of Event:

Key Points:

00:15 TC- A choice between campaigns, one that will bring back jobs to the US and unify the republican party.  We are seeing the Republican party unite behind us this week.  I announced my VP nominee with Carly. She rose from being a secretary to CEO of the largest technology company in the world.  She is someone who has shattered glass ceilings her entire life.  She is ready to step in and lead, to bring back jobs, raise wages, and defend the Constitution.

1:30 CF- I was so delighted to be here when I accepted the offer to run as Cruz's’ running mate.  You can’t just slap an R on your jersey and say you are a Republican, much less a conservative.  Trump doesn’t represent me or my party.  Both he and Hillary will be disastrous for this country.  I call on the people of the hoosier state to state with us.

2:30 Q1- Pence endorsement?

TC-I don’t know the answer to that, a major announcement coming on his show at 12pm.  I have tremendous respect for Gov. Mike Pence.  Indiana has seen remarkable growth under Pense, imagine how much better you would see it if you didn’t have the federal government weighing down job creation and driving jobs overseas.  Governor Pence is a strong leader who I respect, he stood up to defend conservative principles in Congress.

4:00 Q2-What would it mean to your campaign to have a Pence endorsement?

TC- I respect him a great deal and I welcome his support.  We are seeing Republicans unify, of those who ran 5 have endorsed our campaign.  Our party is divided right now, if we remain divided we will lose.  This race isn’t going to be decided in the media newsrooms.  This is going to be decided by the common sense good judgement of the people of Indiana.

5:35 CF- I was interested to see Mike Tyson endorse his campaign, he said wow all the tough guys are endorsing me.  Sorry I don’t see a convicted rapist as a tough guy.  I think is says a lot about his campaign and his character that he is standing up and cheering for his endorsement.

6:00 Q3- You said Kasich has withdrawn from Indiana, are you doing the say in New Mexico and Oregon?

TC- As we announced last week Kasich and I have decided to use resources where it made sense.  It was blown up to some grand alliance, it never was a grand alliance.  It was simple a decision where to focus time and resources.  The country is depending on Indiana.  We are at a cliff, if we nominate a candidate who agrees with Hillary Clinton on a number of issues.  We cannot have a ballot in November with two big government NY liberals.  Trump and Hillary are the essence of the establishment.  If you want to see more leaders like Boehner, Pelosi, or Reid, Donald Trump is your guy.  If we get back to Indiana values, this country turns around.

CF- Just to be clear on this, a vote for John Kasich is a vote for Donald Trump.  He has no path to the nomination even at the convention.  If you want to beat Hillary Clinton you have to vote for Cruz, Kasich is throwing your vote away.

10:00 Q4- Where do you see daylight between the two of you?

TC- The threat of radical Islam and now Trump and I are not in sync on this.  Donald Trump advocated for the US leaving NATO, the day before the Brussels attack.  ISIS would celebrate in the street if we do that, saying we have been forced to leave Europe.  If you look at this foreign policy speech, by all appearances it was written by DC lobbyist.  His campaign is run by Washington lobbyist.  Donald Trump's lobbyist campaign manager was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the Saudi’s to lobby against moving the American embassy to Jerusalem.  He did talk to the country of “Tanzania”.  He said he had a plan for ISIS but he is just not going to tell us.  That’s almost word for word what Obama says.  I know it is surprising to Donald Trump, but tweeting pictures at  ISIS is not going to cause them to go away.  What will is releasing the full force of the American military.  Donald said he would honor the Iran deal, I will rip to shreds the Iran deal.  One nuclear bomb could take tens of millions of lives.  I think the people deserve a debate here in Indiana.

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