Subject: the next few weeks
From: "Brinster, Jeremy" <[email-masked]>
To: Veepstakes <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 14:33:42 -0700

Hey team,

So over the next few weeks we want to wrap up some of the things that we've been working on and have HFA look them over. We're refocusing some of our priorities by how likely we think it is Trump will pick some of these people, how much research we have to start from scratch, and some feedback from HFA. It's really hard to quantify the likelihood these people will be picked with much confidence, since some, like Cotton, seem great on paper but *no one* is talking about them as a possibility. This is definitely liable to continue changing based on what Trump and others say, but here are the tiers as they stand:

Tier 1
Corker
Sessions
Ernst
Christie

Tier 2
Fallin
Jordan
Gingrich

Tier 3
Cotton
Scott
Blackburn
Ducey (no dailies)
Ellmers (no dailies)

Tier 4 (this is new and funny)
Thune (no dailies)
Perry (no dailies)

The products we want to finish up in the near future for each candidate are:

1)      Top Hits doc

2)      What s/he has said about Trump

3)      What Trump has said about him/her

Here's the extended timeline we're going for:

By next Thursday, 5/19/16
Corker
Sessions
Ernst

By Thursday, 5/26/16
Christie
Jordan
Fallin

By Thursday, 6/2/16
Gingrich
Cotton
Scott
Blackburn

What that means for the next couple weeks: Keep doing what you're doing with the dailies. I'll let you know individually if we want to change anything around with those.

I have already put together a lot of what the candidates and Trump have said about one another, and you three sent me some great stuff earlier in the week. I need to assess where some of the gaps are, especially from earlier on in the campaign and before the campaign.

Chris and Joel-it looks like your Sessions/Corker top hits docs are in pretty good places. I'm sure I'll have feedback, so the sooner you get them to me, the better (especially since you're gone on Thursday, Chris). I have a few more top hits topic additions from Dillon that I'll send along in a separate email.

Collin-since your candidates are due later on and Chris is gone next Thursday/Friday and we haven't done anything on Jim Jordan, I will probably have you start some Jim Jordan top hits in addition to the Fallin ones. We can certainly talk about this more next week.

I really appreciate all the work-your stuff is looking great, and I'm confident the HFA people will think so too. Thanks!