Subject: Re: DNC Chair Statement on Tonight¹s Primary Results
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Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 16:34:25 -0700

http://www.democrats.org/Post/dnc-chair-statement-on-tonights-may-3-primary-results

From: DNC Press <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
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Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at 7:22 PM
To: DNC Press <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Subject: DNC Chair Statement on Tonight’s Primary Results

For Immediate Release

May 3, 2016

Contact: DNC Press – 202-863-8148<tel:202-863-8148>

DNC Chair Statement on Tonight’s Primary Results

WASHINGTON - DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz issued the following statement on tonight’s Indiana primary results:

“Tonight’s results in Indiana are the culmination of what can only be described as a disastrous week for the Republican Party. Clearly the GOP’s problems go well beyond their convention.

“In just seven days, Republicans saw their former House Speaker call one of their candidates ‘Lucifer in the flesh,’ watched a desperate, mathematically-eliminated campaign announce a Vice Presidential pick and get ridiculed for it, and then kicked off the Indiana primaries this morning with accusations that Ted Cruz’s father was tied to Lee Harvey Oswald. The absurdity of that last allegation was compounded by the fact that Dangerous Donald Trump, who is just a hair’s-breadth away from securing the Republican nomination, based it on a tabloid story he saw in the National Enquirer.

“No wonder the Republican Party is less popular than it’s been in more than two decades. Just today, exit polls in Indiana showed that 53 percent of Indiana Republican primary voters say they feel betrayed by the Republican Party. And in recent weeks, exit polls in primary after primary have shown that a majority of Republican voters believe their primary has been divisive, with as much as a third preferring to either stay home or vote for an alternative, rather than voting for their eventual nominee.

“Meanwhile, Democratic voters are proud of their candidates and it shows each time they go to the polls. Last week, in Connecticut and Pennsylvania respectively, 67% and 71% of Democrats reported feeling energized by our primary. Today in Indiana it was three-quarters of Democratic voters who said our primary has energized our party, and a majority of Democrats who voted today expressed support for either one of our candidates.

“Today it’s clearer than ever that none of the Republican candidates has the judgment or temperament to serve as our Commander in Chief. The next President of the United States will be nominated at our Democratic convention in Philadelphia.”

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