Subject: RE: VERY CONCERNED!!!!
From: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
To: Tracie Pough <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Banfill, Ryan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 11:24:06 -0700

and check out what Merkley said:

But Senator Merkley - who is from Oregon, where Sanders won yesterday - told me he's not necessarily on board with a scorched earth approach. I asked him whether Sanders should keep fighting for super-delegates in June, after losing the pledged delegate count and popular vote.
"When a nominee wins a majority of both those categories, it is time for us to come together, link arms and go forward," Merkley said. "It would be inconsistent, given the commentary on super-delegates, to depend on super-delegates to turn over those first two categories of evaluating party members' support."
Asked if he would support Sanders's decision, under these conditions, to keep the battle going to the convention floor, Merkley said: "Absolutely not."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/05/18/will-bernie-sanders-burn-it-all-down/
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Will Bernie Sanders burn it all down?<https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/05/18/will-bernie-sanders-burn-it-all-down/>
www.washingtonpost.com<http://www.washingtonpost.com>
Top Sanders adviser Tad Devine offers some cryptic comments about what's next.

[SigDems]<http://www.democrats.org/>Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]> - @MiraLuisDC<https://www.twitter.com/MiraLuisDC>

From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 2:15 PM
To: Tracie Pough
Cc: Banfill, Ryan; Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Subject: RE: VERY CONCERNED!!!!

Here's how The Hill reported her CNN hit, it came across with what we wanted: a hard pivot to Trump/GOP:

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/280370-dnc-chair-responds-to-jeff-weavers-throwing-shade-remark

Ballot Box feed<http://thehill.com/taxonomy/term/29/feed>
May 18, 2016, 01:47 pm
Dem party chief's response to 'throwing shade' remark? '#SMH'
By Rebecca Savransky
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman (DNC) Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Wednesday had a simple response to Bernie Sanders<http://thehill.com/people/bernie-sanders>'s campaign manager after Jeff Weaver said she had been "throwing shade" at the Vermont Senator's campaign.
"My response to that is #SMH," Wasserman Schultz said on CNN. "SMH" is an acronym used to mean "shaking my head," often meant to show someone does not agree with something said.
Weaver earlier Wednesday slammed<http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/280326-aide-dnc-head-has-been-throwing-shade-at-sanders> the Wasserman Schultz, saying she was disrespecting the Vermont senator's presidential campaign.
"We could have a long conversation just about Debbie Wasserman Schultz and how she's been throwing shade at the Sanders campaign since the very beginning," Weaver said on CNN.
Wasserman Schultz had said earlier that Sanders's response to the chaos at last weekend's Nevada Democratic Convention was unacceptable. She said the Sanders campaign didn't adequately condemn the violence from its supporters.
On Wednesday afternoon, Wasserman Schultz said the party needs to focus on getting through the primary and then working to prepare for the general election.
"And make sure that we can continue to draw the contrast between either one of our really fine candidates who are focused on helping people reach the middle class and make sure that we get equal pay for equal work and create jobs," she said.
"And not let the Republicans take healthcare away from 20 million Americans, do everything we can to make sure Donald Trump<http://thehill.com/people/donald-trump> never becomes president of the United States."
Wasserman Schultz said she is singularly focused on making sure a Democrat wins the White House and won't let anything else distract her.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tracie Pough
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 1:44 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Cc: Banfill, Ryan; Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Subject: VERY CONCERNED!!!!

I don't want her out there anymore.  There is NOTHING GOOD THAT will come of this.

- TP