Subject: RE: Messaging for Next week... Zac
From: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
To: "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 20:31:26 -0700

My initial thought is if you leave down ballot alone, they  do ok and artificially lift trump somewhat. Insane

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From: "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>
Date: 05/13/2016 16:27 (GMT-06:00)
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Messaging for Next week... Zac

Zac is okay with the focus on House and Senate Republicans being bad on infrastructure and guns.

He just doesn’t want to link the House and Senate Republicans to Trump.

His broader point: the campaign does not want to connect Trump and the Republican Party. They want to make Trump look even more extreme than the rank-and-file Republican Member of Congress. Otherwise, in their mind, Trump will come across as less scary than he really is.

Thoughts?