Subject: Re: Platform drafting rollout
From: <[email-masked]>
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Cc: Tracie Pough <[email-masked]>, "Banfill, Ryan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 20:22:51 -0400

Have you discussed this with April? Looks good to me but we need to make sure we are working this with them. 

DWS

> On May 20, 2016, at 7:48 PM, Miranda, Luis <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> There is a lot of reporter interest and plenty of outlets are chasing the story after the Ann Gearan story claimed the DNC would be offering concessions, but so long as you haven't called the people you'll be appointing to confirm they will definitely be on, we can probably hold it. Then we could work the story over Saturday and Sunday, and have our roll out on Monday morning. If the campaigns told these people they would definitely be on, then it will be pieced together more quickly and we would have to execute on a faster timeline. 
> 
> For a Monday roll out we would want a call with Cummings and a reporter tomorrow or early Sunday, with your calls to the members to confirm their appointment on Sunday night. 
> 
> The Tic Toc would be roughly:
> 
> Saturday May 21
> 
> Finalize Public Affairs Guidance
> Talking Points
> Q&A
> Secure Validators
> Tee up Cummings and one other appointee to be on message, and to speak with the reporter for the preview/launch story
> Finalize Press Release
> 
> Lock In Preview/Launch Story Reporter
> Recommendation: Greg Sargent, Washington Post
> Pitch New Day and Andrea Mitchell without details
> 
> Schedule Sunday notification calls
> 
> Sunday May 22
> 
> Hold calls with the reporter with
> DWS
> Cummings
> TBD appointee
> Convention team / Party Affairs for background
> 
> Lock in New Day and Andrea Mitchell
> 
> Notification calls start at 8pm ET
> 
> 10:00 PM Embargo on Preview/Launch Story lifts for web (Preview story runs online)
> 
> Pitch Paul Kirk and Howard Dean on co-signing a Medium Post on what happens at convention / praising platform drafting moving forward
> 
> Monday May 23
> 
> Preview / Launch story runs in print in Washington Post
> 
> 6:40 AM - DWS on New Day
> 
> Begin Pitching Cummings to Cable Television
> 
> 12:10 PM - DWS on MSNBC (Andrea Mitchell)
> 
> Lock in Dean / Kirk Medium Post (Send them draft)
> 
> 9pm Medium Post online 
> * Send to morning TV producers
> * Send to morning tipsheets (Playbook, etc)
> 
> Cummings interviews throughout afterrnoon and into Tuesday the 24th
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: [email-masked] [[email-masked]]
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 6:36 PM
> To: Miranda, Luis; Tracie Pough; Banfill, Ryan
> Subject: Platform drafting rollout
> 
> Luis, I do want to go with the Monday morning WP/New Day/Andrea Mitchell plan for the rollout. I asked Leah to hold and said I would be happy to talk to her. She is concerned it will leak before then but I think we can mostly keep it contained.
> 
> Please let me know what you think.
> 
> DWS