From: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 08:33:39 -0700

Hey Chuck, the commentary on Morning Joe has gotten ridiculous and frankly not based on facts. I understand Joe and Mika will say whatever they're going to say in terms of opinion, but as the Political Director I hope you can help us convey that there are facts that they should at least take note of.

The DNC Chair has repeatedly said on the air and otherwise that it's not her job to tell either candidate to get out and has never called for him to get out of the race. She has talked in very positive terms about both of our candidates and the substantive campaigns they've run. As for the stuff that Joe and Mika tried to rehash this morning about debates, the fact is all of our debates were far stronger in terms of ratings<https://medium.com/@MiraLuisDC/democratic-debate-ratings-rank-far-ahead-of-most-primary-debates-889d8ab42ca#.qepssg11f> this year than they were in past cycles. And you know that when we could get both campaigns to agree, we added four.

On the list access in December, the DNC followed the agreement on the use of database - when there was a breach it had to be resolved. Period.

The rules in place for this election have been pretty much the same for several cycles. In fact, the major change from 2008 - when Obama beat Clinton --- is that there are actually LESS unpledged "super" delegates, now 15% down from 20% before. No one wrote or rewrote any rules to help or hurt any specific candidate, these are the Party rules.

it was that committee that made the decision to disqualify the delegates that Sanders campaign were complaining about. Because those were the rules.  So how about the rules? Closed primaries and caucuses are decided state by state - not so Bernie Sanders can't win, but so Republicans can't infiltrate a Democratic primary to manipulate outcomes.  Right or wrong - and it is debatable - those have been the rules for decades. Instead the Sanders campaign is acting like DWS made up those rules to keep him out.  He chose to run as a Democrat because he wanted the advantage of the party.  Well with the advantages, come the disadvantages.  That was his choice, his responsibility, not her fault.

4)      Nevada Her reaction to Nevada was a human reaction of this really nice female state party chair who called upset because she and her family were getting death threats.  She is a good progressive party loyalist and her team in Nevada was being destroyed by threats and innuendo.  Debbie is loyal to people like that and so she reprimanded Bernie.  Because the fact is that when he says he is losing because the "System is rigged" instead of well - maybe he is just losing - he encourages people to lash out at the DNC and its leadership.

[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>