Subject: RE: Weekly Standard: Cruz Campaign Vetting Carly for VP
From: "Garcia, Walter" <[email-masked]>
To: "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>, "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:19:07 -0700

Quote for approval. From me since it's my region:

SL: DNC response to Cruz vetting Carly for VP

Following reports that the Cruz campaign is vetting Carly Fiorina for Vice President, DNC Spokesperson Walter Garcia released the following statement:

"Laying off 30,000 workers and outsourcing American jobs while getting a raise and a $42 million golden parachute upon her firing - that's Carly Fiorina's record. Yet Tea Party Ted Cruz, who cost our economy a whopping $24 billion during the government shutdown in 2013, is still vetting her for Vice President? Sounds about right."

From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 4:09 PM
To: Bennett, Eric
Cc: Comm_D
Subject: Re: Weekly Standard: Cruz Campaign Vetting Carly for VP

We should hit her. Walter she's your region so please work something up using a past factivist.

On Apr 25, 2016, at 4:07 PM, Bennett, Eric <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
H/t Kelly. sent around on slack already but just sending around the full story

Cruz Campaign Vetting Carly for VP<http://www.weeklystandard.com/article/2002115>

http://www.weeklystandard.com/article/2002115

By MICHAEL WARREN

Ted Cruz's presidential campaign is vetting Carly Fiorina as a potential running mate, THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned.

According to a spokeswoman for Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO and one-time presidential candidate is being vetted by Cruz's campaign.

"Normal stuff," said Sarah Isgur Flores, who served as deputy campaign manager during Fiorina's bid, when asked about the process. She added that Fiorina has met with members of the Cruz campaign and has given them financial disclosures and other documentation. Flores added that "no offers" have been made.

On ABC's This Week Sunday, reporter Jon Karl floated the idea that Cruz could announce a running mate before next week's critical Indiana primary and suggested Fiorina would be the "one person" to fill that role.

Fiorina endorsed Cruz in March, after her own campaign for president ended. She has made appearances on the behalf of the Texas senator and introduced him at a recent campaign stop in Maryland.

Republicans in Fiorina's home state of California will vote in their state's primary on June 7. Fiorina won the Republican Senate primary in California in 2010.

Update: Cruz campaign spokeswoman Alice Stewart provided a statement to TWS. "We've already announced publicly that we're vetting prospecting VP nominees, but no selection has been made yet. When that decision has been made, we will share it."