Subject: Re: For Edits: Draft DWS TP's for Women's Leadership roundtable discussion
From: "Guerra, Liana" <[email-masked]>
To: "Walsh, Tom" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>, "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>, "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>, Kate Houghton <[email-masked]>, "Kroll, Amy" <[email-masked]>, "Bonosky, Garret" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 04:51:15 -0700

Adding Amy Kroll and garret

Liana A. Guerra
Democratic National Committee

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On May 5, 2016, at 6:38 PM, Walsh, Tom <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz
5.6.16 DNC Women’s Leadership Forum
3:30 p.m. – World Live Café
Brief Opening Talking Points

Thank you: Dr. Marijo Lucas and Robin Whitaker for hosting today.

This has already been a historic year for women in politics, but the Republicans just made their own brand of history by choosing Donald Trump as their nominee.

He has a decades-long record of denigrating women and promoting misogyny. His policies would make it harder for women to make their own choices when it comes to their healthcare or their career.

  *   He calls women “fat pig,” “slob,” or “bimbo” – and said a man needs a woman to support him at home rather than always “griping and bitching.”
  *   He would take away a woman’s right to make her own healthcare choices and said women who had abortions should be punished – but not the doctors that performed them – and opposed exceptions for health of the mother because he thought women would use a cold as an excuse to have an abortion.
  *   Trump thinks ensuring equal pay for women should just be left up to “the marketplace,” suggested family leave policies should be scaled back and noted pregnancy was “an inconvenience for a business.”
  *   Trump complained that when he employed mothers, they were not giving him “100 percent.”

But he’s not just dangerous because he’s a misogynist.

·       His plans would benefit those at the very top and would drag our country back to where we were when the last Republican president left office losing 800,000 jobs a month.

·       He has no foreign policy experience – but said he’ll rely on his “good brain,” instead of listening to experts.

·       He exploits racial anxieties and cultural fears to the point where his rallies have sparked violence against people of color, protestors, and the media.

·       Recent reports found that bullying at schools is on the rise as a result of his hateful rhetoric.

·       While he tries to paint a picture of his wealth and business success, his record is riddled with embarrassing failures and cheap schemes that are designed to turn a quick a buck at the expense of his workers or everyday Americans.

And Donald Trump is the Republican Party.

·       His impending nomination is a reminder that for years the Republican Party has elevated extreme voices, using divisive campaigns that sought to exploit unfounded fears for political gain.

·       Republicans couldn’t unite against him during their primary because they were playing to the same extreme base.

Democrats will be united and hold Donald Trump, and the Republican Party accountable every day until November 8th.

·       We have the best candidates, the best ideas, and a fantastic record of social and economic progress under President Obama to run on - 73 consecutive months of private sector job growth and 20 million Americans who have health insurance who didn’t before.

·       In poll after poll, Democratic voters are reporting that our primary and our candidates have energized our party.

·       No matter which of our candidates we choose, they’ll be fighting every day for all Americans.

·       We’re fighting to level the playing field, raise wages, ensure equal pay, end discrimination, expand voting rights, make our country and our communities more secure and fighting to give hardworking Americans everywhere a fair shot.

When it comes time to nominate our choices for President and Vice President, with your help, we will unify, fight together as Democrats.

Now I’m happy to open up the discussion, I’d love to hear about the work you’ve be doing in politics, and I’m happy to take any questions you have.