Subject: RE: CBS Face the Nation
From: "Crystal, Andy" <[email-masked]>
To: Comm_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 09:27:45 -0700

Panel 2: Ruth Marcus, Ben Domenech, Amy Walter, and Jonathan Martin

Are we going to have unity by the end of the week after Ryan meets with Trump?

Martin: It's possible but Trump is making it harder on Ryan. Trump is proving he is unable to make the pivot that some of his staff said would happen for the general. He will not change his agenda to satisfy Paul Ryan - the voters said they wanted Trump and their agendas are completely different.

What does the map look like in a general election? Does Trump put new states in play?

Walter: Cook Political has HRC starting with 304 electoral votes. She will be able to cement diversifying states like Virginia, North Carolina, and she can hold on to the rustbelt states. There are not enough white working class voters to win the presidency for Trump.

What do you think about a third party run? Is there anything in that?

Marcus: No, I don't think so. It's good therapy for people in the Republican Party but the practical realities of getting on the ballot just don't make sense. A third party run would also help HRC.

If I am a Republican running in a purple state that Obama won, what am I going to do?

Domenech: they have not really figured out the answer yet. Might argue that they have to be elected as a check to whatever Trump or HRC would do.

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From: Crystal, Andy
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2016 12:15 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: CBS Face the Nation

Panel 1: Ruth Marcus, Ben Domenech, Amy Walter, and Jonathan Martin

Where are we this week?

Martin: unless something really crazy happens at the convention, this is now Trump's party.

Paul Ryan is not ready to embrace the nominee of the party but Reince is urging everyone to come together. Is there a genuine break in this party?

Walter: There is a genuine break in this party and it won't look the same in 2017 as it does today. Break in ideology, tone, style that has been brewing for a long time. Trump did not invent it but he walked into a room full of gasoline and threw a match on it.

Marcus: This was an extraordinary week for the Republican Party. Republicans are watching three out of the last four guys they voted for for president saying they cannot support Trump and the fourth looked not too happy saying he would be for the nominee.

Martin: Republicans that have already endorsed Trump have to be feeling a little uneasy about it after the week that Trump just had - with so many Republicans coming out against him.

[shows clip of Trump saying HRC is playing the women card, the women get it better than men do] HRC says she is not going to run a negative campaign against Trump, but he is certainly running one against her.

Walter: She doesn't have to run a negative campaign, she is going to have a lot of people doing it for her.

Marcus: Trump is making his standing with women worse by the day. Crooked Hillary might work but saying she is not qualified and only there because she is a woman is insulting not just to HRC but to woman in general.

Domenech: the real question is whether Trump is even interested in unifying the party.