Subject: RE: also, if you have time . . .
From: Andrew Tobias <[email-masked]>
To: "'Miranda, Luis'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 23:22:56 -0400

Thanks!

On the record <LOL> . . . they're not shunning him because he's extreme -
most of the R's in Congress are more extreme and more dogmatic - they're
shunning him because he's an EMBARRASSMENT.  And dangerous and unhinged and
interested not in making America great but making himself great (as Hillary
nicely said on MTP).  

 

From: Miranda, Luis [mailto:[email-masked]] 
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2016 10:55 PM
To: Tobias, Andy <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: also, if you have time . . .

off the record, I agree. We have to blame Republicans in Congress for the
rise of Trump. We've worked a lot of great language into our narrative about
how whether you go back to the Southern Strategy Nixon used, or 2002's
affirmative action focus, or 2004 DOMA, or 2005/2006 immigration...and then
of course the Republican Congress helping fuel the Tea Party...that they
made their bed and now they're lying in it. Unfortunately, there is a
faction within Clinton world that seems to be in the mindset that they can
win without anyone else, and they're promoting the idea that the focus
should be on showing how Republicans are shunning Trump because he's so
extreme. They worry that our narrative, the points you make about who to
blame, make Trump look like everyone else, and thus a viable option.  

I think we need downballot to be able to fuel the top of the ticket, so I
disagree with their approach, and I'm never going to get state parties to
welcome GOPers shunning Trump because we're trying to beat those too.
Something for you to be aware of.

 

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From: Andrew Tobias [[email-masked]]
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2016 8:39 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: also, if you have time . . .

Maybe some of the language at the end of my post today could be helpful?

FWIW:

andrewtobias.com/column/lets-not-and-say-we-did
<http://www.andrewtobias.com/column/lets-not-and-say-we-did>    

Andy