Subject: STORY FLAG: WaPo | Dynamics of Democratic primary field
From: Brian Fallon <[email-masked]>
To: HRCRR <[email-masked]>, Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>, Kristina Schake <[email-masked]>, Robby Mook <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 19:18:39 -0400

Anne Gearan had been planning a story for the weekend surveying the state
of the Dem field, and exploring how we intend to approach our newly
announced challengers. However, that story is now being folded into
tonight's spot story off Chafee's announcement. It will include the below
quotes from JDP from the bus ride today:

"We've always thought there would be challengers," Clinton campaign
chairman John Podesta said in an interview Wednesday.

"There were always going to be people saying she wasn't this enough, wasn't
that enough, wasn't populist enough."

He added, "Our strategy at the moment is to welcome them into the race, and
lay out our program versus theirs.. . .There will be debates. These
candidates will get their airtime. But what we're focused on is telling her
story, what her vision for the country is."