Subject: Re: STORY FLAG: WaPo | Dynamics of Democratic primary field
From: Brian Fallon <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 19:52:37 -0400

yes, of course. i just included larger group as FYI since we were in the
middle of a discussion about o'malley/mixing it up with dem challengers

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 7:47 PM, John Podesta <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Is that ok?
>
>
> On Wednesday, June 3, 2015, Brian Fallon <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
>> 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."
>>
>>