Re: America's Newsroom (FNC) - Luis Miranda (Sanders, HRC, California Debate)

From:sean@gop.com To: MirandaL@dnc.org Date: 2016-05-19 13:23 Subject: Re: America's Newsroom (FNC) - Luis Miranda (Sanders, HRC, California Debate)

That's good by me Plus I need the miles :) Sean M Spicer Chief Strategist & Communications Director Republican National Committee (703)623-6167 On May 19, 2016, at 11:21 AM, Miranda, Luis <MirandaL@dnc.org<mailto:MirandaL@dnc.org>> wrote: Bay area if I had my pick! <image001.png><http://www.democrats.org/>Luis Miranda, Communications Director Democratic National Committee 202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org<mailto:MirandaL@dnc.org> - @MiraLuisDC<https://www.twitter.com/MiraLuisDC> If you do another debate can you pick somewhere warm and fun please Sean M Spicer Chief Strategist & Communications Director Republican National Committee (703)623-6167 Begin forwarded message: LUIS MIRANDA: good morning, bill. BILL HEMMER: would you like to see another debate? MIRANDA: we're negotiating, these have to be dnc-sanctioned debates. we're in process talking to both of our campaigns. we bottom invitation from fox to our candidates. we know the interest is there. HEMMER: jeff weaver from the sanders team hinted that that is pretty much on board so long as you agree on format and debate moderators, few more details. i guess the question is whether or not hillary clinton would agree to that. would she? MIRANDA: we have to facilitate the negotiations, so i can't get ahead of myself on that one but it is certainly something the candidates discussed earlier in the cycle. we'll see where we are over the next few days as those negotiations continue. HEMMER: do you think, given the state of this race, it would be a good thing to see them on stage one-on-one? MIRANDA: i got to tell you, i know there is a lot of angst some about extended primary. from the party's perspective we think it is good thing. we think it energized voters. this is not just us saying it. 70, 75% of voters in polls over last few week on democratic side are excited about their candidates. said the primary is good for our party. we think we have gotten more out of having a good contest if it hadn't been. HEMMER: back to the question, would a debate only contribute to that, even more so from the democratic perspective? MIRANDA: look, what i like our debates throughout they have been substantive. both candidates show they have a vision how to build on seven years of progress. we talked about this. it is important for us to emphasize that seven years ago our country was losing 800,000 jobs a month. today we have 74 straight months of job growth, 14 million new jobs and we need to lay out that contrast with what donald trump is promising which is basically tax cuts for the wealthy and dragging us right back to where we were before. HEMMER: on that point -- MIRANDA: we think the debate and ongoing primary have been opportunity to continue to highlight that. HEMMER: "washington post," a fractured democratic party threatens clinton's chances against donald trump. clearly you're aware of that. and how injurious could it be? MIRANDA: well we're certainly, i think we've been careful to do is to make sure we communicate to both of our campaigns that we want them to stay on the substantive path they have been on. so again our debates have been about the issues, how do we improve the economy, how we make sure we close the wage gap, how we make sure there are opportunities for everyone. those are good debates to be having. if tone and tenor deteriorates, we stepped up we think it needs to stay where it does justice to our candidates and our voters. HEMMER: i think a lot of people would like to see that frankly. last question, california matters on june 7th, doesn't it? MIRANDA: california does matter. every state matters, and not only does it matter for the primaries but it is important to us that the candidates have had a chance to engage voters throughout the country. in 2008 that turned out to be ad good thing because no one in any state was left out of the process and it made for a lot of energy heading into the general election. we certainly want to see people motivated both heading into philadelphia for the convention but into the general. HEMMER: we have a lot of breaking news as you know. MIRANDA: i know it. HEMMER: time is short. we have a lot to go through. we'll get it to next time. luis miranda, from dnc in washington.