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WASHINGTON DC METRO AREA

STATIC/INTERFERENCE

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #1: . . . and the team is generally feeling okay about it. Not confident, but okay. Lotta ways to go before we kick off in, say, June or July Two-Four, and the president is —

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #2: Yeah, see, that’s my concern. That’s why I wanted to talk to you instead of putting this in writing or whatever and then seeing it on the news like the Fox stuff. You keep saying he’s in great shape and 100 percent there and I keep hearing from our team that some days it feels like it’s scrambled eggs up there.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #1: I think that’s really out of line.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #2: Don’t bite my head off. I’m just being blunt. I’m worried about the future of the Democratic Party, okay? Are we sure in a head-to-head with Trump he’d —

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #1: Are you serious? You’re suggesting the party leaders get together and essentially put a half-wit, barely able to string a sentence together, mentally impaired candidate at the top of the ticket?

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #2: No, you’re the one suggesting that, is what I’m saying.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #1: Wait. What?

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #2: I’m saying that you’re saying that we’re running someone who is — and I am being blunt, okay, I know that — but someone who is, on some days and at some times, basically a simpleton —

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #1: Who are you talking about?

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #2: I’m talking about the president of the United States. Who are you talking about?

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #1: I’m talking about the vice president of the United States.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #2: Oh.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #1: Oh.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #2: Okay, see, I’m glad we’re talking about this.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #1: I’m getting another call. It’s from the office, something’s happened. I’m gonna merge.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #3: Hello?

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #1: You’ve got both of us on here. What is it?

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #3: New poll out says our guy loses to Tallahassee, outside the margin. Loses to Palm Beach within margin. Approvals drop. Same-month comps across past admins — Bush, Clinton, Obama — not great. Plus looks like no action from the Fed so might be a slowdown on the way. Unclear whether Palm Beach is a better option for us than Tallahassee, because lots of internals in the numbers show weakness in Tallahassee too.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #2: So what are you saying?

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #3: Well, when you look at some of the trend lines in the crosstabs —

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #2: WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #3: We’re so screwed.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #1: Ugh.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #3: But so are they! So, like, you know, maybe it’ll be messy and hard to figure out but in the end we’ll sort of kind of win in the electoral sense and —

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #1: Wait. Just got a flash message that Palm Beach lost the sexual-assault thing against that personal-finance guru lady. How do you think that figures in the numbers?

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #3: Well, we asked that in the survey. We said, “Assume there’s more damaging information revealed that shows the candidate to be untrustworthy and morally compromised — ” Wait. That was a question about our guy. For them, hold on, checking . . . for them, absolutely no change. Slight uptick for Palm Beach.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #1: Anything in there about mental abilities, mental capacity, etc.?

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #3: Big big concerns. It’s a huge problem for us. Voters do not want to see her at the top of the ticket.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #1: I meant him.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #3: Oh. Let me check. Yeah, slight hit. Not deal-breaking.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #2: I think we need some new numbers.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #3: New? These are pretty fresh.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #2: New numbers about new names, do you get me? I want to be able to present some real-world alternatives to the group when we meet on Sunday.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #1: Real-world alternatives like who?

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #2: Like Sacramento.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #1: You did not just say “Sacramento.”

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #3: I can run some numbers on Sacramento. Discreetly.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #2: And maybe Baton Rouge.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #1: Baton Rouge?

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #3: You cut out there. For a minute I thought you said “Baton Rouge.”

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #2: I said “Baton Rouge.” Southern governor. Moderate. Has worked in the past, you know.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #1: Honestly, that’s bananas. I’d rather roll the dice with the possibly mentally deficient.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #3: Right. Or the president.

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE #1: Right.

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