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| WikiLeaks has released a sixth batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta. The leak contains a total of 1,812 messages. | |
| The whistleblowing site released two batches of emails yesterday, with today’s leak bringing the total number of emails released to around 9,000. | The whistleblowing site released two batches of emails yesterday, with today’s leak bringing the total number of emails released to around 9,000. |
| Podesta’s Twitter account and email was hacked on Wednesday after the fifth Wikileaks email release. | Podesta’s Twitter account and email was hacked on Wednesday after the fifth Wikileaks email release. |
| READ MORE: Podesta’s Twitter, new email hacked by 4chan users | READ MORE: Podesta’s Twitter, new email hacked by 4chan users |
| Clinton’s lack of “emotional connection” to voters is revealed as worrying to Democrats in an email from Steve Hildebrand, former deputy national campaign director for Barack Obama, to Podesta. “Hillary has got to get away from Washington speak and begin immediately to find an emotional connection to regular Americans,” Hildebrand warns. | |
| “She needs to have a greater understanding of what people and families are going through every day. And, then she needs to find an emotional connection. This has to turn around now,” he says in an email from January 2016, titled ‘Some unsolicited advice’. | |
| Podesta responds saying he is “aiming in the same direction” but would not mimic Bernie Sanders' tactics. “Bernie has gone decidedly negative and personal and like most things maybe he can get away with it. But we live with a double standard, so I think it's a mistake to follow him down that path.” | |
| In November 2014, Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook emailed Podesta about the urgency of pushing a bill to move the Illinois primary out of March, refers to a “lifeline to a moderate Republican candidate.” | |
| “Our preference would be for them to move all the way to May, but if they at least move to April 12 or April 19 they will have the day to themselves and presumably garner a lot of coverage,” says Mook. “They will also be influencing a big northeast primary day on April 26.” | |
| Illinois was offered “a bonus of 10% extra delegates if they move to April and 20% if they move to May,” but didn’t change the date as it had already done so in 2008. | |
| “They don't really care about being helpful and feel forgotten and neglected by POTUS,” Mook writes. “The key point is that this is not an Obama ask, but a Hillary ask. And the Clintons won't forget what their friends have done for them." | |
| The 2016 Illinois primary remained in mid-March. Clinton won 25,000 votes and 2 delegates more than Bernie Sanders, while Trump carried the majority of Republican delegates. | |
| On March 1, 2016, Podesta received an email from Robert Wolf, chairman of the consulting company 32 Advisors, regarding a conference call about the primaries taking place that day. | |
| Republican pollster Frank Luntz predicts Trump and Clinton would capture the party nominations and that the match-up between them was “closer than any national polls” because of Trump’s appeal to blue-collar democrats “even though Clinton does much better with all women & minorities.” | |
| The unspecified “executives” on the conference call say “all-out war against Trump will start in DC because of down ticket,” Wolf writes, adding that the call had “more people on than any before which is a sign that execs are now nervous Trump is real.” | |
| One email reveals that Clinton’s motivation for releasing 55,000 emails was not because she wanted the public to “learn more about the incredible department I was proud to lead.” | |
| Nick Merrill, Clinton’s travelling press secretary, tells Cheryl Mills “I'd take out "That's why" in the next sentence. You know, because it's not why…” | |
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