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Never has there been a presidential race as sprawling and wide-open as the 2020 Democratic primary. It would be a landscape entirely without a map, except that a small handful of battle-hardened veterans have navigated similar terrain before. At the kickoff of the primary debate season four years ago, no fewer than 16 candidates were jockeying for position in the largest Republican presidential field in history—only to end up being mowed down by Donald J. Trump in what became a slaughterhouse of a campaign. What’s in store for this year’s Democrats? To get an insider’s view, POLITICO Magazine invited four...

Jeb Bush's backers have watched as Mr. Bush debuted his White House bid amid chatter of inevitability, then plummeted in polls. They have seen him bungle a debate performance, losing a pivotal exchange to his one-time protege, Senator Marco Rubio. And they have observed as Mr. Bush, in small towns and big cities, has proved a much less gifted campaigner than they ever anticipated. So on Saturday, as many of the Bush faithful descended on the Biltmore Hotel near Miami to hear from Mr. Bush and his team, his aides tried to put their most optimistic spin on a campaign...

One of the hardest-working men in politics is taking on the toughest job in the Republican race: Saving Jeb Bush. Danny Diaz, Bush's campaign manager, spent 15 years in the Republican trenches building a reputation as a top-notch "oppo man" - overseeing opposition research into rival campaigns and figuring out how to use pungent details to knock out rivals and change the story line of a campaign. Many who know the 40-year-old son of Spanish immigrants insist that the barrel-chested, tough-talking Diaz is just the man to jump-start the floundering Bush organization. Some wonder if anyone can rescue Bush at...

A hundred and four days from the kickoff caucuses in Iowa, Jeb Bush's campaign manager couldn't have been much farther away geographically. Danny Diaz, who was brought on in June to right a wayward campaign start, found himself in Berlin Monday as a featured speaker at The International Conference For Political Communications, where, before a mostly European audience, he ticked off selective polling numbers pitting Bush against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, touted early state advertising buys and trumpeted a handful of endorsements by elected officials. The presentation appeared to be boilerplate for American political aficionados, but an organizer of...

If you’re having a hard time getting in touch with the campaign manager for GOP presidential nominee Jeb Bush, that’s because he’s in Berlin. Danny Diaz, Campaign Manager of Jeb Bush for President, spoke Monday at the International Conference For Political Communications, which took place at the Academy of Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin, Germany. Breitbart News reached out to the campaign to ask why Mr. Bush’s top campaign official was in Germany this week in the midst of a hotly-contested campaign season. A Jeb Bush for President spokesperson responded, “Long scheduled. Danny is constantly engaged. Thanks for your concern.”

Exclusive — After Jeb Accuses Trump Of Saying ‘Not True’ Things About Him, Bush Campaign Can’t Find a Single Example The senior presidential campaign staff of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush—including his campaign manager—can’t manage to point to a single thing billionaire and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump has said about Bush that is untrue. This development comes after Bush attacked Trump in Spanish in Miami. According to an English translation, Bush accused Trump of daily saying “not true” things about him—thing he called “barbarities.” “He attacks me every day. He attacks me every day with barbarities. They’re not true,” Bush...

Contact: Danny Diaz 202-863-8614 “Once again Howard Dean's pessimistic outlook has provided the American people with no real answers to what his Democrat party stands for.  As Iraqis draft a constitution, Dean’s wild assertion that Iraqi women would be better off living under Saddam Hussein than democracy is not only counterproductive to meaningful debate, it demeans the hard work of American servicemen and women serving in Iraq.”- RNC Deputy Communications Director Danny Diaz DNC Chair Howard Dean On CBS’s “Face The Nation”:DNC Chair Howard Dean: “It Looks Like Today, And This Could Change, As Of Today It Looks Like Women...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- As a vote draws near for the confirmation of White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales to succeed Attorney General John Ashcroft, Democrats in the Senate floated the idea of mounting a filibuster to the nomination. Talk of a possible filibuster drew quick rebuke from Gonzales supporters. RNC Deputy Communications Director Danny Diaz commented on a potential Democrat filibuster of Judge Alberto Gonzales' nomination. Gonzales would succeed Attorney General John Ashcroft. "Democrats should understand that filibustering America's first Hispanic nominee for attorney general is neither good policy nor good politics." Diaz said. "Numerous Senators on both sides of...

WASHINGTON, DC - Bush-Cheney '04 Campaign Spokesperson Danny Diaz issued the following statement regarding Senators John Kerry and John Edwards' newly announced travel to Colorado: "Senators John Kerry and John Edwards represent the most divisive, out of the mainstream ticket in the history of presidential politics. Never before has the Democrat Party chosen the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate and the fourth most liberal member of that body. The Kerry/Edwards ticket is wrong to oppose tax reform for Colorado families; wrong to oppose No Child Left Behind education reform; wrong to oppose a prescription drug benefit for Colorado...