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“Have Jason do the Sunday shows,” Gabe offered. “Sending me makes this seem like too big a deal. The press secretary sends a more confident message.”

“It would, if anyone actually wanted to book Jason,” Margaret pointed out.

“Which is why we need a new press secretary,” Gabe said—not for the first time.

“Except we don’t, because we have you.” Hal’s tone carried a weight of finality. “You are the face of this campaign. And come Sunday morning, I expect to see that face on television.”

Signal group chat transcript: Anya Katz, Kira Liu, and Simone Humphrey

October 30, 2:42 p.m.

Kira: We’re about to hit $5M since the debate

Simone: No fucking way

Kira: Way way fucking way

Anya: Oh my god!!!!!!!!!

Kira: But we also have a problem

Anya: Of course we do

Anya: What’s up?

Kira: Quinnipiac has a poll in the field testing general election matchups

Simone: Damn. Wheeler’s camp is pushing a viability argument?

Kira: Yeppppp

Kira: So here’s what I think we do:

Kira: I want more rallies

Kira: Bigger ones

Kira: We only have a few weeks until we lose the weather. We need to build on this energy and get more volunteers in the door

Simone: Plus the visual of Jo pulling huge crowds will make any argument that she can’t win look totally unfounded

Anya: That’s excellent

Anya: Wait, can we do some rallies in swing states? Wisconsin, Michigan? She won’t like leaving the early states, but that’ll help with the viability argument for sure

Simone: I’m pulling a map of our biggest donation spikes

Simone: We’re looking great in Madison, Minneapolis, and Detroit

Kira: I love it. Let’s start moving

Kira: We’ll put some numbers together. Anya, you take it to JS?

Anya: I’ll talk to her as soon as she gets off this rope line

Simone: So in like four hours?

Anya: Lol you know it!!