WikiLeaks has posted another batch of emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta.
The website RT posted details about some of the 1,812 emails, which revealed more inner workings of Clinton's presidential campaign, such as her emotional connection to voters, the Clintons not forgetting "what their friends have done for them," Clinton apologizing for using a private email server, and more.
The leak includes Steve Hildebrand, former deputy national campaign director for President Barack Obama, saying that Clinton needs to find an "emotional connection" to voters.
"Hillary has got to get away from Washington speak and begin immediately to find an emotional connection to regular Americans. She needs to have a greater understanding of what people and families are going through every day," Hildebrand wrote.
Podesta responded to Hildebrand saying that he agreed, but would not follow the same tactics as Clinton's primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders.
"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," Podesta wrote.
In other emails, Clinton's campaign manager Robby Mook emailed Podesta about moving the Illinois primary out of March. If Illinois moved the campaign to May, they were promised more delegates.
"This is not an Obama ask, but a Hillary ask," Mook wrote. "And the Clintons won't forget what their friends have done for them."
The 2016 Illinois primary stayed in March, and Clinton won for the Democrats, earning 25,000 more votes and two more delegates than Sanders.
The release also included a request that former President Bill Clinton thank Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy for his endorsement of Hillary Clinton.
"The goal is to express YOUR and Hillary's gratitude to and support for Sen. Leahy, and to ensure he remains a committed Hillary superdelegate."
Podesta and other staffers Sept. 4, 2015 discussed Hillary Clinton almost apologizing for using a private email server.
"Everyone wants her to apologize. And she should. Apologies are like her Achilles heel," said Neera Tanden, CEO of the Center for American Progress.
Clinton's traveling press secretary Nick Merrill told Clinton aide, Cheryl Mills, to take out a comment from a Clinton speech where she said she released 55,000 emails so that the public could learn about "the incredible department I was proud to lead." Merrill said that he would take out the phrase "That's why," in the next sentence.
"You know, because it's not why," Merrill wrote.
In January 2016, Clinton's campaign team discussed how to handle "the sensitive WJC related questions," referring to Bill Clinton's past. "Is this accomplishable or will it be too weird?" lawyer Karen Dunn asked aide Huma Abedin.
In one example of the media being linked to the campaign, Brent Budowsky, a reporter for The Hill, emailed Podesta in December 2015 to recommend that Bill ignore Trump because he knew how the media, and Trump, would respond.
"Trump is very predictable. The media is very predictable, they will megaphone Trump taking cheap shots at WJC. My suggestion would be for WJC to have ready a litany of 'responses.'"
Other topics included a million-dollar check from the country of Qatar to Bill Clinton for his birthday, a note about Vermont legislation "blatantly validates Bernie's entire campaign message about Wall Street running our government," and a joke about how the Clinton campaign team lacks diversity.
"Lotta white guys," Mook wrote in the email chain.
ABC reported more on the leaked emails, in which Podesta urged Clinton to make calls to prominent Hispanic politicians. The subject line read, "Needy Latinos and 1 easy call."
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