AV Club:

AVC: Were you aware if either one of the campaigns had requirements different from the other campaign?

RTH: For the most part they wanted the same things. But there are, in the DNC rules, requirements that each candidate be given the same thing or at least the opportunity to have the same thing. So every time the Clinton campaign would request something, you’d have to offer it to the Sanders campaign and vice-versa. That was an interesting little nuance that I learned about this whole process.

AVC: Did any of that kind of stuff come up?

RTH: Yeah. The Sanders campaign came at the beginning of this week and said they wanted some rooms in the Union and so we reached out—or, our external relations manager reached out to the Clinton campaign, and again, the Clinton campaign doesn’t know if they’re going to use it or not, but they went ahead and picked up the rooms just in case.

AVC: What were they using the rooms in the Union for?

RTH: The Sanders campaign was using it for what they call their rapid response team, which is the group that basically sits in a room, watches the debate, writes down every talking point, spinning points they can think of during it, and then the rapid response team then meets with the surrogates who are going to do the spinning, and so one of the rooms was for this rapid response team; the other room was for their surrogates.