Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score, presented by Sinclair Broadcast Group: NEW YORK PRIMARY TODAY — Race for Colorado GOP Senate still wide open — Score exclusives: Club for Growth dives into Indiana — More new ads in New Hampshire, California
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 08:01:46 -0600

By Elena Schneider | 04/19/2016 10:00 AM EDT

With Theodoric Meyer and Kevin Robillard

The following newsletter is an abridged version of Campaign Pro's Morning Score. For an earlier morning read on exponentially more races - and for a more comprehensive aggregation of the day's most important campaign news - sign up for Campaign Pro today. (http://www.politicopro.com/proinfo)

BACK WHERE WE STARTED - "Colorado GOP Senate primary is anyone's to win," by Campaign Pro's Elena Schneider: "The race to be Colorado Republicans' Senate nominee is wide open two months out from the primary. Pretty much all that's clear at this point is who won't be the nominee ... The field of 13 winnowed to just five in the past week, with four candidates turning in petitions to qualify for the ballot and a fifth, El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn, getting activists' votes at the state GOP convention last weekend - shutting out the presumed conservative favorite, state Sen. Tim Neville. But it remains unclear who stands to benefit from Neville's exit." 
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FIRST IN SCORE - Club for Growth super PAC goes negative in IN-03: Club for Growth Action will start running its first ad in Indiana's 3rd District today, three weeks ahead of the primary. The ads goes after Kip Tom, one of the candidates opposing the Club for Growth's chosen candidate, Jim Banks, in the GOP primary. "Seen Kip Tom's ads calling him a conservative outsider?" the narrator asks. "Like a lot of political ads, it's the opposite that's true. Kip Tom is on the board of a corporate group that donates to liberals, including Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid." The calls Tom a "liberal insider." It never mentions Banks. Watch the ad: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=f751160e7be47744e5e65720f1c142de52801c0d892cab1ea8783d5a80de2804

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - "How New York will be won," by POLITICO's Steven Shepard: "Two New Yorks are voting on Tuesday. In the Democratic presidential primary, about half the vote will come from New York City's Five Boroughs ... By contrast, the city accounted for only 13 percent of the votes in the 2012 Republican primary. ... But with Donald Trump in a pitched effort to lock down a majority of delegates before July's Republican convention - and the bulk of New York's GOP delegates distributed by congressional district - suddenly the overwhelmingly Democratic New York City districts take on outsized importance since they award the same number of delegates as the redder Upstate districts." 
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Days until the Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island primaries: 7. Days until the 2016 election: 202. 

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FUNDRAISING ROUNDUP - FIRST IN SCORE - House Majority PAC raises more than $1.6 million in March, has 11,000 online donors: The Democratic super PAC also has $9 million in cash on hand. The group has raised more than $11.8 million, so far, for the 2016 cycle. 

"House first-quarter battleground FEC chart," by Campaign Pro's Scott Bland: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=f751160e7be47744e178afb2eeebec3749131601156358a5c30ff7c7a365ce02

- Last minute highlights ... Colorado's Sen. Michael Bennet raised nearly $1.8 million in the first quarter and has $7.6 million on hand. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=f751160e7be477440ede39d5d368c15d531ce46e3275f4b338273859f3b87b8a

- "The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee raised nearly $25 million in the first quarter after bringing in $11.3 million in March, according to a committee aide. The DCCC now has more than $44.1 million on hand. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=f751160e7be47744dc8467d00d7b08abf6a4ed04d719d693aa0b6d8aff35ef42

ON THE AIRWAVES - MORE FALL RESERVATIONS ... "House Majority PAC, Democrats' flagship House super PAC, expanded its fall TV ad reservations to include Phoenix, Ariz. and Green Bay, Wis., per a statement from the group. The group's ad reservations for the final weeks of the 2016 cycle now totals more than $13.6 million across 15 markets - now including a $220,000 buy in Wisconsin and $1.1 million in Arizona." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=f751160e7be4774435f3d9c21511e969724ff3f222aa8691eed5c9d42536784c

- FIRST IN SCORE - In New Hampshire ... Planned Parenthood Votes is out with its first television ad of the 2016 cycle, going after Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte. The ad claims she is "wrong for New Hampshire women" as she's "waited for an opportunity to push for someone to end access to safe, legal abortion and overturn Roe v. Wade" and "refusing to fill the Supreme Court vacancy." It's a part of a $400,000 buy on broadcast and cable stations statewide, according to a statement from the group. Ayotte faces a tight race against Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan. Watch the ad here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=f751160e7be477447655ffde71886fb4c5aceef14e89f336461509541efbc7c9 

FIRST IN SCORE - In Wisconsin ... Democrat Russ Feingold's campaign is out with a new statewide television ad that highlights his foreign policy stances. In the ad, a Vietnam veteran says that "we don't need politicians playing games with attack ads. There's a better way." He then goes on to describe how Feingold will go "after the terrorists' oil money and arms supplies," and that Feingold's national security strategy offers a "tough, realistic plan to protect America." Watch the ad here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=f751160e7be4774423ee47ca5a791a9ba614d4ac6acef8f1de027068cdc0af69 

More in Wisconsin ... Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is going up with a new digital ad campaign, coinciding with Tax Day, which criticizes Feingold for his "record of picking higher taxes over Wisconsin jobs," according to a statement from the campaign. The digital ads will target voters on Facebook and Twitter.

- FIRST IN SCORE - In CA-24 ... Democrat Salud Carbajal released a new television ad, hitting Donald Trump with a "mature" rating for "language and violence," showing the Republican frontrunner saying "like to punch him in the face." Then, the ad flashes the banner, "We can do better." Then, at the camera, Carbajal says, "that's not how we do things on the Central Coast. We stand up to intolerance and we give everyone a voice. Those are the values I want to bring to Congress." Watch the ad here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=f751160e7be477448d7210755a0a6f0616832172a9c8b621f39b93b812db1fb3 

- In Pennsylvania ... A new ad from Rep. Joe Sestak's campaign aims to rebut an attack on his record on Wall Street from Democrat Katie McGinty in Pennsylvania's Senate primary. ...McGinty released an ad over the weekend attacking Sestak for voting against a bill requiring bankers to return bonuses to corporations in response to the financial crisis. Watch the ad here.

More In Pennsylvania ... "Outside GOP group goes in big for Shuster," by POLITICO's Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer: "A leading conservative group is spending $200,000 over the next week to help Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) beat back a vigorous primary challenge. The American Action Network says it will spend nearly $150,000 on a TV ad in Shuster's Western Pennsylvania district. In addition, it's paying for digital advertisements and get-out-the-vote phone calls. The ad touts Shuster's conservative bona fides, and like the group's other ads this cycle, does not mention that Shuster is the incumbent." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=f751160e7be477449e79dc9782d81ea2b18950eea569151b9e4c2fea04220fba 

- In WV-02 ... Democrat Cory Simpson out with his first television ad, airing on broadcast, including Charleston, W. Va., starting tomorrow, three weeks ahead of his primary, according to a statement from the campaign. The biographical ad highlights his military experience. Watch "Mission First" here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=f751160e7be47744d5a35b663a91cb9655bb11cba934c1ee59928438dc1e5612 

FIRST IN SCORE - Franken to headline D.C. fundraiser for Feingold: Democratic Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota will headline a fundraiser for an old colleague, former Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, next week as Feingold tries to win back his old seat. President Barack Obama's former ambassador to Luxembourg, Robert Mandell, will host, along with Lou and Carol Frillman, Erik Smith and Edith Gregson, according to an invitation obtained by POLITICO. The fundraiser will be held at the offices of Frillman and Smith's firm, Marquette Capital Advisors.

FIRST IN SCORE - Houchin debuts first TV ad in IN-09: GOP state Sen. Erin Houchin, who's running for the open seat in Indiana's 9th District, is going up with her first TV ad today. The ad starts as a positive spot before attacking Trey Hollingsworth, her Republican primary rival. "I've spent my life here, fighting for conservative values. Now, a Tennessee millionaire just moved here to try to buy our seat in Congress," Houchin says in the spot. Watch the ad: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=f751160e7be47744db22f5c065561af3e80e9d1ade5c429d92b61aeef5381108 

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PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "Trump orders new campaign hierarchy, spending plan," by POLITICO's Kenneth P. Vogel and Ben Schreckinger: "In a shake-up that's roiling Donald Trump's presidential campaign, the GOP front-runner told senior staffers at a Saturday meeting that he wants his recent hires Paul Manafort and Rick Wiley to take the reins in upcoming states, giving them a $20-million budget for key contests in May and June, according to three sources with knowledge of the meeting. The spending authorization, which covers most of the month of May, is far more than the campaign has spent in any prior month, according to Federal Election Commission filings. The cash infusion ... is intended
 to fund an aggressive advertising push, as well as more staff at Trump's New York headquarters and in upcoming states." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=f751160e7be4774476f65a5af4ca81a6f0fc277a5cd87a5df2dcf59e58ffb6f7 

- "Cruz discovers New York's value," by POLITICO's Katie Glueck in New York: "On the final day before a New York Republican primary in which polls put Ted Cruz hundreds of thousand of votes behind Donald Trump, the Texas senator spent the bulk of his time in the city making appeals to small groups of Republicans behind closed doors. ...Cruz has always had some allies in the New York donor class, but he has long been publicly at odds with Wall Street and the very center-right establishment Republicans these events are set to draw, including as a result of his 'New York values' attack earlier in this campaign. But now, headed to what's likely to be a contested convention faceoff with Donald
 Trump in July, Cruz's hope for winning the nomination depends in large part on uniting the party behind him - and that requires establishment support." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=f751160e7be477441b8b18ff5fe0c84e995510743a02bac569900e0f85dac66f 

- "Carole King is on the prowl for Hillary Clinton voters in New York," by The Huffington Post's Sam Stein: "Walking through the streets of the West Village to rally support for Hillary Clinton, Carole King, the famed singer-songwriter, is confronted with a problem: not everyone believes that she is, in fact, Carole King. This can be frustrating at times, but it is hardly unexpected. Door-knocking is the grunt work of a presidential campaign - the task of the college-aged plebs who have the time, passion and stamina to do it. No one reasonably expects a four-time Grammy Award winner to be the one pushing your buzzer, asking for a few moments of your time to talk political shop. ... But
 success is growing elusive now. At the next building, a woman named Elena answers the buzzer, King explains who she is, and suddenly we have silence. We suspect Elena thought it was a prank." [This wasn't me. Would've believed her.] http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=f751160e7be47744e3583b182d0e0ef4ff4d72c4f73d9a85571d8790426dd0d2 

CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen down on 7-11. Down at the World Trade Center right after it came down." - Donald Trump, in Buffalo, N.Y. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=f751160e7be47744b16341462389c7bc5ca9537dbf275acc4bf6ce0ec0754c83

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