Subject: Negative Clips
From: "Palermo, Rachel" <[email-masked]>
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Price, Jenna" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 04:58:20 -0700

Negative—Republicans

McAuliffe to GOP: 'Quit complaining' and earn ex-felons' vote<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/terry-mcauliffe-gop-felons-voting-222365>

POLITICO // NICK GASS

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe dismissed on Sunday the notion that his executive order restoring the voting rights of 206,000 ex-felons represents an election-year ploy to help elect a Democrat to the White House. His message for Republicans in an interview with ABC's "This Week": Complain less, campaign more. McAuliffe's order signed last Friday reversed more than 150 years of state law that stripped convicted felons who have served their time of the right to vote, the majority of which are African-American and have traditionally represented a large voting bloc of the modern Democratic Party. As he did in Richmond late last week, when he declared that the law did not overstep his constitutional authority, McAuliffe on Sunday said the restoration would represent an opportunity for all politicians and parties to earn the support of the previously disenfranchised group.

Fed-up GOP mega-donors sitting on their checkbooks<http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/277312-fed-up-gop-mega-donors-sitting-on-their-checkbooks>

THE HILL // JONATHAN SWAN

Republican mega-donors, increasingly fed up with their party’s circus-like presidential primary, are sitting on their checkbooks until the nominee is decided. GOP campaigns and super-PACs saw dismal fundraising figures in March. John Kasich’s campaign took in $4.5 million and his super-PAC $2.8 million for the month — numbers Bernie Sanders’s campaign can beat on a good day. And Ted Cruz isn't doing much better. After a strong start, his super-PAC's income has slowed to a trickle and his campaign took in just $12.5 million in March — less than half of Hillary Clinton’s campaign haul and about a quarter of Sanders’s total. Interviews with major Republican donors and fundraisers reveal that many are fed up after early enthusiasm for unsuccessful candidates. Many of these donors spent millions on the super-PACs supporting Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, one-time favorites who dropped out of the race after getting throttled by Donald Trump.

Koch brothers won't go to Republican National Convention<http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/04/koch-brothers-no-2016-convention-222385>
POLITICO // NICK GASS
Add the Koch brothers' massive political network to the growing list of those who say they will not be attending the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this July. “Why go?” Charles Koch told ABC News<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/charles-koch-skipping-convention-paul-ryan-gops-white/story?id=38633798> in an article published Monday, referring to the brothers' umbrella political organization, Freedom Partners. “We're not interested in politics. We’re interested in moving us towards a culture and policies that will enable people to improve their lives.” Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has said that he will also skip the event, along with the party's 2008 nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain, who is facing a tough re-election race. Despite the Koch brothers' donation of hundreds of millions of dollars to Republican candidates and causes over the past decade, Charles Koch remarked that if Democrats "will do a better job, we would support them."
Charles Koch Says He Could Possibly Support Hillary Clinton<http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/04/24/charles-koch-says-he-could-possibly-support-hillary-clinton/?ref=politics&_r=0>
NEW YORK TIMES // MICHAEL BARBARO
Charles G. Koch, the billionaire industrialist, suggested in an interview Sunday that he was open to supporting Hillary Clinton for president and said it was possible she would make a better president than her Republican rivals. It was an unexpected sentiment from Mr. Koch, who has for years deployed his vast wealth to champion conservative causes and Republican candidacies, emerging as a major foe of the Democratic Party. Mr. Koch sounded at times baffled and disappointed by the language and ideas of several Republican presidential candidates in an interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC, which aired on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” He called a plan by Donald J. Trump to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the country “monstrous” and dismissed Senator Ted Cruz’s proposal to carpet-bomb territory held by the Islamic State as “frightening” hyperbole.

Charles Koch suggests that another Clinton in the White House might be better than Trump or Cruz<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/04/24/charles-koch-suggests-that-another-clinton-in-the-white-house-would-be-better-than-trump-or-cruz/>
WASHINGTON POST // VANESSA WILLIAMS
Conservative political activist Charles Koch suggested in an interview with ABC News on Sunday that Democrat Hillary Clinton would be a better president than the Republican contenders, although he stopped short of saying he would support the former secretary of state if she ends up representing her party in a general election. The billionaire, who with brother David has been active in Republican Party politics, criticized the tone of the GOP presidential primary campaign, citing it as the reason the brothers have not contributed to any campaigns, including efforts to derail Republican front-runner Donald Trump. In the interview with chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl, which aired on ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos," Charles Koch said Bill Clinton had done a better job than George W. Bush in controlling government growth while president.