Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: House Majority PAC WV-03 ad slams Jenkins over Koch money - N.C. Republicans debate for second time in two days - Grimes backs Keystone XL - The left’s ‘secret club’
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 08:13:57 -0600

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HOUSE MAJORITY PAC SLAMS KOCH MONEY IN WV-03: Democrats appear newly optimistic about Rep. Nick Rahall's chances of holding his seat in West Virginia's 3rd District after a House Majority PAC-commissioned poll found him leading Republican Evan Jenkins by 12 points - and now House Majority PAC is out with a new ad there, extending its previous ad buy. "Over $1 million and counting: that's how much the billionaire Koch brothers are spending to elect Evan Jenkins," the ad says. "The Koch brothers wouldn't be billionaires if they didn't get what they paid for - in Washington, Evan Jenkins won't work for us." It's a little ironic that the attack on the Koch brothers' outside spending, whose
 group Americans for Prosperity has been on the airwaves hitting Rahall, comes from another outside group - but Democratic groups have been making the argument against the Koch brothers on candidates' behalf all spring. The ad will run in the Charleston-Huntington and Bluefield-Beckley markets, starting today, at a cost of $70,000. Watch: 
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TILLIS FOCUSES ATTACKS ON HAGAN IN PRIMARY DEBATE: Thom Tillis, the Republican frontrunner in the primary to take on Democrat Sen. Kay Hagan in North Carolina, targeted Hagan throughout the debate hosted by WRAL-TV Wednesday evening, instead of the GOP opponents beside him. Although the primary could head to a runoff in July, Tillis did not make an effort to draw a contrast between him and the rest of primary candidates. Unlike Tuesday night's debate, OB-GYN Greg Brannon, who has been endorsed by Sen. Rand Paul, did not target Tillis. Pastor Mike Harris again mentioned the importance of electing a candidate basedon 'character' - a subtle reference to the attacks on Tillis regarding his
 former aides&#39; romantic relationships with lobbyists and the severance packages he gave them when they resigned - but he didn&#39;t outright attack Tillis either. The candidates were asked for their views on the Affordable Care Act, immigration, jobs, religion and climate change. Early voting for the May 6 primary starts today.

As Alison Lundergan Grimes gives support to the Keystone, Asa Hutchinson launches a campaign app and the Left's "secret club" gathers, here&#39;s POLITICO&#39;s Morning Score: your daily guide to the 2014 midterms.

DAYS UNTIL THE ELECTION: 194.

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THIS WEEK'S RATINGS CHANGES: Cook shifts HI-01 from "Solid Democrat" to "Likely Democrat," and FL-10 from "Likely Republican" to "Solid Republican" (
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HAGAN, DEMOCRATS TRY TO BUY TIME BEFORE FACING TILLIS 

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TODAY ON POLITICO - THE LEFT'S SECRET CLUB: POLITICO's Kenneth Vogel reports on a closed-door meeting in Chicago next week where the country's biggest Democratic donors will join Democratic superstars to plan a progressive strategy for 2014 and 2016: "The setting is the annual spring meeting of the Democracy Alliance, a secretive club of wealthy liberals that's the closest thing the left has to the vaunted Koch brothers' political network. The DA, as the liberal group is known to insiders, is increasing its ranks of rich donors for the first time in years and is gearing up to spend huge sums on political data, voter registration, ground organizing and advertising to influence the 2014
 midterms and 2016 presidential elections. Potentially more significant, the groups' donors also could play an important role in determining whether the post-Barack Obama Democratic Party embraces the rising tide of progressive populism or hews to a more cautious, centrist course - in other words, whether the Hillary Clinton wing or Elizabeth Warren wing will seize the reins." 
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GRIMES SAYS &#39;YES&#39; TO KEYSTONE: Kentucky Democratic Senate hopeful Alison Lundergan Grimes made the announcement Wednesday afternoon to the Associated Press, saying: 'Like any project of this scale, the Keystone is not perfect, but on balance, the project offers much needed economic and employment opportunity.' It moves her out of the noncommittal camp, which she shared with Mark Udall (
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 up to the Senate. It&#39;s up to the president.' 
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ASA HUTCHINSON'S NEW iPHONE APP: Former Arkansas Rep. Asa Hutchinson, the Republican locked in a tight gubernatorial race with Democrat Mike Ross, is seeking to up his online and mobile game with a new mobile app, "Asa for iOS." Created by the group VoteRockIt, the app (currently for iPhone but soon for Android as well) allows users to get information and news about the campaign, sign up to volunteer and also share info about the campaign with their friends. This is the first statewide campaign app this cycle for VoteRockIt, which aims to bring similar technology to down-ballot campaigns. 
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "He's made a mockery out of my husband's life and his legacy." -Beverly Young, widow of the late Rep. C.W. Bill Young, on why she's no longer backing now-Rep. David Jolly. 
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