Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: RGA back up on airwaves in Kentucky — Vitter winning Louisiana cash race
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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:02:02 -0600

By Elena Schneider

With Kevin Robillard

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FIRST IN SCORE - SECOND RGA AD IN KENTUCKY HITS CONWAY ON HEALTH CARE, OBAMA: The Republican Governors Association is out with its second ad of the Kentucky governors&#39; race and it has a similar theme: Democratic Attorney General Jack Conway is an 'Obama liberal' who puts 'Kentucky last.' But there&#39;s a notable twist: The ad attacks Conway over his support for Obamacare, even when Kentucky&#39;s state health exchange, Kynect, has proven popular and Kentucky has seen one of the largest drops in the percentage of uninsured since Obamacare&#39;s implementation. Conway&#39;s opponent, GOP businessman Matt Bevin, has said he would dismantle Kynect and put state residents on the federal
 exchange. The spot blames Obamacare for hospitals 'cutting services' and 'laying off staff.' 
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TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO - "Clinton hones the climate change wedge," by POLITICO Pro Energy's Darren Goode: 
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- But there are holes in Clinton's climate plan, while Sanders and O'Malley hope to outflank her with more ambitious plans, Pro Energy's Elana Schor reported: "Does Clinton support or oppose the Keystone XL oil pipeline? Or Arctic offshore drilling? Or tougher restrictions on fracking? Or the oil industry's push to lift the 1970s ban on exporting U.S. crude oil? Clinton avoided all those questions in the solar-heavy climate plan she outlined Sunday night, and in her speech promoting it Monday in Iowa - and she declined yet again Monday to say where she stands on Keystone." 
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VITTER DOMINATING LOUISIANA MONEY RACE: Sen. David Vitter had $5 million in his gubernatorial campaign account as of mid-July, an amount the New Orleans Times-Picayune noted was more than the other three leading candidates combined. Monday was the filing deadline for gubernatorial candidates for a period stretching from April 17 to July 16. GOP Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne pulled in just under $400,000 and has $1.8 million on hand. Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards collected $237,000, giving him $1 million on hand. And Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle also $1 million on hand after pulling in the $432,000 and taking out loans worth $375,000 - his campaign has spent early on television
 advertising, helping him rise in the polls. All three are also backed by PACs, none of whom have more than $200,000 on hand. A super PAC supporting Vitter has $4.4 million on hand. 
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AD WAR - The League of Conservation Voters, as part of a larger campaign aiming to boost the EPA&#39;s clean power plan rule, is airing ads accusing Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.) - both up for reelection in 2016 - of 'put[ting] polluters' profits ahead of your family's health' and encouraging voters to call Burr and Johnson&#39;s offices. But the buy only includes satellite television, not cable or broadcast. Satellite buys allow campaigns and outside groups to target specific viewers and air ads whenever that person is watching, not just during a specific show or block of time. The group is spending about $100,000 on the ads in both North Carolina and Wisconsin.

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And the pair targeting Burr: 
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AD WAR, PART II - Americans for Prosperity is up with an ad this week on Facebook and YouTube, a rollicking spot feature a bobbleheaded Jack Conway in a car headed to Fancy Farm. But the car keeps getting sidetracked and diverting back toward Washington and in the direction of cap-and-trade energy policies, Obamacare and spending. It's a prelude to what's likely to be a sharp-elbowed affair at the annual political gathering and a hail of negative advertising in 2015's marquee statewide race. 
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AD WAR, PART III - The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is celebrating Medicare&#39;s 50th anniversary on Thursday by hitting incumbent Republicans who have 'sought to undermine and dismantle Medicare,' including paid ads on Twitter and Facebook. The week-long campaign ... targeted at New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey and Ohio Sen. Rob Portman. On Tuesday, the DSCC slammed Toomey for voting to turn Medicare into a voucher program.

IN PLAY? - "After Garrett's comments on gay Republicans, Dems look to cash in," by POLITICO's Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman: "Rep. Scott Garrett's private complaint that D.C. Republicans should not support gay candidates is about to bring a pile of cash for his Democratic opponent. Veteran Democratic lobbyist Steve Elmendorf and top political operative Patti Solis Doyle are co-hosting a Washington fundraiser Wednesday for Josh Gottheimer, Garrett's Democratic opponent. The event, which will be held at Elmendorf Ryan's offices, has suggested contribution levels of $1,000, $500 and $250 for attendees, according to a copy of the invitation obtained by POLITICO." 
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PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - IF YOU'RE NOT FIRST, YOU'RE 10TH - "The GOP's battle for 10th place," by POLITICO's Katie Glueck: "Rick Perry called Donald Trump a "cancer." Rick Santorum racked up five national TV hits in a single day. And Lindsey Graham filmed himself lighting his cellphone on fire. Welcome to the race for 10th place. The 11th-hour scramble for attention among the longer-shot candidates comes ahead of a major early test in the Republican presidential primary: qualifying for the first debate, slated for Aug. 6 in Cleveland. ... Christie and Perry are in for now, but only barely. Those still with a chance to make the stage are John Kasich, Rick Santorum and Bobby Jindal. For the
 other candidates - Carly Fiorina, George Pataki, Lindsey Graham, and Jim Gilmore - it would be very difficult to get to Cleveland." 
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- "What Trump bump?" by Campaign Pro's Steve Shepard: "Judging from a spate of recent polls, Donald Trump is riding a wave of popular support. But if you ask Republican campaign pollsters and other political consultants, it's just a mirage, nothing more than a reflection of faulty public polling about how actual Republican primary voters feel about Trump and the other candidates. ... The problem, Republican political professionals say, is that Trump's rise to the top has been driven by intense media coverage of his often circus-like campaign. That media attention, some Republicans gripe, causes his poll numbers to rise - which, in turn, leads to more media attention. But polling
 methodology, these critics argue, is also skewing the numbers." 
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MONEY, PLEASE? - "Bush, Cruz, Rubio and Walker to court Koch donors," by POLITICO's Kenneth P. Vogel: "Four leading GOP presidential candidates - Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker - are traveling to a Southern California luxury hotel in coming days to make their cases directly to the Koch brothers and hundreds of other wealthy conservatives planning to spend close to $1 billion in the runup to the 2016 election. The gathering - hosted by Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, the umbrella group in the Kochs' increasingly influential network of political and public policy outfits - represents a major opportunity for the candidates at a pivotal moment in the presidential
 primary." 
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- Speaking of money, Sen. Rand Paul's backers started a third super PAC, called PurplePAC, run by Cato Institute co-founder and president emeritus Ed Crane, which will focus on digital media. It raised roughly $1.2 million from four donations last month, POLITICO's Daniel Strauss reported. 

POINTING FINGERS - "Clinton campaign redirects email blowback at GOP," by POLITICO's Rachael Bade: "Hillary Clinton's campaign is seizing on the backlash to a faulty New York Times report regarding her email practices at the State Department by trying to link the controversy to a familiar culprit: overzealous Republicans. And the campaign's prime target, unsurprisingly, is Trey Gowdy, the South Carolina Republican who heads the House Select Committee on Benghazi. ... The move by the Clinton camp to turn the tide of bad press back on her Republican adversaries - despite citing no specific knowledge of the Times' sourcing - came after a brutal end of last week for the campaign. ... But last
 weekend was perhaps the first time the campaign led the charge against reports that cast her in a negative light." 
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I will not apologize and I will not recant." - Mike Huckabee, pressed about his comments over the weekend that President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran "will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven." 
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