Subject: POLITICO’s Morning Score: Inside the Club for Growth’s 2016 plans — DCCC launching new digital ad campaign
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 08:02:55 -0600

By Theodoric Meyer

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OUTSIDE MONEY - Club for Growth outlines Senate strategy for 2016: The Club for Growth's president, David McIntosh, dropped by the POLITICO newsroom this week to talk 2016, including the group's strategy in Senate and House races. On the Senate side, the Club will focus on supporting four Republicans it has endorsed already: Sen. Ron Johnson in Wisconsin, Sen. Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania, Ron DeSantis in Florida and Marlin Stutzman in Indiana. Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois is not on the list, and McIntosh said he doesn't see a path to victory for any Republican there. "That's going to be a tough Senate seat for any Republican candidate to win in the fall," he said. Sen. Kelly Ayotte in New
 Hampshire and Joe Heck in Nevada also aren't likely to win the Club's backing. "They're not our type of candidate that our members are going to get excited about spending money to support," he said.

- The Club is still identifying races on the House side, but McIntosh pointed to Rep. Renee Ellmers of North Carolina one early potential target for a primary challenge. "She's gotten way out of touch with the conservative base that elected her," McIntosh said. They've already talked with a potential candidate.

CASH HUSTLE - DCCC outraises NRCC in July but has less in the bank: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee raised $4.4 million in July, edging out the National Republican Congressional Committee, which pulled in $3.7 million. But the NRCC still has more cash on hand at the end of the month, with $17.3 million to the DCCC's $16.2 million. Neither committee had any debt.

- On the Senate side, the National Republican Senatorial Committee raised $3.3 million in July and had $7.6 million in cash on hand, with no debt. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee didn't make its numbers available, but the committee was carrying $15.3 million in debt at the end of June. The DSCC has been working to pay down 
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$20.4 million in debt  it found itself saddled with after the 2014 elections.

FIRST IN SCORE - DCCC to launch Spanish-language Twitter ad campaign: The Democratic Congressional Committee is launching a digital ad campaign in an attempt to tie GOP representatives to several Republicans presidential candidates' calls to end birthright citizenship. The DCCC is targeting six vulnerable lawmakers - Reps. Mike Coffman of Colorado, Barbara Comstock of Virginia, Cresent Hardy of Nevada, Will Hurd of Texas, Steve Knight of California and Martha McSally of Arizona - in Spanish-language Twitter ads going up on Thursday. The ads urged their constituents to contact the representatives and ask them to denounce the recent calls by Donald Trump, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Texas
 Sen. Ted Cruz to no longer give citizenship to everyone born in the country.

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TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO - "Black voters dominate Florida redistricting as map negotiations begin," by POLITICO's Matt Dixon in Tallahassee, Fla.:
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AIR WAR - Feingold launches statewide radio ad in Wisconsin: Former Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold's campaign started airing its first radio ad on Wednesday, his campaign said. The radio spot, which focuses on economic issues, is airing statewide. "People tell me increasing the federal minimum is a good start, but some senators don't support even the existence of a federal minimum wage," Feingold says in the ad after highlighting his conversations with voters in all 72 Wisconsin counties. "That's how out of touch Washington has become. I think we honor hard work by requiring fair pay." The ad comes two days after the Club for Growth President David McIntosh said the 
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group planned to spend  at least $1 million this cycle on ads attacking Feingold or supporting his opponent, GOP Sen. Ron Johnson.

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MORE AIR WAR - Vitter, flush with cash, goes up on the air: Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), who's raised more than any of his rivals for governor, will air his first TV ad on Thursday, The Associated Press reports. The ad features two Vitters, one standing in a gloomy Louisiana of "today" and the other in a sunny Louisiana of "tomorrow." Vitter pledges to end Louisiana's budget mess, expand skills training for workers and spend less on educational bureaucracy, "more in the classroom and raise teacher pay." The 30-second ad is running statewide. Republican Scott Angelle has also started airing TV ads in the race, while Republican Jay Dardenne and Democrat John Bel Edwards have not. 
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STAFFING UP - Cummings hires a veteran Senate fundraiser in Maryland: "A veteran Senate campaign fundraiser is now working for Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), a potential sign that he will" get into the Maryland Senate race, The Washington Post reports. "Ashley Martens, who worked for Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) and Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) in past campaigns, is now doing fundraising for Cummings. She is organizing a fundraiser next month at a Nationals-Orioles game in Washington, D.C., asking for $1,000 to $5,000 contributions to Cummings's political action committee. Cummings has been mulling a bid but hasn't announced a campaign. An internal poll released by Rep. Donna Edwards this
 week showed Cummings with much higher favorability ratings than either her or Rep. Chris Van Hollen, the two Democrats currently running for the seat. 
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PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ -"Bottom of GOP heap seething at RNC over debate," by POLITICO's Kyle Cheney and Katie Glueck: "Two weeks after the first Republican presidential debate in Cleveland, several candidates scraping the bottom of primary polls are still seething about their treatment - and ripping party leadership for what they describe as, at best, careless and, at worst, intentional decisions that embarrassed them on national TV." Staffers for several of the candidates who didn't make the top-tier debate in Cleveland vented to POLITICO "about the Republican National Committee - which has adopted a more assertive role in guiding the presidential debate process - arguing that its
 leadership reinforced the optics of what, by many, had been derided as the 'loser' debate. 'Our concern is that the party was putting its thumb on the scale,' said an aide to one of the seven undercard campaigns." 
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"No plans to stop, says Black Lives Matter," by POLITICO's Sarah Wheaton in Vineyard Haven, Mass.: "Memo to 2016 candidates from Black Lives Matter: We will continue to disrupt your events no matter what you do or say, and we won't stop anytime soon." Patrisse Cullors, who co-founded the Black Lives Matter network, says that the group won't back off its hijacking of events held by candidates from Jeb Bush to Bernie Sanders. That's because the protests aren't aimed only at the candidates, but more so at the predominantly white crowds that come out to see them. 'This is a public display of the agony and anguish black people feel on a daily basis, and many of you don't have to see it or deal
 with it or go home to it, so we're going to bring it to you,' Cullors said. It's a message likely to frustrate the campaigns that have rushed to placate the activists, who've quickly proven effective at hijacking events and messages. But the movement is fundamentally skeptical of the political process, with only limited interest in specific policy changes on the national level." 
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- "Hillary Clinton, pressed on race, issues her own challenge," by The New York Times' Maggie Haberman: "The video is visceral and raw: Hillary Rodham Clinton - the presidential candidate so often faulted for insulating herself from voters and critics alike - in a tense, awkward, unscripted moment. A Black Lives Matter activist, Julius Jones, demands, at great length, that Mrs. Clinton acknowledge her culpability for supporting criminal justice policies put in place by her husband's administration that wound up harming black Americans .... Mrs. Clinton, after listening and nodding for several minutes, responds calmly that her life's work has been helping the nation's poorest children, many
 of them black, before turning the tables on the much younger man and demanding instead to know how he plans to turn his deeply felt emotions into meaningful, lasting change." 
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- "Far from New York, Christie and Bush run against 'crazy' de Blasio," by POLITICO's Laura Nahmias and Dana Rubinstein: "Two more Republican presidential candidates have found a perfect foil in Mayor Bill de Blasio. In the past 36 hours, he's been attacked three times on the campaign trail by GOP presidential candidates - once by Jeb Bush and twice by Chris Christie." 
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: 'She did nothing. You see, I know what to do. I know how to stop it.' - Dennis Hof, a Nevada brothel owner who's considering a Senate run, says the Democratic candidate, Catherine Cortez Masto, didn't do enough to stop illegal sex trafficking as attorney general. He says he'd run on his business acumen; he didn't lay off a single employee back in 2008. 
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