Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score, presented by Sinclair Broadcast Group: Louisiana hinges on white swing voters — Democrats split on Syrian resettlement — American Bridge fundraising off Koch story
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:05:10 -0600

By Elena Schneider | 11/19/2015 10:03 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)

CLOSING ISSUE - The pro-David Vitter Fund for Louisiana's Future is out with a new ad pressing Louisiana Democratic gubernatorial nominee John Bel Edwards over Syrian refugees. Watch the ad, "Safety," here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e78f49008c8f9fea00f1e948476cf26ec72b04a902e424c2c88e8bccece72992

Meanwhile, Gumbo PAC's latest ad continues Democratic efforts to keep the issue of Syrian refugees from altering the trajectory of Edwards' run for Louisiana governor. Watch the ad, "Lying Again," here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e78f49008c8f9fea125b9f27628fe970de2de63d25dc05564b88c83ee4647529

VOTE CHASE - "Edwards focused on white swing voters ahead of Louisiana election," by Campaign Pro's Kevin Robillard from Crowley, La.: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e78f49008c8f9feaddf5854e581a937af636f58ed4785ac0f4217a0f4ddc92a0

SYRIA SPLIT - "Syrian refugees split Democratic Party," by POLITICO's Seung Min Kim and Burgess Everett: "President Barack Obama's Syrian refugee program is driving a wedge through the Democratic Party, pitting liberal stalwarts against nervous Senate candidates and some senior lawmakers. ... Democrats battling in competitive races from Ohio to New Hampshire to Nevada are voicing concerns with the vetting process for refugees fleeing Syria, a nation millions have left since a civil war began four years ago. New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, who is challenging Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) in her bid for reelection, urged the federal government to stop accepting Syrian refugees until the
 process is reviewed. Nevada Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto wants U.S. intelligence officials to sign off on the vetting process before admitting more refugees. And former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, aiming to unseat GOP Sen. Rob Portman in Ohio, joined the chorus Tuesday, calling for a "short-term pause" in the resettlement program." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e78f49008c8f9fea9a5a8fc56aad46f04ea98faa2cf32e7efad2ae76ab6b2027

Democrat Conner Eldridge, who's running for Senate in Arkansas, also called for suspending the Syrian refugee resettlement program, the Associated Press reported. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e78f49008c8f9feae1626e7c9f2e3c698e8443449c7ebf6d0dbac04e7a14e4d2

Strickland's Democratic challenger, P.G. Sittenfeld, "said refugees should be welcomed but 'subjected to vigorous security screening,'" the Columbus Dispatch reported. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e78f49008c8f9fea454f0abad52ed47982b737ac002f0c7d579e3129bacf890c

HARLEM SHAKE-UP - "Rangel's retirement starts a primary decades in the making," by Campaign Pro's Theodoric Meyer: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e78f49008c8f9fea10da08e1309b19920658cc2bc903d48e01d97d9379bd8697

Days until the Louisiana runoff: 2. Days until the 2016 election: 355.

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GOT PLANS TODAY? - The University of Virginia Center for Politics will host its 17th annual American Democracy Conference at the Ronald Reagan Building today. Check out the three panel line-up on the Democratic, Republican primaries and the general election outlook, including POLITICO's Steve Shepard: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e78f49008c8f9fea4a339cd7d0a95f63d078de4bdeb8c9b65f6cada5d49eb747 Can't make it? Watch the livestream here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e78f49008c8f9fea35fd731cd35e7abacb063a67bc5a0321a11c94a035a5b4d3 

FIRST IN SCORE - SPY-GAMES FUNDRAISING - American Bridge, a liberal super PAC, will send out a fundraising email to supporters, highlighting POLITICO's Ken Vogel's story on the Koch Brothers. "The Kochs are spying on us. I'm serious," the email reads. 

AD WAR, IN ILLINOIS - CounterPAC, a group backed by tech entrepreneurs, will continue urging Illinois Senate candidates to reject outside group spending, now with full-page ads in the Chicago Sun-Times and the State Journal-Register. The group wants the candidates - Republican Sen. Mark Kirk, Democratic Rep. Tammy Duckworth and Democrat Andrea Zopp - to "Take the Pledge" to decline outside money to "make this race more accountable and stem the flow of unlimited super PAC spending," said Jay Costa, CounterPAC executive director.

PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "Snapchat makes play for political ad revenue," by POLITICO's Shane Goldmacher: "Snapchat wants a share of the millions of dollars that will be spent in political advertising in 2016. And according to data shared with POLITICO, the company has a case to make: two-thirds of the millions of millennials who use Snapchat are likely to vote. ...According to a new survey of 1,517 young people, one-third of all of the millennials likely to vote in America next year use Snapchat. Many of the 2016 candidates are already using the service to post short behind-the-scenes videos of life on the campaign trail. Only Donald Trump, Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee and Jeb Bush, among
 those invited to the last debate, don't have their own accounts. Bernie Sanders became the latest to join in the last week." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e78f49008c8f9fea3a96c66980c5470561d8a2a9d3b2bdcb86ba5f327c042c0d 

- START-UP FUNDS - "Tech moguls shun Clinton super PAC," by POLITICO's Gabriel Debenedetti: "The main super PAC supporting Hillary Clinton's White House bid is struggling to convince Silicon Valley's mega donors to cut the $1 million-plus checks it says it needs to lay the groundwork for what's expected to be the most expensive general-election fight in history. The challenges facing Priorities USA Action, according to a dozen people closely involved in the PAC's California efforts, are manifold: Some of these liberal Democratic tech moguls are more interested in their own self-funded political groups; others cite ideologically fueled distaste for super PACs; and more still point to
 residual bad blood after a messy Silicon Valley congressional race in 2014." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e78f49008c8f9fea4ab8abfc2da5ada33db1089ee0e83ed00aa0feed07a8e249

- AIR WAR IN 2016 - "SEIU launches ad hitting 2016 Republicans on immigration," by POLITICO's Lauren French: "One of the country's largest unions will launch an ad campaign accusing the Republican presidential field of waging political "attacks" on immigrants. The Service Employees International Union's political arm will begin airing the six-figure ad buy on Thursday. The television ads will air in Spanish nationwide and in English in Florida, Nevada, Colorado and Texas. The television ads, obtained by POLITICO, slam Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and Donald Trump for their staunch opposition to proposals from President Barack Obama to allow immigrants who entered the country before their
 16th birthdays to stay in the U.S. legally." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e78f49008c8f9fea7d8de1865603815aa489e2d6537272f12cebf3e39c9b1d33

- SANDERS SUPER PAC - "Bernie Sanders backed by $570,000 from union super PAC," by CNN's Dan Merica: "A super PAC tied to" National Nurses United "has spent almost $570,000 to help his presidential run, according the Sunlight Foundation and representatives from the group, spending that contradicts some of what the Vermont senator has said in the past about campaign finance reform." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e78f49008c8f9fea86cb704915b10c9c625c3596ce9157cb316ce3e14ecb141c

- MORE SUPER PACS - Future 45, a conservative group, will go up with digital ads attacking Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire on foreign policy, NH1 reported. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e78f49008c8f9feab5716a575edc945a8dedcc39b523816e205f9650657c0551 

CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I'm not going to speak about Donald Trump's plans, because he doesn't have specific plans." - Jeb Bush, to a woman at an event who said she was supporting Trump, POLITICO reported. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e78f49008c8f9fea12550415606a5a3bd25d4e3065f1357b43efb26ac7c0bd43

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