Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Why the NRSC is all-in on Snapchat — Super PACs pour money into McCain, Huelskamp primaries — Senate Q2 numbers in Missouri, Nevada, Pennsylvania
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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 08:02:03 -0600

By Elena Schneider | 07/13/2016 10:00 AM EDT

With Theodoric Meyer, Kevin Robillard and Scott Bland

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)

SNAP JUDGMENT - "Why Senate Republicans are going all-in on Snapchat," by Campaign Pro's Kevin Robillard: "The social picture- and video-sharing app, most frequently associated with selfie-taking teens, may seem an odd technology for the Republican Party (or politicians in general) to embrace. Still, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has spent years pushing its candidates and campaigns to adopt and use Snapchat, despite the occasional objections of skeptical digital consultants. ... GOP Senate campaigns have responded. All of the major ones have used Snapchat ads or geofilters, and 11 of the party's candidates have Snapchat accounts. Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, who has a particularly
 flush campaign account, seems to roll out a new Snapchat filter every week."

- Key quote ... "Campaigns are historically awful at including new technologies in their strategies," NRSC executive director Ward Baker, who's becoming a Snapchat evangelist, said in an interview. "I think Snapchat is the future of voter contact." The DSCC's actual response to this strategy: "lol." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=654d56cbce15d56b8b34f95a05ad5c071eb058f680aca63468f7b38847d2a959

FIRST IN SCORE - McCain super PAC returns to the airwaves: Arizona Grassroots Action has released a new TV and digital ad repeating the PAC's theme that GOP Sen. John McCain's primary challenger Kelli Ward is soft on national security, featuring veterans saying "she's weak and doesn't have the guts to take the fight to ISIS" and that she "joined liberals like Bernie Sanders in opposing a bill funding our military." Watch it here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=654d56cbce15d56bf4d3e49d0b2939bf34af5cffc1e3dc82e63ad118870a6b57

- Ending Spending super PAC dropping six figures in Huelskamp's district this week: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=654d56cbce15d56b38ca2e4aa86ed8e7112a1f2b84b83ec02c1be88b6370b6a0

SENATE CASH DASH - In Missouri ... "GOP Sen. Roy Blunt raised more than $2.3 million during the second quarter and has $6.8 million cash on hand. Democratic challenger Jason Kander finished the second quarter with $3.84 million on hand after raising $1.7 million. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=654d56cbce15d56b646fb8cfd70ae22797a1fc1e1363b087359b2e5c516999d5

- In Nevada ... Democratic Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto raised just under $3 million and has $3.4 million on hand. GOP Rep. Joe Heck is yet to release his fundraising numbers, but had $3.5 million on hand at the end of March." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=654d56cbce15d56bd556cd94d6fcb3fe9d51f42be8ea5b883e0ff62d3a44c12b

-In Pennsylvania ... "Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee Katie McGinty raised $2.9 million in the second quarter of 2016. The campaign didn't release a cash on hand number. GOP Sen. Pat Toomey raised $3.1 million in the second quarter and also didn't release a new cash on hand number." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=654d56cbce15d56b5470381b898ea834438039ea1f35833683879e51b31eaee7

Days until the 2016 election: 118. Days until the Republican National Convention: 5.

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VEEPSTAKES - "Team Trump plans public event Friday with VP pick," by NBC News' Kelly O'Donnell: "Donald Trump will showcase his vice presidential pick at a public event on Friday, multiple sources tell NBC News. Trump's possible picks are thought to be narrowed to three candidates: Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. While the joint appearance is expected on Friday, it's not clear whether or not the identity of the pick could be released or could leak earlier in the week." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=288ca46ccf300449679986d3af47b8d96c0fe36c46a62d65e1dfa903fb469637

- "Pence auditions for Trump as Mr. Conventional," by POLITICO's Ben Schreckinger: "Mike Pence is ready to play Mr. Conventional to Donald Trump's Mr. Unorthodox. In the span of a five-minute speech on Tuesday, Pence quoted Ronald Reagan, juxtaposed 'Wall Street' with 'Main Street,' and slipped in a reference to his son's military service, all in the measured cadences familiar to many political stump speeches, though alien to Trump's. The polished performance introducing Trump at a rally in Westfield, Indiana, solidified Pence as the vice presidential option best positioned to balance Trump's unorthodox, often erratic, style with staid predictability - but also as one unlikely to generate
 the same buzz as the showman at the top of the ticket." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=288ca46ccf300449b7ff2e7b0b0ac18d4e38b3cb4042c188398091b309b0d956

WATCH THIS SPACE - "David Duke Plans to Run for Congress," by The Daily Beast's Gideon Resnick: "The former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and ex-candidate for Louisiana governor told The Daily Beast he is heavily leaning towards challenging Rep. Steve Scalise. Scalise is the No. 3 Republican in the House who reportedly once called himself 'David Duke without the baggage' and spoke at a white nationalist group that Duke founded (two event attendees later said Scalise never attended the conference). ... Duke said the killing of five white police officers in Dallas by a black militant pushed him to the brink of running." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=288ca46ccf300449cb7a9e0285537bc541c8b17bb2fa566b4425c011da8a422a 

THE TURNOUT MACHINE 一 "Nevada coalition for immigrant voters rolls out ambitious turnout plan," by the Las Vegas Review-Journal's Alexander S. Corey: " ... Francisco Morales, Nevada director of the Immigrant Voter Project for the Washington D.C.-based Center for Community Change Action, said early canvassing will start Saturday and that the local operation expects to have at least 50 staffers by the end of the month. The national campaign is mostly focused in the key states of Nevada, Colorado and Florida, all of which have large or growing immigrant populations. The campaign is backed by a Super PAC called the Immigrant Voters Win PAC, which has raised $3 million as of March 31, all from
 billionaire businessman George Soros, who gives to democratic causes. The campaign plans to raise $15 million by November." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=288ca46ccf300449233a28ab261cc972ecdf6b53bab2506593e6c637ac7fe057 

EXPANDING THE MAP? - DCCC adds 5 candidates to 'Red to Blue,' 10 to 'Emerging Races': "The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is adding 15 candidates to its "Red to Blue" list of House battleground seats, including five to its top-tier list of target races and another 10 candidates to its "Emerging Races" list, which could turn into map-expanding target districts later this cycle." Read up on all the new candidates here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=288ca46ccf30044964d279186723b7fc2f730912981ae03982cecd2980858ce0

GUBERNATORIAL FUNDRAISING - In North Carolina ... "North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory raised $3.2 million in the second quarter, nearly $2 million less than his Democratic challenger, state Attorney General Roy Cooper, who raised more than $5 million. McCrory is also behind Cooper in cash - McCrory has $6.3 million in the bank, while Cooper has $9.4 million on hand." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=288ca46ccf300449d4a484bc2f21dde24e1949c699913435ac49a6acbd790dd5

PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "Trump allies, enemies make final moves ahead of convention showdown," by POLITICO's Kyle Cheney in Cleveland: "Anti-Trump Republicans huddled here Tuesday morning to plan their final push to block Donald Trump's presidential nomination. Just hours later, national GOP insiders made moves to muscle them into irrelevance. The day featured a last-minute tussle pitting a small - and, by one Trump ally's account, dwindling - core of rebels plotting to oust Trump as the party's nominee against the Republican National Committee leaders who hope to thwart them in the next 48 hours, when a powerful panel of GOP delegates meets to draft the rules of next week's convention." 
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=288ca46ccf300449d76f1d5ec6d7b6404ba921e4cb839a9477f1fd238e27a3e9 

- "Cruz to meet with secretive conservative group in Cleveland," by POLITICO's Shane Goldmacher in Cleveland: "Ted Cruz is making an extra trip to Cleveland to address a closed-door meeting of influential conservative leaders this Friday ahead of the Republican National Convention, according to four people familiar with his plans. Cruz will speak to a gathering of the Council for National Policy, a secretive group of conservative activists, many of whom backed the Texas senator in his failed presidential bid earlier this year. The Council for National Policy is a nonprofit but some of its members, including CNP President Tony Perkins, who also serves as head of the Family Research Council,
 are part of a subgroup that had voted to endorse Cruz in hopes of uniting the conservative movement behind a single candidate in 2016, rather than splintering as it had in 2008 and 2012." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=288ca46ccf300449de17214ce446c905e43523f913566aed1e007cf1400f4d1b 

- "Donald Trump Rebukes Ruth Bader Ginsburg for Deriding his Candidacy," by The New York Times' Maggie Haberman: "Donald J. Trump on Tuesday assailed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court for speaking out on the presidential race, calling her disdainful remarks about his candidacy "highly inappropriate" and suggesting that she owed other justices an apology. Mr. Trump's remarks came in a telephone interview with The Times two days after Justice Ginsburg was quoted as saying she was frightened about what the nation would look like if he were elected. 'I think it's highly inappropriate that a United States Supreme Court judge gets involved in a political campaign, frankly," Mr.
 Trump said. 'I think it's a disgrace to the court and I think she should apologize to the court. I couldn't believe it when I saw it.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=288ca46ccf300449ff71ff39e27719a80df85d07625a1f69378db683ceef446a 

CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I don't know if he's going to be your gov or vice president. Who the hell knows?" - Donald Trump, speaking at a rally in Indiana last night about Gov. Mike Pence, Yahoo News' Holly Bailey tweeted. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=288ca46ccf3004492bd0a4950405c50a14e7146ea810186ba05b3336f0fd83c4 

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