Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Senate Republicans facing wave of health care attacks — Why to watch Roy Moore in Alabama's Senate race — DNC hires Uber exec
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:04:09 -0600
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By Daniel Strauss | 06/29/2017 10:00 AM EDT

With Elena Schneider, Kevin Robillard, and Scott Bland
 
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WELCOME HOME! - "Senate Republicans head home to avalanche of health care attacks," by Campaign Pro's Kevin Robillard: "Senate Republicans heading home for the July Fourth recess are flying into a barrage of practically unanswered TV ads assailing their party's health care plans. The high-intensity ad campaign is part of a broader Democratic effort for the congressional recess, when they hope constituent pressure will turn Republican senators against the GOP health care bill, which was unveiled and quickly delayed in the last week. And it is putting particular pressure on Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.), the only Senate Republican up for reelection in 2018 in a state Hillary Clinton carried in
 last year's presidential race. Three separate national polls released Wednesday showed 20 percent or less of voters backing the Republican Party's current push on health care, and even the most favorable surveys for the GOP still show significantly more opposition than support for the GOP on health care." Full story.
 
- "Polls show GOP health bill bleeding out," by POLITICO's Steven Shepard: "Republican efforts to craft a new health care bill just hit another roadblock: An avalanche of public polling data dropped Wednesday, showing support for the legislation is under 20 percent. That's bad enough, but it's not just the topline numbers that are near rock-bottom. Few voters think the bill will make the health care system or their own care better. And many of the policy changes in the various versions of GOP health legislation - like decreasing federal funding for Medicaid - are profoundly unpopular. The dreadful round of polling represents more than just another obstacle for Senate Majority Leader Mitch
 McConnell, who's attempting to cobble together a bill that will capture enough votes to pass. The polling data has become a talking point among senators in both parties who are either opposed to the measure - or wary of passing a law with such little public support." Full story.
 
- HEAT ON HEALTHCARE - The Democratic Governors Association released a set of ads targeting Republican gubernatorial candidates in six states on healthcare. The ads, which can be watched here, aim to urge candidates in Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, Nevada, Florida, and Rhode Island, to actively oppose Senate Republicans' Obamacare replacement bill. "Republican gubernatorial candidates around the country must tell voters where they stand on this disastrous bill," said DGA Communications Director Jared Leopold. "From Virginia to Nevada, Republican candidates for governor have gone into hiding on health care. Citizens want to know: Do these candidates support the Senate healthcare bill or do they
 oppose it? These ads call on Republican gubernatorial candidates to finally speak up."
 
TIDE ROLLS ON - "Low-budget Moore carves out strong position in expensive Alabama Senate race," by Campaign Pro's Daniel Strauss: "Sen. Luther Strange has the money, the institutional support and the incumbent status. Rep. Mo Brooks is seeking support in Congress and leaning on his conservative voting record. But neither candidate currently leads the special GOP primary for Strange's seat. That distinction goes to former state Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, according to Brooks' own internal polling. The firebrand ex-judge has gotten less attention than his Washington-based opponents in the Aug. 15 primary for Attorney General Jeff Sessions' old Senate seat. But he could be an unusually
 strong obstacle for Strange in an age of unsettled Republican primaries. An internal poll for Brooks' campaign recently found Moore leading the Republican primary field of nearly a dozen candidates with 31 percent, followed by Strange at 23 percent, Brooks at 21 percent and the other candidates bunched beneath the 5 percent threshold, according to an Alabama Republican with knowledge of the poll. Moore is hoping his years of high-profile religious fights on the Alabama Supreme Court will fuel his run more than a high-budget campaign would have." Full story.  
 
- "Alabama Senate candidate Pittman to meet with Club for Growth" by Campaign Pro's Daniel Strauss: "Alabama state Sen. Trip Pittman, a Republican candidate in the special U.S. Senate election, is scheduled to meet with the Club for Growth next week, according to multiple Republicans with knowledge of the meeting. Pittman will meet with the influential outside group on July 7. He is one of nearly a dozen candidates competing in the Aug. 15 primary for Attorney General Jeff Sessions' old Senate seat, now held by appointed Sen. Luther Strange." Full story. 
 
- "Brooks's prior attacks on Trump could hurt in Alabama Senate race," by The Hill's Ben Kamisar: "Brooks declared during last year's GOP presidential primary that he could not trust a 'serial adulterer' like Trump, then offered Trump only lukewarm support in the general election against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton." Full story. 
 
Days until the 2017 election: 131.
 
Days until the 2018 election: 495.
 
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PROGRAMMING NOTE - Due to the July 4 holiday, Morning Score will not publish on Monday, July 3 and Tuesday, July 4. Our next edition will publish on Wednesday, July 5. 
 
EARLY POLLING DATA - Walker, Baldwin approval split: "Heading into their respective 2018 reelection bids, opinions about both Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin and GOP Gov. Scott Walker are split in Wisconsin, according to a new Marquette University Law School poll. Thirty-eight percent of registered voters see Baldwin favorably in the survey, while an identical 38 percent see her unfavorably. Another 21 percent haven't heard enough about her to have an opinion. That's a slight slip for the senator, whose favorability stood at 40 percent in March, while 35 percent had a negative opinion. Walker's approval rating, meanwhile, has completed a climb back from his approval rating plummeting before
 and after his unsuccessful presidential bid in 2016. It now stands at 48 percent, with an identical 48 percent disapproving." Full story. 
 
STAFFING UP - "DNC hires Uber, Twitter exec as new CTO," via POLITICO's Nancy Scola: "The Democratic National Committee has brought on as its new chief technology officer Raffi Krikorian, a veteran of both Uber and Twitter. From 2015 to March, Krikorian was an executive at Uber, where he led the company's efforts to develop a self-driving car unit. But Krikorian largely made his name in tech through five years he spent at Twitter, as vice president of engineering in charge of Twitter's core platform." Full story.
 
CALENDAR ITEM - The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (i.e. Trump's commission to investigate alleged voter fraud) will hold its first meeting in D.C. on July 19, according to a release from Vice President Mike Pence's office. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the vice-chair of the commission and a candidate for governor in 2018, is requesting voter file data from every state and "feedback on how to improve election integrity" in advance of the meeting.
 
STILL HERE - "Why Nancy Pelosi isn't going anywhere," by POLITICO's Kyle Cheney and Heather Caygle: "Five hundred days of Nancy Pelosi. That's how long disgruntled House Democrats have begun to accept that the California Democrat will continue leading them, despite painful special election losses that prompted party-wide soul-searching and scattered calls for her immediate ouster. House Democrats are acknowledging there's virtually no chance she's going anywhere before the 2018 congressional elections ... 'If we win, everything is good. If we don't win, then we can have this discussion,' Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) said in an interview. 'But we don't do this in the middle of the game.'"
 Full story.
 
CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I think in fairness we owe her that. We owe her two years," - Rep. Stephen Lynch on why House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi should continue to lead the Democratic caucus.
 
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