Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Rosendale jumps into Montana Senate race — Barletta planning Pennsylvania run — Ryan, Walker tout Foxconn deal — Mid-year campaign finance reports
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By Daniel Strauss | 08/01/2017 10:03 AM EDT

With Zach Montellaro, Kevin Robillard, Elena Schneider, Scott Bland and Maggie Severns
 
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REPUBLICANS JUMP IN - "State auditor Rosendale enters Montana Senate race," by Campaign Pro's Elena Schneider: "Montana State Auditor Matt Rosendale is formally launching his campaign to challenge Democratic Sen. Jon Tester today, Rosendale confirmed to POLITICO. 'I've always said that I will serve wherever Montanans feel I can be the most effective, and I've gotten calls from the across the entire state from people who are not satisfied with the job that Tester is doing,' Rosendale said. 'He acts like a farmer when he's here, but he goes back to Washington and votes just like Chuck Schumer.' A handful of Republicans are already in the race, including businessman Troy Downing and state Sen.
 Al Olszewski. But Rosendale is the first statewide officeholder to jump into the race against Tester, a two-term incumbent who is one of the GOP's top Senate targets of 2018." Full story.
 
- "Sources: Barletta planning Pennsylvania Senate run" by Campaign Pro's Kevin Robillard: "Rep.  Lou Barletta  plans to challenge Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in 2018, according to two Republican sources. Barletta, an early supporter of President Donald Trump and the former mayor of Hazelton, is an immigration hard-liner serving his fourth term in the House. Trump has publicly suggested that Barletta challenge either Casey or Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf ... Barletta won his House seat during the 2010 GOP wave, in his third run for Congress. With this move, he becomes the biggest name in a large Republican field that has formed to challenge Casey. State Reps. Rick Saccone and Jim Christiana are
 also running in the Republican primary, as is businessman Jeff Bartos. Rep. Pat Meehan has already passed on a run for Senate." Full story. 
 
FIRST IN SCORE - Ryan launches local digital ads touting Foxconn investment in Wisconsin: The House speaker is tending the home fires, where Democrat Randy Bryce is raising a lot of money online to challenge Ryan in 2018, as he also raises millions to help protect House Republicans in other districts. Ryan's campaign is launching digital display and search ads praising Ryan as "delivering on Wisconsin jobs" in the wake of the deal, which involved President Donald Trump, Gov. Scott Walker and Ryan, to bring a Foxconn plant to the state. The ads direct to Ryan's website and a video touting the state economy, with Ryan saying, "What this Foxconn announcement showcases is the fact that southern
 Wisconsin can become an epicenter for high-tech manufacturing." Team Ryan executive director Kevin Seifert, in a statement: "In Wisconsin, you are judged on results - if you are actually improving people's lives. Well, this Foxconn announcement is a big win for Wisconsinites because it will bring good-paying jobs to our state and I can tell you this - it makes Paul so proud to advocate for the state and the people he loves"
 
- And so does Scott Walker: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's political operation is launching a targeted statewide digital ad campaign to promote the FoxConn deal. The ads link to a fact sheet promoting the deal and an e-mail sign-up list. The group says it's the "centerpiece of centerpiece of Friends of Scott Walker's digital spending ahead of the fall," and says the ads will run on a variety of platforms. Read the Walker sheet here. 
 
Days until the 2017 election: 98.
 
Days until the 2018 election: 462.
 
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BIG MONEY - About yesterday's mid-year campaign finance filings: The Democratic Governors Association raised $21 million in the first half of 2017, while the Republican Governors Association raised $36 million ... The Trump-aligned super PAC America First Action reported raising $204,277 and spending $26,099 during the first six months of the year - $200,000 of which was raised from a single donor, Michigan GOP chairman Ronald Weiser. ... The anti-incumbent group Justice Democrats reported raising $923,803 and spending $499,634 during the first half of this year. Most of Justice Democrats' spending was in the form of transfers to anti-incumbent Brand New Congress and was labeled as
 "strategic consulting." ... Jason Kander's voting rights 527 group Let America Vote raised $1,768,331 and spent $681,771 during the first half of the year. The Let America Vote PAC reported raising an additional $402,449 and spent $288,939. ... Wisconsin-based GOP megadonor Richard Uihlein poured $1.5 million into his Solutions for Wisconsin PAC during the second quarter of 2017. Solutions for Wisconsin distributed $750,000 each to two other groups, Restoration PAC and Americas PAC. ... The Democratic Attorneys General Association raised $2.96 million and spent $2.59 million during the first six months of the year. 
 
- Senate Leadership Fund takes in $1M from Steven Cohen, $700K from Chevron: Senate Leadership Fund complemented its usual array of big-dollar individual donors with some big corporate donations on its way to raising $8.3 million in the first six months of the year. Chevron donated $700,000, private prison company GEO Corrections donated $100,000 and Nextera Energy donated $500,000. Oft-quoted-friend-of-Trump and NewsMax CEO Christopher Ruddy donated $50,000, hedge funder Steven Cohen donated $1 million and Zuffa CEO Lorenzo J. Fertitta and Red Rock Resorts CEO Frank Fertitta each donated $500,000. The group has $9.6 million on hand.
 
- Senate Majority PAC takes big money from unions, shopping mall heiress: Deborah Simon, the daughter of shopping mall pioneer Melvin Simon, was the biggest individual donor to Senate Majority PAC in the first six months of the year, sending a $1 million check. Former hedge fund manager and scientist David E. Shaw donated $500,000. The committee also got nearly $660,000 in ActBlue donations. The National Association of Letter Carriers' political fund donated $250,000, as did the political arm of the American Federation of Teachers. Actor Dennis Haysbert chipped in $600. The group raised $4.6 million and has $4.5 million on hand. 
 
- CODA - Perez paid more to Harrison than other DNC chair opponents: Several weeks ago, POLITICO reported that DNC Chairman Tom Perez covered $22,270 in debt of Jamie Harrison, his opponent in the DNC race who dropped out and endorsed him shortly before the chairmanship election. Perez had covered debt for two other DNC rivals, and yesterday in his FEC filing the full amounts he covered became clear. Perez gave Sally Boynton Brown and Jehmu Greene $5,000 each to help cover their campaign debts-- less than he gave Harrison. See the original story here. All together, Perez raised $755,677 and spent $779,248 through the 527 group he established for his run for DNC chair, according to the
 filing. 
 
ECHOING PELOSI... - "Dem campaign chief vows no litmus test on abortion," by The Hill's Ben Kamisar and Reid Wilson: "Democrats will not withhold financial support for candidates who oppose abortion rights... [DCCC chair] Ben Ray Luj&aacute;n (D-N.M.) said there will be no litmus tests for candidates as Democrats seek to find a winning roster to regain the House majority in 2018. ... 'Throwing weight behind anti-choice candidates is bad politics that will lead to worse policy,' said Mitchell Stille, who oversees campaigns for NARAL Pro-Choice America. 'The idea that jettisoning this issue wins elections for Democrats is folly contradicted by all available data.' ... Luj&aacute;n, a close
 ally of Pelosi, would not rule out supporting a candidate who does not back Pelosi's bid to become Speaker. 'We want to win back the House. Once we win back the House we can have the conversation as to who we're going to elect as the new Speaker of the House,' Luj&aacute;n said. 'The only way that we're able to have that real conversation is if we're able to put the majority in play and win it back.'" Full story.
 
DAILY WAR EAGLE - "New Strange ad ties him to Trump, Sessions," by Campaign Pro's Daniel Strauss: "Sen. Luther Strange's campaign released a new TV ad today, framing him as an opponent to "never-Trump insiders" who's working closely with President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions to fight illegal immigration...Sen. Luther Strange's campaign released a new TV ad today, framing him as an opponent to "never-Trump insiders" who's working closely with President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions to fight illegal immigration." Full story.
 
- The top three candidates in the Alabama Republican primary for Senate highlighted endorsements on Monday. Rep. Mo Brooks announced in a press release the support of Ann Coulter. Former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore's campaign emailed supporters to highlight being endorsed by the Alabama Republican Assembly last week. Meanwhile, Sen. Luther Strange's campaign, released a new ad, reported by Strauss, reminding voters that he had been endorsed by the NRA. Watch the ad here. 
 
HMM... - "LePage rallies his supporters against Susan Collins," by the Bangor Daily News' Michael Shepherd: "Gov. Paul LePage looks to be leading a Republican civil war against U.S. Sen. Susan Collins' 2018 gubernatorial bid before anyone's sure she'll declare one and as she sits at the center of the national health care debate. The governor railed against the moderate Republican senator at a Saturday pig roast put on by the Somerset County Republican Committee in Canaan, where an attendee said LePage repeatedly mentioned working to defeat Collins if she runs for governor next year." Full story.
 
ADMINISTRATION SPEED READ - "Scaramucci's short, wild ride through Trump's White House," by POLITICO's Josh Dawsey, Annie Karni, and Tara Palmeri: "Financier Anthony Scaramucci came into his new role as White House communications director threatening "to fire everybody."Ten days later, he was pushed out before lunch by John Kelly, the chief of staff who replaced the chief of staff Scaramucci was instrumental in pushing out...The reality, described in interviews by more than a half-dozen administration officials and others close to the White House, was even more complicated. Scaramucci's arrival in the West Wing six months into Trump's presidency seemed to herald a return to the visceral and
 brash New York ways of the campaign-and a rejection of the clubby, more buttoned-up instincts of Republican operatives brought into the administration by Priebus from the RNC. Instead, it brought more chaos to a White House defined by disorder." Full story. 
 
CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Those are immediate things, but in the longer term, Republicans have some ideas, we have some ideas, and we'll sit down and try to hash them out as Congress should do." - Sen. Chuck Schumer on Obamacare. 
 
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