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Jun 12, 2020

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Quick Fix

— Pre-primary reports are in for the June 23 primaries, which includes a handful of battleground House seats and hotly contested Democratic primaries in New York.

— The Republican convention is officially headed to Jacksonville, Fla., but there will still be some official business conducted in Charlotte, N.C.

— Freshman GOP Rep. Denver Riggleman could be ousted on Saturday at a socially distant district convention, after activists were infuriated he officiated a same-sex marriage.

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Days until the Kentucky, New York and Virginia primaries and Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina primary runoffs: 11

Days until the Democratic convention: 66

Days until the Republican convention: 74

Days until the 2020 election: 144

TopLine

THE CASH DASH — We have the latest money updates for the primaries on June 23, which include competitive battlegrounds and heated Democratic primaries. These reports cover April 1 through June 3.

KY-Sen: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell raised $7.2 million, spent $6.7 million and has $15.4 million in the bank (filing).

Democrat Amy McGrath raised $11.3 million (no, this is not a typo), spent $6.7 million and has $19.3 million in the bank (filing). Charles Booker raised $476,000, spent $262,000 and has $285,000 in the bank ( filing). Mike Broihier raised $260,000, spent $104,000 and has $251,000 in cash on hand (filing).

KY-04: GOP Rep. Thomas Massie raised $336,000, spent $657,000 and has $369,000 on hand ( filing ). His primary challenger, Todd McMurty, raised $28,000, spent $252,000 and has $13,000 in the bank (filing).

KY-06: Republican Rep. Andy Barr raised $210,000, spent $96,000 and has $1.8 million in the bank (filing ). Democrat Josh Hicks raised $255,000, spent $126,000 and had $595,000 on hand (filing).

NY-01: GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin raised $578,000, spent $363,000 and has $2 million in the bank (filing).

Democrat Bridget Fleming raised $217,000, spent $410,000 and has $112,000 in the bank (filing). Perry Gershon raised $138,000, spent $453,000 and has $190,000 in cash on hand. (filing). Nancy Goroff raised $1.2 million (which includes a $1 million loan), spent $1.1 million and has $758,000 in cash reserves (filing).

NY-02: In the open battleground seat, Republican Andrew Garbarino raised $63,000, spent $165,000 and has $220,000 in the bank (filing). Michael LiPetri raised $45,000, spent $40,000 and has $141,000 left in cash on hand (filing).

Democrat Jackie Gordon raised $311,000, spent $109,000 and has $737,000 on hand (filing ).

NY-11: Freshman Democratic Rep. Max Rose raised $674,000, spent $231,000 and has $3.8 million in cash on hand (filing).

Republican Nicole Mallitotakis raised $162,000, spent $152,000 and has $894,000 in cash on hand ( filing). Joe Caldarera raised $16,000, spent $48,000 and has $20,000 in the bank (filing).

NY-15: In the Democratic primary in the open, deep blue seat, Rubén Díaz Sr. raised $9,000, spent $76,000 and has $58,000 in the bank (filing ). Ritchie Torres raised $85,000, spent $512,000 and had $502,000 in the bank (filing). Michael Blake raised $232,000, spent $183,000 and has $126,000 in cash on hand (filing). Melissa Mark-Viverito raised $65,000, spent $58,000 and has $29,000 in the bank (filing). Ydanis Rodriguez raised $35,000, spent $20,000 and has $24,000 in cash reserves ( filing ). Samelys Lopez raised $125,000, spent $39,000 and has $132,000 in the bank (filing). (This is a massive field; the fundraising numbers are only for candidates who got higher than 1 percent in a recent Data for Progress poll.)

NY-16: Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel raised $389,000, spent $610,000 and has $826,000 in the bank (filing). His primary challenger Jamaal Bowman raised $431,000, spent $303,000 and has $345,000 in cash on hand (filing).

NY-17: In the open Democratic primary, David Buchwald raised $347,000 (which includes a $300,000 loan), spent $329,000 and has $514,000 in the bank ( filing). David Carlucci raised $89,000, spent $86,000 and has $101,000 in the bank (filing). Evelyn Farkas raised $366,000, spent $812,000 and has $242,000 in the bank (filing). Mondaire Jones raised $295,000, spent $500,000 and has $339,000 in cash on hand (filing ). Nearly the entirety of Adam Schleifer's $2.1 million in fundraising came through a loan. He spent $3.3 million and has $369,000 in the bank (filing). Allison Fine raised $54,000, spent $100,000 and has $29,000 in cash on hand (filing).

NY-18: Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney raised $66,000, spent $101,000 and has $859,000 in cash on hand (filing). Republican Chele Farley raised $45,000, spent $118,000 and has $186,000 in cash on hand (filing).

NY-19: Freshman Democratic Rep. Antonio Delgado $295,000, spent $232,000 and has $2.7 million in the bank ( filing).

Republican Ola Hawatmeh raised $5,000, spent $33,000 and has $226,000 in cash on hand (filing). Kyle Van De Water raised $2,000, spent $14,000 and has $2,000 in the bank (filing).

NY-21: GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik raised $725,000, spent $793,000 and has $3.9 million in the bank (filing). Democrat Tedra Cobb raised $364,000, spent $200,000 and has $2.5 million in the bank (filing).

NY-22: Freshman Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi raised $346,000, spent $176,000 and has $2.3 million in cash on hand (filing). Former GOP Rep. Claudia Tenney raised $151,000, spent $145,000 and has $414,000 in the bank (filing).

NY-24: GOP Rep. John Katko raised $166,000, spent $77,000 and $1.3 million (filing).

Democrat Dana Balter raised $154,000, spent $242,000 and has $181,000 in the bank (filing). Francis Conole raised $145,000, spent $282,000 and has $176,000 in the bank (filing).

NY-27: Republican Chris Jacobs raised $206,000, spent $479,000 and has $249,000 on hand (filing). Stefan Mychajliw raised $25,000, spent $69,000 and has $28,000 in the bank (filing). Beth Parlato raised $118,000, spent $434,000 and has $135,000 in cash on hand (filing).

Democrat Nate McMurray's filing was not posted as of 12:01 a.m. on Friday.

Reminder that there's a both a special general election between Jacobs and McMurray, and a Republican primary for the November election.

NC-11: Ahead of the primary runoff for this safe red seat, Lynda Bennett raised $206,000, spent $221,000 and has $66,000 in the bank (filing ). Madison Cawthorn raised $175,000 (including a $50,000 loan), spent $151,000 and has $46,000 in the bank (filing).

VA-02: Freshman Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria raised $431,000, spent $121,000 and has $2.6 million in the bank (filing).

Former GOP Rep. Scott Taylor raised $124,000, spent $233,000 and has $261,000 on hand (filing). Ben Loyola raised $30,000, spent $36,000 and has $20,000 in the bank (filing).

VA-05: Democrat RD Huffstetler raised $163,000 (which includes a $72,000 loan), spent $216,000 and has $287,000 in the bank ( filing).Claire Russo raised $158,000, spent $230,000 and has $202,000 in the bank (filing). Cameron Webb raised $211,000, spent $280,000 and has $140,000 in cash on hand (filing). John Lesinski raised $41,000, spent $79,000 and has $36,000 in cash on hand (filing).

Republican Denver Riggleman is being challenged at a convention on Saturday by Bob Good (more on that below). Their reports covered April 1-May 24: Riggleman raised $106,000, spent $107,000 and had $204,000 in cash on hand (filing). Good raised $46,000, spent $53,000 and had $34,000 in the bank (filing).

VA-07: Freshman Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger raised $605,000, spent $166,000 and has $3.5 million in the bank (filing).

Republicans are holding a mid-July convention to pick their nominee, so candidates did not need to file with the FEC.

— We also have post special-election reports out of CA-25, which cover from April 23-June 1. Now-GOP Rep. Mike Garcia raised $1.6 million, spent $1.6 million and had $312,000 in the bank (filing). Democrat Christy Smith, who is challenging Garcia again in November, raised $964,000, spent $1 million and has $245,000 in the bank (filing).

Congressional Leadership Fund also filed a post-election report. The Republican, House-focused super PAC raised $7.5 million in that timeframe, spent $1.7 million (about $867,000 of that was to American Action Network) and has $35.8 million in the bank. Big donors include over $3.4 million from AAN, $2 million from Ken Griffin and $1.3 million from Bernard Marcus (filing).

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Presidential Big Board

CONVENTION SPOTTING —The Republican National Committee made it official: They're going to Jacksonville. The "celebration of the re-nomination of the President" will now be held at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla. However, the official business of the convention will still take place in Charlotte. POLITICO Florida's Gary Fineout has more.

— The entirety of the Democratic National Committee membership overwhelmingly approved a resolution that formally moved the convention to the week of Aug. 17 and gave the convention committee wide latitude to make changes to the convention. (Here's my coverage of the resolution from May.)

THE PLATFORM — The RNC voted on Wednesday to carry over its 2016 platform through 2024, due in part due to logistical challenges. And that decision to keep the same platform "has infuriated grass-roots activists — including moderates who wanted to streamline its message and social conservatives who sought added language on emerging hot-button topics," POLITICO's Gabby Orr reported.

The now-current platform (which you may recall was written when Barack Obama was president) also has "more than three dozen unflattering references" to the "current president" or similar terms, The New York Times' Reid Epstein and Annie Karni wrote.

ON THE AIRWAVES — President Donald Trump's campaign is up with a new ad, trying to tie Joe Biden to Antifa. "Antifa is destroying our communities: Rioting, looting," the ad's narrator says. "With Biden kneeling to the left, we'd have chaos in the streets." Advertising Analytics had tracked the spot airing in markets in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Arizona — along with cable in D.C. Here's a good story from the Daily Beast's Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng from a couple days ago on the Trump campaign spending about $400,000 on ads in the D.C. market. Since then, the campaign booked another $122,000 on D.C. cable, through mid-July.

WHO? — Biden's campaign team is trying to keep its economic policy advising team under wraps. The New York Times' Jim Tankersley and Thomas Kaplan reported that "Biden is now seeking input from more than 100 left-leaning economists and other researchers … and imposed strict rules to ensure their public silence," including telling them to not publicly identify themselves as members of the committee.

POLLS POLLS POLLS — A late-May poll in Florida from a Republican pollster has a tight race. The mixed-mode poll from Cygnal has Biden at 47 percent and Trump at 44 percent (881 likely voters; May 18-30; +/- 3.3 percentage point MOE). The poll was in and out of the field before the recent mass civil unrest, and Cygnal (which paid for the poll itself) also polled a lot on anti-China sentiment among Florida voters.

Down the Ballot

Denver Riggleman | AP Photo

Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) is at risk of losing the Republican nomination at a district convention on Saturday. | Lee Luther Jr./AP Photo

PRIMARY PROBLEMS — Riggleman, the freshman Republican in VA-05, could be in real danger in a party convention tomorrow thanks to a challenge from Good, a former Campbell County supervisor. Campaign Pro's Ally Mutnick : "A one-term congressman with a libertarian streak, Riggleman has found himself locked in a fierce intraparty battle after he enraged local officials in his district by officiating a same-sex marriage last year. His reelection prospects are further hampered by Virginia's insular election system, which allows a paltry number of GOP delegates to choose the nominee at a convention." Good, who did not respond to interview requests, has projected confidence, saying last month he has a majority of the delegates behind him. (Riggleman denies that.)

"The Republican Party, when you look at the creed to protect civil liberties and religious liberties, could be the most inclusive party in the country," Riggleman said in an interview with Ally. "And you know, why aren't we a big-tent party? Why aren't we looking at liberties first? Why aren't we allowing people to live the way they want to live and stopping the government from reaching into every aspect of our lives?"

RE-CALLED — Democratic Rep. David Scott has avoided a runoff in GA-13. The Associated Press initially said the longtime lawmaker was headed to a runoff with an underfunded opponent earlier this week, before retracting that projection. Now, the AP has re-called the race: Scott has won outright, narrowly avoiding a runoff.

— Another race to potentially watch: The AP projected that the Democratic primary in GA-07 would go to a runoff between Carolyn Bourdeaux, the nominee in 2018, and state Rep. Brenda Lopez Romero. But three unidentified campaigns told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Jim Galloway, Greg Bluestein and Tia Mitchell that it was perhaps premature, warning that Bourdeaux could still yet cross that threshold to avoid a runoff, or another candidate could sneak past Jones for that second spot.

EMPIRE STATE OF MIND — Endorsements are rolling in for candidates in a handful of competitive Democratic primaries in and around New York City on June 23. All of the races remain fairly unsettled, with either a competitive primary challenge or large field in an open seat.

— FIRST IN SCORE — In the open NY-17 race, End Citizens United and Let America Vote backed Jones's bid. "Mondaire Jones began his work to fight for true campaign finance reform as a member of the Office of Legal Policy at the Department of Justice when Citizens United was decided in 2010," Tiffany Muller, the president of ECU and LAV, said in a statement.

— In NY-15, The New York Times' editorial board endorsed Torres, a city council member. "There are several impressive candidates in the race. But coalescing Democratic support around Mr. Torres is especially important because of the presence of Rubén Díaz Sr. on the ballot," the editorial board wrote. Diaz "is running as a Democrat, but talks and acts like a pro-Trump Republican."

Also in the race, Reps. Joaquín Castro (D-Texas) and Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) backed Mark-Viverito, the former city council speaker, in the crowded primary. Castro's endorsement is particularly interesting: He's the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, yet the caucus' political arm — CHC BOLD PAC — backed Torres in December.

— Two longtime liberal grassroot institutions, MoveOn Political Action and Daily Kos, announced that they were backing Bowman's primary challenge to Engel in NY-16.

Another interesting endorsement for Bowman: Guy Cecil, the chair of Priorities USA, announced that he was supporting Bowman. He's doing so in his personal capacity (a Priorities spokesperson told Score the group isn't involved), but it could be a last-minute signal to donors.

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AD WARS — Majority Forward, the Democratic dark-money group focused on the Senate, is up with a new ad with a veteran criticizing Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) over preexisting conditions.

— McConnell is up with a new ad, criticizing the DSCC-backed McGrath for being "far-left on more than just abortion," criticizing her for opposing Trump. The ad also says McConnell "stopped the impeachment circus."

— Republican Manny Sethi, who is running against the Trump-endorsed Bill Hagerty for the GOP nomination for the open Tennessee Senate seat, has a new TV ad decrying coronavirus-related shutdowns, while saying burning businesses or assaulting people was not a crime during the protests.

— The Chamber of Commerce said it's putting six figures behind a digital ad in English and Spanish hitting freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) over her not supporting tech jobs. The Chamber has endorsed Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a former CNBC anchor trying to primary the freshman liberal powerhouse.

BACK AT IT — McSally is returning to the physical campaign trail, the Arizona Republic's Yvonne Wingett Sanchez reported, holding a campaign fundraiser and signing books on Saturday.

ENDORSEMENT CORNER — Trump has backed Matt Mowers, who formerly worked for the State Department, ahead of the primary in NH-01 to challenge freshman Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas. Here's more from WMUR's John DiStaso.

— FIRST IN SCORE — The New Dems Action Fund has endorsed two more candidates: Sri Kulkarni (TX-22) and Kathy Manning (NC-06). They've also added four candidates to their watch list, a precursor to a full endorsement: Alyse Galvin (AK-AL), Bourdeaux (GA-07), Patricia Timmons-Goodson (NC-08) and Kate Schroeder (OH-01).

FIRST IN SCORE — POLL POSITION — An internal poll from Goroff, a Democrat running to challenge Zeldin in NY-01, shows a tight primary race. The poll, conducted by Global Strategy Group, has Gershon at 29 percent to 27 percent for Goroff. Fleming is at 17 percent (401 likely primary voters; May 26-28; +/- 4.9 percentage point MOE).

THE PROCESS — iVote Civic Education Fund — which is tied to the group iVote, which supports Democratic secretary of state candidates — announced it was launching a $20 million campaign to educate voters on voting during the coronavirus and encourage them to vote ahead of Election Day. Bloomberg's Tyler Pager reported the campaign will focus in five states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Arizona.

CODA — CORONAVIRUS HEADLINE OF THE DAY: "Trump rally sign-up includes disclaimer about potential COVID-19 exposure" — From The Hill.

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