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Good morning, everyone. Check out what Politico’s Mike Allen is reporting this morning in Playbook: “READY FOR HILLARY will help with midterms by sending more than two dozen political staff to key states. The “Ready to Vote” deployments will run Oct. 1through election day, helping Democrats in 14 states: Alaska, Ark., Colo., Ga., Iowa, Ky., La., Maine, Mich., Minn., Nev., N.C., N.H. and S.C.”
Notice anything about that group of states? Only one of them does NOT have a U.S. Senate race this...
A group dedicated to helping anti-voter ID candidates has formed a political action committee in Nevada, a clear attempt to help Democratic secretary of state hopeful Kate Marshall.
The iVote Fund was registered last week with the secretary of state's office, with its stated mission: "To educate and activate the general public regarding the importance of voting and the role of secretaries of state in the voting process and working to elect candidates who believe in expanding not restricting the...
It is ahead in all the polls, but it's not enough above 50 percent for supporters to feel confident.
The new ad, which starts statewide today and goes through the election, is attached here.
UPDATED, 4:15 pm. HERE'S THE AD:
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. A quintet of premium nuggets
2. The Weekly Insiders on CD3 vs. CD 4, best and worst ads so far
3. Smartest/dumbest moves, coming campaign developments
Inside news you can use from the people who know:
►The state Democrats are suddenly very concerned about Kate Marshall. Look for a lot of activity surrounding that campaign. Probably not good news for Lucy.
►Interesting reaction from nonpartisan insider to Michael Roberson’s offering that Dems are...
Ross Miller has handed Adam Laxalt a gift.
Laxalt and his GOP allies are intent on focusing the attorney general’s race on Miller’s acceptance of thousands of dollars of tickets, trips and trinkets, hoping to tarnish the reputation of the two-term secretary of state. But neither the Republican hopeful nor his friends have accurately portrayed what these gifts actually are, underestimating the total while overestimating the contents. There are, however, serious questions about whether Miller...
UPDATED: The Republican Attorneys General Association has reacted to the new ad with a huge buy that starts Tuesday and lasts a month. I bet it's not positive.
Ever since news broke of a law firm evaluation that called AG hopeful Adam Laxalt a "train wreck," you knew it would be a focal point of the Democrats' ad campaign.
And so it begins with a new spot from the state Democratic Party, which begins with yours truly's original report (ugh) and then pivots to Ross Miller's bonafides. It could...