Morning Reads For Oct. 17, 2014: Dems Cut Bait In Bay State, 3 New NRCC Ads, Barrow Still Can’t Run From His Liberal Record

October 17, 2014

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Good morning and welcome to NRCC’s Morning Reads.

Dems Cut Bait In Bay State:

First off this morning big news from Massachusetts…

It’s getting so bad for Democrats they announced late yesterday they are pulling all their money from the state’s most competitive congressional district. Richard Tisei is facing off against Democrat Seth Moulton in the race for the 6th district congressional seat. For weeks, Nancy Pelosi and national Democrats had been propping up Moulton, who has struggled to raise money since his upset victory of scandal-tarred Congressman John Tierney in the Democratic primary.

Tisei is out with a new ad today contrasting himself with Moulton. In it, Tisei describes himself as standing up for seniors, the disabled, and small businesses, while contrasting himself with the liberal Moulton—whose campaign has been bankrolled by special interests and Wall Street.

Take a look:

 

GOP Putting Obama Districts In Play:

Out this morning from Politico’s Alex Isenstadt, a story that sheds light on why Democrats are forced to give up on races even in liberal Massachusetts.

“Republicans, who currently hold a 17-seat majority, are driving deep onto enemy turf just as Democrats have gone on the retreat.”

In many ways, that one sentence may tell the story of the entire House election cycle. The NRCC in these final weeks is playing on turf that isn’t supposed to be friendly to us. Democrats are also forced to take money from once highly-touted recruits and use it to protect incumbents like Collin Peterson who didn’t see a serious race coming and haven’t had to run a real campaign in decades.

 

Millennial Candidates Ready To Take Washington By Storm:

Lastly today, a spotlight on some of our candidates. The Daily News’ Leslie Larson profiles some GOP millennials running for Congress.

From Marilinda Garcia up in New Hampshire, to Lee Zeldin and Elise Stefanik in New York, and Carlos Curbelo in Florida, Republicans are seeing a fresh new generation ready to take the reins in Washington.

 

News and Notes From the Campaign Trail:

  • Last night down in Georgia, yet another Democrat tried to run away from his liberal record during a debate. Facing millions in ads and his poll numbers slipping, John Barrow is hoping voters don’t notice. Republican candidate Rick Allen wasn’t having any of it though (Via Al Hackle of the Statesboro Herald):

‘Moments later, in what he called ‘a little history lesson,’ Allen noted that Barrow voted for Rep. Nancy Pelosi, whom Allen called ‘the most partisan member of the United States Congress’ as speaker of the House in 2006 and 2008, when Democrats held the majority.

‘Now the partisan problem with the United States Congress is not with the House,…” Allen said. “The problem with partisanship is in the Senate with (Majority Leader) Harry Reid.

‘Asserting that Senate Democrats are holding up bills, Allen urged Barrow to assert his influence to get them passed.”

  • In Minnesota this morning, some good news in the race to unseat liberal Democrat Rick Nolan. A new poll from KSTP/SurveyUSA shows Republican small businessman Stewart Mills leading by eight points, 47 percent to 39 percent. Nolan, in case you forgot, has a long record of voting against veterans.

Those are your NRCC Morning Reads for Friday, October 17, 2014. There are just 18 days until Election Day 2014.

-Matt

@msgorman