Leading Off:
• WI-Gov: EMILY's List recently reserved $1.2 million to support Democrat Mary Burke, and the group has begun its new ad campaign. EMILY's spot features a doctor calling for Republican Gov. Scott Walker to get out of her patients' private lives and stop trying to outlaw abortion.
Walker wasted no time airing a response ad. Speaking to the camera, Walker describes himself as pro-life but someone who wants women to be safe and to consider her options. He claims that the bill he supports does still leave the final decision about whether or not to get an abortion to a woman and her doctor.
Burke also has a new spot, featuring news reports describing how other Midwestern states are seeing their economies significantly improve, but how Wisconsin is not. The narrator then blames Walker for the state's sluggish growth.
Head below the fold for a roundup of ads from around the country.
Senate:
• AK-Sen: American Crossroads continues to tie Democratic Sen. Mark Begich to Obamacare. On the Democratic side, Alaska Salmon PAC spends $141,000 while the League of Conservation Voters shells out $300,000.
• AR-Sen: VoteVets hits Republican Tom Cotton for cutting veterans' care. The DSCC also a spot with a survivor of domestic abuse criticizing Cotton for voting against the Violence Against Women Act. Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor has been running similar ads for the last few days.
In the red corner, the Emergency Committee for Israel recently aired this spot hitting Pryor on national security. We now know it ran for $960,000.
• CO-Sen: American Crossroads argues that Washington turned Democratic Sen. Mark Udall into an Obamacare loving negative campaigner. For his part Udall is one of the first Democrats to use ISIS in a spot (the GOP has been the one to use them up till now). Udall's ad portrays himself as someone who is determined to defeat the group.
• GA-Sen: American Inc. spends $200,000 for Team Red.
• IA-Sen: Democrat Bruce Braley talks to the camera, calling for bipartisanship. The Susan B. Anthony List spends $113,000 for the GOP.
• KY-Sen: Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell continues to connect Democrat Alison Grimes to Obama on coal.
• MI-Sen: VoteVets praises Democrat Gary Peters' military service and record of supporting veterans. On the GOP side, a few outside groups are continuing to spend despite Terri Lynn Land's sagging poll numbers. Ending Spending shells out $612,000 tying Peters to convicted felons, while the creatively named B-PAC commits another $285,000.
• MN-Sen: A GOP group called Hometown Freedom Action Network spends $341,000 against Democratic Sen. Al Franken.
• NC-Sen: Planned Parenthood hits Republican Thom Tillis on contraception and women's health.
• NH-Sen: Republican Scott Brown has two new spots (here and here). He ties Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen to Obama in both. Ending Spending also portrays Shaheen as weak on terrorism.
• NextGen Climate: Various pro-Democratic expenditures.
• NRA: Various pro-GOP expenditures.
• Senate Majority PAC: Various pro-Democratic expenditures.
Gubernatorial:
• CO-Gov: The RGA continues to attack Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper on gun control, immigration, and his indecision about potentially granting mass-murderer Nathan Dunlap a reprieve.
• CT-Gov: The DGA-backed Connecticut Forward goes after Republican Tom Foley on gun control.
• FL-Gov: NextGen Climate once again links Republican Gov. Rick Scott to corrupt energy companies. The Florida GOP features Scott praising his record.
• GA-Gov: The Coalition for Georgia's Future praises Republican Gov. Nathan Deal for helping increase the number of women-owned businesses. Democrat Jason Carter pushes back, accuses Deal of ignoring rural Georgia.
• HI-Gov: The RGA hits Democrat David Ige for voting to create a disastrous healthcare exchange system. The narrator accuses Ige of being too much like outgoing Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie, the man Ige unseated in an August primary.
• IL-Gov: Two new spots from Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn (here and here). The first contrasts Quinn and Republican Bruce Rauner on education. Quinn's second spot features Michelle Obama praising the governor's record. Rauner's ad features of news clips describing Quinn as corrupt.
• MA-Gov: A Spanish spot from Democrat Martha Coakley.
• ME-Gov: The DGA-backed Maine Forward continues to describe Republican Gov. Paul LePage as an unproductive extremist.
• MN-Gov: Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton.
• NE-Gov: Democrat Chuck Hassebrook has two new spots (here and here). The first is positive, while the second hits Republican Pete Ricketts on education cuts.
• PA-Gov: Two new spots from Democrat Tom Wolf (here and here) both hitting Republican Gov. Tom Corbett over the state economy.
• RI-Gov: Democrat Gina Raimondo.
House:
• AR-02: Republican French Hill features a woman praising him for helping her start her business.
• AZ-02: Americans for Responsible Solutions spends another $199,000 against Republican Martha McSally. McSally herself has two new spots (here and here). The first emphasizes McSally's military career while portraying Democratic Rep. Ron Barber as weak on terrorism; the second is a Spanish-language spot.
• AZ-09: Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema emphasizes her support for Social Security and Medicare programs. Republican opponent Wendy Rogers has two new spots (here and here). The first is positive and stresses Rogers' military record, while the second accuses Sinema of being weak on terrorism.
• CO-06: Democrat Andrew Romanoff has three ads (here, here, and here). The first goes after Republican Rep. Mike Coffman for voting to make college for expensive. Romanoff also has two Spanish-language ads.
• CT-04: Democratic Rep. Jim Himes.
• CT-05: Democratic Rep. Elizabeth Esty hits Republican Mark Greenberg on Social Security, featuring a long quote by Greenberg calling the program a failure.
• HI-01: VoteVets praises Democrat Mark Takai.
• ME-02: Republican Bruce Poliquin accuses Democrat Emily Cain as a liberal extremist.
• MI-08: Democrat Eric Schertzing is out with his first spot, contrasting his middle class policies with Republican Mike Bishop's.
• MN-07: Republican Torrey Westrom goes biographical.
• MN-08: Republican Stewart Mills features a woman who says she and her family lost their health insurance because of Obamacare. She hits Democratic Rep. Rick Nolan for supporting the law.
• NY-19: Republican Rep. Chris Gibson accuses Democrat Sean Eldridge of being a hypocrite on fracking and campaign finance reform. A month-old poll gave Gibson a 24-point lead here, but evidently he takes the very wealthy Eldridge seriously enough to keep attacking.
• TX-23: Democratic Rep. Pete Gallego has two new ads (here and here). The first stresses Gallego's support for border security, while portraying Republican Will Hurd as weak on the issue. The second is a Spanish-language commercial contrasting the two candidates on education.
• WV-02: Democrat Nick Casey stresses his humble origins.
• WV-03: Democratic Rep. Nick Rahall's new spot stars Sen. Joe Manchin. Manchin praises Rahall as a partner in fighting the Obama Administration on coal.
• DCCC: New Democratic spots in CA-52, IA-03, IL-13, IL-17, NJ-03, NE-02, and NH-02. About half the seats are held by each party.
• House Majority PAC: Pro-Democratic ads in AZ-01, AZ-02, CA-07, CO-06, FL-26 (here and here), and MN-07. All the seats aside from CO-06 are Democratic-held.
• NRCC: New Republican ads in CO-06, NE-02, and TX-23. We also have various expenditures.
• House: A very useful tracker from Bloomberg that features independent expenditures from both parties by race.