STATE POLLING
No new polls today. Currently, Clinton has a 256 to 142 lead over Trump with 140 still in play.
Here are the current averages from the battleground states:
Utah: Trump up by 5%
Kansas: Trump up by 3.45%
Georgia: Trump up by 3.1%
Arizona: Trump up by 1.1%
Missouri: Trump up by 0.75%
Colorado: Clinton up by 1%
Nevada: Clinton up by 1.6%
North Carolina: Clinton up by 2.7%
New Hampshire: Clinton up by 5%
Virginia: Clinton up by 5.1%
Iowa: Clinton up for 5.4%
Ohio: Clinton up for 5.6%
Pennsylvania: Clinton up by 5.7%
NATIONAL POLLING
No new polls today. Nationally, the composite polling average has Clinton up by 5.6%.
TOP POLITICAL HEADLINES
Hillary Clinton Campaign Raises $40 Million in June
(New York Times) -- Hillary Clinton raised more than $40 million for her presidential campaign in June, a healthy sum as the presumptive Democratic nominee seeks to maintain her overwhelming fund-raising and organizational advantage against Donald J. Trump.
The Clinton campaign said Friday that it was beginning July with more than $44 million in cash on hand, as it starts to advertise heavily in battleground states in an attempt to define the race against Mr. Trump, who has not challenged Mrs. Clinton on the airwaves. He began June with only $1.3 million cash on hand and has focused in recent weeks on adding to his coffers.
Donald Trump Expected to Announce Running Mate Before Convention
(New York Times) -- Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, met with Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana on Friday, according to two people briefed on the meeting, adding to speculation that the conservative governor is among the finalists to be Mr. Trump’s running mate.
Mr. Pence, who supported Senator Ted Cruz of Texas in Indiana’s Republican primary, is a first-term governor with strong credentials as a social conservative that could help Mr. Trump placate that wing of the party. He was at the center of a contentious national debate last year over religious freedom laws that critics said would allow businesses to discriminate against gay and lesbian couples.
Democrats Release Latest Draft Of Party Platform
(Washington Post) -- The Democratic National Committee released the latest draft of its 2016 platform late Friday afternoon, a week after Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) promised to fight "on the floor of the convention" if more progressive planks did not make it in.
Until today, outsiders analyzing the platform had to rely on two sources of incomplete information. The first was a summary provided by the DNC after the party's somewhat contentious drafting meeting in St. Louis last week. The second was the transcript of that meeting, at which the committee's members debated planks without using their exact language. After multiple requests from the media, and at least one leak, the party is effectively giving the public one week to peruse the language before the full platform committee meets in Orlando.
Trump, RNC Expand Fundraising Operation
(Politico) -- Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee added more than 80 bundlers to their joint finance operation as the GOP's presumptive nominee prepares for the general-election battle against a well-funded Hillary Clinton campaign.
The list multiple state and federal lawmakers, former ambassadors, business executives and high-powered megadonors such as Larry Nichols, the chairman emeritus of Devon Energy. Todd Christie, the brother of the New Jersey governor who endorsed Trump earlier this year, is also on the list, as are Dave Tamasi, a former bundler for Chris Christie, and Gary Kirke, an Iowa power broker who briefly boosted Christie's effort.
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