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Article snippet: Outside money is flooding into a trio of key California House primaries, as Democrats try to avoid being shut out of the general election. The total outside spending in those June 5 primary races had eclipsed more than $8 million as of Friday, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission filings by The Hill. The high-dollar spending is in the three GOP-held seats represented by Rep. MORE, all of which are viewed as potential pickup opportunities for Democrats. Now outside groups are spending heavily in the races in an attempt to avert Democratic shutouts. California’s 39th District: $2 million in total outside spending The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is easily the biggest spender in the primary for the seat now held by Royce. At first, the DCCC only focused on targeting Republicans — Shawn Nelson, a member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, and former state Sen. Bob Huff — as tensions boiled over between the Democratic front-runners. Two Democratic super PACs, House Majority PAC (HMP) and Priorities USA Action, followed suit by also attacking both Huff and Nelson. HMP also targeted a third, lesser-known Republican, businessman Phil Liberatore. Those Democratic groups have spent a combined total of about $1.3 million attacking those Republican candidates — with about $1.1 million of that from the DCCC’s independent expenditure. Meanwhile, national Democrats had largely stayed out of spending on behalf of a Democratic... Link to the full article to read more