; (ii) promotes or supports the candidate, or attacks or opposes an opponent of the candidate (regardless of whether the communication expressly advocates the election or defeat of a candidate or contains the functional equivalent of express advocacy); or (iii) refers to the candidate or an opponent of the candidate but is not described in clause (i) or clause (ii), but only if, during the period which begins 120 days before the date of the primary election for the office involved and ends on the date of the general election for such office (or, if necessary, the date of a runoff election following such general election), the communication is disseminated in the jurisdiction of the office the candidate is seeking. (B) An expenditure to pay for partisan voter activity (such as partisan voter registration, get-out-the-vote activity, phone banking, or generic campaign activity) in the jurisdiction of the office the candidate is seeking. (C) An expenditure to pay for research, design or production costs, polling expenses, data analytics, creating or purchasing mailing or social media lists, or other activities related to the expenditures described in subparagraphs (A) or (B). (2) Political parties For purposes of this section, the term covered expenditure means, with respect to a political party, any of the following: (A) An expenditure for a public communication (as defined in section 301(22)) which— (i) expressly advocates for the nomination or election of a candidate of the party or for the defeat of an opponent of a candidate of the party, including a communication which expressly advocates generically for the election of candidates of the party or for the defeat of opponents of candidates of the party (or contains the functional equivalent of express advocacy)