Subject: Koch brother has some nice things to say about ... Hillary Clinton?
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April 24, 2016
by Chris Moody
Welcome to the CNN Politics Nightcap, and good Sunday evening from South Florida, where the Republican National Committee wrapped their final meeting before the party convention this summer. This weekend, Hillary Clinton received some unwanted praise, Ted Cruz unleashed his ground game on Maine and snatched nearly all its delegates while Donald Trump’s son accused Cruz of bribery. Your bartender is Chris Moody (http://www.cnn.com/profiles/chris-moody) . The tip jar: [email-masked] (mailto:[email-masked]) .

** Could the Kochs go Clinton?
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Billionaire businessman and Republican financier Charles Koch made some surprising comments Sunday about the presidential race, hinting that he might support Hillary Clinton, given the available crop of GOP White House hopefuls. In an interview with ABC News' "This Week" Koch pointed to former President Bill Clinton’s record on federal spending and economic growth, suggesting that a Clinton regime could be the best option after 2016, CNN’s Tom LoBianco reports (http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/24/politics/charles-koch-hillary-clinton-2016?sr=nl_pol_DATE_SLUG) .

"As far as the growth of government, the increase in spending, on restrictive regulations, it was two-and-a-half times under Bush than it was under Clinton," Koch told ABC. Asked if it was possible another Clinton could be better than a Republican, Koch said: "It's possible."

Clinton, who has been critical of the conservative donor network spearheaded by Charles Koch and his brother, David Koch, wasn’t having it.

“Not interested in endorsements from people who deny climate science and try to make it harder for people to vote,” her campaign tweeted after the interview.

** Cruz ground forces strike again

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To the chagrin of Trump and his supporters, Cruz’s superior ground forces won nearly a full slate of delegates in Maine, making it even difficult for Trump if he fails to secure the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the Republican presidential nomination on the first ballot at the national convention.

CNN’s David Wright reports (http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/23/politics/maine-republican-delegates-unity-ticket-gop-governor/?sr=nl_pol_DATE_SLUG) : "Cruz secured 19 of 20 delegate slots filled at the state convention over the weekend. The sweep frustrated rivals Donald Trump and John Kasich -- as well as Maine Gov. Paul LePage, a Trump supporter -- and prompted accusations of backstabbing and deception after an effort to agree to a "unity slate" of national convention delegates fell apart. While the Maine GOP awarded 23 total delegates proportional to the vote in the state's caucus on March 5 (12 to Cruz, 9 to Trump, 2 to Kasich), those delegates are bound to a presidential candidate only on the first nominating ballot at the national convention."

Trump and his surrogates continue to accuse the Republican Party of running a rigged nominating system as Cruz runs circles around their operation at state conventions this spring.

Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning and accused Cruz of “bribing” delegates to secure their favor.

CNN's Eugene Scott reports (http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/24/politics/donald-trump-jr-ted-cruz-bribery?sr=nl_pol_DATE_SLUG.) : "'Ted Cruz has no chance of winning this without bribing the delegates. That's his game at this point,' the son of the real estate mogul told CNN's Jake Tapper in a CNN 'State of the Union' interview that aired Sunday. Trump Jr. said if his father wanted to bribe delegates he could -- and do it very well.'He could send his private plane and send them down to Doral, they could play golf for a week and then we win that delegate. That's not the way this country should be run,' Trump Jr. said.

And how’s the Cruz campaign handling these accusations?

"I call foul and BS," Cruz's campaign delegate adviser Ken Cuccinelli told CNN earlier this week. "This is just more outrageous charges from the Trump campaign.”
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Buzzing

Hollywood actress Rosario Dawson, a Bernie Sanders supporter, made headlines over the weekend for bringing up Monica Lewinsky on the campaign trail with Sanders present.

“We are literally under attack for not just supporting the other candidate,” Dawson said before introducing Sanders in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday. “Now I’m with Monica Lewinsky with this. Bullying is bad. She has actually dedicated her life now to talking about that. And now as a campaign strategy, we are being bullied, and, somehow, that is okay and not being talked about with the richness that it needs.”

When asked by CNN to respond to the Monica Lewinsky namedrop at a Sanders rally, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill told CNN, "You could ask the Sanders campaign why they encourage this vitriol in the vicinity of their candidate by staying silent."

Last Call

** Clinton on the hunt for a Veep
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Let the vetting begin! As Clinton looks to pivot toward the general election, her team is beginning the process of searching for a running mate.

The best candidate? Someone who can help her win, The New York Times' Patrick Healy reports (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/us/politics/hillary-clinton-vice-president.html?sr=nl_pol_DATE_SLUG) :

"Hillary Clinton’s advisers and allies have begun extensive discussions about who should be her running mate, seeking to compile a list of 15 to 20 potential picks for her team to start vetting by late spring. Mrs. Clinton’s team will grapple with complicated questions like whether the United States is ready for an all-female ticket, and whether her choice for vice president would be able to handle working in a White House in which former President Bill Clinton wielded significant influence on policy.”

** Sanders: We’re losing because poor people don’t vote
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Asked on “Meet the Press” why states with the highest income inequality have overwhelmingly supported Clinton in the primaries, Sanders lamented that “poor people don’t vote.”

“Seventeen of the 25 states with the highest levels of income inequality have held primaries. Sixteen of those 17 states have been won by Hillary Clinton, not by you,” NBC’s Chuck Todd told Sanders in an interview that aired Sunday. “Why?”

“Well, because poor people don't vote. I mean, that's just a fact,” Sanders said, suggesting that he would do better if they did. “That's a sad reality of American society. And that's what we have to transform.”

CNN's Jake Tapper challenged Sanders on the claim Sunday (http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/24/politics/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-poor-voters?sr=nl_pol_DATE_SLUG) :

"Bernie Sanders failed Sunday to explain the logic behind his analysis that he was losing to Hillary Clinton because 'poor people don't vote' when confronted with the fact that the poorest voters support her, according to exit polls. When CNN's Jake Tapper noted that exit polls show Clinton wins 55% of voters making less than $50,000 to Sanders' 44%, Sanders pivoted his argument.

** Could Pennsylvania swing the GOP primary?
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Delegates from Pennsylvania, where both parties will hold a primary contest on Tuesday, “could turn out to be some of the most influential delegates in the nation,” The Washington Post reports.

The Post’s Ed O’Keefe writes (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-pennsylvania-delegates-may-have-the-power-to-swing-gop-presidential-race/2016/04/22/1f07a8aa-0832-11e6-a12f-ea5aed7958dc_story.html?sr=nl_pol_DATE_SLUG) : "The bitter contest between Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Ohio Gov. John Kasich could come down to the final few undecided delegates from places such as Pennsylvania. If Trump falls short of the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination outright, his team has vowed to launch a full-scale pressure campaign to win over dozens of the delegates elected in the state’s unusual primary. While most states award convention delegates on a winner-take-all or proportional basis, 54 of Pennsylvania’s 71 delegates — three for each of 18 congressional districts — are officially unbound to a candidate and do not have to announce their intentions before Tuesday’s vote. The winners can vote for whomever they want at the convention. The latest poll in
Pennsylvania shows Clinton and Trump with wide leads in the state."
Straight Up

** "Are you stalking us or what?"
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-- A Republican National Committee member shouting to me from a private luxury yacht party while I chased them in a pontoon boat along Florida’s intracoastal waterway. (http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/22/politics/donald-trump-republican-national-committee/?sr=nl_pol_DATE_SLUG)
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