Subject: TwentySixteen: Clinton Hopes Kentucky and Oregon End String of Losses
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Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 06:05:45 -0600

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The Lead
"Hillary Clinton is putting up an unexpected fight in Kentucky, a state that her campaign had thought until quite recently might be out of reach in her primary race against" Bernie Sanders. "In advance of Tuesday's Democratic primary, Sanders also campaigned heavily in Kentucky over the weekend, and Clinton planned two additional days there, a sign that she thinks she has a chance to stop Sanders from racking up an unbroken string of victories between now and the end of primary voting in June. Oregon's primary will also be held Tuesday, by mail-in ballot." Clinton's hoping to benefit from Kentucky's closed primary. (
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Washington Post ) Sanders is hoping voter registration efforts in Oregon will help him there. (
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TRUMP WELCOMES TRADITIONAL TACTICS: "Donald Trump... is putting the final touches on two separate fundraising committees that will allow him to solicit massive checks to help the GOP candidates with whom he'll share the November ballot. ... Trump's presidential campaign is poised to form a joint fundraising committee with the Republican National Committee and at least 10 state parties," which "would be able to accept maximum checks of at least $136,100 per person. Plans call for a second joint committee that would include the Trump campaign and the GOP's two congressional campaign committees - the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee. ... That committee would be able to accept maximum checks of at least $69,500 per person." (
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"After calling pollsters a waste of money, Donald Trump's presidential campaign reversed course and signed up veteran political strategist and pollster Tony Fabrizio.... Rumored for more than a month, Fabrizio's hiring still came as a surprise to those who have listened to Trump boast that he doesn't employ pollsters." (
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CONVENTION CHAOS: "Angered by Trump's shifting views on taxes, the minimum wage, national security and how little he discusses social issues," some conservatives are still "studying the party rule book for last-ditch moves they could make when the convention begins in Cleveland." (
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LABOR VS. ENVIRONMENT: "Two of the Democratic Party's most loyal constituencies, labor and environmentalists, are clashing over an effort to raise tens of millions of dollars for an ambitious voter turnout operation aimed at defeating ... Trump in the November election. The rift developed after some in the labor movement ... announced a partnership last week with a wealthy environmentalist, Tom Steyer, to help bankroll a new fund dedicated to electing Democrats. That joint initiative enraged members of the nation's biggest construction unions, already on edge about the rising influence of climate-change activists. The building-trades unions view Mr. Steyer's environmental agenda as a threat to the jobs that can be created through infrastructure projects like new gas pipelines." (
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PEERING DOWNBALLOT: Democrats are "homing in on a collection of seats in California, Florida, Nevada, and Texas, where Trump's divisive rhetoric on Latinos could drive up turnout and create a devastating drag on House Republicans." (
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National Journal) Democrats are also looking to signs Trump could help them flip state legislative chambers this fall. "[T]here are ... 80 percent of state legislative seats up for grabs, and the keys to Democrats' multi-cycle effort to position the party for redistricting following the 2020 census." (
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NUMBER OF THE DAY: 77. The 
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average percent of the vote  presumptive Republican presidential nominees have won in recent years in remaining primaries after their main competitors withdrew from the race, according to an analysis from Smart Politics at the University of Minnesota. 

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Travel Tracker
Sanders is in California. 

Trail Mix 
John Kasich declined to endorse Trump Monday, and ruled out an independent bid. (
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Sanders and Bill Clinton are making campaign stops in Puerto Rico, which holds caucuses in June. (
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"Roger Stone, a longtime political ally and former campaign adviser to Donald Trump, admitted on Saturday that Trump posed as his own publicist in the early 1990s, likening Trump's actions to the Founding Fathers," who he argued all "wrote under pseudonyms." (
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Trump called into "CNN's 'New Day' control room to personally make sure that the producers had seen" a clip of an ex-girlfriend refuting a New York Times
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story  describing his relationship with women. (
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An "analysis of the early 2016 voting data show that, so far," Trump is not turning out waves of new voters, but rather, Republicans who have voted before but not in primaries. (
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Politico )

We took a look at campaign buzzwords that have lost or changed meaning in the era of Trump. (
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WASHINGTON STATE (R) PRIMARY: 7 days.

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS (D) CAUCUSES: 18 days.

PUERTO RICO (D) CAUCUSES: 19 days.

ELECTION DAY COUNTDOWN: 175 days.

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