Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Race for Rubio’s seat gets crowded — Clinton Foundation clamps down on foreign donors — FEC deadline passes
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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:01:52 -0600

By Kyle Cheney

With Theodoric Meyer, Elena Schneider, Sandhya Raman and Steven Shepard

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TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO - "Wide open GOP field for Rubio's Senate seat," by Campaign Pro's Kyle Cheney and Elena Schneider, with POLITICO's Marc Caputo: 
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- "Freedomworks' unlikely inspiration for new PAC," by Campaign Pro's Kyle Cheney:
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- Dozens and dozens of first-quarter fundraising reports on our Whiteboard (
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CRACKS IN THE FOUNDATION - "Clinton Foundation limits foreign donations," by POLITICO's Josh Gerstein and Kenneth P. Vogel: "The Clinton Foundation - facing mounting criticism for accepting foreign funding and struggling to raise money for a planned June conference in Greece - has agreed to limit, but not eliminate, donations from foreign governments. It also announced plans Wednesday to suspend its overseas conferences - including the one in Athens - beginning in June as part of a set of reforms aimed at quieting complaints that the charitable organization's fundraising activities could compromise Hillary Clinton's independence as she runs for president." 
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- SCORE EXCLUSIVE: Rand Paul to launch Clinton Foundation-related digital campaign: Those searching the web for information on the Clinton Foundation will be greeted with Paul campaign web ads urging users to dish on the foundation's foreign contributors. The ad, which will run as a web display ad in New York City and on search engines nationally, reads in its entirety: "Do you have information? Know about the Clinton Foundation's foreign contributions? Tell us here." The ad links to a Paul website (
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As Hillary keeps her policy cards close and House coffers fill up, here&#39;s POLITICO&#39;s Morning Score: daily news, notes and essential information for the 2015 and 2016 election cycles.

Days until the 2015 election: 201; Days until the 2016 election: 572

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HILLARY ON THE TRAIL - "Clinton's Wall Street backers: We get it," by POLITICO's Gabriel Debenedetti and Kenneth P. Vogel and Ben White, with Zachary Warmbrodt, Jon Prior and Dave Clarke: "[M]any of the financial sector donors supporting her just-declared presidential campaign say they've been expecting the moment when Clinton started calling out hedge fund managers and decrying executive pay all along - right down to the complaints from critics that such arguments are rich coming from someone who recently made north of $200,000 per speech, and who has been close to Wall Street since her days representing it as a senator from New York. 
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- "Clinton's low-risk listening tour," by POLITICO's Annie Karni: "As she traveled across the state on a two-day 'listening tour' designed to reintroduce her to Iowa, Hillary Clinton met with activists in coffee shops and top Iowa lawmakers at the state capitol and participated in roundtable discussions with students, educators and small business owners. But if she was hoping to win over hearts and minds in the state that so famously rejected her in 2008, she's off to a slow start. That's because she didn't actually have much face time with regular Iowans who weren't handpicked by her campaign." 
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- "Hillary Clinton: Not ready to roll out policies yet," by Annie Karni: "Clinton appeared more relaxed during her second low-key event in Iowa, where she presented herself as a champion of small business owners, a reformer on immigration and a policy wonk when it comes to health care ... But she remained light on policy details ... Clinton vowed to try 'to build on what works in the Affordable Care Act,' and said she would look into health care providers competing across states in a free-market system." 
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- But the data gathering operation is in full swing: Bloomberg Politics' Sasha Issenberg interviews veteran Democratic strategist Mitch Stewart on the latest in data-driven campaigning and his role helping gather data for Hillary Clinton in the lead-up to her presidential candidacy. Check out the Q&A, featuring Stewart's insight on reaching persuadable voters, the role of the DNC, and whether an effort similar to Ready for Hillary could have been effective for another candidate. 
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2016 GOP - "Cruz woos Orthodox Jews," by POLITICO's Katie Glueck: "Leaders in the Orthodox community point approvingly to his vigorous opposition to the administration's negotiations with Iran, his comfort level with religious references and, most importantly, his passionate support for Israel, a theme he touched on during his presidential announcement speech. 'I share a great many values with the Jewish community and the Orthodox community,' Cruz said in a phone call during his first swing through Iowa as a presidential candidate ... In the last several weeks alone, Cruz has met with an influential orthodox rabbi from New York, hosted an event with Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel to
 highlight the dangers of a nuclear Iran, and made an appearance at a swanky Passover gathering in California that drew wealthy Orthodox Jews." 
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STAFFING UP - EMILY's List fill out digital, press team: The Democratic donor network has hired Caitlin Mitchell as its VP of digital. Mitchell, who comes from the DNC, succeeds Jenna Lowenstein, who is now with the Clinton campaign. EMILY's List also hired former Department of Labor spokeswoman Sonia Melendez Reyes as deputy comms director and Rachel Thomas, formerly of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe's press office, as press secretary. Lastly, the group named Joanna Knight, most recently of HHS, its senior speechwriter.

CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I would say that whenever a targeted member talks about race or ethnicity, it is impossible for him to get it right. So I'll leave it at that." - Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times' Lynn Sweet 
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