Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: California Republicans struggle to find footing — Ben Carson gets into the presidential race — Presidential cash race
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Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 08:02:56 -0600

By Elena Schneider

With Sandhya Raman

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TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO - "California Republicans see hope after missed opportunities," by Campaign Pro's Elena Schneider:
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ANNOUNCEMENT SEASON - "Ben Carson says he will run for president" by POLITICO's Katie Glueck: "Ben Carson confirmed on Sunday that he will be announcing his presidential bid on Monday. Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, made the announcement in a television interview 
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Monday in Detroit . Carson suggested to POLITICO the interview was a pre-interview to be released around the time of the announcement but said in it: "I"m willing to be a part of the equation, and, therefore, I'm announcing my candidacy for president of the United States." Carson later acknowledged to POLITICO that he did announce his candidacy." 
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 - American Bridge, the Democratic research firm, didn't wait long to put out a press release that said long-shot GOP candidates like Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, Carly Fiorina - who are all expected to announce this week - made the field "wider, but not any deeper," and they were more likely "to win FOX News contracts than the White House."

 - Don't forget about Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who made it official last week, and is already reminding ABC's "This Week" that he's won several surprising victories. "Don't underestimate me," he said. 
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As Ben Carson officially gets into the presidential race and Jeb Bush tries to swipe New Jersey donors from Gov. Chris Christie, 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: 183; Days until the 2016 election: 554.

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SCORE INTERVIEW - Justin Fareed, a 26-year-old former UCLA football player and third-generation rancher, came within inches of getting into the general election for California's 24th District in 2014. He's going to try it again in 2016 in a much more competitive cycle after Rep. Lois Capps announced her retirement last month. Fareed told Campaign Pro about what will be different this time around.

On what he learned after he lost: "It's very difficult to start a campaign from scratch with no political base just five and a half months out. But there were many who were so enthusiastic after the fact ... so that's why I started early ... and we'll build an infrastructure now to be successful and have time to express my vision."

On why more young people need to be in Congress: "All the policies that are being created today will have a pronounced effect on young people going forward, so there's skin in the game for me and future generations. We need to have a voice in Congress to advocate for good policy for us."

On national Republicans after meeting with the NRCC last week: "The NRCC is really looking hard at this race, they will get active and involved ... the NRCC has indicated that they look at this as one of the biggest opportunities to pick up a seat in California in 2016, so having an unconventional candidate, I think, adds a lot of value."

What he'll be talking about on the campaign trail? "Reforming the congressional budget process and water, water, water."

PRESIDENTIAL CASH RACE - Shoring up donors in "Jeb's secret Jersey mission," by POLITICO's Alex Isenstadt: "Jeb Bush is quietly waging a behind-the-scenes offensive to pick off disillusioned home-state supporters of Chris Christie, the New Jersey governor whose presidential prospects have dimmed in recent months. Bush's effort to undermine Christie's network of donors, power-brokers, and political players is conducted mainly through emails and phone conversations - and he tracks the progress closely." 
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 - Chump change, "Hollywood bundlers are losing the spotlight" by POLITICO's Todd S. Purdum: "In the gilded age of deep-pocketed conservative donors like Sheldon Adelson, Foster Friess and the Koch brothers - who can afford to give millions to super PACs backing a single candidate, if they choose - that's no longer true, as some longtime donors active in Hollywood and New York now acknowledge. To compete with her GOP rivals, Hillary Clinton will have to tap Democratic-friendly billionaires like George Soros, Tom Steyer and even Michael Bloomberg in the crunch of the general election campaign." 
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STAFFING UP - "Guy Cecil poised to join pro-Hillary super PAC" by Annie Karni and Gabriel Debenedetti: Guy Cecil, Hillary Clinton's 2008 political director, is in final talks to take on a major role at the super PAC Priorities USA Action - a move that would give Clinton's implicit nod to donors that she wants them to contribute to the outside group raising money to help her bid. 
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BALTIMORE AFTERMATH - "O'Malley: Baltimore unrest a 'heartbreaking setback," by POLITICO's Ben Schreckinger: "Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said on Sunday the unrest in Baltimore has boosted his motivation to address economic marginalization and that it would be a central theme of his expected Democratic presidential campaign."It has to be central," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press" in the wake of protests and riots following the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore police custody." 
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ELECTORAL MAP PREDICTIONS - For POLITICO's Magazine, Larry J. Sabato takes a close look at the Electoral College spread - pointing out the roadmap for both Democrats and Republican presidential candidates to win the White House. But its historical takeaway makes it clear that the razor thin victories of decades ago no longer exists: "As the country has become more divided and polarized, the number of swing states has steadily shrunk. Even in 2000, when 537 votes in Florida elected a president, just 12 states were decided by five points or less. That number contracted to just four states in 2012." 
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GOOD NEWS - "Ad Man Scott Howell Back At It After Cardiac Arrest," by Roll Call's Emily Cahn: "Howell says he's lucky to be alive. Now, the founder and CEO of Scott Howell & Company - a media firm with a client roster that includes GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham, John Thune and Jerry Moran, national Republican campaign committees, and possibly a 2016 candidate for president - has been back in the office for about a month already, employing the same wittiness that's helped land him clients for more than two decades. 'I've always been kind of a smart aleck,' Howell told CQ Roll Call in an April 29 phone interview from his Dallas office. 'My doctor asked me how I was doing and I told him I was
 freezing my ass off. And that's when they started to think, 'He's probably going to be OK.'" 
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: Ohio Gov. John Kasich is hedging his bets, even on his own run for the Republican presidential nomination. "I thought the Spurs would beat the Clippers, and I picked the wrong horse in the Kentucky Derby," he said Sunday morning on Fox. "I don't really do odds." 
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