Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Kentucky race goes overtime — Kenney wins Philly mayoral primary — Committees report monthly fundraising numbers
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Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 08:01:53 -0600

By Kyle Cheney

With Kevin Robillard

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ABOUT LAST NIGHT - "Bevin, Comer virtually tied after Election Night count," by Campaign Pro's Kyle Cheney: "The bitter Kentucky Republican gubernatorial primary is going into overtime. Businessman Matt Bevin edged state Agriculture Commissioner James Comer by only 83 votes - less than a tenth of a percentage point of the more than 214,000 votes cast - with all precincts reporting, according to The Associated Press. Comer quickly declared his intent to request a recanvass, which will give election officials a chance to check their math. If he wants a full recount, Kentucky law requires him to post a bond to support the cost." 
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IN OTHER ELECTION NIGHT NEWS:

- Jim Kenney easily won Philadelphia's Democratic mayoral primary. 
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- Republican Lenny Curry defeated Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown. 
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COMMITTEE CASH REPORT - April's monthly fundraising filings are due today. Here's an early look at some of the early.

DCCC: The committee ended April debt-free and with $8.1 million after a $5.4 million monthly haul. That's a $1.4 million uptick over its April 2011 number and what officials say is its earliest debt-free date in the last 15 years. The committee has raised just over $25 million for the year.

NRCC: The committee raised $5.1 million for the month but ended with $9.2 million on hand, a $1.1 million edge over the DCCC. Like its counterpart, the NRCC has no debt. It's also had its best first four months since 2003.

NRSC: The committee has just over $5 million on hand after raising $4.2 million for the month and ending the period with $3.5 million in debt. It's the committee's best April off-year number, and though it's carrying debt, it's far less than the $9.5 million debtload the NRSC carried in April 2013.

Your move, DSCC...

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"Grayson called cops on his wife for buying groceries with his credit card," by POLITICO's Marc Caputo: "Florida Rep. Alan Grayson recently called his estranged wife a 'gold digger,' but a review of the potential Senate candidate's soap-opera divorce case shows he unsuccessfully tried to have her criminally charged for far less: ringing up grocery, gasoline and car-repair expenses on his credit card. Grayson's previously unreported effort to have Lolita Grayson arrested on credit-card fraud charges was revealed in one of her court filings that complained about the wealthy Democrat's tactics to withhold money from her." 
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UNLIKELY PAIR HITS AYOTTE, GRASSLEY ON SURVEILLANCE - The ACLU and Tea Party Patriots are spending nearly $200,000 on ads pressuring two Republicans up for reelection in 2016 - hawkish New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte and Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley of Iowa - to oppose extension of controversial provisions of the Patriot Act. 'The federal government&#39;s surveillance program has collected records on nearly every American&#39;s phone calls, emails, your most private moments - without a warrant, without cause and without your permission,' a narrator says in the ad. The buy includes $74K in Iowa, $55K in New Hampshire and $65K in the Washington, D.C. market, according to
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THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE - "Clinton downplays Blumenthal's influence," by Adam B. Lerner, with Gabriel Debenedetti: "Hillary Clinton on Wednesday downplayed Sidney Blumenthal's influence on her, saying she passed his emails to State Department deputies to 'make sure [she wasn't] caught in a bubble' with only information coming 'from a certain small group of people.' 'He sent me unsolicited emails which I passed on in some instances, and I say that that's just part of the give and take,' Clinton told reporters Tuesday at an event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The comments came the day after a New York Times report revealed that Blumenthal, a longtime family ally, sent multiple unsubstantiated
 intelligence reports to Clinton's private email while she was secretary of state." 
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "First law of holes: when you're in a hole - STOP DIGGING." - A tweet from Grayson yesterday on the trade-promotion authority legislation.

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