Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Guinta’s support weakens in N.H. — House candidate snags Joe Trippi — Clinton woos AFT
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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 08:03:01 -0600

By Theodoric Meyer

With Elena Schneider, Kevin Robillard and Steven Shepard

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TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO - Campaign Pro's Theodoric Meyer has the latest on Rep. Frank Guinta's ethics woes and the chances the New Hampshire Republican survives the scandal's latest revelations: 
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- "Ro Khanna overhauls consulting team," by Campaign Pro's Elena Schneider:
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-- "Kathleen Matthews' high-wattage, uphill House bid," by Campaign Pro's Kevin Robillard in Silver Spring, Md.:
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As a North Carolina Democrat rises in the polls and Clinton courts a teachers union, here&#39;s Campaign Pro&#39;s Morning Score: daily news, notes and essential information for the 2015 and 2016 election cycles.

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POLLING REPORT - Cooper edges in front of McCrory in North Carolina: North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, the all-but-announced Democratic gubernatorial candidate, holds a slight lead over GOP Gov. Pat McCrory in a new automated poll released Wednesday from Democratic robopollster Public Policy Polling - a small shift from McCrory advantages in the firm's previous monthly surveys. McCrory could be frustrating some Republican voters since his recent vetoes of conservative social legislation, including a bill that would allow judicial magistrates to not marry same-sex couples. In April, McCrory held a 69-point advantage over Cooper among 2012 Romney voters, but it dropped to a 58-point
 difference during the May 28-31 survey.

CANDIDATE RECRUITMENT -Senate Conservatives hunt for a McCain challenger: The Senate Conservatives Fund is still casting about for a candidate to take on Arizona Sen. John McCain in the Republican primary and does not appear enthused about McCain&#39;s most likely conservative challenger. 'SCF has NOT endorsed a candidate in this race yet,' Ken Cuccinelli, the group&#39;s president, wrote in an email on Wednesday encouraging supporters to sign a 'Retire McCain' petition. State Sen. Kelli Ward, who&#39;s formed an exploratory committee, 'is motivated for the right reasons, but we&#39;re not ready to endorse her at this time,' Cuccinelli said. Rep. Matt Salmon, who would be a more
 high-profile challenger to McCain, hasn&#39;t ruled out a run. Cuccinelli did not mention him - or any other potential candidates - in the email.

FIRST IN SCORE - DSCC asks senators to return Hastert money: Yep, we've reached that point in the lifecycle of this scandal. The DSCC will call for Republican Sens. Mark Kirk, Roy Blunt and John Boozman on Thursday to return donations from Keep Our Mission PAC, the leadership PAC of former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who allegedly paid a sexual abuse victim more than $1 million to stay quiet. "Mark Kirk should return or donate Denny Hastert's money immediately," DSCC spokesman Sadie Weiner will say in the Kirk-focused release. "Kirk has taken $10,000 from Denny Hastert who is just the latest Republican Speaker of the House to face serious charges about corruption and misconduct, and until
 Kirk returns the funds he is giving his tacit approval to these bad actions."

PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "When Rand Paul steps in it," by POLITICO's Manu Raju: In recent weeks, Sen. Rand Paul has quipped that GOP defense hawks "created" ISIS and that opponents of his efforts to rein in government surveillance were "secretly" hoping for a terrorist attack so they would be able to attack him. "As Paul has sought to stand out from the clustered GOP presidential field, he's finding that his freewheeling, off-the-cuff speaking style can cut both ways. His supporters say it's what's refreshing about him: He's not a typical programmed pol who spews the same talking points over and over. ... But his critics say it betrays a lack of discipline that should concern Republicans
 in a general election - when any rhetorical blunder can trigger a media circus lasting days - let alone in the White House." 
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- Hillary Clinton and her Democratic rivals are trying to win over the teachers union, BuzzFeed's Ruby Cramer reports: "Three Democratic candidates each traveled to Washington this week to court the endorsement of the American Federation of Teachers - and after taking part in the hour-long meetings, the thing that stood out most to Randi Weingarten, the union, president, was this: Hillary Clinton knew what she was doing. The other two, Martin O'Malley and Bernie Sanders, maybe less so. ... On matters of education policy, according to Weingarten, Clinton engaged the group with noticeably more depth and granular detail than her competitors. It was, she said, the most striking difference
 between the three candidates, particularly on the set of issues that have created fissures inside the Democratic Party, including testing, teacher evaluations in tenure decisions, and Common Core." 
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-- "The campaign to put Juli&aacute;n Castro on Hillary's VP shortlist," by POLITICO's Gabriel Debenedetti and Annie Karni: "The Democratic National Convention isn't for 13 months, and Hillary Clinton isn't the party's nominee, but some Hispanic Democratic leaders are already pushing hard for Juli&aacute;n Castro to be her running mate - or at least a top contender for the job. The former San Antonio mayor and current housing secretary was in Washington while Clinton raised money in his hometown on Wednesday, but his name is on the minds and lips of Democrats close to the Clinton camp as the presidential front-runner crosses Texas for campaign fundraisers and a Houston speech on Thursday." 
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- "O'Malley counters Clinton: I'm not new to immigration reform," by POLITICO's Jonathan Topaz: "Martin O'Malley, struggling to emerge from the long shadow of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, is betting on immigration as a break-out issue that can win him a strong share of the Latino vote. He's casting Clinton as a late-to-the-party figure on immigration reform, and he's likely got an edge on Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is enjoying a surge of attention in the presidential race but is not prioritizing immigration in his campaign." 
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- And a super PAC supporting O'Malley is preparing to go on the air in Iowa: Generation Forward PAC has made a $25,000 ad buy in the state, The Washington Post reports. 
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- "Jeb's ambassador to millennials: Jeb Jr.," by POLITICO's Eli Stokols: "Earlier this year, officials at Jeb Bush's Right to Rise PAC imagined holding an impromptu, &#39;pop-up&#39; fundraising event aimed at a different kind of donor: young professionals. The group scheduled a meet-up with a $25 ask, held in late February in Washington, in the hopes of drawing out a few dozen 20- and 30-somethings. The main attraction? Jeb Bush Jr., the 31-year-old son of the candidate. The event turned out to be a smashing success: more than 400 people showed up that night and Right to Rise figured it was onto something. Since then, it has held more than a half dozen other events - in New York, Los
 Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and Miami - with Jeb Jr. as the headliner." 
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-In case you were wondering how rich Carly Fiorina is: Fiorina and her husband, Frank, have a net worth of $59 million, her campaign disclosed Wednesday. They paid an effective federal tax rate of 20 percent in 2012 and 2013 and gave an average of 14 percent of their income to charity in those years.

HAWK UPDATE - On Tuesday, Morning Score promised to alert readers if the red-tailed hawk that has taken up residence on a ledge of the White House killed another squirrel. Morning Score hasn't confirmed another kill, but we can report that the White House has asked a fourth-grade class in New Hampshire to name the bird. Our vote: John McCain , after another famous Washington hawk. 
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I had very high hopes that Mr. Obama was going to be a leader in this because of his discussion of science progress and science initiative...but it never came up.'' - Paul Trusten, the vice president of the U.S. Metric Association, told The Wall Street Journal that the metric community had been disappointed by President Obama&#39;s lack of support for shifting to the metric system. Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee called for making the switch on Wednesday when he announced his presidential bid. 
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