Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Illinois Senate race already nasty — Two Republicans pass on Colorado Senate run
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 08:02:56 -0600

By Theodoric Meyer

With Elena Schneider

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TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO - "Kirk-Duckworth is already getting ugly," by Campaign Pro's Kevin Robillard:
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-"Vulnerable members split on trade vote," by Campaign Pro's Theodoric Meyer: 
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STAYING OUT - Two Republicans decline Colorado Senate run: A pair of potential recruits to run against Colorado Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet - state Attorney General Cynthia Coffman and 2014 gubernatorial candidate Mike Kopp - said Thursday they will both pass on the statewide race during a chaotic week for the state GOP party. State GOP chairman Steve House said earlier this week that Coffman and others tried to push him out of the job, just three months after taking the helm of the state party. Coffman, who was initially considered a top choice, told National Review (
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Days until the 2015 election: 137. Days until the 2016 election: 508.

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REPUBLICANS' ANSWER TO HOUSE/SENATE MAJORITY PAC - "GOP's House and Senate super PACs step up sales pitch," by POLITICO's Anna Palmer, Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan: "The primary Senate and House Republican super PACs are joining forces in a major campaign to get Big Business to open its checkbook to the party. The message isn't subtle: the left is shelling out tens of millions of dollars to pummel Republicans and it's time for corporate America to fund a counteroffensive. Enter the Congressional Leadership Fund and Senate Leadership Fund. The two super PACs are letting the donor class know that they're the only organizations officially blessed by the Republican leadership. And the two
 organizations plan to spend millions of dollars this election cycle to keep the House and Senate in GOP hands." 
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RECRUITMENT UPDATE - "Democrats court MMA fighter for Heck's House seat," by Roll Call's Emily Cahn: Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee staffers met for former Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller on Wednesday in an effort to recruit him to run against GOP Rep. Joe Heck, sources told Roll Call. (Heck is himself being recruited to run for Senate.) "Democrats also met with state Senate Minority Leader Aaron Ford while in Las Vegas, but multiple Democratic operatives said Miller would be the stronger candidate. 'Anybody in Nevada or D.C. would admit that he's the guy,' one operative said of Miller." And yes, he fought in mixed martial arts matches while secretary of state. 
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POLLSTERS LOSE AT FCC - POLITICO Pro Tech's Brooks Boliek reports: Pollsters and political campaigns failed to win an exemption from the FCC's new robocall rules because they aren't as important to Americans as their health or bank account, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said Thursday.

"&#39;Hello, you have just been defrauded in your bank account,' is a little different from 'Hello, tell me who you are going to vote for,' or 'Hello, let me do a push poll' is a little different from 'Hello, you have a health emergency,'" Wheeler said during a press conference following the commission's vote to crack down on the annoying calls and texts.

PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "The POLITICO Caucus: Marco Rubio has an Obama problem," by POLITICO's Katie Glueck: "A majority of early-state insiders say that Marco Rubio's lack of national experience will prove problematic in the GOP primary after seven years of President Barack Obama, who was also a first-term senator when he ran." 
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-- "Operation Replace Jeb," by POLITICO's Alex Isenstadt: "Sensing the window of opportunity is closing, John Kasich is on a last-minute dash across the country to convince party donors and power-brokers that there's room for one more candidate in the most crowded Republican presidential field in decades. The Ohio governor, who's expected to formally announce his White House bid next month, is jetting to America's political money capitals - from Dallas to New York City to Palm Beach - with the goal of securing the financial support he'll need to wage a 2016 campaign. He's huddled with Ann Romney at a lavish Utah ski resort and pushed to win the backing of a powerful longtime friend, media
 mogul Rupert Murdoch. He's also tried to convince Ohio's deepest-pocketed donors to keep their powder dry and not commit until he gets into the race." 
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- "Clintons cover both sides on trade deals," by POLITICO's Annie Karni: Bill and Hillary Clinton managed to talk past each other on trade on Thursday, as Hillary Clinton told a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, that President Barack Obama needed to work with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. "But Wednesday night, Bill Clinton muddied his wife's message and deflated the hopes of some on the left by touting the benefits of trade deals in an appearance on 'The Daily Show.' 'On balance, the countries that we have trade agreements with, we tend to have a balance of trade, much more than, let's say with China,' the former president told Jon Stewart, 'with whom we have no trade agreement,
 with whom we have a humongous deficit.'" 
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- Hillary Clinton took a more definitive stand on trade later in an interview with the Nevada reporter (and POLITICO Magazine contributing editor) Jon Ralston, who asked if she would vote to give Obama "fast-track" authority if she was still in the Senate. "At this point, probably not, because it's a process vote," Clinton said. "Right now, I'm focused on making sure we get trade adjustment assistance, and I certainly would not vote for it unless I were absolutely confident we would get trade adjustment assistance." (The bill the House passed on Thursday does not include trade adjustment assistance, a worker protection program set to expire in September.) Watch the full interview: 
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- Ralston also outlined Clinton's plan to win Nevada for POLITICO Magazine: 
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- "Sanders and immigration? It's complicated," by POLITICO's Seung Min Kim: Bernie Sanders, who's emerged as this cycle's liberal standard-bearer, is planning to address immigration reform at a conference of Latino officials on Friday in Las Vegas. But he's got a complicated history on the issue. In 2007, "Sanders was part of the charge from the left to kill an immigration overhaul bill. Back then, the Vermont independent warned that the immigration bill - a product from then-Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) - would drive down wages for lower-income workers, an argument that's been used by hard-liner reform opponents. He paired with conservative Sen. Chuck Grassley
 (R-Iowa) on a restrictive immigration amendment. And Sanders backed provisions characterized as poison pills to unravel the bill, while voting to block the final measure in June 2007." 
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- Sanders has also veered from typical liberal positions on guns, POLITICO's Jonathan Topaz reports. "With President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton calling for a gut check on gun violence in America after the mass shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., the Vermont senator's awkward history with the issue of gun control now seems poised to resurface." While Sanders' "campaign manager says he is 'very moderate' on the issue, others call him 'erratic.' To wit, he has voted against the Brady Bill, voted for an assault weapons ban, voted to allow firearms on Amtrak, and voted for universal background checks - upsetting gun-control and gun-rights advocates alike." 
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Academic Merit is a subsidiary of Integrity Holdings. Matt was not required to report the under-held assets under Integrity Holdings." - Ben Hartman, the campaign manager for Kentucky GOP gubernatorial nominee Matt Bevin, told The Courier-Journal that Bevin did not report his partial ownership of an education company on state disclosure form because it's owned by another company that he owns - the conveniently named Integrity Holdings. 
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FLORIDA'S 800LB MOUSE: Disney directly employs 74,000 people in Central Florida, and pegs the Orlando resort's economic impact at $18.2 billion, or 2.5 percent of the state's gross domestic product. No company guards its squeaky clean image more fiercely than Disney, but behind the curtain, Disney is one of the most powerful forces in Florida politics. Read more in the latest installment of POLITICO Magazine's 'What Works' series. 
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