Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: LaHood swamps Flynn in IL-18 fundraising — Rubio makes early ad reservations
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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 08:02:53 -0600

By Elena Schneider

With help from Theodoric Meyer

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TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO -Illinois-18 candidates file pre-primary FEC reports, and Mike Flynn goes Buzzfeed-style cat video on Darin LaHood - all in today's Pro version of Morning Score: 
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AIR RUBIO - POLITICO's Alex Isenstadt reported: Marco Rubio is poised to become the first 2016 presidential candidate to reserve TV advertising time in early presidential nominating states - a decision his campaign hopes will help him save money in the long run. On Thursday afternoon, Rubio's campaign began the process of placing buys on TV stations in markets covering Iowa, South Carolina and Nevada, reserving at least $4.3 million in airtime so far, according to media tracking information. The buys are set to begin on Nov. 24 in Iowa, and stretch on until late February in South Carolina and Nevada. The Iowa caucuses are set to be held on Feb. 1.

- Reserving the time at a relatively early point in the campaign will ultimately save money for the campaign, his aides believe, since it enables Rubio to acquire ad time at lower rates than competitors who book later. The Florida senator is amassing a sizable war chest but is still likely to trail former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in fundraising, putting a premium on running a cost-efficient campaign. A Rubio aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal strategy, said the purchase was only initial and would be expanded later on. 
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STAFFS UP, SIERRA CLUB - Khalid Pitts, former D.C. city council candidate, will join the Sierra Club as the environmental group's national political director."I look forward to continuing and expanding our political efforts, as we fight to tackle the climate crisis and grow our nation's clean energy economy, and to elect more and more champions across the country in support of these core values," Pitts said in a statement.

PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - CHRISTIE IN ON TUESDAY - POLITICO's Alex Isenstadt reported: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will formally launch his presidential campaign on Tuesday, a source close to his campaign confirmed to POLITICO. Christie will make the announcement during an appearance at Livingston High School, his alma mater, as first reported by WNYC. ... Once considered one of the Republican Party's rising stars and a top contender for the 2016 nomination, Christie has seen his presidential prospects dim. Political fallout surrounding the Bridgegate scandal and troublesome budget and pension issues back home have driven down his poll numbers in New Jersey and nationally, raising
 questions about the two-term governor's viability as a national candidate. 
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TRUMP TROUBLE - POLITICO's Jonathan Topaz: "All jokes aside, the Republican Party is officially afraid of Donald Trump. He has virtually zero chance of winning the presidential nomination. But insiders worry that the loud-mouthed real estate mogul is more than just a minor comedic nuisance on cable news; they fret that he's a loose cannon whose rants about Mexicans and scorched-earth attacks on his rivals will damage the eventual nominee and hurt a party struggling to connect with women and minorities and desperate to win. 'Donald Trump is like watching a road-side accident,' said former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer. 'Everybody pulls over to see the mess. And Trump thinks
 that's entertainment. But running for president is serious. And the risk for the party is he tarnishes everybody.'"
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CAPTURE THE FLAG - Campaign Pro's Kyle Cheney has the results of this week's edition of The POLITICO Caucus: "Republican insiders overwhelmingly say the GOP presidential candidates gave an adequate - or even strong - response on the issue of the Confederate flag this week, after its presence over the South Carolina state capitol became a symbol of America's racial divide in the aftermath of last week's shootings in Charleston." 
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MACKER'S ROLE - POLITICO's Gabriel Debenedetti reports: "Terry McAuliffe tells political associates that he's focused on his day job as Virginia governor, so he won't have any formal responsibilities in his friend Hillary's campaign. But the Clinton loyalist, fundraiser and 2008 campaign chairman is already shaping a significant role for himself - and it will be front and center Friday evening when he introduces Hillary Clinton at the Virginia Democrats' fundraising event in Fairfax. It's the most public sign yet that McAuliffe, a former Democratic National Committee chairman and a consummate political animal, just can't keep his fingers away from the flame. Despite the daily demands of
 running the state he was elected to lead in 2013, he's emerging as Hillary's informal liaison to governors and the party's biggest donors, while also keeping a finger on the pulse of the camp's central operations in Brooklyn." 
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HEALTH CARE 2016 BULLET POINTS - "Obamacare ruling: Six takeaways for 2016," by POLITICO's Glenn Thrush and Kyle Cheney: "Today was the rarest of days in American political history: The legacies of both a sitting president and a Supreme Court chief justice were defined in an instant. While the jockeying swarm of 2016 aspirants aren't posing for posterity, they are angling for power - and the court's 6-to-3 decision upholding Obamacare subsidies alters their calculations. It's nothing compared with the unpinned hand grenade that would have been chucked into the field if the Affordable Care Act had been toppled as many analysts (and Republicans) conjectured, but it's forcing a rethinking
 nevertheless." Six takeaways: "The pitchforks are coming for you, Jeb and Marco ... It's Ted Cruz's moment - not ... Start calling it "Hillarycare," please ... Scott Walker is a happy man ... Cha-ching ... Benedict Roberts." 
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BERNIE RISING IN POLLS - "Polls show Bernie-mentum in Iowa and New Hampshire," by POLITICO's Nick Gass: "Bernie Sanders' surge against Hillary Clinton continued on Wednesday, with two surveys of Iowa caucus-goers and New Hampshire primary voters showing the independent Vermont senator taking a bite out of the Democratic frontrunner's lead, which remains substantial. In Iowa, 50 percent back Clinton, while 24 percent support Sanders in the latest Bloomberg Politics poll out Thursday. In the last poll commissioned by Bloomberg Politics, 57 percent of likely caucus-goers said they would vote for Clinton, and 16 percent pledged their support to the self-described democratic socialist Sanders.
 Meanwhile, Clinton leads Sanders 56 percent to 24 percent in New Hampshire, slightly down from last month, when she held an advantage of 62 percent to 18 percent." 
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MEANWHILE, BACK IN CONGRESS - "State Department: Clinton didn't turn over all Libya emails," by POLITICO's Rachael Bade: "Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton withheld from the State Department several emails related to Libya, the State Department confirmed Thursday night - calling into question her insistence that she has handed over her complete public record. The 2016 Democratic front-runner did not hand over 15 exchanges with longtime Clinton ally Sidney Blumenthal on the security situation in the Middle Eastern nation. The existence of the new correspondence only came to light days ago after Republicans subpoenaed the former Clinton White House adviser's records and he turned them
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- Hillary Clinton will attend the Charleston, S.C. funeral of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney - a state senator who was killed in the church shooting last week - on Friday, a campaign aide confirmed to POLITICO's Gabriel Debenedetti.

CODA-QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Since I have very sensitive and compassionate friends, they all told me that I was fat, slow and out of shape. That is all it took. I immediately started with the 24 day challenge," - Former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), hocking a new weight-loss product on his Facebook page: 
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