Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Jolly expected to launch Senate bid — Duckworth hits Kirk — Democrats eye FL-18 self-funder
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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 08:01:52 -0600

By Theodoric Meyer

With Elena Schneider, Kevin Robillard and Marc Caputo

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GETTING IN - Jolly expected to run for Rubio's Senate seat: Rep. David Jolly on Monday is expected to announce he'll be the third Republican to run for Senate, a decision he considered for weeks but one he made soon after the Florida Supreme Court ruled that his gerrymandered congressional seat needed to be redrawn. The court's ruling all but ensured that Florida&#39;s 13th District would become far more Democratic. Jolly's exit from the district makes it far more likely that Democrat Charlie Crist, whose home will now be in the district, will run for the seat. Jolly's big advantages: He&#39;s well-liked by some affiliated with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; he has shown he can win a
 competitive election and he's the only GOP candidate from the crucial Tampa Bay region. The other announced candidates, Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera and Rep. Ron DeSantis, are from Southeast and Northeast Florida, respectively.

FIRST IN SCORE - Duckworth highlights Kirk's "outrageous statements": Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) is going up with a web video on Monday attacking GOP Sen. Mark Kirk for his "outrageous statements," including Kirk's comparison of the potential nuclear deal with Iran to Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Adolf Hitler last week and his "bro with no ho" comment about Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). The video also attacks Kirk for repeatedly exaggerating his military service record.

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FAVORED CANDIDATE - "Democratic self-funder preps FL-18 run," by POLITICO Florida's Marc Caputo: "Self-made multimillionaire Randy Perkins is becoming a Washington Democratic favorite to replace Rep. Patrick Murphy after the businessman met last week with party congressional-campaign honchos and said he'd spend as much as $5 million of his own money on the race, multiple sources tell POLITICO. Perkins, owner and founder of AshBritt Inc., a debris-removal service, isn't yet ready to announce his candidacy." But Perkins has "had promising face-to-face talks with Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Ben Ray Luj&aacute;n (N.M.) and Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.)." 
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CASH HUSTLE - Democratic challengers outraise Kline in MN-02: Minnesota GOP Rep. John Kline's two Democratic challengers both outraised him in the second quarter, according to the Federal Election Commission reports. Mary Lawrence, a Minneapolis doctor, raised $612,000 in the quarter, and Angie Craig, a health care executive, brought in $327,000. Kline raised $313,000. The haul gave him $563,000 in cash on hand - substantially more than Craig, who had $230,000 in cash on hand, but much less than Lawrence, who had more than $1 million in cash on hand. (Lawrence has loaned her campaign $800,000.) The two Democrats could burn up their cash facing each other in the primary, but their solid
 quarters might help put the race on the map. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee also noted that Kline, chairman of the education committee, received about $62,000 from for-profit colleges.

AIR WAR - Chamber spends another $1 million to back Kirk, Heck: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce bought nearly $1 million worth of television and digital ad time last week to support two more Republican Senate candidates: Nevada Rep. Joe Heck and Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk. The ads, which are running for two weeks, boost both lawmakers and highlight their military backgrounds. The Chamber spent $550,000 on two spots for Kirk - one 30-second ad and another 15-second spot - and another $400,000 for Heck. The group had previously spent a total of $1 million to put up ads to support two other vulnerable Republican incumbents, Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio.

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STAFF MOVES - The House GOP-aligned nonprofit American Action Network and super PAC Congressional Leadership Fund has promoted Emily Davis to communications director, the groups will announce today. Davis, who's been deputy communications director, replaces Dan Conston, who will remain with the groups in an outside capacity. "Emily has been a key part of our success in advancing center-right policies and candidates, and I'm thrilled she's leading our communications," said AAN/CLF president Mike Shields.

PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "Trump evades specifics on his draft deferment," by POLITICO's David Rogers: The explanation provided by Donald Trump's campaign for his draft deferment during the Vietnam provided by his campaign on Saturday does not appear to line up with his draft record. The Trump campaign's statement - which was released on Saturday after Trump came under heavy fire from other GOP presidential candidates for criticizing GOP Sen. John McCain's service in Vietnam - says that Trump received a "short-term" deferment while studying at the University of Pennsylvania. "In fact, a summary of Trump's draft record - from the National Archives and Record Administration in Missouri and
 first published by the 'The Smoking Gun' website in 2011 - tells a different story. Trump's medical deferment is listed for October 1968, months after he had left Wharton." 
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- The Wall Street Journal castigated Trump for his comments in an editorial posted online on Sunday evening and praised Rick Perry for taking the lead in denouncing him. "But note the silence of Ted Cruz, who declined to criticize Mr. Trump because he said the media enjoy such intra-Republican fights. Mr. Cruz has recently released a book whose main theme is an attack on other Republicans. It's central to his campaign strategy. The Texas Senator must be hoping to inherit Trump voters once the casino magnate flames out, but he's revealing his own lack of political character." 
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- "Scott Walker in Iowa: Relentlessly on message," by POLITICO's Katie Glueck in Sioux City, Iowa: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's outfits, speeches and even intonations hardly varied at all on a three-day Winnebago trip across Iowa this weekend. "Even by presidential campaign trail standards, where the intense media scrutiny pushes candidates to adopt a more buttoned-up approach and White House hopefuls strive to hew closely to message, Walker stands out. On several occasions, when he used a slightly different word at one stop than he had at the previous appearance, he paused and then corrected himself." 
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- "How the National Rifle Association helped get Bernie Sanders elected," by The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold in Burlington, Vt.: "A few days before Election Day in 1990, the National Rifle Association sent a letter to its 12,000 members in Vermont, with an urgent message about the race for the state's single House seat. Vote for the socialist, the gun rights group said. It's important. 'Bernie Sanders is a more honorable choice for Vermont sportsmen than Peter Smith," wrote Wayne LaPierre, who was - and still is - a top official at the national NRA." The campaign "marked the beginning of Sanders's complicated relationship with the issue of gun rights - the one area where Sanders's
 Democratic presidential rivals have been able to attack him from the left." 
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I don't think I'd need to spend a nickel to get elected. I've never been as popular as I am now." - Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), who has faced attacks from Republicans after raising only $141,000 for his reelection campaign in the second quarter. 
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