Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: More attacks in Maryland Senate primary — Guinta questioner shut down at town hall
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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 08:01:14 -0600

By Theodoric Meyer

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TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO - "Edwards, Van Hollen step up attacks in Maryland Senate primary," by Campaign Pro's Kevin Robillard: 
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OFF LIMITS - Guinta questioner silenced at town hall appearance: A woman who attempted to ask New Hampshire GOP Rep. Frank Guinta a question about his campaign finance woes on Monday evening at a town hall event at the American Legion hall in Plaistow, N.H., was cut off by the post commander, WMUR-TV reports. "Ma'am, ma'am, you cannot discuss that here," David Meaney, the post commander, told the woman, who declined to give her name to WMUR. "We have a federal charter here and I ask the congressman not to answer that question. I will lose my license, my liquor license, the whole nine yards." Guinta - who has ignored calls from GOP Sen. Kelly Ayotte and other New Hampshire Republicans to
 resign following campaign finance violations - told WMUR he had not asked Meaney to ban "political" questions.

- Guinta also appeared to open the door ever so slightly to the possibility of declining to run for reelection. Asked by WMUR after the event whether his weak second-quarter numbers had affected his decision to seek reelection, Guinta replied, "For me, nothing has changed. I remain focused on my job. Any announcement on that would come next year, but nothing has changed." Guinta had previously insisted that he wouldn't resign and planned to run for reelection next year. 
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ONGOING INVESTIGATION - "Ethics panel weighs full probe of House Democrat Honda," by POLITICO's Lauren French: "The House Committee on Ethics is considering whether to launch a full-scale investigation into allegations that California Rep. Mike Honda allowed improper coordination between his congressional and campaign offices. The committee announced Monday it had received details from the Office of Congressional Ethics - an independent ethics watchdog - earlier in the year and is now considering launching a separate investigation into whether Honda's campaign arm and his official staff coordinated on an event with the State Department." The well-funded Democrat Ro Khanna, who challenged
 Honda in the primary last year, is running again this cycle. 
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GETTING IN - "Crist: 'I intend on running' for Congress," by POLITICO's Marc Caputo: "Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist all but announced his intentions to run for Congress in a Tampa Bay-area House seat that will likely be redrawn to include his home, have more Democrats and lack an incumbent. 'If the new congressional map includes my home, I intend on running to serve the people again,' Crist said in a Twitter post on Monday afternoon. Crist's announcement came hours after GOP Rep. David Jolly announced he would run for Senate instead of reelection." 
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FIRST IN SCORE - RGA raises $24.4 million in first half of the year: The Republican Governors Association raised $24.4 million in the first six months of the year, according to numbers provided to Campaign Pro. The group has $20 million on hand 'across all entities.' Both numbers are records for this point in a presidential cycle. The RGA raised $22.1 million in the first six months of 2011 and ended June 2011 with $16.2 million on hand. 'Thanks to the hard work and success of every Republican governor, the RGA is in strong shape financially to defend our incumbents, target Democrat states and elect even more Republican governors over the next four years,' Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, the
 RGA chairman, said in a statement. The RGA also eliminated the $3 million in debt it had at the end of the 2014 elections.

CASH RACE - DSCC raises $5.6 million in June: The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee raised $5.6 million last month and now has $8.9 million cash on hand, the committee said today. The committee still has $10.3 million in debt. The NRSC, which raised $4.1 million in June, was able to erase its debt and has $6.5 million on hand. The DSCC had $11.25 million in debt at this time last cycle. The DSCC has maintained its fundraising edge over the NRSC in recent months despite being in the minority.

- The NRCC outraised the DCCC for the month, Roll Call's Emily Cahn reported Monday. 
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PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "Kasich's Hail Mary run," by POLITICO's Alex Isenstadt: "John Kasich is poised to launch a Hail Mary bid for the presidency on Tuesday, making him the last entrant in the Republican Party's most crowded field in decades. The two-term governor will announce his bid during a Tuesday appearance at The Ohio State University, his alma mater, where he will highlight his long career in public office and his success in turning around his state's troubled economy. Yet as Kasich embarks on his quest for the party's nomination, he confronts a big challenge: He's starting late." 
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- New Day for America, a pro-Kasich super PAC, is running 60-second spots on New Hampshire TV, starting today through Aug. 4, spending $1.2 million.

- The Club for Growth will put out a statement on Tuesday morning criticizing Kasich's decision in 2013 to expand Medicaid in Ohio, with David McIntosh, the group's president, calling it "a costly mistake."

- "Bush vs. Walker: Round One of a long brawl," by POLITICO's Eli Stokols: Jeb Bush and Scott Walker are taking increasingly tough jabs at each other. "It started during a town hall in Nevada Friday, when Bush took an unprovoked shot at Walker, portraying him as unserious and unsophisticated over a promise he made in his announcement speech last Monday to repeal the nuclear deal with Iran 'on the very first day in office.' "One thing that I won't do is just say, as a candidate, 'I'm going to tear up the agreement on the first day,'" Bush said after criticizing the deal itself before a crowd of 100 people." Walker hit back on Saturday, telling reporters he didn't "want a president who is not
 prepared to act on Day One," including taking military action. Neither mentioned the other by name. 
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- "Jeb Bush Takes Aim at Lobbyists," by The Wall Street Journal's Beth Reinhard and Christopher S. Stewart: "Vowing to rattle the political establishment in Washington, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Monday said members of Congress should disclose their meetings with lobbyists and refrain from lobbying former colleagues for six years after leaving office." Senators are currently barred from lobbying for two years, while House members are barred for a year. But Bush's "anti-lobbying agenda runs counter to what happened in Florida after Mr. Bush as governor passed legislation aimed at cracking down on the advocacy class." 
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- And lest we ignore Donald Trump: A new Washington Post/ABC News poll has Trump leading the Republican field with 24 percent support, with Scott Walker in a distant second at 13 percent. But Trump's support fell a small but statistically significant amount in the calls the pollsters made after Trump's widely denounced comments about Sen. John McCain's war record on Saturday. 
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I certainly am enthusiastically supporting the nominee of our party." - Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who managed to speak for 40 minutes on Monday in Shepherdsville, Ky., without ever mentioning his old rival Matt Bevin, the GOP gubernatorial nominee. 
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