Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: GOP super PAC outraises Senate Majority PAC — Dem house candidate takes out bank loan
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Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 08:01:54 -0600

By Theodoric Meyer

With Elena Schneider and Steven Shepard

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GOING UP - "Clinton set to launch $2 million ad campaign," by POLITICO's Annie Karni: "Hillary Clinton will become the first top-tier candidate to hit the airwaves in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire starting Tuesday with a $2 million ad buy for five weeks of television commercials - a gambit intended to get out in front of her competitors and help boost her popularity before the airwaves are cluttered with competing messages from other candidates. It's also a show of force in Iowa where recent polls show Clinton's favorability numbers dropping, and where Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has enjoyed surging popularity - the single ad buy is almost as large as Sanders' total
 campaign spending of $3 million in the first quarter, and more than any top-tier Republican candidate has spent so far on ads." 
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SUPER PAC SMACKDOWN - "GOP Senate super PAC outclasses Dem competitors," by Campaign Pro's Theodoric Meyer: "A new Republican super PAC dedicated to helping the GOP hold the Senate next year raised nearly four times as much as its Democratic counterpart, according to Federal Election Commission reports filed on Friday. The Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC started by allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in January, pulled in more than $4.9 million in the first half of the year. ... Senate Leadership Fund's haul far outstripped the $1.3 million raised by Senate Majority PAC, the flagship Democratic super PAC with ties to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
 Senate Majority PAC had $916,000 in cash on hand on June 30 - roughly $65,000 less than what the group had in the bank at this point two years ago." 
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- "Democratic House candidate's unusual bank loan raises questions," by Campaign Pro's Theodoric Meyer:
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TANGLED LOYALTIES - "Feud in Florida over Hillary Clinton backer," by POLITICO Florida's Marc Caputo: Supporters of Democrat Annette Taddeo, who's challenging GOP Rep. Carlos Curbelo, a freshman, in Florida's 26th District, "want Hillary Clinton to punish a top Hispanic media consultant and fundraiser" who's endorsed Curbelo. The consultant, Freddy Balsera is a "Clinton campaign surrogate who was President Barack Obama's 2008 Hispanic media manager and served as a national finance committee member for both of his presidential campaigns. ... Taddeo's supporters complained about Balsera's endorsement to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, where executive director Kelly Ward
 raised the issue with the office of Clinton's political director." 
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DONORS REVEALED - Uihlein funding bulk of new conservative super PAC: Remember Restoration PAC, the newly formed super PAC that BuzzFeed 
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reported  was running TV ads supporting Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) using a faked image of President Obama shaking hands with the Iranian president? Wonder who was funding it? The group's Federal Election Commission filing reveals that Richard Uihlein, the chief executive of a Wisconsin freezer company, has provided most of its funding. Uihlein, who gave $300,000, has previously given to FreedomWorks for America and Club for Growth Action super PACs. Peter Huizenga, an investor, chipped in another $10,000.

ODD TURNS - "At Fancy Farm, Bevin takes an unusual turn while Conway brings the heat," by The Lexington Herald-Leader's Sam Youngman in Fancy Farm, Ky.: "The annual political picnic here has long been a partisan battle of wits and one-liners, where the politicians trade barbs and laughs and the crowd eggs them on. But apparently nobody told Matt Bevin, the Republican candidate for governor. ... In a sharp departure from the theme of the picnic, Bevin said he was glad to be at the event, which primarily serves as a fundraiser for St. Jerome&#39;s Parrish, but said that the people there 'literally are celebrating the very worst elements of the political process.' ... The more Bevin called for
 unity - bypassing attempts at humor altogether - the more the boos from the Democratic side of the pavilion intensified, until the University of Kentucky Wildcats fight song came on and Bevin&#39;s microphone cut out, signifying that his allotted time had lapsed." 
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IN FOR THE LONG HAUL - As House Democrats embark on the August recess - POLITICO's Lauren French reported on their messaging strategy last week (
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PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "GOP gets ready to rumble," by POLITICO's Eli Stokols: "Since the start of the year, 17 Republicans have announced their intention to run for president. They've logged more than a million miles across the early states and held more than 100 town halls between them. Combined, they've raised $302 million for their campaigns and accompanying super PACs. But all of that is prologue to this week, when a handful of forums and debates will begin the next stage of the 2016 GOP primary: the winnowing. On Monday night, 14 of the 17 GOP contenders will gather in Manchester, New Hampshire, and take the stage, one at a time, for a candidate forum that will be broadcast live on
 C-SPAN and in three early states. Then on Thursday, attention shifts to Cleveland, where Fox News Channel will host the big show - the first prime-time, nationally televised debate featuring the top 10 candidates, determined by an average of recent national polls." 
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- "Trump is cash cow for GOP state parties," by POLITICO's Kyle Cheney, Katie Glueck and Eli Stokols: "Donald Trump sends shudders through the GOP establishment each day he remains atop a volatile presidential pack, but in reality, local Republican parties have courted him and his polarizing brand for years, eagerly slotting him atop prominent party functions and fundraisers - and happily lapping up the dollars he draws. ... Now, a small, growing handful of Republican state party leaders are calling for a Trump detox, worried that all the easy cash is exponentially outweighed by damage he's doing to the GOP image. Several party chairs who spoke with POLITICO say they're leaning more heavily
 on their colleagues to shun associations with Trump, arguing that inviting him to speak - even for a quick buck - sustains his rise." 
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- "Biden considers his future amid pressure to make a bid for president," by The Washington Post's Karen Tumulty, Dan Balz and Paul Kane: Speculation that Vice President Joe Biden might yet run for the White House flared up again this weekend after Maureen Dowd's 
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column  in The New York Times reported that Beau Biden had urged his father to run shortly before his death in May. Biden "and his closest advisers have spoken to some of those who have suggested that he run. But there is no indication that he has taken any serious steps toward launching what would be a challenging campaign to deny Hillary Rodham Clinton the Democratic nomination." 
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- Clinton aides have done nothing publicly to dissuade Biden from running, POLITICO's Annie Karni reports. "So far, Biden's camp has given no signal to Clinton's campaign in either direction, a source told POLITICO But Clinton supporters said in the unlikely event that Biden did enter the race, he would have a hard time eating away at the support she has built up in the early voting states." 
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- Meanwhile, Josh Alcorn, a senior adviser to Beau Biden, is joining the Draft Biden super PAC, MSNBC's Kasie Hunt reports, lending "legitimacy to a group that's built an email list of 170,000 potential Biden supporters." "With Josh's help, we'll be able to expand our fundraising to show the VP the country is ready for him to enter the race," Will Pierce, the super PAC's executive director, told MSNBC in a statement. 
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: 'All of these guys are dicks. And Mark can be a dick with the best of them.' - An anonymous "top GOP official" tells National Journal that Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) can still be as dickish as his colleagues, despite the stroke he suffered in. 
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