Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Group targets Democrats on Iran deal — Mowrer to run in IA-03 — Redistricting updates
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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 08:01:54 -0600

By Theodoric Meyer

With Kevin Robillard

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TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO - "Group targets 2018 Senate Dems on Iran deal," by Campaign Pro's Kevin Robillard:
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GETTING IN - Mowrer to challenge Young in IA-03: Iowa Democratic Party vice chairman Jim Mowrer will announce on Monday that he's challenging freshman GOP Rep. David Young. Mowrer&#39;s plans were confirmed by Jerry Crawford, the Des Moines lawyer and prominent Iowa Democrat. Mowrer, an Iowa National Guard veteran who served in Iraq, lost badly when he challenged longtime GOP Rep. Steve King in the state's Republican-leaning 4th District last year. He's since moved to Des Moines, part of Young's swing 3rd District. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.

- Mowrer would be the first well-known Democrat to enter the race. Former Gov. Chet Culver said he was considering a run in June but hasn't announced a decision. A recent poll conducted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee mentioned Mowrer and Nick Klinefeldt, the U.S. attorney for Iowa's Southern District, as potential candidates but didn't mention Culver. Culver did not respond to a request for comment sent by email on Thursday. One Iowa Democratic operative who had spoken to Klinefelt recently, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a private conversation, said Klinefelt had told him there was "no chance" he was going to run in the swing district.

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MAPPING MANEUVERS - Democrats make initial offer in Virginia redistricting battle: Democrats in Virginia&#39;s General Assembly have offered a new congressional map under which they could pick up three seats in the 2016 elections ahead of a special session next week. The 
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map , based on one passed by the Virginia state Senate when it was still under Democratic control in 2011, would create five Democratic-leaning districts, five GOP-leaning districts and one swing seat, Democrats claim. Republicans have an 8-3 advantage in the delegation now. With Republicans in control of both chambers of the General Assembly, the map has virtually no chance of passage. GOP leaders haven&#39;t indicated how they plan to resolve the issues.A special session to redraw the map is set to start next Monday.

AIR WAR - Mysterious group running feel-good ads in Colorado and Ohio: A previously unknown group called Opportunity News Media is spending $3 million on TV ads in Colorado and Ohio, The Associated Press' Julie Bykowicz reports. "Filled with children, workers and people of different ethnicities, the ads promote Republicans as interested in creating jobs, improving access to education and caring for the middle class. Many of the 30-second spots end with rays of sunlight peeking out from clouds as an upbeat female narrator says, 'There are people who still believe opportunity lives in America, and we call ourselves Republicans.'" Who's behind Opportunity News Media? It's impossible to say.
 The group is a limited-liability company set up in Delaware last year and is not required to disclose its donors, or much else about itself. But it seems to have ties to a Virginia nonprofit. 
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MORE MAPPING MANEUVERS - Groups question new Florida maps: Two groups that sued the Florida legislature over the state's congressional maps are concerned about the way the legislature is now redrawing them. The League of Women Voters and Common Cause sent a letter to the state House speaker and the Senate president on Friday "outlining what could make up the core of a legal argument against new congressional district maps being drawn this week and next in Tallahassee," The Tampa Bay Times reports. "It appears the line between Districts 26 and 27 will form the core of possible opposition to the maps in in court, as the League and Common Cause say it violates the same constitutional
 provisions that led to the current redistricting special session to begin with." 
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PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "Trump's gang of misfits," by POLITICO's Ben Schreckinger and Cate Martel: "His campaign manager was once arrested for a bringing a gun into a House office building. His Iowa campaign co-chair is a reality television star who says politics is 'not my lane.' He hired a self-described 'rabid tea party activist' who proved too rabid for like-minded activists and resigned. ... This is Donald Trump's political machine. From the grassroots base to the burnt-orange top, Trump's hastily assembled operation is not the typical presidential campaign. Rarely in American politics has such an unlikely gang of misfits, rogues and loose cannons helped a candidate climb to the top
 of the heap. 'It's definitely a different kind of campaign,' said Michael Cohen, executive vice president of the Trump Organization. 'That's for sure.'" 
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- "Walker struggles for the Iowa prize," by POLITICO's Eli Stokols in Des Moines, Iowa: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is banking on a win in Iowa more than any other top-tier candidate, but he's struggled in the polls recently as Donald Trump and Ben Carson have surged in the polls. "'The enthusiasm right now is clearly on the side of the insurgents,' said Matt Strawn, the former state GOP chairman, who is neutral in the current nomination fight. 'But the race is just beginning in earnest. It's one thing to poll high in August, but whether those candidates can withstand the long campaign is still an open question.'" 
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- "Iowa State Fair fits Scott Walker's calorie-heavy, all-American diet," by The Washington Post's Jenna Johnson in Des Moines, Iowa: "For many presidential candidates, a trip to the Iowa State Fair this week means scheduling a diet skip day or saving up calories to enjoy regional cuisine such as greasy pork chops and deep-fried Snickers bars -- or just taking bites instead of finishing the whole thing. Not so for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who will be at the fair on Monday. The 47-year-old Republican regularly eats like this pretty much every day on the campaign trail, documenting his caloric consumption on social media like a wrestler trying to bulk up for the season." Some recent
 examples: McDonald's, Burger King, Dairy Queen, Miller Lite, biscuit-and-sausage sandwiches, cream puffs. 
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- "Joe Biden strategy for White House run taking shape," by POLITICO's Isaac-Edward Dovere, Gabriel Debenedetti and Kenneth P. Vogel: With his blessing, confidants to Vice President Joe Biden have begun strategizing about travel to early primary states and identified potential donors who could bankroll a campaign even as he remains undecided about whether to pull the trigger on a late-entry 2016 run for president. The moves are a sign that after months of speculation, Biden is taking a few significant if small steps toward a presidential campaign, according to sources familiar with the discussions. Biden's strategy, the sources say, would be to focus on South Carolina while almost writing
 off New Hampshire, where both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have considerable footholds." 
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- Last but definitely not least: "Mr. Trump," William Bowman, 9, asked the GOP presidential candidate just before taking off for a ride in Trump's helicopter on Saturday. "'Yes,' Trump said, pulling on the lapels of his jacket. 'Are you Batman?' the boy asked. 'I am Batman,' Trump said. 
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "We're looking forward to a bloodbath next November." - Ken Crow, an Iowa organizer for Donald Trump, who clarified that he was speaking "metaphorically, of course." "Democrats' blood, hopefully," he added. "Political blood. I'm joking. You know what I mean."

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