Subject: POLITICO’s Morning Score: Chamber weighs playing in Democratic primaries — Redistricting updates in Florida, Virginia
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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 08:03:01 -0600

By Theodoric Meyer

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OUTSIDE MONEY - Chamber of Commerce might play in Democratic primaries: "The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is weighing a major role in Democratic primaries in key congressional races nationally, which could produce weakened nominees who would be more easily defeated by Republicans, according to an internal memo obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. The unorthodox strategy could heighten Democratic upheaval in battleground states like Florida and Pennsylvania where the party is struggling to unite around a nominee as it fights to retake the Senate - and that appears to be precisely the Chamber&#39;s goal. It comes as the business lobby has already begun spending aggressively on behalf of
 select Senate Republicans more than a year before the 2016 elections." 
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- The Chamber is considering getting involved in the contested Democratic primaries in the Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida Senate races, according to the memo. On the House side, the group is considering playing in Democratic primaries in the districts represented by GOP Reps. Bob Dold of Illinois, Bruce Poliquin of Maine, Cresent Hardy of Nevada, Mike Coffman in Colorado and Martha McSally in Arizona. The lawmakers are considered some of the most vulnerable in the House.

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TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO - "Virginia lawmakers punt redistricting to courts," by Campaign Pro's Elena Schneider:
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- "Florida House, Senate dig in as map deadline nears," by POLITICO's Matt Dixon in Tallahassee, Fla.: 
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FIRST IN SCORE - EMILY's List endorses Barrag&aacute;n in CA-44: EMILY's List will endorse Democrat Nanette Barrag&aacute;n, who stepped down from the Hermosa Beach City Council to run for the House in California's 44th District, in Los Angeles County. "Nanette Barragan has dedicated her career to public service and has made history as the first Latina elected to Hermosa Beach City Council and as her city's first Latina mayor," said EMILY's List President Stephanie Schriock said in a statement. Barrag&aacute;n is running to replace Democratic Rep. Janice Hahn, who has endorsed Democratic state Sen. Isadore Hall in the race. She's the seventh House candidate whom EMILY's List - which works
 to elect Democratic women who support abortion rights - has backed this cycle.

AT THE POLLS - Poll: Cooper and McCrory tied in North Carolina: GOP Gov. Pat McCrory and Democrat Roy Cooper are in a dead heat in the North Carolina governor's race, according to a Public Policy Polling poll released Thursday. Cooper received 42 percent support to McCrory's 39 percent in a head-to-head matchup, within the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points. Nearly half of the voters polled - 48 percent - disapproved of McCrory's job performance; 35 percent approved.

- There's no Democratic candidate running against GOP Sen. Richard Burr yet, and all four potential candidates that PPP tested - Chris Rey, Duane Hall, Deborah Ross and Heath Shuler - attracted about the same support, about 35 percent. Voters appeared unfamiliar with all four of them. Thirty-seven percent of voters polled disapproved of Burr's job performance, while 31 percent approved.

AT THE POLLS - Poll: Feingold leads Johnson in Wisconsin Senate race:  Former Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold is leading GOP Sen. Ron Johnson in a Marquette Law School poll of registered voters released today, with 47 percent support to Johnson's 42 percent support. But it's a narrower margin than the same poll found in April - before Feingold entered the race - when Feingold had 54 percent support to Johnson's 38 percent. Johnson's favorability rating was significantly lower than Feingold's. More voters reported viewing Johnson unfavorably - 30 percent - than viewed him favorably - 31 percent - although the result was well within the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 4.3 percentage
 points. Feingold was viewed favorably by 42 percent of voters, with 30 percent viewing him unfavorably.

- Johnson spokesman Brian Reisinger's response to the poll: "In the last election, Senator Feingold led all the early polls too, but he still got fired by Wisconsinites because of his four votes against a balanced budget amendment, his support for a VA-like single payer health care system and his insatiable demand for bigger government and higher taxes. That's what will happen again in this race.'

CASH RACE - DSCC brings in $3.8 million, outraises NRSC: The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee raised $3.8 million in July, it announced Thursday, outraising the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which raised $3.3 million in the month. The DSCC had more cash on hand, with $9.2 million to the NRSC's $7.6 million. But the committee still has $9.1 million in debt, which is has been slowly paying down since the 2014 election cycle. (The DSCC also has roughly $5 million in mortgage debt following its purchase of its building last year.) The NRSC has no debt.

PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "Inside the GOP field's new strategies to ride out the Trump tornado," by The Washington Post's Robert Costa and Philip Rucker: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush went after Donald Trump on the campaign trail this week, but don't expect the super PAC supporting him to start going after Trump on the air. "'If other campaigns wish that we're going to uncork money on Donald Trump, they'll be disappointed,' said Mike Murphy, chief strategist of the Right to Rise PAC. 'Trump is, frankly, other people's problem. We'd be happy to have a two-way race with Trump in the end, and we have every confidence that Governor Bush would beat him.'" 
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- "Ted Cruz&#39;s plan to win back the anti-establishment vote," by POLITICO's Katie Glueck in Des Moines, Iowa: Ted Cruz has quietly embarked on a strategy designed to reclaim the mantle of the anti-Washington presidential candidate" from Donald Trump. "The Texas senator and his wife, Heidi, have spent months courting Iowa activists over dinners, women's lunches and meet-ups at conservative confabs. ...His efforts in the South are aided by grassroots leaders abhorred by the establishment, but who have cache among the region's most deeply conservative voters. And he has studiously avoided upsetting the angry voters who are for the moment fueling Trump's campaign, but who could easily look
 for an alternative down the road." 
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- "Scott Walker's immigration shift is his latest tack to the right," by The Wall Street Journal's Reid Epstein: At each step in Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's career, "he has run against Republican opponents with one overriding strategy: Never letting anybody get to the right of him. That helps explain his move this week to instantly embrace the toughest position on immigration after Republican presidential primary opponent Donald Trump released his policy platform on the matter. After slipping in polls in must-win Iowa, Mr. Walker is positioning his campaign to compete with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for the slice of the GOP electorate angry with everyone in Washington." 
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- "Trump organization seeks peace with Hispanic media," by POLITICO's Hadas Gold: Donald Trump's organization is quietly reaching out to a Hispanic media group with a very un-Trump-like request: Let's meet and make peace. Alex Nogales, CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, a leading advocacy group, told POLITICO he received a call last week from Lawrence Glick, executive vice president of strategic development at the Trump Organization, proposing the meeting. The tone of the call was very different from previous interactions the coalition has had with the Trump camp over the past few months, which involved threats of lawsuits over how the organization had characterized the
 billionaire real estate mogul's comments on Mexican immigrants." 
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Who goes on a celebrity cruise ship to see Scott Brown? Do people even know who he is? Wow. He will do anything to show his body." - Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), upon being told the former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) was appearing on as a speaker on a celebrity cruise. Brown talked incessantly about his body while in the Senate, she said. 
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