Subject: POLITICO Huddle: REID BACKS IRAN DEAL -- Momentum continues for Obama -- IT’S ALREADY ELECTION SEASON IN N.H. -- Warren won’t commit to another term
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Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 06:02:12 -0600

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REID GIVES OBAMA A BOOST: President Obama's momentum on his Iran deal has now continued for nearly a week unimpeded with the news that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has backed the nuclear agreement. It's not a huge surprise that the Democratic leader is supporting Obama, but you've seen how hard Reid can make things when he opposes, say, new trade agreement. "I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure the deal stands," Reid told WaPo's Paul Kane in a Sunday afternoon news dump. Reid is "cautiously optimistic" that Congress will keep the Iran deal from achieving veto-proof support and "still hopeful" that Senate Democrats can block the disapproval resolution next month from even
 reaching the president's desk. Right now just Robert Menendez and expected Reid successor are against the deal in the Senate Democratic Caucus. "We don't disagree on much, but we disagree on this," Reid said of Schumer. 
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Other Iran movement: GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska came out against the Iran deal over the weekend, leaving Mainer Sen. Susan Collins as the only undecided Senate Republican. Nothing yet from Senate Democratic No. 4 Patty Murray, but the current count in the Senate is 27 Democrats for and just two against. In the House Obama won over Rep. Jerry Nadler on Friday after Nadler released a presidential letter publicly (
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Explosive argument: Michael Crowley reports that supporters of the deal are looking to persuade undecided lawmakers with the argument that under the deal the United States will have a better idea of where to bomb Iran in the future. "It's certainly an argument I've heard made," said Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. "We'll be better off with the agreement were we to need to use force." 
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NO SUCH THING AS AN OFF YEAR: New Hampshire Guv Maggie Hassan isn't a candidate yet to take on GOP Sen. Kelly Ayotte, but she's certainly being treated like one. Hassan has absorbed $2.5 million in attacks already this cycle, a 10-to-1 advantage over attacks on Ayotte, Manu Raju reports. The GOP attempts to soften up Hassan are reflective of the larger narrative building in the battle for Senate control in 2016: Democrats are likely to get outspent in many states as they seek to win back the four (or five) seats needed to retake the majority. "How the air war is affecting Hassan's thinking is uncertain. Marc Goldberg, a senior adviser to the governor, said she's focused on the state budget
 and 'there is no timetable for any decisions related to 2016.'" 
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Kentucky two-step: Sen. Rand Paul was successful this weekend with his drive to run for both his Senate seat and the presidency in 2016, getting his state party to turn to a caucus system rather than a primary. "A key amendment to the caucuses plan - added to ease concerns about how the caucuses will be paid for - requires that Paul raise or transfer at least $250,000 to the state party by Sept. 18 ... 'It&#39;s a great day ...' Paul told reporters." Courier-Journal: 
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NO RUSH ON OBAMACARE REPEAL: Senate GOP No. 3 John Thune tells Roll Call's Niels Lesniewski that Republicans aren't feeling any pressure to push through an ACA repeal with reconciliation this year. "I don't know if there's any particular rush to doing it ...it's not going away. And reconciliation has been used in the past, not only in the year in which the budget passed, but in the subsequent year." 
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Tweakin': Meanwhile, House Republicans are mulling more piecemeal changes for Obamacare, per Natty J. 
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HOME STATE DEFENSE: GOP Sens. Tim Scott of South Carolina and Pat Roberts of Kansas are prebutting any attempt by the White House to use their states to house transferred Gitmo prisoners. "The notion that Kansas, South Carolina or any other state would be an ideal home for terrorist detainees is preposterous. Transferring these prisoners to the mainland puts the well-being of states in danger, posing security risks to the public and wasting taxpayer dollars. The detention facilities at Guantanamo are doing a fantastic job of holding these terrorists." WSJ: 
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ATTENTION SCOTT BROWN: Forget running for president; Sen. Elizabeth Warren won't even say whether she'll run for a second Senate term. She gave a non-answer to WBZ, and when pressed on whether she'll run again in 2018 she simply stonewalled. "I don't want to answer that question," Warren responded. Oh yeah, and Warren still hasn't endorsed Hillary Clinton. 
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Off the radar: Everyone is talking about Warren's meeting with Vice President Joe Biden, but the REAL story is that Biden also met privately with former Sen. Jim Webb, who does not want to be your vice president. CNN: 
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CRUZ RECRUITS OUSTED GOP CANDIDATES -- Lee Bright, Joe Carr and Chris McDaniel have two things in common: They all got beat in Senate races last year and they all support Sen. Ted Cruz for president. Nevermind that all three ran and lost to, umm, more pragmatic colleagues of Cruz's; the senator's presidential campaign says it is "happy to have the endorsements and support from true conservatives." NJ: 
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I heard he also dislikes Obamacare: Ted Cruz "will take a lead role in the launch this week of an ambitious 50-state campaign to end taxpayer support for Planned Parenthood," the Washington Post reports. 
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BERNIE STAYS POSITIVE: Ever-wary of the possibility he hurts support for Hillary Clinton so much that it gives the GOP an advantage next year, Sen. Bernie Sanders will "never" attack the Democratic frontrunner in advertisements, Sanders adviser Tad Devine told The Hill. "You will never see us run attack ads against her," he said. "You will never see, from him, the kind of personal, political attack that is common in presidential campaigns. He is not wired that way. He doesn't believe in it. He thinks people are sick of it." 
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