Subject: POLITICO’s Morning Score: Inside the Illinois Senate primary — Sununu’s in — Patty Murray gets a GOP challenger
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Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 08:06:46 -0600

By Theodoric Meyer | 09/08/2015 10:05AM EDT

TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO -- "Senate primary divides Illinois Democrats," by Campaign Pro's Kevin Robillard and Theodoric Meyer: http://cl.s4.exct.net/?qs=be6e360198852de492385d2f58086b0059fb7aa008125418468f536e4f2b831c

-- "Chris Sununu to run for New Hampshire governor," by Campaign Pro's Kevin Robillard: http://cl.s4.exct.net/?qs=be6e360198852de4fc222a9e0ba78a7bdf4f01d7ff65309d5ce06a9907fcae3c

GETTING IN - "Former GOP chair Chris Vance to challenge Sen. Patty Murray," by The Seattle Times' Jim Brunner: "Former state Republican Party chair Chris Vance will announce his candidacy Tuesday for the U.S. Senate, launching an underdog campaign against four-term Democratic incumbent Sen. Patty Murray ... Vance, 53, will make his announcement in an online video and news release followed by a round of media interviews. A former state representative and Metropolitan King County Council member from Auburn, Vance served as chairman of the state GOP from 2001 to 2006. For the past several years he's worked as a lobbyist, consultant and political commentator." 
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Days until the 2015 election: 56. Days until the 2016 election: 427.

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OPEN SEAT - Potential candidates line up to run for Kline's seat in MN-02: The Pioneer Press has an exhaustive rundown of potential candidates to replace Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.), who announced on Thursday that he'd retire. Who's in? Democrats Mary Lawrence and Angie Craig, who've been running for months, and Republican David Gerson, who's run twice before. Who's considering it? Mike McFadden, who ran for Senate in 2014, and Mary Pawlenty, the former first lady, on the Republican side, along with a slew of Democratic and Republican state lawmakers. Who's definitely out? GOP state Rep. Pat Garofalo, who told the paper, "I would rather stick a fork in my eye than run for Congress." The swing
 district takes in a swath of the southern Minneapolis and St. Paul suburbs. http://cl.s4.exct.net/?qs=be6e360198852de492819438a9fa771869a72c32b8940a4ae28395e6cffb0c15

FIRST IN SCORE - DSCC to run digital ads questioning Johnson payment: The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee will spend the next two weeks pressuring Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) over a $10-million payment Johnson received from his family company shortly after spending $9 million on his campaign back in 2010. (The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel broke the news of Johnson receiving the payments in 2011.) The DSCC's sustained attack will eventually include digital ads. The committee is starting by asking Johnson when the company decided he would receive the deferred compensation package, who authorized the payment and how it was determined he would make $10 million.

FIRST IN SCORE - Hall memo highlights female support: Democratic state Sen. Isadore Hall, who's running against Democrat Nanette Barragan for an open Los Angeles area House seat, will send out a memo on Tuesday highlighting his support among women. The memo hits back EMILY's List, which has endorsed Barragan, after the group sent out an email last month criticizing Hall for missing a vote on an equal pay bill. Hall's campaign notes in the memo that Hall co-authored the bill and only missed the vote "because he was stranded in Southern California due to a flight cancellation at Los Angeles International Airport." It also includes statements of support from a number of female state lawmakers.

PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "How Donald Trump rewired the 2016 campaign," by POLITICO's Eli Stokols and Alex Isenstadt: "This is not the campaign Jeb Bush expected to run. The plan was to craft a policy-focused campaign, with scores of policy aides hired to help him articulate meaty ideas on the trail and distinguish himself as a policy-oriented candidate. He expected to run 'joyfully' and with a message of optimism. ... As the campaign turns to fall, the former Florida governor has been forced to retool his campaign, incorporating a growing list of attack lines against Donald Trump into his stump speech and, according to those close to the campaign, studiously preparing for a second debate
 that will likely shape up as a clash between him and the real estate mogul." http://cl.s4.exct.net/?qs=be6e360198852de4dd8b2ed6eecdd8db8ecc2e551e3fb4a9906e2e5132fa9df9

- "Hillary Clinton set to unveil campaign finance proposal," by POLITICO's Gabriel Debenedetti in New York: Hillary Clinton will propose new campaign finance reforms on Tuesday in an effort to shore up her liberal bona fides as Sen. Bernie Sanders maintains his strong polling numbers in New Hampshire. "The policy platform - which largely reflects principles that Clinton regularly mentions on the campaign trail, to reliable cheers from Democrats - calls for the overturning of 2010'sCitizens United v FECdecision that paved the way for the creation of super PACs; the implementation of a more rigorous political spending disclosure regime; and a new public matching system for small donations to
 presidential and congressional campaigns." http://cl.s4.exct.net/?qs=be6e360198852de443e30970c339dd30a463f2f8f1450ea600ff5b52de16552f

- "Joe Biden's hope-and-pray South Carolina strategy," by POLITICO's Edward-Isaac Dovere in Columbia, S.C.: "Joe Biden thinks he can win South Carolina. And that victory, he believes, would hurtle his campaign into a rally toward the Democratic nomination no matter who has already taken Iowa and New Hampshire. ... Like so much of the musing inside the Biden 2016 exploration, it's an assumption based on a wish based on a feeling. They've done no polls. They've raised no money. They've got no organization. And yet, top Democrats in the state are so unnerved by Hillary Clinton's inability to get beyond her email controversy that they say Biden's on-a-wing-and-a-prayer strategy isn't hopeless."
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- "Hillary Clinton to show more humor and heart, aides say," by The New York Times' Amy Chozick: "Clinton will stop making flip jokes about her email and using to rope lines to wall off crowds in an effort to appear more genuine. But it's"not clear whether any of these efforts can help Mrs. Clinton revamp her candidacy and regain momentum amid persistent questions about her use of a private email server at the State Department and an electorate in the early nominating states that seems increasingly captivated by the insurgent candidacy of Mr. Sanders.Previous attempts to introduce Mrs. Clinton's softer side to voters have backfired amid criticism that the efforts seemed overly poll tested.
 This time the strategy will compete with news coverage on the latest developments over her email." http://cl.s4.exct.net/?qs=26b04eed876597e3383986ea258d8f833b53c052255b58ec447d1780591c7d75

CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Looks like Biden already running. Very likely he wins nomination and be hard to beat."- Rupert Murdoch, on Twitter on Monday evening. http://cl.s4.exct.net/?qs=26b04eed876597e3a3cbb4d78481e187c40a8f5723ca80f6f6957dd2743a77f9

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