Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Democrats get three options in Pa., none in N.C. — Louisiana’s Vitter flush with cash
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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 08:04:52 -0600

By Theodoric Meyer | 09/24/2015 10:03AM EDT

With Kevin Robillard

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TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO - "Democrats pick their lanes in Pennsylvania Senate primary," by Campaign Pro's Kevin Robillard: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=1b699e767f0584fe4136fcf58980e3feb33373fba49439a83f0f1f4f5b6b495d

- "Lower-tier Democrats emerge for North Carolina Senate race," by Campaign Pro's Elena Schneider: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=1b699e767f0584fed33e4125804bda4f93b422563cb774ec53c6273366d56bb4

Days until the 2015 election: 40. Days until the 2016 election: 411.

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FLUSH WITH CASH - Vitter campaign has more than $4 million on hand: With 40 days until the Louisiana gubernatorial election, GOP Sen. David Vitter's campaign is sitting on more than $4 million, the campaign announced Wednesday afternoon. His three rivals - Democrat John Bel Edwards and Republicans Scott Angelle and Jay Dardenne - haven't announced their latest fundraising tallies, but Vitter's bank account likely puts him far ahead. When the campaigns last reported their totals to the state in July, Vitter had more cash on hand than the other three candidates combined. 

ILL-CONSIDERED REMARKS - "Grayson compares Florida Democratic Party to 'Crips or the Bloods,'" by POLITICO Florida's Marc Caputo: "Florida's most outspoken Senate candidate, Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson, stayed true to his reputation by comparing his own party to a violent gang, 'like Crips or the Bloods.' 'You know a lot of people think when you belong to the Democratic Party it's like you belong to some kind of club ... like the Lions Club or like the Rotary Club,' Grayson said Monday at the Hillsborough County Democratic executive committee. 'I prefer to think of it as belonging to some kind of gang, like Crips or the Bloods. And the reason for that is that we have to protect our turf.
 Our turf is the American middle class.' The comment was met with applause at the time." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=1b699e767f0584fe5200d0c07a925744ee0982e0a84681fe55c2960cb919ddb7

PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "Next challenge for Sanders is harnessing his support," by The Boston Globe's James Pindell in Manchester, N.H.: Eight weeks ago, when a poll first showed Bernie Sanders leading Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, Sanders' campaign was just hiring a state director to oversee a four-person staff in the Granite State. "Today, the Sanders campaign has more than 40 aides working out of eight offices in the state - filling them in rapid fashion and closing in on Clinton's already built-out staff of 50 in the state." "The best argument that Clinton has right now is her organization in the state," New Hampshire AFL-CIO President Glenn Brackett told The Globe. "For Sanders,
 the next phase is for them to build an organization that can match Clinton." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=1b699e767f0584fe7412597ae81e5b81adce8c53bfe5c8c3c19b83e55ebcf0a8

- "Gov. Scott Walker goes back to his day job," by The New York Times' Monica Davey: Scott Walker returned to work in Wisconsin's Capitol on Tuesday after dropping out of the presidential race, but some Republicans there seemed unsure whether his heart was still in it. "A lot of people wonder if Scott Walker is too restless to come back," Scott Fitzgerald, the state Senate's Republican majority leader, told The Times. "He's very dynamic. He's always looking forward. I think there is a part of me and members of my caucus who are just not sure he's going to stay around." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=1b699e767f0584fe78376f106cddace3ddcdf54d8c84fc7e1283e7d33c414fe7

- "New front opens on Clinton emails," by The Wall Street Journal's Peter Nicholas and Devlin Barrett: "A new front is opening in the battle over Hillary Clinton's emails from her time as secretary of state, with at least one senator asking for an independent review of the deleted messages the FBI is now recovering from the private server she used while in office. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is looking into the security surrounding Mrs. Clinton's email arrangement, has retrieved some portion of the tens of thousands of emails once held on the computer, a person familiar with the matter said." Clinton deleted around 30,000 emails before handing over the server to the FBI. 
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=1b699e767f0584feed06d0dd37ff5ed7eabe3486c7a9ab378dfa65d5d32f403c 

- "Jeb Bush attends Mass with Pope Francis," by Campaign Pro's Kevin Robillard: "The first pope from the Americas said his first Mass on U.S. soil to canonize the first Hispanic-American saint. Was the second Roman Catholic president in attendance?" That'd be Jeb Bush, who attended the papal Mass at National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington on Wednesday. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=1b699e767f0584febd0bf398a30ba9c10e9bd5692be473352b3b16e625102c7f

CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I don't know. I really don't know. I'd say not, but in the special election a couple years ago I had to vote for Mark Sanford, and that just about killed me." - Pam Lamb, a Charleston, S.C., voter, on whether she'd vote for Donald Trump if he were the GOP nominee. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=1b699e767f0584fe97905f8e16d8f71ebd2ad5ba52434bcbf1feed36c9aa2348

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