Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Vulnerable Senate Republicans on Planned Parenthood vote — The Florida Senate candidate you don’t know
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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 08:02:57 -0600

By Elena Schneider | 09/25/2015 10:01AM EDTThe following newsletter is an abridged version of Campaign Pro's Morning Score. For an earlier morning read on exponentially more races - and for a more comprehensive aggregation of the day's most important campaign news - sign up for Campaign Pro today. (http://www.politicopro.com/proinfo)HOW THEY VOTED - Kirk, Ayotte vote against Senate bill to defund Planned Parenthood: Two of the most vulnerable Republican senators up for reelection next year voted against a failed government spending bill Thursday that would also defund Planned Parenthood. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), who is perhaps the most vulnerable Senate Republican up for reelection, and
 Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) both voted against the bill, paving the way for the Senate to pass a clean spending bill next week. But several other GOP senators facing tough reelection fights - including Sens. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Rob Portman of Ohio and Richard Burr of North Carolina - voted for the measure, a vote that could turn up in attack ads next year. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who's potentially vulnerable next year but hasn't yet attracted a Democratic opponent, also voted against the measure. Other generally conservative Republicans, such as Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Rand Paul of Kentucky, voted against the bill for reasons aside from
 Planned Parenthood, saying the bill didn't do enough for the military.SENATE ENDORSEMENTS IN NEVADA, CALIFORNIA - Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Democracy for America, a national progressive political organization, backed two Democratic Senate candidates this morning: California state Attorney General Kamala Harris and former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto. They will blast out a fundraising email to their members, accompanying the endorsements, that reads in part: "Rarely do we have an election with such a deep bench of candidates running for the Senate. And if they both win, we'll be one step closer to taking back the Democratic majority in 2016." FLORIDA MAP
 REDRAW - Leon County Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis set out a rough timeline of the Florida congressional redistricting caseon Thursday, saying that he expected to hear arguments and cross-examinations for three days, then would require all parties to submit recommended orders by Oct. 2. After reviewing those orders, Lewis will issue his own recommendation, likely some time in October, to the Florida Supreme Court, which will ultimately decide on a map.- GOP Rep. Daniel Webster is likely to see his district redrawn, but his attempt to join the trial failed, after Judge Lewis said he had applied too late to participate in proceedings.- POLITICO Florida's Matt Dixon has the full rundown of
 Thursday's proceedings from Tallahassee: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=60264d65e7cf6f8336ec8fcc467d522427dde084d5f2858d2fad9533a1a5744c until the 2015 election: 39. Days until the 2016 election: 410.Thanks for joining us. Email tips to the whole Campaign Pro team at [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked] and [email-masked]. SCORE INTERVIEW - The Florida Senate candidate you don't know: Pam Keith, a veteran and Florida attorney, announced she was running to replace Republican Sen. Marco Rubio in January. But she's struggled to gain traction with fellow Democrats - Reps. Patrick Murphy and Alan Grayson - dominating news coverage and fundraising dollars. She openly acknowledges
 those weaknesses: "I don't have a lot of name recognition, [don't] have a ton of money," in a visit with Campaign Pro this week, but she calls herself "the alternative to both" Murphy and Grayson, who are locked in a messy primary. "The knocks against Patrick are true. He is an ex-Republican who did max out to Mitt Romney. The knocks against Alan Grayson are true, he has some things that are very off color," she said.On Murphy: "The DSCC chooses Patrick ... pushes him upon us, endorses him out of the box ... for the purpose of intimidating and pushing everybody out of his way. We ought to be the ones picking our candidates, not people in D.C. That strategy has proven to be not particularly
 helpful to Patrick."On Grayson: "He has said some things that make people recoil."On the DSCC: "The DSCC doesn't take my calls."On EMILY's List: "Disappointing ... my first stop was to EMILY's List ... they kind of were like, 'Senate, really? Oh my god, you can't do that.' ... They said, 'You got to show that you can raise money before we can even touch you.' ... The implication was that it had to be in the neighborhood of a million dollars. ... I remain disappointed, but I am optimistic that they will come around."PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "Insiders: Rubio wins in Walker's demise," by POLITICO's Katie Glueck: "Scott Walker's exit is a big win for Marco Rubio. That's the consensus of
 Republican insiders in Iowa and New Hampshire, with about 40 percent of our POLITICO Caucus members picking the junior senator from Florida over all other GOP contenders as the one most likely to benefit from Walker's decision to quit. 'The second the news broke they were aggressive in courting Walker supporters to find a home in the Rubio camp and it worked to their benefit,' said a New Hampshire Republican in our weekly bipartisan pulse-taking of the top operatives, activists and strategists in the two early states." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=60264d65e7cf6f8305dbd719e03cb0b3d925eb1306a76f8d38e84864c140ae2d "Cruz super PAC preps Christian radio onslaught," by POLITICO's Shane Goldmacher: "Sen. Ted Cruz's super PAC is making its
 first major ad buy of the 2016 campaign, launching a $1 million national campaign on Christian and conservative talk radio to run through the end of the year, POLITICO has learned. The initial 60-second ad will begin running on Monday. It touts Cruz as a candidate who will fight 'against the Washington cartel' - one of the campaign's signature lines - and will air on influential talk radio shows, including those hosted by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Hugh Hewitt." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=60264d65e7cf6f836002ecdcf12c10c95e9a24877c819721a5a819774ffa8f63 "White House contenders bend pope's message to fit their own," by POLITICO's Eliza Collins: "Pope Francis' historic address to a joint session of Congress on
 Thursday gave the 2016 contenders a chance to put a pope-approved stamp on their campaign messages, as they cherry picked lines that reinforced their own stump speeches." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=60264d65e7cf6f834a2373057a4e26d238e98b6af0bf3ab830ffce587afb1801 Speaking of religion, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, along with Liberty University, will headline a religious liberty news conference to discuss attacks on religious freedom at 9 a.m. today at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Wow, I've got five years before I go and run for office and I've got a lot of research to do, I've got a lot of growing up to do." - Kanye West, on his presidential plans for 2020 http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=60264d65e7cf6f83e9176273ce6efbc02e8ff8dd938347bee42e5861ad917ab6
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