Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score, presented by Carr Workplaces: Conway outspends Bevin nearly 4-to-1 — McConnell, Paul to host Bevin fundraiser
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Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 08:01:49 -0600

By Theodoric Meyer | 10/08/2015 10:00 AM EDT

With Kevin Robillard and Elena Schneider

The 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)

CASH CRUNCH - Matt Bevin has less than $700,000 in cash with weeks to go: Kentucky GOP gubernatorial nominee Matt Bevin has $674,000 on hand with a month to go until the election, less than a third the amount that Democrat Jack Conway has available, according to filings Wednesday with the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance. Bevin has raised about $1.7 million since the end of the primary election, with roughly $995,000 of that coming from his own pocketbook, according to the filings. His campaign had spent about $1 million. In the same time period, Conway's campaign raised $6 million and spent $3.8 million in the same time period. Conway has about $2.3 million left available to him
 heading into the general election on Nov. 3.

FIRST IN SCORE: McConnell, Paul to hold fundraiser for Bevin tonight: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will hold a second fundraiser tonight for the man who tried to defeat him last year. McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul will both appear at a fundraiser for Matt Bevin, the GOP nominee for Kentucky governor, at a townhouse on Capitol Hill, according to an invitation obtained by Campaign Pro. The rest of the GOP members of Kentucky's congressional delegation - Reps. Hal Rogers, Ed Whitfield, Thomas Massie, Brett Guthrie and Andy Barr - will also be in attendance. The maximum donation is $2,000 (a grand for the primary and a grand for the general election). 
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FACING OFF - Gubernatorial candidates, minus Vitter, debate in Louisiana: Republicans Scott Angelle and Jay Dardenne and Democrat John Bel Edwards "had a mostly cordial exchange over the state's finances and taxes" Wednesday night in a debate in Baton Rouge, The Times-Picayune's Julia O'Donoghue reports. The fourth candidate, GOP Sen. David Vitter, said Senate business "kept him from attending the debate, but the Republican is skipping more forums and debates than the other major candidates in the run-up to the primary election on Oct. 24. During the debate, Dardenne jokingly referred to Vitter, a fellow Republican, as 'the elephant not in the room.'" 
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Days until the 2015 election: 26. Days until the 2016 election: 397.

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POLLING UPDATE - Poll: Toomey leads Sestak or McGinty: Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) holds commanding leads over both of his Democratic opponents, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released this morning. Toomey would defeat Katie McGinty 51 percent to 31 percent in a head-to-head matchup, the poll found. He'd dispatch former Rep. Joe Sestak 49 percent to 34 percent. Toomey has far higher name identification than either Democrat, with 49 percent of respondents saying they view him favorably, 25 percent unfavorably and 25 percent hadn't heard enough to form an opinion. In contrast, 59 percent hadn't heard enough to form an opinion of Sestak, and 72 percent hadn't heard enough to form an
 opinion of McGinty.

- Quinnipiac also polled the Ohio and Florida Senate races. Democrats Patrick Murphy and Alan Grayson both held leads over Republicans Carlos Lopez-Cantera and Ron DeSantis in head-to-head matchups in Florida, although Murphy's lead over Lopez-Cantera was wider. Democrat Ted Strickland held a narrow edge over GOP Sen. Rob Portman in Ohio, but Portman would defeat Democrat P.G. Sittenfeld 49 percent to 27 percent if the election were held today.

- Full results: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=516b6b954cb51e64eef92d6e344fa02ed7805a312c4370d7444677a08f39ce7b

COMPLAINT DEPARTMENT - Liberal group files complaint against 23 GOP representatives: The American Democracy Legal Fund, a liberal group that has filed dozens of campaign finance and ethics complaints against Republicans over the past year, is launching a new complaint over recently disclosed agreements between GOP incumbents and the National Republican Congressional Committee. The complaints, filed with the Office of Congressional Ethics accuses 23 House Republicans enrolled in the NRCC's Patriot Program for vulnerable incumbents of violating "House rules prohibiting official resources from being used for campaign or political purposes." The complaint alleges that, by signing a document
 that committed the representatives to providing the NRCC with political justifications for their legislative goals, the representatives broke House rules designed to keep politics and legislative business separate. "This ridiculous complaint is by a partisan complaint factory and completely without merit," Katie Martin, a spokeswoman for the NRCC, said in a statement in response.

PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "Inside Sanders' unorthodox debate prep," by POLITICO's Gabriel Debenedetti: "Bernie Sanders started studying for next Tuesday's event not even a full week ago. And that's because his two top aides sat him down in Burlington on Friday and asked if he had a plan. Sanders has briefing books, a couple of meetings with policy experts, and an abiding aversion to the idea of acting out a debate before it happens. He knows the stakes are high, his staff says. But the candidate, whose New Hampshire polling and fundraising prowess have put a scare into Clinton, is uninterested in going through the motions of typical debate practice." 
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- "Clinton sides with progressives against Obama trade deal," by POLITICO's Gabriel Debenedetti: Hillary Clinton came out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on Wednesday, distancing herself the potential accord negotiated by the Obama administration just days before the first Democratic debate. "By coming out against the deal, Clinton sides with labor unions and appeals to primary voters in a tightening presidential race. But her opposition now worries some supporters who said they fear Clinton could be pushed too far left in a primary and become vulnerable in a general election." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=367c3df4f1bd1f5c5f03588848ab1d108cec82fe828117360493a1652daaf5b3

- "Biden bid could lead to battle for minorities," by The New York Times' Jonathan Martin: Winning over black and Hispanic voters might the most important task for Vice President Joe Biden if he enters the race. "If he were able to loosen Mrs. Clinton's grip on nonwhite voters by the time votes are cast in South Carolina, Nevada and the Southern states holding contests on Super Tuesday, it could set off a prolonged, bruising and expensive Democratic primary season. But interviews with Democratic strategists and elected officials, as well as polls of Democrats, suggest that it would not be easy for Mr. Biden to poach blacks and Hispanics from Mrs. Clinton." 
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- "The Stage Is Set For The Planned Parenthood Political Debate To Keep Going Into 2016," by BuzzFeed News' Tarini Parti: Congress hasn't managed to defund Planned Parenthood yet, but there's every indication that it will remain an inflammatory issue in the presidential race. "Big money outside groups working on behalf of GOP presidential candidates are already targeting the group in ads and direct mail. House Republicans are setting up a special panel - similar to the Select Committee on Benghazi - to investigate the claims made by undercover videos released by a pro-life group, accusing Planned Parenthood of selling aborted fetuses' organs and tissues. And an increasing number of
 GOP-controlled state legislatures are pushing to take action against the group." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=516b6b954cb51e648760fd60809dff2c97eecaedb34776181f0d3d7768d33580

CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Ben and Candy Carson terrific. What about a real black President who can properly address the racial divide? And much else." - Rupert Murdoch http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=516b6b954cb51e6456b07351dc6770e07a6172214e8bb74281533b963277b932

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