Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: ON TO LOUISIANA: Dardenne said to endorse Edwards — Priorities USA Action launches new web ad — Supreme Court hears Maryland redistrictng case
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 09:01:52 -0600

By Theodoric Meyer | 11/05/2015 10:00 AM EDT

With Kevin Robillard and Marc Caputo

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CROSSING PARTY LINES - Sources say Republican Jay Dardenne will endorse Democrat John Bel Edwards in Louisiana governor's race: "Republican Jay Dardenne is expected to cross party lines and endorse Democrat John Bel Edwards in the Louisiana governor's race Thursday morning, dealing a potentially significant blow to Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter," the Baton Rouge Advocate's Elizabeth Crisp reports. "Edwards' campaign had said Wednesday that it was planning to make a "major campaign announcement," offering no other details. But multiple sources close to both Edwards and Dardenne confirmed to The Advocate that Dardenne plans to endorse Edwards during a news conference on LSU's campus. None
 of the sources had been authorized to speak on the record." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9af1521d8ef7e7eb6105ef4e1853fc4e41596bdb9cb3bb0c6be38c9109771493

AIR WAR - Edwards, Vitter, RGA all air new ads in Louisiana: Democrat John Bel Edwards, Republican David Vitter and the Republican Governors Association have all debuted new ads in the Louisiana's governor's race. Vitter's spot, produced by John Brabender, his long-time media consultant, focuses on the senator's career-long crusade against perks for politicians. Edwards' spot aims to rebut a Vitter ad released last week criticizing Edwards' criminal justice reform plans. The RGA ad continues the group's strategy of linking Edwards to President Barack Obama, claiming they both support government benefits for illegal immigrants, including in-state tuition, while also voting to cut education
 funding.

- Watch the Vitter ad: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9af1521d8ef7e7ebb8066beae212415394490f0c16d702cbb6758212a443151f

- Watch the Edwards ad: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9af1521d8ef7e7ebc3fe41f572a90424e9a4401fbbc411959ad494e0847f4595

- Watch the RGA ad: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9af1521d8ef7e7ebb719e1ffb44184fc6360150ab81cc55fc47d30887a696f8f

FIRST IN SCORE - America Rising out with web video mocking Edwards: America Rising, the Republican tracking and opposition research super PAC, has released a new web video in an attempt to tie Democrat John Bel Edwards to President Barack Obama. The video is composed of footage of Edwards saying he voted for Obama and a clip of Edwards saying, "I thought I told everybody I was a Democrat," followed by blocks letter reading "John Bel Edwards Is An ... Obama Democrat."

- Watch the video: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9af1521d8ef7e7eb66601c71603e26c02a87452127233e6368297256eb34de07

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FIRST IN SCORE - Priorities USA Action launches new web ad: Priorities USA Action, the flagship super PAC backing Hillary Clinton, will launch a new web ad on Thursday contrasting Clinton's call for stricter gun laws with Jeb Bush's, Marco Rubio's and John Kasich's positions. The ad includes Bush's "stuff happens" quote, which he said in response to the mass shooting in Oregon last month.

- Watch the ad: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9af1521d8ef7e7eb4f5750419a2d2f22135ba7a1f14350eefb0ec1172e546cde

LEGAL CHALLENGE -Supreme Court hears Maryland redistricting case: The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard a challenge to Maryland's congressional districts, which a federal judge had dismissed without convening a full three-judge court. The plaintiffs in the case, Shapiro v. McManus, argued that the judge had erred in dismissing the case. "Though the court has never rejected a voting district on the ground that it gave a political party an unconstitutional advantage, it has never ruled out that such a district might exist," The New York Times' Adam Liptak reports. "On Wednesday, the court seemed inclined to endorse procedures that would at least treat such claims seriously by sending them to
 special three-judge courts created by a federal law for redistricting cases." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9af1521d8ef7e7ebf95692ea50fa213c0e8f760dcdd9776011d9541856663a0e

ELECTION FALLOUT - Kentucky papers mull dropping SurveyUSA as polling partner: Kentucky's two largest newspapers posted a joint letter to readers Wednesday night admitting the large gap between their signature poll and the actual results of the state's gubernatorial race was a "source of frustration" and indicating they may drop automated pollster SurveyUSA as a partner. "The wide gulf between the results of Tuesday's election races and the most recent Bluegrass Poll is a source of frustration for the Herald-Leader and its media partners as well as for our pollster - SurveyUSA - especially after a similarly huge difference in last fall's U.S. Senate race," read the note posted by the
 Lexington Herald-Leader's editor, Peter Baniak. An identical note was posted to the Louisville Courier-Journal's website and signed by editor Neil Buddle. The final Bluegrass Poll showed Democrat Jack Conway leading Republican Matt Bevin, 45 percent to 40 percent. Bevin won the race, 53 percent to 44 percent.

GETTING IN - "The race for Rangel's House seat gets even more crowded," by POLITICO's Azi Paybarah: Two more candidates announced their plans Wednesday morning to run for the congressional seat being vacated by 85-year-old New York Democrat Charlie Rangel, who is retiring at the end of next year. That brought the number of officially declared Democratic candidates vying for the seat representing Upper Manhattan and the Bronx to eight. State Sen. Adriano Espaillat made official his long-expected candidacy. ... Also entering the race is Guillermo Linares, an assemblyman and former immigrant affairs commissioner in the Bloomberg administration who has a long-running political feud with
 Espaillat, a fellow Dominican-American lawmaker based in northern Manhattan." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9af1521d8ef7e7eb2be2c7074ce50ce3ac6a39ae75bd7a80ecdb356cea2db363

POLLING UPDATE - Poll: Soto leads in FL-09, but mostly unknown: In the race to replace Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson, who's running for Senate, Democratic state Sen. Darren Soto has released a poll showing he has a 19-percentage point lead over his nearest Democratic rival, Susannah Randolph, a longtime liberal activist and Grayson aide. The poll of 400 likely voters was conducted by SEA Strategic Design & Polling, one of the state's top survey firms, showed the race could still be wide-open, however, because 65 percent of were undecided. Soto received 25 percent support, followed by Randolph with 6 percent, Dr. Dena Minning with 3 percent, and former state Rep. Ricardo Rangel with 1
 percent. "It's a name ID battle and it's a geography battle," said Soto's pollster, Tom Eldon. "This congressional seat has a lot of his state Senate seat in it. And people know him." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9af1521d8ef7e7eb76dc2f45e7f8bdecf8e131806d1bac452747975ea7559cdd

PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "Trump courted mega-donors he now scorns," by POLITICO's Kenneth P. Vogel and Ben Schreckinger: "Donald Trump has spent much of his presidential campaign bashing his GOP rivals as beholden to major donors, and, in recent weeks, he's expanded his attacks to include three major donors in particular ― Sheldon Adelson, Paul Singer and the Koch brothers. But POLITICO has learned that Trump or his surrogates have sought to build relationships ― if not support ― from all three" donors. "Trump's courtship of Adelson, a Las Vegas casino mogul and ardent Zionist, involved "a very clear ask for money," said a source close to Adelson, who noted the request came even as Trump
 was publicly declaring that he didn't need donors' money." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9af1521d8ef7e7eb2b0ba9b49a4ac39c56325ced1c95a314452a770c7d845d79

- "Bernie Sanders takes gloves off against Hillary Clinton in interview," by The Wall Street Journal's Peter Nicholas: In the most memorable line of the first Democratic debate, Bernie Sanders said he was "sick and tired" of Republicans' focus on Hillary Clinton's "damn emails." But that's not what Sanders told The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. "You get 12 seconds to say these things," Sanders said of the debate setting. "There's an investigation going on right now. I did not say, 'End the investigation.' That's silly. ... Let the investigation proceed unimpeded." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9af1521d8ef7e7eb7d99b0db7fe18a941f8a9b44ef7fdf6ea8be520ec2faf61d

- "Christie on track to get bumped from main stage at next GOP debate," by POLITICO's Hadas Gold and Steve Shepard: "It's looking like Chris Christie may not make the primetime debate stage at next week's Fox Business Network/Wall Street Journal debate. While Fox Business will not officially announce the lineup until Thursday, a new Fox News poll released late Wednesday puts him at 2 percent. That likely means Christie will get bumped to the undercard stage - a big blow for the New Jersey governor, especially because it comes as he appeared to be gaining some traction in the presidential race. The latest Fox poll is also potentially bad news for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and former New
 York Gov. George Pataki, who look like they might be left out of the event all together." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9af1521d8ef7e7eb3f20962d07cbb35ae64ed0e9b7806d234526250837485546

- "Ben Carson: Egyptian pyramids built for grain storage, not by aliens or as tombs," by BuzzFeed News' Nate McDermott and Andrew Kaczynski: Ben Carson has a different theory about why the Egyptians built the pyramids than most archaeologists. "My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain," Carson told graduates in a commencement speech at Andrews University in 1998 unearthed by BuzzFeed News. "Now all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs' graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big if you stop and think about it." CBS News confirmed on Wednesday that Carson still believes this. 
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