Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Republicans go after Dardenne in Louisiana — A glimpse at AFP’s Senate priorities
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Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 09:01:54 -0600

By Theodoric Meyer | 11/06/2015 10:00 AM EDT

With Elena Schneider, Kevin Robillard and Daniel Ducassi

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)

TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO - "Republicans attack Dardenne for endorsing Edwards," by Campaign Pro's Theodoric Meyer: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3613fbb81984b65b9847e5c988210c27164feaa9f35ff46dd38ff7fa8f200517

FIRST IN SCORE - Super PAC debuts new ad attacking Vitter: Gumbo PAC, a super PAC opposing Vitter, will launch a new ad on Friday. The spot features four voters who say they're registered Republicans but can't vote for Vitter. "I always thought I would vote Republican every time, until David Vitter made the runoff," one voter, Norman C. Patterson Jr., says in the ad. Not mentioned: the Democratic candidate, John Bel Edwards.

- Watch the ad: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3613fbb81984b65b72bd72bf7bece96f50d010b252bd9d66fc7e460fbfa96e59

OUTSIDE MONEY - A glimpse at Americans for Prosperity's priorities in 2016: Tim Phillips, the president of Americans for Prosperity, the flagship group in Charles and David Koch's network of politically active nonprofits, dropped by POLITICO's Rosslyn headquarters last week to chat 2016. So which Republican senators is the group most likely to back with TV ads thanking them for their stances on issues next year? AFP has been impressed with Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Rob Portman of Ohio, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Phillips said. Ayotte "had a really good voting record on a lot of pretty tough issues, in a state that Barack Obama carried twice," he
 said. But Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) is less likely to get air support next year. "He does not have a record we're excited about from an economic freedom perspective," Johnson said. AFP could also go after their Democratic opponents; it's already $1.4 million into attacking Ted Strickland, a Democratic candidate in Ohio.

Days until the Louisiana runoff: 15. Days until the 2016 election: 368.

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CAMPAIGN PROfiles - "Rob Simms leads NRCC into 2016," by Campaign Pro's Elena Schneider: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4a9e2df63ac89ef0016cc3f4aaf6fb59d1398aa1489a998549fc7d662579f605

AIR WAR - Zopp to run ads during candidate forum tonight: Andrea Zopp, the former nonprofit executive and businesswoman who's running against Rep. Tammy Duckworth in the Democratic Senate primary in Illinois, will run ads tonight during a Democratic presidential candidate forum on MSNBC moderated by Rachel Maddow, a source tells Campaign Pro. The ads will run before, during and after the forum in the Chicago, Champaign-Urbana, Peoria and Rockford markets. The buy totals $7,280.

PLOTTING A COMEBACK - Three years out, Steve Westly eyes another run for governor in California: Two high-profile Democrats - Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa - are already expected to run for California governor in 2018. But Steve Westly, a "former state comptroller and wealthy Silicon Valley investor," sees an opening, The Sacramento Bee's David Siders reports. "If the Republican Party failed, as it did in 2014, to field a competitive candidate, two Democrats might advance to a runoff. And in a runoff against a more liberal Democrat, a fiscal moderate with Westly's business credentials could draw support not only from conservative Democrats, but
 Republicans and independent voters, too." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4a9e2df63ac89ef004184650a6f96473c09342809aaaa4a8fc123c5900e0d4f4

PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "Christie, Huckabee fail to make main stage at upcoming GOP debate," by POLITICO's Daniel Strauss and Hadas Gold, with Steve Shepard: Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee are out of the next GOP debate. "The two Republican candidates failed to meet the 2.5 percent average polling threshold, meaning they'll both be bumped to a 6 p.m. undercard debate on Tuesday, appearing alongside former Sen. Rick Santorum and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. Christie and Huckabee weren't the only ones to get bad news in the Fox Business lineup. Sen. Lindsey Graham, former New York Gov. George Pataki, and former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore failed to register enough in four recent national
 polls to participate in the Nov. 10 event at all." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4a9e2df63ac89ef03ec198ae50253083b7fe55008b531176691d6dbf9ef5e897

- "Ben Carson appeals to black voters, but his campaign doesn't, yet," by The New York Times' Jonathan Martin in West Memphis, Ark.: Some black voters are intrigued by Ben Carson - including those who voted for President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. Sam Hawkins Jr., for instance, who went to a Carson rally in Arkansas last week, "calls Bill Clinton 'my guy,' notes that he voted for Mr. Obama, twice, and argues that the president has 'done a lot of positive stuff.'" "I'm just curious to see how this is going to play out," Hawkins, a bail bondsman, told The Times. "But right now, if he's got my attention to have me here, that's saying a whole lot." 
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4a9e2df63ac89ef072fc71202dd3c1ad959a24c4ececbe390069d17e0f6cee04

- "Insiders: Carson can't win," by POLITICO's Katie Glueck: "Ben Carson may be flying high in the polls for now, but he can't win the Republican nomination. That's according to more than 80 percent of Republicans in this week's POLITICO Caucus, our survey of the top strategists, operatives and activists in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. 'He is most often described as a sweet, honest and genuine man, but he's naive and ignorant about major issues facing the country,' a South Carolina Republican said. 'He says wacky things and makes too many unforced errors. He may win Iowa, but he won't be [able] to go the distance.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4a9e2df63ac89ef08982e43cd487bd9830da2750b94311438c849abf68d86c75

- "Sanders draws differences with Carson on oil pipeline, trade," by The Boston Globe's Annie Linskey: "Bernie Sanders offered some of his sharpest comments to date about his main rival for the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday, in a wide-ranging conversation that touched on the FBI probe into information on Hillary Clinton's private computer server and how his campaign has handled accusations that he's made sexist remarks. 'I disagree with Hillary Clinton on virtually everything,' said Sanders during a meeting with the Boston Globe's editorial board." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4a9e2df63ac89ef02f3b50976e373889d99a02b9ebe79c0cc7ce7227ed0bee75

CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I feel kinda sad I'm leaving. Gotta go raise some dough." - Jeb Bush, at the conclusion of his New Hampshire bus tour on Thursday. (Hat tip: @mviser) http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4a9e2df63ac89ef0d7fad5b6c28d694b6c05d31aaa4ee74572b38d6988e655e4

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