Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Duckworth, Zopp call for Chicago police superintendent to resign — New Kirk ad hits Duckworth on refugees — The team behind John Bel Edwards
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Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 09:01:56 -0600

By Theodoric Meyer | 12/01/2015 10:00 AM EDT

With Kevin Robillard, Elena Schneider and Scott Bland

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UNREST IN CHICAGO - Duckworth, Zopp call for Chicago police superintendent to step down: Democratic Senate candidates Tammy Duckworth and Andrea Zopp both called for Garry McCarthy, the Chicago police superintendent, to resign on Monday over McCarthy's handling of the case of Laquan McDonald, the black teenager killed by a white police officer. The officer, Jason Van Dyke, was charged with murder last week, more than a year after he shot McDonald 16 times; a video of the killing was released on the same day. 

- "I think there's a real question in the community's mind about the ability of the department to timely address questions of officer misconduct," Zopp told Campaign Pro, adding that it would be hard to fix the police department unless McCarthy left. "An essential component of effective policing is having the trust of the community you serve, and Tammy believes Superintendent McCarthy has lost that trust and should resign," Matt McGrath, a Duckworth spokesman, said in a statement to Campaign Pro.

- Duckworth and Zopp aren't alone in calling for McCarthy to go. "Supt. McCarthy should resign," The Chicago Sun-Times wrote in an editorial posted online on Monday night. "If he does not, Mayor Rahm Emanuel should fire him." Zopp - who indicted a Chicago cop for killing an unarmed man in the 1990s while working in the state's attorney's office - has also called for the appointment of a special prosecutor in the case, which has roiled Chicago in the last week. Duckworth hasn't echoed that call. GOP Sen Mark Kirk's campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

- NEW TV AD - Kirk hits Duckworth on Syrian refugees: Meanwhile, Kirk is taking his message on Syrian refugees to the airwaves, launching a TV ad this morning hitting Duckworth for supporting more admissions to the U.S and asking "For your family's safety, who do you trust?" Our question: Is this the first of many such ads to come from Republican congressional candidates, or will the issue lose salience when the ad wars really heat up? This is Kirk's second TV ad already, while most Senate candidates have yet to release their first.

- "ISIS disguised as Syrian refugees attack Paris," the ad's narrator says. "Next target? The U.S. Amazingly, Tammy Duckworth still wants to bring 200,000 Syrian refugees to America, even though the FBI says they cannot be safely screened. ... Mark Kirk opposes more Syrian refugees until it can be done safely. For your family's safety, who do you trust?" Watch the ad here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=19c72e7322e6ba7d75a8c025657e4f112dd8cc1b3177a91593b637085e700fbc

BEHIND THE SCENES - "The team that brought down David Vitter," by Campaign Pro's Kevin Robillard: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=19c72e7322e6ba7dd57f2748c5b8f163cf029f6567a9c9b25445985543615a38

Days until the 2016 election: 343.

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AIR WAR - EMILY's List to start airing pro-Edwards ads in Maryland: EMILY's List is preparing to spend $1 million on television, radio and digital ads backing Rep. Donna Edwards in Maryland's Democratic Senate primary. Starting Tuesday, the group's super PAC, WOMEN VOTE!, will spend $875,000 on television ads and another $146,000 on radio and digital. Watch the ad: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=19c72e7322e6ba7d1ffc846be4db0d2e2491ea4bb3ff38a9c98ed8b13d70e7f0

PERSONNEL MOVES - Brian Rogers heads to America Rising: Today is Brian Rogers' last day as communications director for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). He's heading to America Rising, the GOP opposition research outfit. If you want to reach him as he makes the transition: [email-masked].

FIRST IN SCORE - America Rising tries to tie Democrats to Clinton on Guant&aacute;namo: The Huffington Post's Ryan J. Reilly published a confidential memo on Sunday that Hillary Clinton sent to President Barack Obama in 2013 urging him to redouble his efforts to shut down the detention facility at Guant&aacute;namo Bay, Cuba. Today, America Rising, the GOP opposition research outfit, is putting out a memo of its own outlining the positions that eight Democratic Senate candidates in competitive races have said about Guant&aacute;namo. The candidates: Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, Jason Kander of Missouri, Patrick Murphy of Florida, Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, Maggie Hassan of New
 Hampshire and Ted Strickland of Ohio, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Katie McGinty of Pennsylvania.

- Read the memo: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=19c72e7322e6ba7d4897c232c82693cf3440c3f1269b3d1ed6aa8502c83128d6

PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "Marco Rubio pivots to his next stage," by POLITICO's Shane Goldmacher: "The Thanksgiving holiday marked a page-turning of sorts for Rubio's campaign ... After months of jostling behind the scenes with Jeb Bush and the rest of the 2016 field in the invisible primary for donors, endorsements, money and momentum, Rubio is pivoting toward a more public-facing campaign. His focus is finally shifting from political influencers to the voters themselves. He blitzed through New Hampshire on Monday, will campaign in South Carolina on Tuesday and then fly to Alabama, which votes on March 1 and where he will hold a rally, his first public event there this cycle. Rubio began
 to pick up the pace just before Thanksgiving, spending more time in Iowa just before the holiday - five straight days - than he did in the first six months of 2015 combined. He'll be back again in New Hampshire later this week, too. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=19c72e7322e6ba7d542034dd6ce62890bc52de27060910955a2170c7dc72c069

- "Warren is missing link at Clinton's dinner with women senator," by POLITICO's Gabriel Debenedetti: "Summoning 13 female Democratic senators to a high-profile fundraiser-cum-endorsement summit just a half mile from the Capitol on Monday night, Hillary Clinton's campaign wasn't shy in its goal of showcasing the front-runner's wide backing among the party's leaders, and its women in particular. But the Brooklyn-based operation knew full well that the one Democratic female senator who wasn't there would cast a long shadow over the Hyatt Regency and the evening's festivities: Elizabeth Warren. The Massachusetts progressive's lack of a Clinton endorsement is "just not at all surprising," in
 the words of one longtime Clinton loyalist and friend." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=19c72e7322e6ba7d3cfadeb44286f5644ef17fe39675d7e2dbabd3b49354297c

- "Hillary Clinton's staff urged her to visit more countries," by The Boston Globe's Annie Linskey: "How many countries have you visited? For Secretary of State Hillary Clinton circa July 2012 the answer was: not enough. Seven months before Clinton left office, a top aide suggested to her that she still had "plenty of time" to "run up the score on total countries" and set a globe-trotting goal of 110 countries, according to an e-mail released Monday." Clinton now frequently notes on the trail that she visited 112 countries while secretary of state. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=19c72e7322e6ba7dbc6e0f36185dfdf0be0feb2f7824892366d97806e2774c74

- "'Love' and disbelief follow Donald Trump meeting with black leaders," by The New York Times' Michael Barbaro: Donald Trump was supposed to meet with 100 black ministers and religious leaders in Manhattan on Monday, which his campaign said would culminate in an endorsement. But by Monday afternoon, the supposed declaration of support from a cross-section of African-Americans seemed to crumble as several pastors insisted they had never agreed to attend or back Mr. Trump. In the end, his political debut with black leaders was refashioned into a private meeting with a smaller group that played down talk of endorsements. A few of those who showed up sounded uncomfortable. 'It appears as if
 he's a possible racist based upon some of the things he said about black America," said Brehon Hall, a preacher from Toledo, Ohio, as he headed into the meeting at Trump Tower." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=19c72e7322e6ba7d03549060e05c9638f255dcefb3d5a355cad6573474c220c9

- Sour on Christie: The Star-Ledger's Tom Moran called up a member of The New Hampshire Union Leader's editorial board, which endorsed Chris Christie over the weekend - and the conversation convinced him the newspaper "knows almost nothing about his record as governor." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=19c72e7322e6ba7dc8a26a1f4090a7c618a991aa913b2fc97e7bac86b1c5b706

CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "You've got to be kidding me. That would kill me. My constituency would murder me. There is no way in the world I can do that." - Corletta J. Vaughn, the senior pastor of Holy Spirit Cathedral of Faith in Detroit, who said she had never considered endorsing Donald Trump despite being listed on flier as one of the black clergy endorsing him at an event. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=19c72e7322e6ba7d03549060e05c9638f255dcefb3d5a355cad6573474c220c9

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