Subject: POLITICO’s Morning Score: Colorado GOP primary takes shape — Paul, Fiorina excluded from Thursday’s main stage debate — Duckworth raised $1.6 million
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:02:05 -0600

By Elena Schneider | 01/12/2016 10:00 AM EDT

With Kevin Robillard, Scott Bland and Theodoric Meyer

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BREAKING THIS A.M. - DUCKWORTH RAISES $1.6M IN FOURTH QUARTER - Rep. Tammy Duckworth's campaign said she banked $1.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2016, giving her $3.65 million on hand. The haul marks Duckworth's best quarter so far in the campaign. She raised just under $1.5 million in the third quarter and had $2.85 million on hand. GOP Sen. Mark Kirk had $3.6 million on hand at the end of third quarter after raising just over $1 million. 

COLORADO GOP PRIMARY RAMPS UP - "Keyser gets in, Blaha buys more TV as Colorado GOP Senate primary heats up," by Campaign Pro's Elena Schneider: "Colorado Republicans look set for an expensive, lengthy and hard-fought primary to face Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet this fall, as state Rep. Jon Keyser announced that he will run ... Keyser's campaign launched its website, highlighting the legislator as a "combat veteran, fiscal conservative," with "blue-collar roots." It includes a selfie of Keyser on a drilling rig on the Western Slope. Read more here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=de18f2dec9365ff02bfc238429e9af265453e2b541163ae93bba7be86ecdbef3

- Gardner alums join Keyser's Senate campaign, by Campaign Pro's Elena Schneider: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b21822dc6538c9c675f0815691aaa104a89dc7ecfedcc9e15245c52632226a69

TO THE KIDDIE TABLE - "Paul, Fiorina excluded from main stage in Thursday's GOP debate," by POLITICO's Steven Shepard and Daniel Strauss: "Rand Paul and Carly Fiorina have been booted to the undercard in Thursday night's Republican primary debate as the number of main-stage candidates was cut to seven by stricter polling criteria." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b21822dc6538c9c6193c06db71d1b26299f16e83ca9d093c6ad0ac626d3a742c 

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FIRST IN SCORE - SHELBY CHALLENGER HITS INCUMBENT ON CLINTON VOTE IN AD - Jonathan McConnell, the Marine veteran challenging long-time Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby, hits the incumbent for voting for Hillary Clinton's nomination as secretary of state in a new ad. "I know how Obama and Clinton's failed policies have made the world more dangerous," McConnell says in the 30-second spot. "But what's worse is that career politician Richard Shelby rubber-stamped those policies by voting for Hillary Clinton. The results are tragic: ISIS, Benghazi, San Bernandino." "It's time to send in a Marine," McConnell concludes in the ad. The buy is small: $60,000 this week, compared to a $6 million buy through
 March for the incumbent. The media consultant is John Thomas with Thomas Partners Strategies. Watch the ad here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=881b9cb4ae23d1317ffe9d1f228c4bc662bb33a518d871fe2bb25facdb5947ea 

FOURTH QUARTER NUMBERS - FIRST IN SCORE - CA-52: Democratic Rep. Scott Peters raised $442,000 in the final quarter of 2015, ending with $1.34 million in cash on hand, according to the campaign. 

- CA-52: Businesswoman Denise Gitsham, Peters' opponent, raised $254,000 since launching her campaign in November, according to the campaign. 

- FL-02: Rep. Gwen Graham, one of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents, with a newly redistricted seat that leans even more Republican than before, didn't see much of a fundraising dropoff as a result: She raised $437,000 in the last quarter, with $1.7 million in cash on hand, per the campaign. 

- CA-24: Salud Carbajal, a Santa Barbara County Commissioner, raised $346,000 in the fourth quarter, with $969,000 in cash on hand, according to a statement from the campaign. 

- PA-08: GOP state Rep. Scott Petri raised $300,000 in the fourth quarter, with $276,000 in cash on hand, Politics PA reported. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=881b9cb4ae23d131c070a7147fdb6df3d45d563dfb4eadd5eaf94fc9f7340706 

- AL-02: GOP Rep. Martha Roby raised $310,000 in the fourth quarter, with $884,000 in cash on hand, according to her FEC filing. 

- MT-AL: Denise Juneau, Montana's Superintendent of Public Instruction, raised about $264,000 in the fourth quarter, "more than any previous Democratic candidate" for the state's House seat, according to the campaign.

DEMS SEEK TO LINK SUNUNU TO GOP PREZ FIELD - The New Hampshire Democratic Party is launching an effort to link GOP gubernatorial frontrunner Chris Sununu to the Republican presidential field as the group campaigns around the state before the New Hampshire Presidential Primary. The party will use events, advertising, and social media to highlight "Sununu's GOP." "From John Kasich's anti-jobs policy to shut the Portsmouth shipyard, to Rubio's opposition to abortion without exception, to all of the GOP's candidates' call to defund Planned Parenthood, to Trump's insults of women and immigrants, to everyone from Ted Cruz to Mike Huckabee supporting local government officials who deny LGBT
 couples from getting married, Chris Sununu is standing by these policies that are out of touch and out of date with Granite Staters," New Hampshire Democratic Party spokeswoman Holly Shulman said.

PRESSURE ON PENCE AHEAD OF STATE OF THE STATE - Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will deliver the second-highest profile political speech of the day today, as his State of the State address kicks off at 7 p.m. eastern. The Republican is expected to address whether he supports adding civil rights protections for LGBT groups in state law. The Human Rights Campaign is asking Pence to tell "both Hoosiers and Indiana companies - and people across the nation - that Indiana will embrace full LGBT non-discrimination protections and provide equal treatment under the law." The Indianapolis Star reports the major question is whether Pence will endorse specific legislation or leave the matter up to state
 lawmakers. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c5a26772aa809dbf9c63374551219168e8cd78fd6520d5b35bb86f834fecf7c8

MIAMI PRIMARY HEATS UP (SPORTS JOKE) - "Son of top Florida Clinton donor announces bid for Congress," by POLITICO Florida's Marc Caputo: "Democratic activist and fundraiser Andrew Korge announced Monday that he plans to run for Congress and kickstart a tough primary contest to see who will face off against Rep. Carlos Curbelo in one of Florida's most volatile congressional districts. Korge, known in Miami political circles as the son of top Hillary Clinton donor Chris Korge, said he ultimately decided to run because he didn't believe Annette Taddeo was running a good enough campaign to unseat Curbelo in the 26th Congressional District." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c5a26772aa809dbff8b782542ff75ac35b438ae3dd12f681787358d80b53a6b7 

DEM ESTABLISHMENT LOVES DEMINGS - "Pelosi endorses Demings' bid for Congress," by POLITICO Florida's Marc Caputo: Pelosi's endorsement followed that of Emily's List, which announced its support Friday for the former Orlando police chief. The back-to-back endorsements came on the heels of former Charlie Crist fundraiser Bob Poe's decision to run for the 10th Congressional District seat against Demings, state Sen. Geraldine Thompson and Orlando attorney Fatima Fahmy. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c5a26772aa809dbf50bfc84ee85a21a70bed9fdefa0c44b42f4b45b9e6f6c88e

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PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "Lessons, and parallels, in Jeb Bush's failed run for governor," by the New York Times' Adam Nagourney: "...Mr. Bush plunged into what would prove to be a sometimes painful learning curve of a first campaign, winning a crowded Republican primary but losing narrowly to Mr. Chiles. He became one of only two Republicans in the nation defeated in high-profile statewide elections in 1994, one of the biggest Republican sweeps in history. ...In 1994, like today, Mr. Bush was in a crowded primary of conservatives and struggled to win without moving so far to the right as to undercut his general election prospects. Then as now, he sought to distinguish himself from a
 president with the same last name without alienating the many Republican voters and donors who admired his family." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c5a26772aa809dbf7766ba63896e08b247d59e92981aef68f441d8238e61532e 

- "Top staffer leaves Rand Paul's campaign," by POLITICO's Alex Isenstadt: "Rand Paul's sputtering presidential campaign has lost a top staffer: policy aide Elise Jordan. Jordan, a former Bush White House and State Department aide who had been advising Paul on foreign policy, has left the campaign to take a job at NBC News and MSNBC as a political analyst." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c5a26772aa809dbf3c948f2c0acac97aceb646b95fcb69c75c72bb97bdd371d0 

-"Undisclosed dollars dominate campaign spending," by POLITICO's Ken Vogel: "Big-money outside groups have spent more than $143 million in the presidential race in the six months since any of them were required to reveal their donors, according to a POLITICO analysis of campaign and advertising records. The origins of some of that cash will never be revealed, while the rest of it won't become known midnight on Jan. 31 ― meaning that voters won't know who funded the majority of the ads in the presidential race until just hours before Iowa voters head to their state's pivotal caucuses." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c5a26772aa809dbffadc75f02a071017c9dedfe36a0eac05c7faf1034793462b

- "New Bush super PAC ad attacks Rubio over 'amnesty,'" by POLITICO's Hanna Trudo: "The super PAC supporting Jeb Bush released a new advertisement attacking Marco Rubio on Monday, accusing the Florida senator of changing his position on immigration reform and supporting "amnesty." The new ad, titled "Vane," ...opens with an animation showing Rubio depicted as a weathervane atop a barn, smiling as he shifts with the political winds." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c5a26772aa809dbf01f09ee04d1d100ed8e8ba5ec5ac9e6284e8e6f46c7edcb0 

- FIRST IN SCORE - America Rising, a conservative PAC, released a web video linking Hillary Clinton to President Obama's foreign policy ahead of his final State of the Union address. The video plays a reel of news clips discussing recent terrorist attacks, then highlights Clinton giving Obama's administration an "A" rating. Watch the video here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c5a26772aa809dbf048af8175f7e7cf37df270de29219f3352a78a430779310e

CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Humpty Dumpty can't be put back together again, even if it's totally not justified." - Attorney James Mundy, arguing for his client, Pennsylvania's Democratic Attorney General Kathleen Kane, to have her law license reinstated as she faces impeachment hearings, per PennLive. (Meanwhile, Kane got a primary challenger in Montgomery County Supervisor Josh Shapiro.) http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c5a26772aa809dbf4ba27901fa7c7d984afd2419391d0f2966afc76364e72264

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