Subject: POLITICO’s Morning Score, presented by Sinclair Broadcast Group: Down-ballot candidates capitalize on Bernie-mentum — End Citizens United PAC raises $5.4 million — Jim Jordan backs a Boehner replacement
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:02:54 -0600

By Theodoric Meyer | 01/22/2016 10:01 AM EDT

With Elena Schneider, Kevin Robillard and Daniel Lippman

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)

BREAKING THIS MORNING - Young goes up on the air in Indiana Senate race: GOP Rep. Todd Young is airing with his first ad of 2016 in Indiana, and his campaign says they have the resources to remain on the air until the May 3 GOP primary. The ad is an positive biographical spot, focusing on Young's service in the Marine Corps and his "landmark bill [that] would stop Obama from issuing even more job-killing regulations," in the words of the narrator. "A bill hailed by conservative leaders across the country." 

- Watch the ad: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e1721c9fc5001ba9861c45a18c36da3e94a51877d90dfd1d120335885b82d949

BERN NOTICE - "Down-ballot Democrats draft off Bernie-mentum," by Campaign Pro's Elena Schneider: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e1721c9fc5001ba974d3565b460578739a9e2d25e8f0fa4ed255526bf38cde04

NEW PLAYER - End Citizens United PAC raised $5.4 million in second half of 2015: End Citizens United, a PAC formed to boost pro-campaign finance reform Democrats, saw its fundraising surge in the second half of 2015. It raised $5.4 million from more than 150,000 donors in those six months, the group announced on Thursday, the anniversary of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. The haul is a fresh indication that the PAC, formed last March, could be a major player in 2016 Senate and House races.

Days until the Iowa caucuses: 10. Days until the 2016 election: 291.

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GETTING THE NOD - Jim Jordan backs a candidate to replace Boehner: GOP Rep. Jim Jordan, who helped force House Speaker John Boehner from office as the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, has made an endorsement in the crowded primary to replace him. Jordan endorsed Warren Davidson, a businessman, on Thursday in the special election for Ohio's 8th District, The Cincinnati Enquirer reports. The Club for Growth PAC also backed Davidson last week, calling him "the true conservative outsider" in a field of more than a dozen Republicans. Jordan represents the neighboring 4th District, in western Ohio. He told reporters on Thursday that "he and his other colleagues in the House Freedom Caucus
 would do whatever they could to help get Davidson elected." The primary is March 15. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=20050d86096191f20401f3293c49719391c247dfb176644df5d2f792a9bb192c

FIRST IN SCORE - Wyden raises $1.2 million in fourth quarter: Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon isn't expected to have any trouble winning reelection this fall, but he's still fundraising aggressively. Wyden raised $1.2 million in the fourth quarter, according to a source with knowledge of the total, giving him more than $6.5 million in cash on hand.

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AUTOMATED DIALING - DCCC robocalling in five House districts on Roe v. Wade anniversary: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will robocall voters on Friday in five Republican-held House districts it's trying to pick up. The calls, tied to the 43rd anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade, highlight anti-abortion positions taken by Republicans running for the seat. The calls are targeted toward mostly suburban swing seats the DCCC is trying to win back: Colorado's 6th District, outside of Denver; Illinois' 10th District, north of Chicago; Nevada's 3rd District, south of Las Vegas; New York's 24th District, which includes Syracuse; and Virginia's 10th District,
 outside of Washington.

- EMILY's List is also taking advantage of the Roe v. Wade anniversary, announcing that it will target GOP Rep. Mike Bishop in Michigan's 8th District. The group has not yet endorsed Melissa Gilbert, the Democrat challenging Bishop.

DUELING POLLS - PPP poll shows N.C. governor's race tied; McCrory's shows him winning: Public Policy Polling, a Democratic-leaning firm, released a new poll on the North Carolina gubernatorial race that showed it essentially tied, giving Democrat Roy Cooper a slight edge. Gov. Pat McCrory's campaign also released its own internal poll on Thursday, The News & Observer reports, showing the Republican incumbent with a 13 point lead over Cooper. But McCrory's campaign did not "release any data to supporting the findings," the Charlotte Observer reported. The campaign also warned that the margin would likely narrow, but sent a fundraising email to supporters about the poll. 
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=20050d86096191f287422592adcac60a2636461885183c67e661271c4dc21c9d 

- The PPP poll found that 43 percent of likely voters supported Cooper, with another 40 percent backing McCrory. Both appear safe in their respective primaries, too. The robopoll surveyed 948 voters from Jan. 18 and 19, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 points. Sen. Richard Burr holds a sizable lead over his Democratic challengers, who are largely still unknown to voters. Here's the full poll: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=20050d86096191f2dbcc5b741b2957b1ab39e8cba4dd214f77649a79bf57fe85

PERSONNEL MOVES - Pennsylvania Democrats get new spokesman: Preston Maddock is the new communications director for the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. He was previously the press secretary for American Bridge, the Democratic opposition research super PAC, in Washington and also worked as a spokesman for Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes' Senate campaign in Kentucky in 2014.

PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "National Review aims to take down Trump," by POLITICO's Shane Goldmacher: "For months, Republican leaders have worried about how to stop 2016 front-runner Donald Trump. Now, one of the conservative movement's most influential publications is taking matters into its own hands. National Review is dedicating a special issue of its magazine, one week before the Iowa caucuses, to stopping Trump. 'Against Trump,' blares the magazine cover. Inside, a blistering editorial questions Trump's commitment to conservatism, warning voters that backing him is tantamount to allowing the conservative movement to have 'fallen in behind a huckster.' ... And that's just the start. The
 National Review issue features anti-Trump essays from more than 20 conservative thinkers, leaders and commentators spanning the GOP's ideological spectrum from David Boaz, executive vice president of the libertarian-infused Cato Institute, to William Kristol, the hawkish editor of the Weekly Standard, to David McIntosh, president of the Club for Growth." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=20050d86096191f2a030dcf54b4c47a72cb7de42423f6076877700b5af9e9cb8

- "Top former Romney aide launches anti-Trump super PAC," by POLITICO's Alex Isenstadt: "With less than two weeks until the Iowa caucuses, a new super PAC has formed with the intention of taking down Donald Trump. The group, which is called Our Principles PAC, is founded by Katie Packer, a veteran Republican strategist who served as deputy campaign manager on Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. This week, the group sent out mailers to Iowa voters attacking Trump." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=20050d86096191f2ece7a8df567e8c2f2812432a8f6d1673ea444effec64f0ee

- But William Doddridge, a major GOP donor and the chief executive of the Jewelry Exchange, is launching a super PAC of his own - to promote Trump. He plans to call it TrumPAC. "Working alongside Doddridge will be Amy Kremer, a key leader in the tea party movement who formerly served as chairman of the Tea Party Express and will serve as TrumPAC's spokeswoman and co-founder. The group's attorney will be Dan Backer, a prominent conservative election attorney who represented GOP activist Shaun McCutcheon, who brought a case to the Supreme Court challenging the limit on overall campaign finance contributions." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=20050d86096191f20c9fded8f30a6cf95bce913b1705359ced12271df412ec6b

- "Inside the Carson campaign meltdown," by POLITICO's Kyle Cheney: Two former Ben Carson advisers say the "campaign was on a trajectory for victory in Iowa until Nov. 17, the day another New York Times story stunned the campaign: an interview with Duane Clarridge, an octogenarian former CIA operative whom Williams described as one of Carson's top foreign policy advisers. The interview, arranged by Williams, was meant to shore up faith in Carson's foreign policy credentials in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris and questions about his readiness to be commander in chief. Instead, the story delivered a bombshell from his own adviser's mouth: Carson had been struggling to learn
 the basics of world affairs. Within days, fundraising all but stopped." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=20050d86096191f29daedc76ad7f4313542c626cbcc37706fb8a2a1cf5eaadd6

CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "There are some people who think it's a little odd for a third Bush to be president." - Jeb Bush, who's proved especially quotable recently. "You can't ignore them, because that's weird," Bush said of his family on Thursday on the trail in Hampton, N.H., according to The New York Times' Ashley Parker. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=20050d86096191f2c123293ec7d59b2edae6b118c6bf871ee569c409452635fa

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