Subject: POLITICO Playbook: 100 days until midterms, and Trump threatens government shutdown
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SIREN ... JUST LIKE WE'VE BEEN TELLING YOU ... PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP THREATENS ANOTHER GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN ... TRUMP at 9:13 a.m.: "I would be willing to 'shut down' government if the Democrats do not give us the votes for Border Security, which includes the Wall! Must get rid of Lottery, Catch & Release etc. and finally go to system of Immigration based on MERIT! We need great people coming into our Country!"

-- REPUBLICAN LEADERS have been telling us for months that they think they've convinced Trump a shutdown is a bad idea. Clearly they have not. In fact, Trump seems to be broadening his demands. He is signaling he'll demand immigration changes as part of the government funding bill. Government funding runs out 37 days before Election Day. 

-- SOME IN TRUMP'S UNIVERSE believe a shutdown would be a good base-rallying tactic.

BEST CASE SCENARIO FOR THE GOP, as posited by one Republican after this tweet: He isn't talking about the September deadline, but another funding deadline later this year. 

NRCC CHAIRMAN STEVE STIVERS of Ohio told Martha Raddatz on ABC's "This Week" that he doesn't "think we're going to shut down the government." 

OH, AND BY THE WAY ... 100 DAYS until the midterm elections.
          
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: THE PRESIDENT'S WEEK ... Monday: The president will host Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. Tuesday: Trump will sign "Strengthening Career and Technical Education For The 21st Century Act" into law, and then he will go to Tampa for a roundtable on workforce development and a political rally. Thursday: Trump will go to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, for a roundtable with supporters and a rally.
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BREAKING OVERNIGHT ... ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION ... "Rep. John Lewis hospitalized after falling ill on plane," by Tamar Hallerman: "The civil rights hero, 78, was on a flight from Detroit on Saturday when he started feeling dizzy and sweaty, an aide said. He was later hospitalized for 'routine observation' in Atlanta. 'He's resting comfortably and expects to be released tomorrow,' the Democrat's office said in a statement Saturday evening." AJC

THE PRESIDENT HUDDLES WITH NYT PUBLISHER ... THE PRESIDENT, at 8:30 a.m.: "Had a very good and interesting meeting at the White House with A.G. Sulzberger, Publisher of the New York Times. Spent much time talking about the vast amounts of Fake News being put out by the media & how that Fake News has morphed into phrase, 'Enemy of the People.' Sad!"

-- BTW, Trump is making this public the day Maggie Haberman and Katie Rogers report that Jared and Ivanka had Sulzberger over for dinner.

 WAPO'S PHIL RUCKER (@philiprucker): "Just in: Statement from NYT Publisher A.G. Sulzberger, who says he told Trump his 'language was not just divisive but increasingly dangerous.'" NYT's full statement
 
NYT A1 ... MAGGIE HABERMAN and KATIE ROGERS: "Still Standing, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Step Back in the Spotlight: They have waited out, and in some cases ground down, their critics, and are ready to make a more visible push for their projects": "Several times Mr. Trump joked that he 'could have had Tom Brady' as a son-in-law. 'Instead,' the president said, according to five people who heard him, 'I got Jared Kushner.' 

"And yet, after 18 months of bruising internal White House conflicts and bitter criticism that they have failed to be a moderating influence on the president, both Mr. Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump ... are ... as comfortable - and as close to the center of the president's orbit - as they have ever been. ...

"It did not help that the president had gone from telling aides to 'talk to Jared,' as he did during the campaign, to telling them that 'Jared hasn't been so good for me.' ... The couple entertains in both Washington and Manhattan, where the guests for a recent dinner honoring Nikki R. Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations, included former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and A. G. Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times." NYT

GUESS HE DIDN'T MAKE IT BACK TO TULSA! ... SPOTTED: former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and his wife Marlyn last night dining at Il Canale in Georgetown (pic) 

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SUNDAY BEST ... FOX NEWS' CHRIS WALLACE speaks with TREASURY SECRETARY STEVEN MNUCHIN: MNUCHIN is bullish on economic growth: "We can only project a couple of years into the future but I think we're well on this path for several years so I don't think this is a one or two year phenomenon. I think we definitely are in a period of four or five years of sustained three-percent growth, at least."

-- MARTHA RADDATZ spoke with SEN. JAMES LANKFORD (R-OKLA.) on ABC'S "THIS WEEK: RADDATZ: "President Trump tweeted this week about election interference in the midterms, saying I'm very concerned that Russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming election based on the fact that no president has been tougher on Russia than me.

"They will be pushing very hard for the Democrats, they definitely don't want Trump. The president seems to think the Russians are only trying to help the Democrats. Do you have any evidence that that is true?"

LANKFORD: "No, the - the Russians are trying to interfere with everyone's election, and that's the part that we lose track of. To them, sewing chaos and sewing uncertainty within our democracy is their key goal. At the end of it, they don't seem to be as focused on a candidate as they are just trying to be able to bring down our entire system. Their system is a dictatorship, their system is dominated by Putin and by his perspectives on it, and they destroy everyone else."

-- CNN'S JAKE TAPPER spoke with ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI on "STATE OF THE UNION": SCARAMUCCI on the White House penalizing CNN'S KAITLAN COLLINS: "[W]hat I would do in a situation like that is, I would pull a tape of questions that Sam Donaldson screamed at Ronald Reagan, and go right through the last 30 years of pool reporters asking questions that presidents probably think are obnoxious or untoward or disrespectful questions, and just point out that she was doing her job."

-- NBC'S "MEET THE PRESS" celebrates ANDREA MITCHELL'S 40 years at NBC. Two-minute video

   
         
PIC DU JOUR -- Dallas Morning News' Gromer M. Jeffers (@gromerjeffers): "In politics anything can happen. Here's @tedcruz getting the hot towel treatment at Kingdom Cuts in East Dallas. He's been in the chair more than a hour." Pic

THE ADMINISTRATION -- "White House uses foreign aid agency to give jobs to Trump loyalists," by WaPo's Robert O'Harrow Jr.: "The White House has assumed control over hiring at a small federal agency that promotes economic growth in poor countries, installing political allies and loyalists in appointed jobs intended for development experts, according to documents and interviews. 

"Until the Trump administration, only the chief executive and several other top officials of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) were selected by the White House, former agency officials said. The chief executive, in turn, used authority granted to the agency by Congress to appoint about two dozen other staffers, primarily for their technical expertise. Fourteen allies and Trump loyalists have been placed at the agency as political appointees so far - more than double the number of political staff on the day the president took office ... 

"[There have been] repeated delays in Senate consideration of the nominee to be MCC's chief executive, which has been pending since early January. The nominee, Sean Cairncross, is a Washington insider who served as chief operating officer of the [RNC] in the 2016 election cycle. In the Trump administration, he served as deputy assistant to Trump and senior adviser to the chief of staff. But he has no foreign development experience, according to his testimony during his nomination hearing in February." WaPo

-- "He Was Dow's 'Dioxin Lawyer.' Now He's Trump's Choice to Run the Superfund Program," by NYT's Hiroko Tabuchi and Tryggvi Adalbjornsson: "The lawyer [Peter Wright] nominated to run the Superfund toxic cleanup program is steeped in the complexities of restoring polluted rivers and chemical dumps. He spent more than a decade on one of the nation's most extensive cleanups, one involving Dow Chemical's sprawling headquarters in Midland, Mich. 

"But while he led Dow's legal strategy there, the chemical giant was accused by regulators, and in one case a Dow engineer, of submitting disputed data, misrepresenting scientific evidence and delaying cleanup, according to internal documents and court records as well as interviews with more than a dozen people involved in the project." NYT

INTERESTING STORIES ON FRONT PAGES AROUND AMERICA ... 

-- JANESVILLE (WIS.) GAZETTE: "Geography as destiny: As Paul Ryan exits, will it be more of the same?": "Some voters in the 1st Congressional District weren't born the last time a Democrat won the seat. They might have to wait a while longer.

"Republican Rep. Paul Ryan is retiring after 20 years in office. He leaves a legacy of strong Republican support and a district whose boundaries have shifted to exclude Democrats and include more Republicans.

"But Democratic activists are enthusiastic, and money has poured in from donors who hope, in the words of 1st District candidate Randy Bryce, to 'repeal and replace Ryan.'

"'This is our best opportunity in 20 years,' said Cathy Myers, Bryce's opponent in the Aug. 14 primary. Tim Cullen, the retired Democratic state senator from Janesville, hasn't endorsed either of the Democratic hopefuls." Janesville Gazette ...  Front page

-- ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION: "Georgia governor's race could look a lot like 2020 presidential contest," by Greg Bluestein and Tamar Hallerman: "The race for governor between Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp is a warm-up for the 2020 presidential election and a historic test of whether Georgia is a battleground state in President Donald Trump's bid for a second term.

"The duel between the two longtime rivals is poised to attract tens of millions of additional dollars, visits from a constellation of political stars and even more attention from national media casting the race as a litmus test for the presidential contest over the next 100 days.

"The candidates have little choice but to nationalize the race. Kemp won a landslide victory over Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle last week thanks to Trump's endorsement, and the president and other leading GOP figures have a direct stake in making sure Kemp prevails in November.

"And a growing cast of potential Trump opponents are beating a path to Georgia to support Abrams, mindful that the state could be a key factor in the 2020 presidential primary and balance out the party's struggles in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - Hillary Clinton's 'blue wall' that crumbled in 2016." AJC ... Front page

-- JOE GANIM, the Democratic mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who is now running for governor, went to prison several years ago for a host of corruption charges. He got this headline on the front page of the Stamford Advocate this morning: "Ganim maintained city's trustworthiness". 

-- BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIAN COLUMNIST ROBERT PRICE: "A tale of two cities and one congressman": "Congressman Kevin McCarthy leads a double life.

"In Washington, he's golden: Heir apparent to retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan, frequent and familiar White House guest, donor-connected darling of vulnerable Republican incumbents.

"In Bakersfield, not quite so much anymore: He's still a man constituents really, really want to believe, considering his warm reception at fundraisers and service club luncheons. But recent events have at least some of them wondering on which coast his allegiances truly lie.

"In Washington, he collects big checks and hands them out too. McCarthy personally raised $12 million in campaign donations in the second quarter of 2018, running his take in this election cycle to a cool $40 million, and he has already distributed half of that total to GOP candidates. That doesn't include Thursday's haul at the Capitol Hill Club, where McCarthy secured commitments for $10 million from House Republicans - with the biggest check, $6 million, coming from McCarthy himself.

"But back in his hometown district, growers are still sweating President Trump's tariffs. California is on the front lines of this growing U.S.-China trade war, and Kern County, the state's biggest agricultural producer, is especially vulnerable. Tree nuts, a huge local crop, have been specifically hard hit, a fact that must be particularly painful given McCarthy's personal connections with people in the Kern County almond and pistachio business.

"Thank goodness for that $12 billion federal farm aid package, right? You know, the money that's supposed to ease the impact of China's retaliatory counter-tariffs. Except the people benefitting from the aid package are primarily the producers of soybeans, sorghum, corn, wheat, cotton, dairy and hogs - in other words Midwestern states and not (except for dairy) California." Bakersfield Californian ... Front page

THE BOSTON GLOBE'S ANNIE LINSKEY did a weeklong shift at the ANNAPOLIS CAPITAL GAZETTE to help pitch in after the shooting.

-- "Annapolis City Council members seek more accountability from PACs," by Annie Linskey. She wrote six stories in five days

THE COHEN-TRUMP BREAKUP -- "Joint defense with Cohen over; experts hired to analyze Trump-Cohen tape: Giuliani," by ABC News' Tara Palmeri: "President Trump's legal team warned his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, both publicly and privately, that he's in violation of attorney-client privilege and has cautioned him against talking, Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani told ABC News. ... 

"Lanny Davis, Cohen's attorney, said Saturday evening that Giuliani 'seems to be confused.' 'He expressly waived attorney-client privilege last week and repeatedly and inaccurately -- as proven by the tape -- talked and talked about the recording, forfeiting all confidentiality,' he said.

"Giuliani also said that they've hired multiple experts to review and analyze the recordings of conversations between Cohen and Trump. They've specifically looked into why the tape cuts off mid-conversation about a hush payment made to former Playboy model Karen McDougal who alleged an affair with Trump. ... He also confirmed that the joint defense agreement between Trump and Cohen has ended." ABC News

         
2020 WATCH -- "Eric Holder says he's interested in being president. And he thinks he has what it takes," by CNN's Dan Merica: "Holder's travels have taken him to Arizona, Indiana and Ohio for state Democratic Party dinners, as well as Florida, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Texas, Pennsylvania, Florida and Georgia for events and meetings with local activists. Holder's meetings generally focus on combating gerrymandering, his cause c&eacute;l&egrave;bre since leaving the Obama administration, but his events are often peppered with politics and -- invariably -- comments about his future." CNN

BORDER TALES -- "Advocates Say Immigrant Children Separated From Their Parents Spoke Of Being Kicked By Guards," by BuzzFeed's Amber Jamieson in Dilley, Texas: "Lawyers and advocates working at a Texas detention center where hundreds of immigrant families have been detained in recent weeks say they were horrified to hear stories from child detainees of abuse they allegedly suffered at the hands of authorities while separated from their parents at other facilities. 

"Child detainees at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley told stories of Customs and Border Protection officers at other facilities kicking and hitting them, social workers declaring they were to be adopted by American families, and being forced to sweep floors in the shelters they were staying in, according to the activists." BuzzFeed

-- WAPO'S NICK MIROFF, AMY GOLDSTEIN and MARIA SACCHETTI: "'Deleted' families: What went wrong with Trump's family-separation effort": "When a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reunify migrant families separated at the border, the government's cleanup crews faced an immediate problem. They weren't sure who the families were, let alone what to call them. Customs and Border Protection databases had categories for 'family units,' and 'unaccompanied alien children' who arrive without parents. They did not have a distinct classification for more than 2,600 children who had been taken from their families and placed in government shelters. So agents came up with a new term:
 'deleted family units.'" WaPo

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PHOTO DU JOUR: Members of the Coleman family comfort each other at a casket during the showing for Horace Coleman, Belinda Coleman, Irvin Coleman, Angela Coleman and Maxwell Coleman Ly, on July 28 in Indianapolis. Nine members of the Coleman family were killed in a duck boat accident at Table Rock Lake near Branson, Mo. | Darron Cummings/AP Photo
   
DAN DIAMOND, "Trump policy shop filters facts to fit his message": "President Donald Trump's appointees in the health department have deleted positive references to Obamacare, altered a report that undermined the administration's positions on refugees and added anti-abortion language to the strategic plan - part of an ideological overhaul of the agency's research office. ... Another report suggesting that millions more people would get health coverage if Obamacare were rolled back - a finding at odds with nearly every independent analysis - was widely mocked and produced over the objections of career staff at the office of the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation, known as ASPE,
 say several sources." POLITICO

SCOTT BLAND, "Liberal secret-money network hammers House GOP": "A network of secret-money nonprofit groups has spent millions of dollars attacking swing-seat House Republicans on health care and taxes, quietly becoming one of the biggest players in the 2018 political landscape. ... [T]hey are all linked to one obscure nonprofit in downtown Washington, D.C.: the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which has funneled millions of dollars to progressive causes in recent years and set up each of the new groups, according to D.C. corporation records. ... The network, which has spent over $4.6 million on TV alone, has also been one of the top political advertisers in the country on Facebook ...

"POLITICO has identified 12 groups set up through the Sixteen Thirty Fund that have been involved in local health care and tax debates: Arizonans United for Health Care, Colorado United for Families, Floridians for a Fair Shake, Healthcare Voters of Nevada, Keep Iowa Healthy, Mainers Against Health Care Cuts, Michigan Families for Economic Prosperity, New Jersey for a Better Future, North Carolinians for a Fair Economy, Ohioans for Economic Opportunity, SoCal Health Care Coalition and Speak Out CNY." POLITICO

WAR REPORT -- "Newest U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan Mirrors Past Plans for Retreat," by NYT's Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Helene Cooper: "The Trump administration is urging American-backed Afghan troops to retreat from sparsely populated areas of the country, officials said, all but ensuring the Taliban will remain in control of vast stretches of the country. The approach is outlined in a previously undisclosed part of the war strategy that President Trump announced last year, according to three officials who described the documents to The New York Times on the condition of anonymity.

"It is meant to protect military forces from attacks at isolated and vulnerable outposts, and focuses on protecting cities such as Kabul, the capital, and other population centers. The withdrawal resembles strategies embraced by both the Bush and Obama administrations that have started and stuttered over the nearly 17-year war." NYT

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BONUS GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman:

-- "Why So Many People Are Betting on Beto O'Rourke," by Matt Viser in Town and Country: "He's a Kennedyesque longshot in a roiling red state, but the Democrat from Texas just might have a chance at unseating Ted Cruz." Town and Country

-- "Welcome to the Quiet Skies," by Jana Winter in the Boston Globe: "Did you scan the boarding area from afar? Have a cold, penetrating stare? Sleep on the plane? Use the bathroom? Talk to others? This is just some of the information that federal air marshals collect on thousands of regular U.S. citizens under a secret, domestic surveillance program." Globe

-- "The Man Who Captures Criminals for the D.E.A. by Playing Them," by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee in the New Yorker: "Spyros Enotiades is an actor for hire who specializes in the role of cartel boss, middleman, or money manager in sting operations." New Yorker

-- "How to crack consciousness," by Will Self in the New Statesman: "It's what makes us human - but despite the best efforts of philosophy and science, the nature of our experience of reality remains elusive." New Statesman

-- "In Conversation: Billy Joel," by David Marchese in Vulture: "The superstar on his songwriting silence, the country today, and his ideal farewell." Vulture

-- "Orange County portrait: Low wages, child poverty, costly housing," by the Orange County Register's Margot Roosevelt: "Not far from Newport Coast's glittering enclaves, Fullerton's tidy subdivisions, Disneyland's fantasy rides and Irvine's corporate towers lies another Orange County. It is a place where child poverty is rising, students are failing, opioid addiction is epidemic, rents are sky-high and businesses pay workers less than they did a decade ago." OCR

-- "How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald's Monopoly Game and Stole Millions," by Jeff Maysh in the Daily Beast: "Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation 'Final Answer.'" Daily Beast

-- "How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies," by Zach Dorfman in San Francisco in POLITICO Magazine: "Intel officials have suspected that Russian spies [are] enlisting local high-end Russian and Eastern European prostitutes, in a classic Russian 'honeypot' maneuver, to gather information from (and on) Bay Area tech and venture-capital executives. Sex workers targeting executives at high-end bars and nightclubs such as the Rosewood Sand Hill ... the Redwood Room, a tony bar located in the Clift Hotel in downtown San Francisco, and other spots have been identified as potentially reporting back to Russian intel officers." POLITICO

-- "How Prisons are Poisoning Their Inmates," by Michael Waters in The Outline: "Hundreds of U.S. prisons and ICE detention centers are built on toxic sites, and people inside are getting sick." The Outline (h/t Longreads.com)

-- "When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life," by Kashmir Hill in Gizmodo - per Longform.org's description: "Monika Glennon had one brief exchange with a complete stranger in a Facebook comment section. That stranger destroyed her life." Gizmodo

-- "The Ambien Diaries," by Shuja Haider in Popula: "Ambien doesn't quite knock you out. What it does do is give you a choice. If you choose to sleep, you'll find it easier to nod off than if you hadn't taken it. But you can also choose not to, and that's where things get interesting. My personal theory is that what the drug is treating is not insomnia, but repression." Popula (h/t TheBrowser.com)

-- "Lane Davis' Civil War: Alt-Right Troll To Father Killer: The Unraveling Of Lane Davis," by BuzzFeed's Joseph Bernstein: "Lane Davis was a far-right, pro-Trump media figure looking for his big break. Then he stabbed his father to death." BuzzFeed
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WEEKEND WEDDINGS -- "Emily Steel, Daniel Hoevel" - N.Y. Times: "Ms. Steel, 34, is a business reporter for The New York Times. She and a team of reporters exposed sexual harassment and misconduct across industries and were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for public service in April. She graduated with distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ... Mr. Hoevel, 31, is a vice president for capital raising and investor relations in the Manhattan office of Silver Lake, a technology investment firm. He graduated cum laude from Kalamazoo College in Michigan." With a pic ... Wedding pic 

-- "Nadine Dukeson, Mat Morrison" -- N.Y. Times: "Mrs. Morrison, 39, is the head of video output for North America at Agence France-Presse in Washington. She graduated from the University of Leicester, England. ... Mr. Morrison, who is 40 and is known as Mat, is a senior producer at BBC World News in Washington. He graduated from Brown. ... The couple met in March 2015 while both were working as senior producers for the BBC's 'World News America' broadcast." With a pic

-- ROMNEY ALUMNI -- Andrea Saul, who works in policy communications at Facebook and was national press secretary on the Romney 2012 campaign, on Saturday married David Nosbusch, in a ceremony at Julian and Anita Saul's home in Jackson, Wyoming. Maury Povich, a longtime family friend, officiated. Pic ... Another pic

SPOTTED: Tucker Bounds, Jill Hazelbaker, Amanda Henneberg, Ryan Williams, Jackie Rooney, Connie Chung, Brooke Buchanan and Dominic Bowden.

BIRTHDAYS: David Westin, Bloomberg TV anchor and former ABC News president ... Ja'Ron Smith, special assistant to the President for legislative affairs (hat tip: Robb Watters) ... Peter Alexander, national correspondent at NBC News ... Caitria Mahoney, chief of staff at GlobalCitizen ... SKDK's Herbie Ziskend (h/ts Meredith Carden, Eric Lesser and Josh Lipsky) ... POLITICO's Carol Eisenberg ... Danny Vinik ... documentarian Ken Burns is 65 ... Marilyn Quayle is 69 ... former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.), now founder of Hidden Heroes, is 82 (h/t Arjun Mody) ... former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum-Baker (R-Kans.) is 86 ... Ellie Titus of Bloomberg Politics ... Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) is 61 ...
 Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) is 51 ... Rep. Denny Heck (D-Wash.) is 66 ... Garance Franke-Ruta ... Nate Rawlings is 37 ... Mark Laichena ... Jim Hake ... Vox's Laura McGann ... Drew Ryan is 4-0 (h/t sister Kiki) ... Rick VanMeter ... Alexah Rogge ... Tony Brown (h/t Randy White) ... Gretchen Kube-Clare ...

... NYT's Peter S. Goodman ... John Raffetto ... Lyndsay Polloway, U.S. Chamber of Commerce's VP of events and an Atlantic alum, is 35. She's celebrating in Bermuda (h/t Patrick Garrigan) ... Politico Europe's Joanna Plucinska and Jacopo Barigazzi ... Chris Carr ... Karl Douglass ... Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn is 6-0 ... Denver Mayor Michael Hancock is 49 ... Keren Charles Dongo, campaign manager for Tim Kaine's re-election campaign (h/t Ian Sams) ... Grant Bosse ... Rob Hennings ... former Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio) is 67 ... Caitlin McBride ... Bill Pascoe ... Melissa Steffan ... Lise Clavel ... Katherine Lugar, CEO of the American Hotel Lodging Association ... CNN's Aaron Kessler ... Dave
 Barr ... Charles Hoskinson ... Doug Hill ... Allison Jaslow ... Leroy Petry ... Jeff Patch ... Kristin Fisher ... Kris Purcell ... Caitlin Callahan ... Tom Kimbis ... Jay Heine ... Carrie Hyun ... Brad Marshall ... Laura Nichols (h/ts Teresa Vilmain)
                    
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