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CALLING A TRUCE - MET WITH SILENCE - "LaTourette's olive branch to the Club unanswered so far," by Campaign Pro's Kevin Robillard: "Former Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-Ohio) spent the first two years of his post-congressional career in a pitched battle with conservative outside groups, like Club for Growth, bucking up pragmatic Republican candidates against attacks from the right. But now - as the GOP faces a critical election cycle, and LaTourette battles a life-threatening case of pancreatic cancer - the longtime associate of House Speaker John Boehner is trying to make peace with the Club."

"LaTourette sent a letter to new Club for Growth President David McIntosh at the beginning of May asking him not to spend any of the conservative group's money opposing GOP candidates. In exchange, the LaTourette-led, establishment-backed Main Street Republican Partnership would agree to do the same. ...The letter has been met with silence, however, according to LaTourette's representatives. The Club didn't respond to calls and emails from POLITICO seeking a response." Read the letter:
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SANDOVAL PASSES - SURPRISING FEW - "Brian Sandoval Rejects Washington: The Nevada governor's having too much fun to replace Harry Reid," in POLITICO Magazine by Jon Ralston: "Few Nevada or D.C. insiders were surprised when Sandoval made it official Tuesday morning with a statement declining to run for Harry Reid's seat, a little more than a year after I wrote how he was the now-retiring senator's worst nightmare but was highly unlikely to run. Sandoval always leaned heavily against a U.S. Senate bid. But like most such decisions, despite caricatures by the media and partisans, this one was a mixture of the personal and the political. What few know is that Sandoval did glance toward
Washington, the student of history pulled toward the symmetry of taking the seat once held by Paul Laxalt, for whom Sandoval once worked in D.C. as a legislative intern. The governor actually did not make his final decision until quite recently, sources tell me, with his love for his young daughter and his job curing his low-grade Potomac fever.
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BEVIN BRINGS ON HARRIS - Kentucky GOP gubernatorial nominee Matt Bevin is bringing on Vincent Harris' digital firm, Harris Media, to run its digital media operations. Harris Media and CEO Vincent Harris are running Sen. Rand Paul's digital ops on his presidential campaign. Jamestown Associates produces Bevin's television advertising.

As Ted Cruz looks past the early states and Chris Christie inches toward a presidential decision,here's Campaign Pro's Morning Score: daily news, notes and essential information for the 2015 and 2016 election cycles.

Days until the 2015 election: 145. Days until the 2016 election: 516.

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THE OTHER TED CRUZ - Architect Teddy Cruz is the first "Urban Innovator" to be profiled in a new video series from POLITICO Magazine's What Works project on city innovation. And his inspiration for re-envisioning the modern American city comes from a very unlikely place: the slums of Tijuana. Watch the first of the four-part video series here:
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2016 SPEED READ - "Cruz team looks beyond Iowa, New Hampshire," by POLITICO's Katie Glueck: "He's stuck in the middle of the pack in Iowa, lags in polls and much of the GOP donor class views him with disdain. But Ted Cruz is embracing a novel strategy for winning the nomination: He's lowering expectations in the early states while investing in later-voting states that hardly see a candidate before March. In the last week or so alone, the Texas senator has taken his presidential campaign to Michigan and Massachusetts, staffed up in New Jersey and Tennessee and skipped an Iowa cattle call to stump in North Carolina - all states expected to vote in March, with the exception of New Jersey,
which has a primary slated for June. It's a risky bet that defies the usual wisdom - and historical precedent - that a candidate must achieve an early-state victory to stay in the game. But Cruz's team is bracing for a long fight based on picking up delegates - a battle they plan to stretch all the way to the convention, where, the theory goes, he'll be the last conservative standing - though a contested convention hasn't happened in nearly 40 years."
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BUSH ABROAD - "Germans conflicted about the Bush brand," by POLITICO's Eli Stokols in Berlin: "Jeb Bush, kicking off a six-day European tour, will pay tribute on Tuesday to America's alliance with Western Europe, calling it "as relevant as the day it was founded" and arguing that our long-time allies want a more engaged United States. Only here in Germany, that is not exactly so. Germans are conflicted about the Bush brand. While Jeb's father is still lionized for helping to unify the country after the Cold War, his brother remains tremendously unpopular due to the Iraq War, viewed by most here as a singly American disaster. But more than that, Germany is increasingly indifferent to the
United States as a whole; uncertain whether these two world powers have much in common any more or even still really need one another."
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IN BUSH WORLD - BRADSHAW, IN CHARGE - "Behind the Bush campaign shake-up," by POLITICO's Alex Isenstadt and Marc Caputo: "She is the Jeb Whisperer, the power behind the throne. Though Jeb Bush's campaign for president had a shake-up before it even officially became a campaign, one aspect of Jeb World remains as clear as ever: Sally Bradshaw is running the show. To the extent there was a shake-up of Bush's political team this week, it's Bradshaw who did the shaking, the shot-calling and the tough decision-making. With a gentle drawl and a penchant for perfection, Bradshaw's warm demeanor masks a steely and ruthless efficiency. It was Bradshaw who ultimately made the call to install a
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GOOD NEWS FOR CHRISTIE - "Court hands down surprise pension ruling for Christie," by Pro's Marianne LeVine and POLITICO's Katie Glueck: "In a surprise ruling, the New Jersey state Supreme Court today favored New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in a dispute with public employee unions and the state legislature over pension cuts. The 5-2 ruling spares Christie's signature policy achievement - pension reform - an expected scrapping and immediately improves his standing in his undeclared presidential bid. The decision also gives the state legislature more time to fix the state's financially troubled pension system. Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute said Christie
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JOB OPENING: FIRST LADY - "Bachelor Lindsey Graham promises a 'rotating first lady,'" by POLITICO's Nick Gass: "Unmarried Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says that if he becomes president, he will have a "rotating first lady." "Well, I've got a sister. She could play that role if necessary," the 59-year-old South Carolinian presidential hopeful told Daily Mail Online in an
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KASICH HIRES FRED DAVIS, JOHN WEAVER - The former Huntsman (and McCain) consultants can be controversial - Davis' ads are unique, and Weaver was famously ousted by the McCain camp in 2007 - but their work for Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, who passed on a presidential campaign, caught Kasich's eye, Bloomberg's Mark Halperin reports.
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KENTUCKY HEALTH CARE, CAMPAIGN ISSUE - "State's successful Obamacare implementation is key issue in off-year race to succeed Beshear," by POLITICO's Kyle Cheney and Rachana Pradhan and Sarah Wheaton: "Kentucky's broad embrace of Obamacare has been a comforting success story for the White House. But now the Affordable Care Act is the central issue in the state's off-year governor's race, and a Republican victory could be a portent for 2016, when GOP presidential contenders will run on a renewed vow to repeal the act. As Obamacare's rollout floundered in 2013, President Barack Obama repeatedly took solace in Kentucky's success. The state's exchange, known as Kynect, worked virtually
glitch-free and helped sign up tens of thousands of uninsured people. ...Yet, Republican gubernatorial nominee Matt Bevin, a tea party favorite who narrowly won a brutal primary last month and could run a competitive general election race, has made eliminating the state's Obamacare programs - and sharply curtailing the ranks of the newly insured - a central plank of his platform. If he wins this November, more than half a million people who got covered through the exchange or an Obamacare-proscribed expansion of Medicaid could find themselves in health care limbo."
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VIRGINIA GOP STATE PARTY - State House Speaker William Howell withstood a Tea Party challenge on Tuesday, "signaling that a deeply fractured state GOP may be finding its footing," the Washington Post reported.
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ALMANAC, HERE TO STAY - POLITICO's Hadas Gold reported: "Earlier this year a rumor was making its way around Washington: The venerable Almanac of American Politics, the bible seemingly every political nerd had copies of on their desks, would cease print publication.But it turns out that was all for naught: The 2016 Almanac of American Politics will be published in late summer or early fall, National Journal will announce on today. ...Another big change is that longtime author Michael Barone is not mentioned as being involved in the 2016 edition. Instead, it's being authored by Richard E. Cohen, who worked on the 2006, 2008 and 2010 Almanacs."

CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "'I really don't like hot dogs," Carly Fiorina, GOP presidential nominee, only slightly out of context.
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