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ABOUT LAST NIGHT - Democrat Zinn vs. Republican Kelly in MS-01: Walter Zinn, a political consultant and the only Democrat in a crowd of 13 candidates, finished first in last night's MS-01 special election. But Republican District Attorney Trent Kelly, the second-place candidate, is likely headed to Congress from the GOP-leaning district..

With all the precincts reporting, Zinn won 17.3 percent of the vote, followed by Kelly with 16.3 percent. Mike Tagert, the state's transportation commissioner, came in third with 12.7 percent of the vote. The other 10 candidates split the remaining votes.

- We listed Kelly as one of the six candidates with a legitimate shot at winning last week, but he did not spend as much campaign cash as a number of the others. Through April 22, he'd only raised $118,000 for the race.

FALSE START - "Despite draft announcement, Sanchez says she's undecided on Senate," by POLITICO's Lauren French and John Bresnahan: "Rep. Loretta Sanchez says she has made no decision about whether to jump into the California Senate race to replace Sen. Barbara Boxer, despite a leaked draft announcement obtained by POLITICO saying she would enter the race Thursday. In the draft announcement dated Tuesday, Sanchez, a Democrat, said she would officially announce her candidacy at the Santa Ana Train Station alongside her 'husband, family and friends' at 11 a.m. Thursday. Several Democratic congressional sources independently confirmed Sanchez's decision. But hours after POLITICO and The
Sacramento Bee published stories reporting that she planned to run, the California Democrat said in an interview that 'no decision has been made' about the Senate race. She has been considering for weeks whether to seek the seat, which Boxer is vacating after four terms."
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- Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff said Tuesday he wouldn't run to succeed Boxer. Really.

As Guinta gives back and McCain's right flank gets angry, 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: 174; Days until the 2016 election: 545.

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THANKS, MOM AND DAD! - Guinta will return $355K in excessive contributions: New Hampshire GOP Rep. Frank Guinta has agreed to pay back $355,000 in money improperly loaned from his parents to use for his 2010 campaign, WMUR reported Tuesday. WMUR: "For years, Democrats, particularly former U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, refused to let up on questions about money that was loaned to Guinta's congressional campaign in 2010. While Guinta always chalked it up to politics, he has now agreed to write a check. The question has dogged Guinta for years, starting in the summer of 2010 when he failed to disclose the source of what he said was a roughly $250,000 personal loan to his congressional
campaign. At the time, he chalked it up to a bookkeeping error. But because financial statements at the time didn't show Guinta had that kind of wealth, Democrats bluntly charged that he accepted the large sum of money from someone, shattering FEC rules that cap individual campaign donations at $2,400."
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- Guinta had $312,000 on hand at the end of the first quarter, but he still had $189,000 in outstanding loans to himself from the 2010 race.
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PHOTO FINISH? - Bluegrass poll shows three-way, neck-and-neck race: A week away from the May 19 primary, Republicans Hal Heiner, James Comer and Matt Bevin are all within the margin of error for the lead, with former state Supreme Court Justice Will T. Scott in a distant fourth. The poll of Republican primary voters puts Bevin , a conservative favorite, at 27 percent - his first recorded lead in public polling - state Agriculture Commissioner James Comer at 26 percent and Louisville businessman Hal Heiner at 25 percent. Results:
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- The Lexington Herald Leader endorsed Heiner, writing that his "experience and temperament give him the edge" over Comer.
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ROVE-LINKED NONPROFIT GROUP BOOSTS FIVE GOP SENATORS: One Nation, a new conservative advocacy nonprofit aligned with Karl Rove's American Crossroads super PAC, is spending more than $2 million in print, radio and digital ad buys to praise GOP senators in Democratic-target states. The group spent more than $500,000 on print, radio and digital ads in North Carolina (
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SITTENFELD TACKS LEFT? - So far, the Ohio Democratic Senate primary between former Gov. Ted Strickland and Cincinnati city Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld has been old-vs.-young. Yes, Strickland was a pretty conservative Democrat when he served in the House, but his recent stint at the Center for American Progress seemed to shore up his credentials among liberals. So we noted this story in today's Columbus Dispatch in which Sittenfeld recent speech to a group of Democrats: "People are hungry for a progressive agenda. ... The country doesn't need two Republican parties." He even indirectly referenced Strickland's A-rating from the National Rifle Association.
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2016 IN 2 MINUTES -

- "Hillary Clinton's damage-control operation gets more troops," by POLITICO's Annie Karni: "Correct The Record, an outside rapid response and research group dedicated to defending the records of Clinton and the other Democratic presidential candidates, is reorganizing so it can coordinate with Clinton's campaign and devote all of its resources to her. Founded by Clinton ally David Brock in late 2013, Correct the Record is splitting off from its parent organization, the opposition research group American Bridge 21st Century, and registering with the FEC as a stand-alone super PAC, the group announced Tuesday. Because the group will no longer be involved in paid media, it will be able to
coordinate with the campaign and party committees. The change will go into effect by the end of the month. Brad Woodhouse, who is taking a leave as president of American Bridge to become president of Correct The Record, said the time was right to split off the research group, now that Democrats are announcing their candidacies. He said the entity would be 'aggressively responding to false attacks and misstatements of the Secretary's exemplary record.'"
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- "Inside the Clinton-Univision network," by POLITICO's Hadas Gold and Marc Caputo: "The relationship between the Clintons and Univision flows from top to bottom - from owner Haim Saban's unabashed support for Hillary Clinton's election effort to a partnership between Univision and the Clinton Foundation to the network's newscasts that have bashed Republicans and, most recently, praised Hillary's new position on immigration - putting her squarely in line with the network's stance on the issue. The importance of Univision for the Latino electorate and 2016 is hard to overstate. It is by far the biggest Spanish-language media network in the United States when it comes to revenue, ratings and
stations owned. In some markets, such as Los Angeles, the Univision-owned local newscasts are in the top one or two by ratings. On big nights for the Hispanic community, such as President Barack Obama's remarks on immigration in November, Univision raked in 4.8 million viewers, more than any other network. During the July sweeps last summer, Univision boasted the No. 1 spot in prime time among 18-to-49-year-old viewers for the second year in a row."
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- "Hillary Clinton, MIA on Trade," by The Washington Post's editorial board: "With the president's agenda embattled in the Senate, this would be a good time for Ms. Clinton to abandon her political caution and speak up for what she said so recently were her principles. In refusing to take a stand, Ms. Clinton is not only abandoning the president she once served but also missing an opportunity to help define the values of the party she would lead in November 2016."
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- "Jeb Bush, Ana Navarro, and the Question That May Have Been Misheard," by The New York Times' Jason Horowitz: "The media's preferred expert on Jeb Bush's inner thoughts tried to explain on Tuesday morning the likely Republican presidential candidate's much discussed remarks to an interviewer that, even knowing what he knows now, he would have authorized the invasion of Iraq. 'I can tell you that I emailed him this morning, and I said to him, 'Hey, I'm a little confused by this answer so I'm genuinely wondering, did you mishear the question?'' Ana Navarro, an oft-quoted dial-a-zinger, said Tuesday on CNN, where she is a political pundit. 'And he said, 'Yes, I misheard the question.' Ms.
Navarro, 43, is often identified as a 'confidante' of Jeb Bush or a 'Republican strategist.' But her chief qualification is that she, better than anyone in the 2016 presidential cycle, hits the sweet spot of the Republican Party's hunger for Hispanic female validators, the political media's craving for an aura of access, and the overall dearth of wit in the talking point echo chamber."
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- "Republican field, mellow edition," by Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan:
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- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) will give a foreign-policy address this afternoon at 3:30 at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Live stream:
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I have actually not made a decision. That is the truth." - Sanchez, in an email to the Los Angeles Times.
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