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TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO - "GOP waits as Heck mulls Nevada Senate run," by Campaign Pro's Elena Schneider:
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- "Culver could clear field in Iowa House race," by Campaign Pro's Theodoric Meyer:
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'HO' NO - Kirk under fire for Graham comment: Illinois GOP Sen. Mark Kirk found himself in the crosshairs of Democrats and women's groups on Thursday after he was caught on an open mic referring to South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a lifelong bachelor, as "a bro with no ho." The quote was first flagged by the liberal website Huffington Post, and the story went viral from there.
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- Shot: The Chicago Tribune picked up the second part of Graham's quote, which wasn't in the HuffPost story: "That's what we'd say on the South Side."
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- Chaser: From Kirk's biography in the Almanac of American Politics: "Kirk was born in downstate Illinois, but grew up mostly in Kenilworth, a wealthy suburb north of Chicago, along Lake Michigan. The son of a telephone company executive, he graduated from Cornell University and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

- In a brief interview with POLITICO's Burgess Everett on Capitol Hill, Kirk said he regretted the remark but offered no further explanation: "In the interview after a long meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the usually outspoken Kirk was mostly mum about what he'd said about Graham. ... 'No. No, comment,' Kirk said. Asked if he regretted the comment, Kirk responded: 'I do.'"
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- But Kirk's two announced opponents are both women, and they both pounced on the gaffe. Rep. Tammy Duckworth called it "beyond inappropriate" and "reflective of Mark Kirk's broader anti-woman legislative record." Chicago Urban League president Andrea Zopp said no woman, especially an African-American woman, "would think his remark [was] either appropriate or funny."

EUROPEAN VACATION - POLITICO's Eli Stokols, reporting from Warsaw, says Jeb Bush cleared the bar by having a "gaffe-free" week in Europe.
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- POLITICO's Katie Glueck has the results from our latest survey of insiders in Iowa and New Hampshire, the POLITICO Caucus:
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As Hillary Clinton tries to reimagine her image in weekend presidential launch and Lindsey Graham explains his bachelorhood, 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: 143. Days until the 2016 election: 514.

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2016 SPEED READ - CHANGING THE NARRATIVE - IN TALKING POINTS- "Wonk Warrior," by POLITICO's Magazine's Glenn Thrush: "Hillary Clinton hasn't always been a profile in political courage, but she's had her moments. One of them came in late December 2006, a month before Hillary Clinton announced her first run for the presidency, she huddled with her team to discuss policy proposals to differentiate her from two rivals flanking her on the left, Barack Obama and John Edwards. The conversation, which included former Clinton White House aides like Gene Sperling and Neera Tanden, who still have the candidate's ear today, bogged down on the biggest, nastiest policy fight of her life, health care.
Several of Clinton's top advisers, the '90s debacle fresh in everyone's mind, counseled her to avoid proposing an individual mandate, the politically unpopular requirement that the uninsured buy insurance or face penalties. When it came to the widely unpopular individual mandate, however, she was adamant about plowing ahead, according to a former aide who related the story. 'If I run for president, I'm going to run on universal health care,' Clinton told the group - and authorized attacks on her Democratic opponent Obama for opposing a mandate (he would eventually embrace it as president, much to Clinton's amusement). 'What's the point of running if I'm not going to run on universal health
care?' she asked her team. Eight years later, on the eve of Clinton's formal campaign kick-off in New York this weekend, the 'what's the point of running?' question looms over the presumptive Democratic front-runner and her campaign.'"
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- IN HER PERSONAL STORY - "Clinton's launch speech to focus on her mother's life," by POLITICO's Annie Karni: "After nearly 2½ decades in the glare of the public spotlight, Hillary Clinton will reintroduce herself on Saturday by highlighting her personal journey marked heavily by the deprivations faced by her own mother. Starting with the story of her mother's abusive and traumatic childhood, Clinton will explain the role her family played in making her an advocate for other people, campaign officials told POLITICO, previewing the highly touted speech on New York's Roosevelt Island that will set the tone for the rest of her campaign. (Chelsea and Bill Clinton will attend, but Bill
Clinton will have no speaking role.) ... While Clinton has often spoken in recent months about her pride in becoming a grandmother, it is another matriarch, Dorothy Rodham, who will be the binding theme in her remarks Saturday."
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- IN HER MONEY GAME - "Inside Clinton's house-party strategy," by POLITICO's Annie Karni: "Since declaring her candidacy in April, Hillary Clinton has spent much of her time attending house parties. Two months and more than 30 fundraisers later, Clinton has raised only a relatively modest $13 million or so from the events, according to a POLITICO analysis. For the hours she has invested meeting donors face to face, Clinton's does not seem like a cost-effective strategy - $13 million, after all, sounds like one very good week for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who has been running his campaign out of his super PAC and is expected to raise somewhere in the vicinity of $100 million in the first
quarter. And it's a departure from her strategy last time around, when Clinton hauled in $36 million in the first three months of her 2008 presidential bid. But Clinton's gamble is that while collecting relatively small checks from relatively small groups - the maximum is $2,700 per head and the average party attracts about 120 people - she is also harvesting something else: goodwill, in a business sense, among a cohort of early donors whose feeling of personal connection to Clinton and her campaign are expected to pay dividends down the line."
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BELIEVE THE HYPE - "Sanders insists his momentum is no fluke," by POLITICO's Jonathan Topaz: "Bernie Sanders, enjoying a rise in early state and national polls and attracting large crowds at his rallies, has a message for voters: Believe the hype. The Vermont senator, an independent who is running for the Democratic nomination for president, said on Thursday he has no illusions about the gap between himself and far-and-away front-runner Hillary Clinton. But the self-described democratic socialist said his promising early returns aren't a fluke. 'This is not an educational campaign. This is not a protest campaign. This is a campaign to win,' said a confident Sanders to a group of reporters
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THE BACHELOR - "Graham on bachelorhood: I'm not 'defective'," by POLITICO's Manu Raju: "Sen. Lindsey Graham says he's not 'defective' because he's single. While he's 'been close once' to marrying a woman, he's unsure why he never did. And he said that if voters want a John F. Kennedy-esque clan in the White House, they should look elsewhere. 'If you are looking for Camelot, I'm not your guy,' Graham said in an interview in the Capitol. 'If you're looking for glitz and glamor, I'm probably the worst choice in the bunch. If you are looking for a determined person to be president, I think I can fill that bill.' Since entering the race for the GOP nomination last week, the 59-year-old Graham
has received his share of media coverage over his status as a bachelor, a rarity for a president."
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TALKING LABELS - "Carly Fiorina: It's time for the GOP to reclaim the term 'feminist'," by POLITICO's Jonathan Topaz: "Running as the only female presidential contender in a party still dogged for its "war on women," Carly Fiorina on Thursday laid out her vision of the new feminist. In the six weeks since she launched her White House run, Fiorina has focused much of her energy attacking Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, taking on a much more aggressive posture than the rest of the Republican field. But on Thursday, Fiorina released a personal speech on the 'state of women'in which she did not mention Clinton. Instead, she shared anecdotes of her own struggles and called for a
new definition of what a feminist in America looks like - a woman who lives the life she chooses."
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CLARIFYING COMMENTARY - "Jeb clarifies remarks on stigma attached to kids born out of wedlock," by POLITICO's Nick Gass and Eli Stokols: "Jeb Bush is clarifying decades-old remarks after a recent story called attention to a chapter in his 1995 book 'Profiles in Character,' in which he called out the lack of a stigma in society to those having children out of wedlock. Speaking to reporters in Warsaw on Thursday, Bush said his views have evolved in that area. 'I was speaking of it in a policy context and the focus was on men,' Bush said during a news conference."
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STAFF PROBLEMS - "Cruz under fire for Tennessee campaign chair," by POLITICO's Adam B. Lerner: "Ted Cruz's presidential campaign is pushing back against criticism that the Texas senator named an anti-Islamic politician as his state chairman in Tennessee. On Wednesday, Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler called the reaction to the appointment 'absurd.' Tyler's comments came in response to a prominent Muslim-American advocacy group's complaints about the Cruz campaign's new state chairman, Kevin Kookogey. ... As chairman of the Williamson County Republican Party in 2012, Kookogey pushed a resolution condemning Republican Gov. Bill Haslam for hiring Samar Ali, a practicing Muslim, and for appointing a
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STRAW POLL MAY BE AXED - "Iowa GOP panel torn over straw poll fate," by POLITICO's Kyle Cheney: "The Republicans who will determine the fate of Iowa's storied straw poll are torn over the value of preserving the event, divided between those adamant about continuing the tradition and a growing faction that's fearful it will damage the prestige of the first-in-the nation caucuses. Conversations with nine of the 16 Iowa GOP central committee members reveal that while a small minority insists on plowing ahead, most are open to dramatically changing the event, if not scrapping it outright. To them, it's shaping up as a counterproductive exercise - not to mention a potential money pit for the
state party - and killing it might be the best course. The central committee members will participate in a Friday conference call to discuss the future of the straw poll - a call that could result in a vote to scrap the event."
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GOING SOUR - Yahoo Politics reported that the partnership between the Koch Brothers and the Republican National Committee, which allowed data-sharing between the two during the midterm election, may be getting rockier.
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MILLION DOLLAR INSULTS - The Center for Public Integrity reported that groups have already spent $1 million in negative advertising for the 2016 presidential campaign. Reminder, we're still 514 days away from Election Day.
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AIR WAR - "Club for Growth adds 2 more targets," by POLITICO's Seung Min Kim: "Club for Growth has two new GOP targets in its push to kill the Export-Import Bank: Reps. Phil Roe of Tennessee and Bruce Westerman of Arkansas. The powerful conservative outside group is launching a new round of ads Thursday that zeroes in on the two House Republicans, who remain publicly undecided on whether to support renewing the export credit agency's charter, which ends June 30. The ads - a roughly $150,000 buy in a broader $1 million campaign from the Club for Growth - have a distinct 2016 flair.
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ON A HUNGER GAMES THEME - The National Republican Senatorial Committee are out with a new web video, playing up a rift between progressives and establishment candidates, the Hill reported. The video calls Democratic primaries a matchup of the "rookies vs. retreads,"playing off the Hunger Games theme music. Watch the video here:
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VIRGINIA SUIT - Democrats in the commonwealth are suing over a voter-ID law, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "If you are looking for Camelot, I'm not your guy." - Graham


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