CA-Sen: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) is not waiting for Carly Fiorina (R) to officially win the Senate GOP primary tonight. Acknowledging Fiorina's fundraising prowess, Boxer told her supporters she had a goal of raising $200,000 by the time polls close at 8:00 PM Pacific time tonight.
DE-Sen: Vice President Joe Biden will come back to his home state to campaign for New Castle County executive Chris Coons (D) later this month. Biden had ignored the race since his son, Beau, had decided not to run for the seat. Coons faces a major uphill battle against Rep. Mike Castle (R), a moderate former governor who has high favorable ratings.
NC-Sen: A new PPP poll finds Sen. Richard Burr (R) with decent-sized leads over his two possible challengers. Burr leads Secretary of State Elaine Marshall (D) by 7 points and leads former state Sen. Cal Cunningham by 10 points. Meanwhile, a new Rasmussen poll shows Burr with even larger leads, topping Marshall by 14 points and Cunningham by 12. The Democratic nominee will be decided by a June 22 runoff election.
OH-Gov: A new Rasmussen poll finds former Rep. John Kasich (R) leading Gov. Ted Strickland 47% to 42%. Their poll from last month had Kasich leading by only one point.
PA-Gov: Here's yet another poll from Rasmussen. This one finds Attorney General Tom Corbett (R) way ahead of Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato (D), 49% to 33%.
SC-Gov: For once, Nikki Haley is getting a respite from attacks. Attorney General Henry McMaster (R) is going after Rep. Gresham Barrett (R) in a new ad, calling him "too weak to be governor" and attacking him for his vote in favor of TARP. Polls have shown McMaster and Barrett to be deadlocked for second place, and whoever finishes in second will most likely join Haley in a runoff.
FL-24: Mike Huckabee endorsed former Winter Park County Commissioner Karen Diebel (R) yesterday to take on freshman Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (D). Diebel has already been endorsed by former Rep. Tom Tancredo and Rep. Brian Bilbray. She will face off against steakhouse chain owner Craig Miller (R) in the GOP primary, who can self-fund his campaign.
NC-08: Businessman Tim D'Annunzio (R) is suing his GOP runoff rival, former broadcaster Harold Johnson (R), "with a defamation suit again alleging that Johnson has lodged a series of false attacks against him." Johnson came out with an ad last week accusing D'Annunzio of a “life of drugs, crime and time served in prison” and refusing to pay child support, all of which was confirmed by an article from the Charlotte Observer. The runoff is on June 22.
VA-05: Here's some last-minute shenanigans. Real estate developer Jim McKelvey (R), viewed as the underdog going into today's primary, released an 11th hour robo-call with former Rep. Virgil Goode (R) saying "Jim McKelvey wouldn't care if he went to Washington and made a bunch of people mad." State Sen. Robert Hurt (R), the establishment favorite in the race, accused the message of being misleading, as Goode hadn't endorsed McKelvey.
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