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Leading Off
● ND-Sen: One month after he announced he wouldn't run for the Senate, GOP Rep. Kevin Cramer put out a Facebook invite for a "Cramer for Senate Announcement & Rally" set for Friday, so it's safe to say he's in. (Or to put it another way: If Cramer holds a "Senate Announcement & Rally" to announce he's not running, he's either a troll or beyond indecisive.) While wealthy state Sen. Tom Campbell remains in the race as of Thursday night, Campbell all but said he'd run for Cramer's House seat a few days ago, and it's very unlikely Cramer would face a tough primary in the Senate race.
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National Republicans began the 2016 cycle wanting Cramer to be their nominee against Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, and they spent the last month vigorously encouraging him to reconsider his decision not to run, but a whole lot happened in the middle, none of it good. Cramer represents the entire state of North Dakota in the House, and he's always decisively won since first getting elected in 2012. But as far back as April, CNN's Manu Raju reported that "[t]op Republicans in Washington" were signaling that they did not want Cramer to run. These officials, who went unnamed, worried that Cramer's shoot-from-the-lip style would get him into trouble against Heitkamp, who won her seat in a 2012 upset in part thanks to her opponent's clumsy attempts to woo women voters.
And those same women voters were a real source of concern for the GOP. Most infamously, Cramer declared during the winter that female Democratic members of Congress who wore white to Trump's initial address to lawmakers had donned "bad-looking white pantsuits in solidarity with Hillary Clinton to celebrate her loss." When Cramer was told they were wearing white in recognition of women's suffrage, he dug in and said not only that he did not "buy their argument," but they "should be celebrating the fact that there were women members of Congress sitting in a joint session." Cramer also defended then-White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's ahistorical comments about Hitler never using chemical weapons—even though Spicer had already apologized for forgetting, you know, the Holocaust.
Cramer pushed back that April CNN report by insisting that D.C. Republicans (aka the guys who now are allegedly happy he's running) didn't understand North Dakota, arguing, "This is what the people in the swamp think: We can't have this overexposed guy who has 100 percent name ID and says things that are on his mind." Politico reported later that national Republicans began trying to recruit other candidates. But after they all said no, Team Red decided Cramer would be their best bet after all, and Trump even helped encourage him to run. Cramer made it seem as though all the flattery had worked, bragging in late December that he had led "in every poll I've seen," though he declined to release any numbers. However, Cramer surprised the political world the next month when he abruptly announced he'd stay in the House.
But that wasn't the end of it. While North Dakota backed Trump by a gigantic 63-27 margin, Heitkamp is a formidable candidate. And though national Republicans were reportedly ready to settle on Campbell, the Washington Examiner's David Drucker recently wrote that national Republicans felt that he was too weak after they conducting some routine opposition research on him. Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and NRSC Chair Corey Gardner, meanwhile, continued to encourage Cramer to run. On Friday, Cramer said he was only "very mildly" reconsidering, but by Tuesday, Team Red was optimistic they'd landed him.
Well, they finally have Cramer, so what now? National Republicans will certainly make this seat a top target, but they would have done that under almost any circumstance. Cramer ended 2017 with just shy of $1 million in the bank to Heitkamp's $4.5 million, but Team Red will almost certainly help him make up for his months of dithering. Cramer also starts out with statewide name recognition.
Still, as we wrote after Cramer temporarily decided to sit out the race in January, he has some flaws that aren't limited to his big mouth. In 2014, Cramer actually faced a credible Democratic challenge from then-state Sen. George B. Sinner, the son of former Gov. George A. Sinner. The GOP wave and North Dakota's conservative lean helped propel Cramer to an easy 56-38 win, but the congressman didn't exactly demonstrate he was ready for a tough race. Cramer ran the entire campaign without any paid staff, which helps explain how his "campaign" managed to air an ad that was illegally shot in a state veterans' cemetery.
Cramer will presumably be better-staffed this time out, but it doesn't speak well to his campaign skills that he let all that happen. Cramer's year-long indecision about the Senate race, especially when Republicans were hungering for a candidate, doesn't exactly make him look good, either. But North Dakota is still a red state, and if Cramer can keep his worst instincts in check, he could end up being a very tough opponent after all.
Senate
● MO-Sen: While some Republicans have expressed nervousness with Attorney General Josh Hawley's campaign against Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, national Republicans aren't acting very worried. Politico reports that the NRSC and the RNC have formed a joint fundraising committee with Hawley. Rep. Ann Wagner hasn't ruled out reconsidering her plans not to run, and this could be Team Red's way of trying to ward her off.
● MT-Sen: Last year, businessman and Air Force veteran Troy Downing pleaded not guilty to allegedly trying to buy or purchase hunting and fishing licenses as an out-of-state resident, which is against the law. The good news for Downing is that the three-day trial for these misdemeanor charges will take place before the June 5 GOP primary; the bad news is that it'll just be two weeks before. Downing faces state Auditor Matt Rosendale, who seems to have the most support from national Republicans, as well as former Judge Russ Fagg and former state Sen. Albert Olszewski in the race to take on Democratic Sen. Jon Tester.
● TN-Sen: As Sen. Bob Corker continues to mull un-retiring and seeking a third term, the Senate Conservatives Fund is out with a poll with a very simple message for the senator: No one likes you, go away, you stink, go away, you can't run, we're only picking you for our soccer team because our teacher says we have to and there's no one left… sorry, this is veering off. Anyways, the poll from Victory Phones first asked GOP primary voters if Corker should run or retire, and get lost prevailed by a 64-12 margin. Voters were then asked about a hypothetical primary, and Rep. Marsha Blackburn led Corker 49-26, with former Rep. Stephen Fincher at 9. The horserace question was asked after the Corker retirement question, but it's unlikely voters would have responded much differently.
● UT-Sen: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was scheduled to announce his Senate bid on Thursday, but he postponed it after Wednesday's school massacre in Florida. Romney is very popular in his adopted home state, and he'd be the heavy favorite in the June GOP primary to succeed retiring Sen. Orrin Hatch. However, not all Utah Republicans are enamored with him, and one statewide elected official is interested in testing him.
We hadn't heard state Auditor John Dougall seriously mentioned as a possible candidate. However, Dougall recently told U.S. News & World Report's David Catanese that he's seriously considering taking on Romney. Dougall cited Romney's on-again, off-again rivalry with Donald Trump, saying he thinks "it doesn't look like Mr. Romney likes the president very much," and that most Utah Republicans "are supportive of the president's agenda." Dougall says that, while he hasn't polled the race, he thinks Romney is beatable, though he acknowledged, "Clearly the odds are in his favor."
Dougall's statement came around the same time that Utah GOP Chair Rob Anderson also expressed his displeasure with Romney. Anderson told The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday that Romney was "essentially doing what Hillary Clinton did in New York" by campaigning in a state he had never lived in, and argued Romney was "keeping out candidates that I think would be a better fit for Utah because, let's face it, Mitt Romney doesn't live here, his kids weren't born here, he doesn't shop here." Anderson also declared that other candidates wanted to run but probably wouldn't because they felt they had no chance against him. Anderson put out a statement a few hours later saying he didn't intend to come "across as disparaging or unsupportive," and that he didn't doubt Romney was qualified to run.
● VA-Sen: Bert Mizusawa, a retired Army major general who served as a Trump advisor during the campaign and transition, filed to run for the GOP nod to take on Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine this week, and he will reportedly announce he's in soon. Mizusawa has run for office once before, taking third place in a 2010 primary for the 2nd Congressional District with 17 percent of the vote. (The person who finished fourth with 8 percent was Scott Taylor, who now represents that seat.) A few other Republicans are challenging Kaine, but national Republicans have mostly focused on other states and so far ignored this contest.
Gubernatorial
● AL-Gov: Candidate filing closed last week for Alabama's June 5 primary, and the local station WKRG has a list of who filed for each office. There will be a July 17 runoff for races where no one takes a majority of the vote. There are all sorts of caveats to watch out for as each state's filing deadline passes, which we round up here.
The big race to watch will be both sides primary for governor. Republican Kay Ivey was elevated from lieutenant governor to governor last year after incumbent Robert Bentley resigned in disgrace. Several Republicans were already planning to run to succeed Bentley, who was to be termed-out this year, and while several of them ended up dropping out or staying out of the contest, a few have decided to campaign against Ivey. Alabama is a very red state, but Democrats are hoping for an opening, and Sen. Doug Jones' win last year gives them some extra reasons for optimism.
We'll start with a look at the GOP race. Ivey spent months keeping politicos guessing about her 2018 plans last year, but once she announced she would run, she had no problem attracting donors. The only poll we've seen was a September internal from her camp that gave her 66 percent of the vote in the primary. Ivey did anger some Republicans during the special election for Senate last year, with more than a few Senate Republicans furious at her from moving the race from 2018 to 2017 in the first place. Still, there's no sign yet that she's anything but the favorite to win the primary for a full term this year.
Ivey's main primary foe looks like Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle, with evangelical minister Scott Dawson and state Sen. Bill Hightower also in the mix. (State Sen. Slade Blackwell filed to run at the last minute, then almost immediately dropped out.) At the end of January, Ivey had a $2 million war chest, well ahead of Battle's $1.2 million. Hightower was far behind with $632,000 in the bank, while Dawson had $344,000 on-hand. Battle in particular does have the resources to run a serious campaign, but it's not clear what argument any of them will make against Ivey.
The Democratic primary is a duel between former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb and Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox, though there are a few other Democrats on the ballot who could keep either of them from taking a majority. State Democrats have mentioned Maddox as a rising star for a while, while Cobb has had an uneasy relationship with Democratic groups for some time. Cobb ended January with a $177,000 to $149,000 cash-on-hand edge.
Finally, one independent we've written about ended up deciding to drop out before filing. Former Episcopal church camp director Mark Johnston sounded like he'd take more votes away from the Democrats than the GOP, so Team Blue probably won't be upset that he decided to sit the race out.
● CO-Gov: George W. Bush will host a fundraiser later this month for state Treasurer Walker Stapelton, who just happens to be his second cousin.
● IL-Gov: With just a little more than a month to go before the March 20 primary, we have more negative ads. On the Democratic side, venture capitalist J.B. Pritzker continues to focus on state Sen. Daniel Biss, who has emerged as his main primary foe. Pritzker's newest spot features a teacher arguing that Biss "wrote the law to cut pension benefits owed to over 450,000 workers, including teachers like me."
This isn't the first time Pritzker has gone after Biss over that law. As we wrote earlier this month, Biss himself has admitted he made a mistake in 2013 when he pushed the bill aimed at reducing pension debt, which was later struck down by the state Supreme Court. However, Biss also argued that Illinois has too many pension systems, which benefits no one but consulting firms and hurts the state.
On the GOP side, state Rep. Jeanne Ives's spot begins with that infamous clip of Gov. Bruce Rauner declaring, "I'm not in charge, I'm trying to get to be in charge." Rauner was saying that Democratic state House Speaker Mike Madigan was the one really running the state, but Ives doesn't directly reference that. Instead, she says she took on Rauner when he "made Illinois a sanctuary state" and "let Republicans surrender to Madigan on the income tax hike." Ives concludes that, while Rauner says he isn't in charge, she'll lead the charge.
● NY-Gov: Joseph Holland, a former state housing commissioner and longtime ally of former Gov. George Pataki, has joined the GOP field vying to take on Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo. But at least some Republicans prefer Pataki to Pataki Lite: According to Politico, unnamed GOP operatives are trying to woo Pataki, the last Republican to win statewide office in New York (all the way back in 2002), to seek a fourth term. Pataki hasn't said anything himself, and it certainly doesn't seem like he'd run, though he did speak at annual convention of the state's Conservative Party a few weeks ago.
Republicans might have more luck getting Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro to change his mind. Last month, Molinaro said he'd stay out of the race, but a former colleauge of Molinaro's in the Assembly recently posted on Twitter to ask folks to "join me in convincing him to get back in the Governor's race." Molinaro himself re-tweeted the message … as did a whopping seven other people.
● SD-Gov: On behalf a group called Convention of States Project (you can guess what they want), the GOP pollster Moore Information also takes a look at the June Republican primary for this open seat. They give Rep. Kristi Noem, who represents the entire state in the House, a 40-35 lead over state Attorney General Marty Jackley, while two minor candidates take a combined 7 percent. This poll samples 300 voters, which is exactly the minimum Daily Kos Elections requires to include a poll in the Digest. (We explain why here.) This is the first poll we've seen of this race.
House
● AL-02: GOP Rep. Martha Roby pissed off local conservatives in 2016 when she said she wouldn't vote for Donald Trump after the Access Hollywood tape was released, prompting her detractors to launch a general election write-in campaign. While Trump carried her Montgomery-area seat 65-33, Roby turned back her underfunded Democratic rival by just a 49-41 margin, with the rest going to write-ins. Roby has loyally voted with Trump since then, and there's no indication the White House is looking to exact its revenge against her. National Republicans are also on Roby's side, and she recently scored an endorsement from FarmPAC, the political arm of the influential Alabama Farmers Federation. Still, a few noteworthy Republicans, including one old rival, have kicked off campaigns against her.
Roby's best-known primary opponent is Bobby Bright, a former mayor of Montgomery who won this seat in a 2008 upset … as a Democrat. Bright was by far one of the most conservative Democrats during his one term in the House, and while Republicans repeatedly encouraged him to switch parties, he stayed put at the time. Roby beat Bright in a conservative seat 51-49, a very close result in what was a horrible year for Southern Democrats in particular. Bright made noises about running as a Republican for the state legislature as far back as 2013, but it was still a surprise when he announced last week he'd challenge his old opponent in the primary.
It didn't escape notice that Bright made his announcement at the state GOP's headquarters, which may be a sign some local party elites are interested in him. Still, Bright's going to have a very tough time getting voters to look past his time as a Democrat. Perhaps his biggest problem is that, while Bright rarely sided with his old party in the House on major issues, he did vote to make Nancy Pelosi speaker in 2009. Bright says that vote was just a procedural matter, but Roby's allies at the NRCC are already opening their fire on him for backing the woman whom GOP voters love to hate.
A few other Republicans are also in. State Rep. Barry Moore and Iraq veteran Tommy Amason have been running for months, but neither of them seems to have gained much traction. Rich Hobson, a longtime aide to disgraced former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore who also served as campaign manager during Moore's failed Senate bid last year, joined the race in January. Roby ended 2017 with a $568,000 war chest, while her opponents either had very little then or are starting from scratch.
● AL-03: GOP Rep. Mike Rogers hasn't seriously been targeted since 2008 in this seat, which includes Auburn and part of the Montgomery area, and at 65-32 Trump, it's going to take a lot to give him a tight race. Still, Rogers did pick up an interesting Democratic opponent last month when Mallory Hagan, who was working as a co-anchor for NBC in nearby Columbus, Georgia, jumped in. (Hagan lived in Alabama, and about a third of the seat is in the Columbus media market.)
Hagan may be best known for winning the 2013 Miss America pageant in 2013 as Miss New York, and she was back in the news at the end of last year. In December, emails from 2014 were released where Miss America Organization officials trashed some of the former winners, including Hagan. Those executives ended up resigning, and Hagan appeared on national TV to call for change in the organization.
● AL-05: This is probably the last we'll be writing about this race. After Rep. Mo Brooks lost the special Senate primary, he turned around and began seeking re-election at home. During the Senate race, allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell began supporting Clayton Hinchman, a businessman and Iraq veteran, and his campaign for this House seat. At the time, it looked like McConnell, who was supporting appointed Sen. Luther Strange, wanted to distract Brooks and convince him not to spend all his money running for Senate when he had a potentially tough fight awaiting him at home if he lost.
However, now that Brooks' Senate campaign is long over, McConnellworld doesn't seem to be interested in helping Hinchman beat Brooks in order to punish the congressman for running in the first place. Hinchman ended December with just $16,000 in the bank, nowhere near enough to run a credible campaign. Trump won 65-31 here.
● CA-39: The powerful state SEIU has waded into the crowded Democratic race and thrown their support behind Navy veteran Gil Cisneros, who has also earned several endorsements from Southern California House members.
● CA-49: Real estate investor Paul Kerr, who is one of several Democrats seeking this open suburban San Diego seat, is up with his first TV spot. The ad goes after Trump's conservative policies and "reckless tweets [that] put us all at risk," and promotes Kerr as a Navy veteran who will stand up to him. The narrator also notes that Kerr is "100 percent pro-choice" and supports Medicare for all.
● HI-01: Former Rep. Charles Djou was probably the one and only Republican who could put this open 63-31 Clinton seat into play, and he didn't rule out another bid last year. However, Djou tweeted on Wednesday that he'd be making a second bid for mayor of Honolulu, a race that isn't until 2020. Djou challenged Democratic incumbent Kirk Caldwell in 2016 and lost the non-partisan race just 52-48.
● KS-03: This week, attorney Sharice Davids joined the August Democratic primary to take on GOP Rep. Kevin Yoder. Davids served as a White House fellow during the final year of the Obama administration, and if she won, she'd be Kansas' first openly gay member of Congress. Davids, who is a member of the Ho-Chunk nation, would also be the first Native American woman elected to Congress from any state (though New Mexico Democrat Debra Haaland is also running this year). Mike McCamon, who worked as director of technology for a local Kansas City nonprofit that specializes in water and sanitation projects in developing countries, also entered the race this month. However, McCamon describes himself as a centrist who wants to "lead from the middle," which isn't exactly an inspiring primary message.
A few other Democrats are also competing to take on Yoder in a suburban Kansas City seat that Clinton narrowly carried, and there's no clear frontrunner. The only candidate to raise more than $100,000 in the final three months of 2017 was teacher Tom Niermann, who took in $138,000 and ended the year with $185,000 in the bank. Labor lawyer Brent Welder, who recently moved to Kansas from the St. Louis area, took in $91,000 and self-funded another $34,000, and he had $179,000 on-hand. 2016 nominee Jay Sidie, who lost to Yoder 51-41, is trying again, but his fundraising has been very bad. Sidie raised less than $1,000 for the quarter, and he had $47,000 in the bank.
The Democratic contest took an unexpected turn in late December when Andrea Ramsey, who was arguably the frontrunner, dropped out after she was accused of sexual harassment, and she went on to endorse Welder. It remains to be seen how Ramsey's departure will affect this contest. Whoever emerges from the August primary will be in for a tough fight with Yoder, who had $1.75 million on-hand.
● MA-07: On behalf of WBUR, MassInc takes a look the September Democratic primary for this safely blue seat, and they find a potentially competitive race. Rep. Mike Capuano leads Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley 47-35, a pretty close margin for this early in the contest.
Capuano posts a strong 60-7 favorable rating, while Pressley begins with a 42-7 score, so she may have some room to grow. However, Pressley does well with her current constituents already. In the city of Boston, which makes up about two-thirds of this seat, Pressley leads Capuano 46-35. Capuano, who served as mayor of neighboring Somerville until he was elected to the House in 1998, has a huge 66-17 edge outside Boston.
Pressley, who was the first woman of color elected to the city council, kicked off her campaign by arguing that, while Capuano's voting record has been fine, "Making progress on longstanding challenges requires a different lens and a new approach." However, the poll indicates that, at least for now, more voters agree with Capuano that experience is needed. Of the respondents, 46 percent agree that they'd prefer "[s]omeone who has been around a while with experience in how Congress works," while 36 percent would rather have "[s]omeone new to Congress with fresh ideas and perspectives," numbers that almost completely match Capuano's margin over Pressley. (Another 16 percent of respondents want someone who can do both of those seemingly contradictory things.)
About 80 percent agree that there aren't enough black or female members of Congress, which could give Pressley an opening here. However, local demographics may end up helping Capuano a bit more than it initially looked like they would. This seat is the most diverse district in Massachusetts, with non-Hispanic whites making up about 41 percent of the population; black residents make up 23 percent of the seat and Hispanics make up a similar proportion, while Asian-American residents make up another 11 percent of the population. However, according to a MassInc study, voter turnout has looked considerably different in recent Democratic primaries. In 2014, when Democrats had a competitive race for governor, about two-thirds of primary voters in the 7th were white. The sample in this poll was also 59 percent white.
Things could very well change this year: Back then, all three gubernatorial candidates were white, and Pressley's presence on the ballot could encourage more voters of color to turn out. But as MassInc wrote, that kind of shift would be massive.
● NJ-07: Attorney Scott Salmon recently dropped out of the Democratic primary and endorsed former State Department official Tom Malinowski. Salmon hadn't attracted much attention in this contest, and he had just $50,000 in the bank at the end of 2017.
● NJ-11: Kate Whitman Annis, the daughter of former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, recently announced she would stay out of the GOP primary for this open seat. Former Harding Mayor Nicolas Platt, who currently serves on the Township Committee, is a bit more interested, though he seems to have missed the last two years of GOP politics.
Platt insisted that a pro-Trump hardliner can't win a general election in a seat Trump narrowly carried and declared that conservatives "are willing to suspend their own moral codes to support a president who is a global embarrassment." That should go over very well in the June primary. The only noteworthy Republican who has entered the race is Assemblyman Jay Webber, who very much is a pro-Trump hardliner, though others have expressed interest.
● MN-08: On Thursday, former state Rep. Joe Radinovich announced he would seek the Democratic nomination to succeed Rep. Rick Nolan, who unexpectedly announced last week that he would retire. Radinovich pulled off a tight 51-49 win in 2012 to take a state House seat that Romney was carrying 54-45, and he was unseated 52-48 in the 2014 GOP wave. Radinovich then served as Nolan's campaign manager in his 2016 re-election bid, where the incumbent pulled off a narrow 50.2-49.6 win as his relatively rural northeastern seat was swinging from 52-46 Obama to 54-39 Trump. Radinovich went on to work as Jacob Frey's campaign manager in his successful bid for mayor of Minneapolis (which is located well outside this seat) last year, and served as his chief of staff for his first months in office.
A number of other Democrats, including some other Nolan allies, have expressed interest in running here, and we'll see if Radinovich's decision to run winnows the potential field any. Former FBI analyst Leah Phifer, who had been challenging Nolan for renomination, and North Branch Mayor Kirsten Kennedy are also seeking the Democratic nod, while St. Louis County Commissioner Pete Stauber still has the GOP side to himself.
● NV-04: University of Nevada Regent Allison Stephens expressed interest last month in seeking the Democratic nomination for this open seat, and while she hasn't announced anything yet, she recently filed with the FEC. If Stephens gets in, she'd face former Rep. Steven Horsford and state Sen. Pat Spearman in the June Democratic primary for this open 50-45 Clinton seat.
● OR-04: Back in December, Curry County Commissioner Court Boice expressed interest in seeking the GOP nod to challenge longtime Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio, and at some point, he threw up a website announcing he was in. This seat, which takes up most of Oregon's coast, backed Clinton by just 554 votes, making it the most closely divided congressional district in the country. However, DeFazio has never had trouble winning re-election in what's long been a competitive area, and Boice will have a lot to prove if he wants to change that. Curry County makes up less than 3 percent of the seat's population, so it's unlikely Boice will start with much name recognition.
● PA-18: A new poll from Monmouth shows the special election in Pennsylvania's vacant 18th Congressional District—which is now fewer than four weeks away—remains a very tight affair. Republican Rick Saccone holds a 49-46 lead over Democrat Conor Lamb, the same margin as Saccone's 41-38 edge in a survey last month from DFM Research. They also track with tidbits about private polling showing the race close that we've been hearing all along. Of course, these latest numbers show Saccone much nearer to the 50 percent mark than DFM's, but in a district Trump won 58-39, this contest shouldn't even be competitive.
Meanwhile, Trump was set to headline a fundraiser for Saccone on Feb. 21 in the town of Ambridge, Pennsylvania, which is just outside of the 18th District. However, the National Journal's Ben Pershing says the event has been postponed in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
● TX-16: Former El Paso County Judge Veronica Escobar is out with another spot ahead of the March 6 primary for this safely blue seat. Escobar talks about how she helped build a local children's hospital and affordable clinics, and pledges to protect healthcare in D.C.
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