Today's installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* To the delight of the DSCC, New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan (D) announced this morning she's running for the U.S. Senate next year. The two-term governor will take on incumbent Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R), setting the stage for one of the cycle's premier races.
* The latest Pew Research poll shows Hillary Clinton maintaining a strong national lead over Bernie Sanders in the race for the Democratic nomination, 45% to 24%. Vice President Biden is third in the poll with 8%.
* On a related note, the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll shows Sanders continuing to lead Clinton in New Hampshire, 48% to 39%, essentially unchanged from a month ago. In Iowa, however, Clinton leads Sanders, 47% to 36%, which is also essentially unchanged since September.
* Clinton received an endorsement over the weekend from the National Education Association, which is the nation’s largest labor union.
* Jeb Bush will reportedly turn to George W. Bush for fundraising help again this month, and there's increasing talk that the former governor hopes to use the former president to give his campaign a boost in South Carolina.
* Carly Fiorina was the CEO of Hewlett-Packard for six years, but "of the 302,000 employees at the company, not one has given a reportable amount to help Fiorina fund her 2016 presidential campaign, according to the campaign’s most recent FEC filings, which lists all donations over $200."
* Speaking of Fiorina's former staffers, some of the people who worked on her failed 2010 Senate campaign claim they're still owed money. The operations director for her Senate campaign told the Washington Post, “People are just upset and angry and throwing her under the bus. If we didn’t win, why do you deserve to get paid?"
* And finally, Donald Trump had agreed to appear at a U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce event this week and participate in a Q&A session. On Friday, Trump cancelled.