Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told the Newshour Hillary Clinton would probably make a better president than her husband, Bill Clinton.

Said Reid: “Hillary Clinton may have a bigger fan than Harry Reid; I just don’t know who it would be. I think that what she did as a senator, what she did as secretary of state will go down in history books as a remarkable, remarkable job that she did. I, of course, have such admiration for the president. Remember, the last three or four years he was here we reduced the debt and created 22 million jobs – pretty good deal. And I think that they’re a pretty good team, but she’ll handle things probably even better than he did.”

A new NBC 4/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll in New York City finds Christine Quinn (D) has retaken the lead in the Democratic mayoral race with 25%, followed by Anthony Weiner (D) at 16%, Bill de Blasio (D) at 14%, Bill Thompson at 14% and John Liu at 7%.

The poll also showed 43% of New York City Democrats want Weinder to drop out of the race.

Said pollster Lee Miringoff: “For many Democrats the latest revelations about Anthony Weiner are more of the same, only more so. Weiner has lost his lead and his negatives are at an all-time high.”

A new Quinnipiac poll in New York City finds Eliot Spitzer (D) with a small lead over Scott Stringer (D) in a tight race for
New York City comptroller among Democratic likely primary voters, 49% to 45%.

Businessman David Perdue (R) entered the Georgia U.S. Senate race yesterday and told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that he doesn’t like the term “self-funder.”

He prefers “investor,” though he declined to specify the size of his investment.

Said Perdue: “I’ll see how it plays out. I will be the largest investor. I’m very confident it’s going to be well-funded. We will have the necessary resources. And our research shows if we get the message out we can win this thing…. I’ll have more skin in the game than any other person who invests with us. But I also ask of other four candidates: Where’s their skin in the game?”

“Since declaring himself the tea party candidate in the 2010 elections,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) “has methodically tried to broaden his appeal beyond the conservative grass-roots movement. And nowhere has that been more apparent than in his increasingly close ties to McConnell, the Senate veteran who could be a critical asset in selling a Paul White House candidacy to the party establishment,” Politico reports.

“So as McConnell descends into a GOP civil war with tea party-backed candidate Bevin to defend his Senate seat in 2014, Paul must perform a careful balancing act: Show complete support for McConnell, all the while avoiding alienating the same tea party supporters who helped him in 2010 and whom he’ll need in 2016.”

First Read: “Any political junkie has to LOVE this year’s Kentucky Senate race — now that there’s a GOP primary in addition to a competitive general election.”

Roll Call: “Other than a clear front-runner, Georgia’s GOP race for Senate race has it all — including three sitting congressmen, a minister, a runner-up for the 2010 gubernatorial nomination and three candidates who may be capable of at least partially self-funding.”