“Here’s one thing you won’t find in Hillary Clinton’s book: a clear reason to run for president again,” Politico reports.

“The Hard Choices book tour has had all the trappings of a warm-up for 2016, and even though Clinton insists she hasn’t decided yet, she keeps dropping hints that she has ideas for the future of the country… But if Clinton has a big idea for 2016, the book — all 596 pages of it — is not the place to look for it. Policy experts in the Clinton orbit say that’s not the right way to read the former first lady’s latest tome — it’s mostly a foreign policy memoir, and any hints of other themes, like the advancement of women and climate change, are there to wrap up the issues she has already worked on throughout her career.”

Sean Haugh’s Libertarian U.S. Senate campaign “barely exists anywhere but on YouTube. But it is doing surprisingly well in a high-stakes Senate contest in which candidates and outside groups have already spent more than $15 million,” the Washington Post reports.

“Four polls lately put his support somewhere between 8 and 11 percent — not enough to suggest a realistic possibility of winning, but conceivably enough to affect the outcome of the race. The same surveys show the margin between incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan and her GOP challenger, state House Speaker Thom Tillis, at six points or less.”

“My husband had some really serious problems with the Congress when he was in office. They shut down the government twice. They impeached him once. So it was not the most pleasant of atmospheres. But I will say this: Bill never stopped reaching out to them.”

— Hillary Clinton, quoted by the Wall Street Journal.

Politico: “Six months ago, the GOP path to the majority was narrower: Republicans essentially had to sweep seven races in states Barack Obama lost in 2012 but where Democrats currently hold seats. Unlikely, in other words.”

“Now Republicans have more options. They’ve landed top recruits to take on first-term senators in New Hampshire and Colorado, nominated credible female candidates in open-seat contests in Michigan and Iowa, protected all of their incumbents from tea party challenges and thwarted more conservative candidates that could have hurt the GOP’s chances in states like North Carolina and Georgia.”

Meanwhile, The Upshot gives Republicans a 54% chance of taking control of the Senate.

“As the ranks of centrist lawmakers in both parties have thinned, political operatives’ efforts to oust them have intensified,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Once, there were 60 to 70 ‘middle-of-the-road’ Democrats in the House… Now, thanks to redistricting and the GOP’s 2010 gains, there are nine House Democrats in districts lost by Mr. Obama, with two retiring at year’s end. The remaining seven–Mr. Peterson, Reps. Nick Rahall of West Virginia, John Barrow of Georgia, Patrick Murphy of Florida, Pete Gallego of Texas and two Arizona lawmakers–are now GOP targets.”

“Democrats, meanwhile, are focusing their sights on 14 House Republicans running for re-election in districts won by Mr. Obama in 2012.”

Dana Millbank: “Crazy talk, you say? Maybe so. The prevailing view is that a Republican Senate would only compound Obama’s woes by bottling up confirmations, doubling the number of investigations and chipping away at Obamacare and other legislative achievements.”

“Yet there’s a chance that having an all-Republican Congress would help Obama — and even some White House officials have wondered privately whether a unified Republican Congress would be better than the current environment. Republicans, without Harry Reid to blame, would own Congress — a body that inspires a high level of confidence in just 7 percent of Americans, according to a Gallup survey last month finding Congress at a new low and at the bottom of all institutions tested.”

Rep. Bill Cassidy’s (R) U.S. Senate campaign announced that the candidate’s unmarried 17-year-old daughter is pregnant as she prepares for her senior year at a Baton Rouge high school, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports.

Cassidy said in a statement that his daughter faces “a more challenging future” and that she has his and his wife Laura’s unconditional support. The baby is expected later this summer.