“Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who along with his wife plowed more than $92 million into efforts to help mostly losing candidates in the 2012 elections, is undertaking a new strategy for 2016 — to tap his fortune on behalf of a more mainstream Republican with a clear shot to win the White House,” the Washington Post reports.

“This time, the Adelsons are plotting their investments based not on personal loyalty, but on a much more strategic aim: to help select a Republican nominee they believe will have broad appeal to an increasingly diverse national electorate.”

During the Clinton administration, David Brock “was a self-described conservative hit man intent on taking down the Clintons,” the New York Times reports.

“He famously went to Arkansas in 1993 and wrote an article for a conservative magazine asserting that state troopers had facilitated sexual liaisons for Bill Clinton, then the governor, which led to Paula Jones’s 1994 sexual harassment lawsuit against Mr. Clinton and Mr. Brock’s elevation in Republican power circles.”

“On Tuesday, Mr. Brock will return to Arkansas for the first time since that article, this time in the warm embrace of the Clinton world: He is a featured speaker at the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas, delivering an address titled ‘Countering the Culture of Clinton Hating.'”

“Do I have the best credentials? Probably not. ‘Cause, you know, whatever. But I have long and strong ties to this state,”

— Former Sen. Scott Brown (R), quoted by the AP, on his New Hampshire U.S. Senate race.

People close to Jeb Bush (R) “said he has not formally begun to consider a presidential campaign but plans to decide no later than early 2015,” the Washington Post reports.

Said Bush adviser Sally Bradshaw: “People who thought he was not looking at this race six months ago were underestimating his interest, and people who think he’s made a decision and is moving forward to run right now are exaggerating where his thinking is.”

“This is not a presidential election. This is a bunch of elections in different states.”

— Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), quoted by Fortune, on why Republicans will not put forward a unified agenda for the midterm elections.

Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) ruled out campaigning for U.S. Senate nominee Jim Oberweis (R), saying he would rather “protect” his relationship with Sen. Dick Durbin D-Ill. and not launch a “partisan jihad,” the Chicago Sun Times reports.

Said Kirk: “I’m going to be protecting my relationship with Dick and not launching into a partisan jihad that hurts our partnership to both pull together for Illinois.”

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) “has reinvented himself again,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

“He shuns most trappings of the office. There’s no motorcade, no entourage. The governor showed up at the elections department with a lone campaign advisor and his wife, who snapped a photo using her smart phone.”

“Brown fashions many of his own speeches, veto messages and even press releases. His staff in the governor’s office is about half that of his Republican predecessor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who employed as many as 230. He often goes months without a public appearance, sometimes holed up at his home in the Oakland hills, calling authors, experts and others he wrings for information.”

Scott Brown (R) and his allies are flooding New Hampshire with hard-hitting, 30-second political ads as he begins his U.S. Senate campaign, the Boston Globe reports.

“Shaheen’s allies have fought back but, in a sign of potential trouble for the Democrat and her supporters, they have been overwhelmed by the opposition’s barrage, outspent by a margin of more than 4-to-1. The gap is already becoming a grave concern among state Democrats who fear that national party leaders are not making the race a priority.”

“The spending levels from out-of-state Republican groups have already surpassed what Mitt Romney’s campaign spent on ads during the entire 2012 New Hampshire primary.”

Comedian Bill Maher revealed that the two congressmen first nominated “by popular demand” for his ‘Flip a District’ campaign are Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) and Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX), Politico reports.

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) “may not have decided whether to seek re-election in 2016, but he is making all the moves to ensure that he can mount an intimidating campaign if he decides to seek a sixth term,” the Arizona Republic reports.

McCain is set to headline an April 24 re-election fundraiser… and “he is putting together a network of political support.”

Nebraska U.S. Senate candidate Shane Osborn (R) distributed an official-looking Navy memo supporting his account of his 2001 decision to land a crippled Navy EP-3 reconnaissance plane in China that has dogged his campaign.

But the Omaha World-Herald “has learned that the unsigned memo was not authorized by the Navy, or vetted through normal channels, and was written as a favor to Osborn by a Navy buddy working at the Pentagon.”