Liz Cheney launched her campaign for Senate by calling 69-year-old Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) “confused,” NBC News reports.

Said Cheney: “I think Sen. Enzi may be confused. I think he may have me mixed up with Cynthia Lummis. What happened is I called Sen. Enzi to tell him that I was considering a run. And I have always believed that that decision should be made irrespective of whoever else is in the race.”

She added: “It’s not true — I did not tell Sen. Enzi I wouldn’t run if he did. I suppose he’s just confused.”

First Read: “This ‘confused’ line has some wondering if Cheney is trying to play up the age difference between herself and Enzi a bit too much, and it has the potential to backfire.”

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) “is being encouraged by friends in and outside the Empire State to seek the GOP nomination for president in 2016,” Newsmax reports.

Said one source: “A lot of folks are telling him to do it and he sure acts interested.”

A new Quinnipiac poll in Virginia finds a “yawning gender gap” in the governor’s race leaves Terry McAuliffe (D) with a slight lead over Ken Cuccinelli (R), 43% to 39%.

Said pollster Peter Brown: “McAuliffe is ahead by a nose in this tight race, but half the electorate doesn’t know enough about him to decide whether they view him favorably or unfavorably. Cuccinelli is somewhat better known with only a third of voters having no opinion about him.”

“When someone has never gotten a paycheck in Wyoming and
has lived their entire adult life in Virginia, I think they
should run from Virginia.”

— Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), quoted by Bloomberg, on Liz Cheney’s announced primary challenge of Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY).

Liz Cheney’s primary challenge of Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) “is rekindling Republicans’ concerns that party feuds could lead to a reprise of the 2010 and 2012 elections, when bitter Republican primary fights in several states produced weakened, gaffe-prone nominees who went on to lose winnable races to Democrats – and thwart Republicans’ hopes of winning a majority in the Senate,” Reuters reports.

“In next year’s elections, Republicans will need a net gain of six seats to take control of the 100-member Senate. Most analysts expect the party to gain some seats – possibly enough to reclaim a majority – but say it cannot afford the types of missteps it has made in the past two elections.”

“The fields of candidates are still shaping up, but already there are signs of brewing Senate primary fights among Republicans in several states, including Iowa, Georgia and Alaska.”

Ken Cuccinelli (R) “did not break the law when he failed to disclose substantial stock holdings in Star Scientific and some gifts from the company’s chief executive, a state prosecutor concluded after a nearly three-month investigation,” the Washington Post reports.

A new New York Times/Siena Poll in New York City finds Christine Quinn leading the Democratic mayoral field with 27% , followed by Anthony Weiner at 18%, Bill de Blasio at 11%, William Thompson at 11% and John Liu at 7%.

The results “differ slightly from those of other recent public polls, which have suggested that Weiner is running even with, or ahead of, Quinn. But all of the recent polls suggest that Quinn and Weiner are at the front of the Democratic pack, with Thompson and de Blasio lagging behind.”