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Editors note: This is a daily summary of news about the U.S. Senate race between U.S. Sen. John Sununu (R-Waterville Valley) and former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen (D-Madbury).

While all eyes were focused on Unity, the national parties each mentioned the Senate race in a press release. Also, the Shaheen campaign announced it raised $54,152.50 in the past 24 hours.

A week after Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mark Udall's campaign released a TV ad on national security, Udall unveiled a second TV ad on the same issue Tuesday.

The new ad, entitled "Respected," begins airing in the Denver market Tuesday and will soon start running in other Colorado markets, Udall's campaign announced.

Also Tuesday, the National Republican Senatorial Committee released an online rebuttal video to Udall's first TV ad on national security.

Did the National Republican Senatorial Committee watch the primary election returns in New Jersey on Tuesday night? The NRSC has launched a website attacking a Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Kansas for being a Washington lobbyist. 

The Executive Director of the the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has penned an op-ed criticizing Jeanne Shaheen's (D-Madbury) gubernatorial record.

"Shaheen's political career is marred by duplicity, flip-flops, and political pandering that put the residents, especially the students, of New Hampshire last. Perhaps, instead of first, a better qualifier to define Shaheen's tenure is failed," Scott Bensing wrote at Towhall.com.

In New Jersey, John Ensign is settling for his third choice in the race for U.S. Senate
Add New Jersey to the list of states where John Ensign has meddled and lost. The National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman made a brief foray into Garden State politics last week when he sought to clear the field for John Crowley, a biotech millionaire with an incredibly compelling life story, to enter the race for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination.

After Crowley’s first announcement last Monday that he wasn’t running, Ensign engineered a full-court press to get him in the race. He had John McCain and five other Republican U.S. Senators call him. He promised him money and pledged to make 84-year-old incumbent Frank Lautenberg an NRSC target. And for a while, it looked like Crowley would run.

But by the weekend, Crowley decided -- for business, family and military (he’s a Navy reservist) reasons – that he could not transition his life into politics by today’s New Jersey filing deadline. On Sunday, a spokesman announced Crowley’s second withdrawal in seven days.