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Hey, good morning, playbookers. It's Thursday, August 19th. I'm Roku-Munavalin.

And this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

Republicans universally agreed that President Joe Biden's bungled handling of the Afghanistan

pullout has given them fresh ammunition to attack him.

For what it's worth, many Democrats also think the same. But a rift is starting to emerge in

GOP messaging, as the Trump Wing seeks to turn the matter into a base appeal with anti-immigration

rhetoric. While most GOP lawmakers have attacked Biden for abandoning interpreters

and Afghan civilians who put their lives at risk to help U.S. troops, a not insignificant chunk

of the party is using the Afghan disaster as fodder for their campaign against immigration,

the obstinciated charge that Biden intentionally fumbled the withdrawal in order to flood the U.S.

with Afghans.

Maga personality Charlie Kirk went there earlier this week.

What's going on here is Joe Biden wants a couple hundred thousand more Elon Omar's to come into

America to change the body politic permanent.

But it was Tucker Carlson's turn.

We will see many refugees from Afghanistan resettle in our country in coming months, probably in your neighborhood.

And over the next decade, that number may swell to the millions.

So first we invade and then we're invaded.

Stephen Miller even had this tweet.

It's clear that Biden and his radical deputies will use their catastrophic debacle in Afghanistan as a pretext for doing to America what Angela Merkel did to Germany and Europe.

Here's a problem, though.

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