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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl News.

It's Thursday, August 19th, 2021.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, we've got a deep dive into House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Number two, Bernie Sanders. Yes, that's right. Bernie Sanders

is hitting the road to sell Democrats infrastructure package. And number three, we've got the latest on Afghanistan and who members of Congress are

hearing about the turmoil in the country.

All right, let's move on to the number one story of the day for us, a deep dive into

Kevin McCarthy.

Yesterday, we talked about Speaker Nancy Pelosi, what her politics are like,

what the next couple of months are going to be like for her. Today, we are looking at the California

Republican, Kevin McCarthy, where he sits at the moment. You know, it's very interesting because

there's probably no job in American politics as straightforward as being

the minority leader in the House of Representatives, especially when your party controls

none of the lovers of power in Washington. For McCarthy, that is basically to just resist,

right? And he's not alone. This is not something new that McCarthy's come up with

as some big scheme in politics. It's something we see time and time again when it comes to

whoever the minority leader is, but particularly for McCarthy, when he is very confident the

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