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My next week's New York primary might give us a glimpse of next year's midterms.

It's your Politico Playbook Daily briefing.

A couple of Politico colleagues have a pair of stories up this morning as election attention

turns to the Empire State's Tuesday primary.

What Politico's Ali Mutnick and Sarah Farris, quote, want to know if a red wave is happening?

Watch this special election next week.

The race to succeed Democrat Antonio Delgado in New York's 19th District next week will

offer one of two signals about the

2022 election. It will either, one, preview the pain-headed, the Democratic Party's way in November,

or two, provide powerful evidence that a Republican wave election is not in the offing.

Ellie and Sarah report from Woodstock, New York, that, quote,

both parties are dumping money into this Hudson Valley district

to notch a short-lived but symbolic victory in the last competitive race before the midterms.

But the messaging, turnout, and margin of the contest will offer tea leaves into what lies ahead this fall

in the battle for control of the House.

For Democrats, a win would offer proof that the party can

translate their recent legislative victories and voter anger over the Supreme Court's

abortion ruling into tangible gains. After nonstop attention on their stalled policy agenda,

internecene bickering, and dire polling, Democrats are desperate to tell a different story. Republicans

have just as much writing on the outcome.

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