Good Thursday morning, I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing.

Stay tuned after the show for a message from the Partnership for America's Healthcare Future.

And I'm Anna Palmer.

Wonder why President Donald Trump has appeal?

Tom Perez saying this on stage before last night's debate.

Ole McConnell had a farm, EIEIIO, and on his farm he kept all those bills that passed

the House, EIEI-EIO.

The president tweeted just after midnight last night,

The people on the stage tonight, and last, were not those that will either make America great again or keep America great.

Our country now is breaking records in almost every category,

from stock market to military to unemployment. We have prosperity and success like never before.

It will soon be time to choose to keep and build upon that prosperity and success or let it go.

We are respected again all around the world. Keep it that way. I said I will never let you down,

and I haven't. We will only grow bigger, better, and stronger together.

Stronger together. That was Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign slogan. Here's how the Dem debate played

last night. The headline in the New York Times was Biden fights off jabs by liberals over his record.

And the Washington Post led with Democrats

pull no punches. Dan Balls wrote from Detroit by the end of the evening the candidates had done

as much to make a case against one another as against the president without offering much in the way

of an aspirational message or connecting directly with the voters they will need to win the presidential

election. John Harris wrote Biden was not that bad and not that good.

Senate plans to begin voting on the budget and debt limit bill at around 11 this morning.

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