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

And I'm Anna Palmer. We've got some news here at the top. Joe Biden's campaign will air a minute-long

ad tonight featuring Barack Obama heaping praise on his former vice president and the newly crowned Democratic

nominee.

Who he is features Obama talking about Biden's character as he awarded him the Presidential

Medal of Freedom Award in 2017.

The ad will air nationally on cable networks ahead of the convention and is part of the campaign's

$24 million paid media campaign

this week.

It's official Joe Biden's the Democratic nominee for president.

It seems as if Democrats are intent on presenting the political climate as they wish it to be,

not as it is.

In this world, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is but a bit player, the lawmaker who offers the

perfunctory nomination of the loser, Bernie Sanders, not the AOC who helped knock off a few members of the House, and the AOC who's driving the policy conversation among the Democratic base. In this world, bipartisanship and country come before party, and states been crossed the aisle because it's the right thing to do, not because they're at the end of their career with nothing to lose. And in this world, the Senate will once again become the

province of bipartisan dealmaking instead of an extension of the nasty politics of the 21st century.

Our colleague, Ryan Lizza, captured a bit of this in his piece up this morning on how AOC was

given little airtime compared to Republicans like Chuck

Hagel and Colin Powell, despite the fact that Biden will have to deal a lot more with

Representative Ocasia-Cortez if he is elected.

The Times is a story in how Biden has offered very few details on his foreign policy plan.

That all said, the convention is presenting a diverse and unified America that Democrats believe

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