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Good Friday morning. My name is Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook

Audio Briefing. And I'm Jake Sherman. Shinzo Abbey intends to resign for health reasons

that's breaking this morning. Color of surprise, two weeks of virtual political conventions

went off basically without a technical hitch. The two events were well-produced and mostly seamless, and take it from two people who

have done six months of these events, that ain't easy.

Politically, both Republicans and Democrats seem to have gotten what they needed out of these

conventions. Millions watched, as Democrats painted an apocalyptic picture of what they believe life would be like

should Donald Trump win another four years. Joe Biden gave a perfectly executed speech,

and they introduced the world to Kamala Harris. And Republicans were only left to say

some of the speeches were pre-taped. Republicans' goal was simple. If you're a Republican or Trump curious, and you may have forgotten

for three nights that 180,000 Americans have died from a pandemic on the president's watch,

or that race protests are happening on Trump's watch, or the Trump campaign is showing video of

America today and saying this is what will happen if Biden is elected. The GOP convention

celebrated the

pre-virus America Trump supporters long for. Of course, Democrats and fact checkers are going to have

a field day with Trump's address. And yes, it's really bad that the president used the White

House lawn to deliver his acceptance speech. It's a violation of the Hatch Act, as we said a few days

ago. Or, as the New York

Times put it, the South Lawn speech was the final demolition of the boundaries between governance

and campaigning in a week full of such eroding. But now we're 67 days from Election Day,

and we're about to be inside Labor Day when everyone believes voters

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