Good morning Playbookers. I'm Kara Tabor. It's Tuesday, and Biden is flipping the script on Defund

the Police. This is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing. Two things to start off the day. First,

today marks 10 weeks until election day.

And you may want to fire up your PACER account.

A new filing from the Department of Justice of up to 40 pages responding to Donald Trump's request for a special master to review documents in the Mar-Lago search is expected today.

As a policy issue, crime, like inflation and immigration, has consistently been a political vulnerability

for Joe Biden and the Democrats. A Fox News poll in June showed Republicans with the net

advantage of 13 points on the issue, the party's second best rating, behind inflation and border

security. An ABC News Ipsos poll this month found a similar 11-point advantage for Republicans on the

issue of crime, which is Democrats' worst issue tested in the poll.

Republicans have seized on the national spike in murders, almost 30% in 2020 when Trump was

president, the defund the police movement, and criminal justice reform policies

pursued by unpopular progressive prosecutors who have faced a backlash even from liberals,

such as San Francisco's Chesa Boudin, who was recalled, and Los Angeles's George Gascon,

who recently dodged a similar effort. Biden has responded in three ways.

One, he's tried to talk more about gun safety or gun violence.

When pollsters use those phrases to ask voters which party they trust more,

Democrats suddenly have the upper hand.

In the ABC poll this month, Democrats had a five-point advantage over Republicans when asked

about gun violence.

Two, Biden has also sharply dismissed any notions that he supports defunding the police,

the activist-driven slogan that gained sympathy among progressives two years ago, but has been

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