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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bull News. It's Friday, June 28th, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, fallout from the first presidential debate. Number two,

the latest from the tally. Salt is back on the campaign trail. And number three, will House Republicans pass a farm bill? All right, TGIF, we hope you are having a good week. Let's get into the number

one item of the morning. We watched. You watched.

Presidential debates are about optics as much as substance. And if you are a Democrat running a

tight down-ballot race where a donor spending millions of dollars to defeat former president

Donald Trump, you have to be alarmed by President

Joe Biden's Thursday night performance.

It was bad.

Plain and simple.

Biden's answers were rambling.

His voice was raspy, and he committed repeated verbal flubs that will be clipped

thousands of times between now and election day.

Democrats wanted Biden to show voters that he's

capable of serving another term. Many Democrats now fear they got the exact opposite. Biden started

off poorly and he ended poorly. He had some good moments in between, but nowhere near enough.

The debacle of Biden's opening 20 minutes and the uproar it caused on

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