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And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchable News. It's Wednesday, April 1st, 2026.

Passover starts tonight. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, could Dems blow it in Virginia? Number two, Trump's mail-in ballot executive order will face legal challenges. And number three, the latest from the Canvas K Street. All right, Jake, let's get to it. Our very own, Ali Mutnik and John

Brezdenhan are leading off Punchball News a.m. With a look at how Democrats are concerned about the balloting, referendum happening in the state with numbers tightening.

And they had such huge success where there have been a lot of doubters in California.

Now they're trying to put this plan together in Virginia, and the dynamics are a little

different.

Well, let me just say this also.

We're not going to be engaging in April Fool's Day because we're a news organization,

and we don't, we're not a joke squad.

So we will not be having any news that is not true like some other people might.

So let's start with that.

Democrats are making a big push in Virginia to redraw a map from six five, six Democrats,

five Republicans to 10 Democrats, one Republican. And Democrats are growing increasingly skittish

about the referendum, a nonprofit. allied with House Democratic leadership, spent

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