Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing. Could there be a more defining two days in this presidential primary season than today and tomorrow? We are T-Mitt minus one day to the New Hampshire primary. Let's set the stage. The Boston Globe WBZ Suffolk poll shows Bernie Sanders ahead with 26% of the vote. Pete Buttigieg has

19% and Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden are tied with around 11% each. So in other words,

here are the stakes. Joe Biden, who has built himself the prohibitive frontrunner in this race,

is now on the ropes and could be heading into

the twilight of his career here. Another fourth place finish is likely to freeze up money

and will cement his place toward the middle or bottom of this field. This comes as the AP reports

on other candidates trying to eat away at Biden's South Carolina firewall. If Elizabeth Warren comes in third here, that would be two third place finishes in a row.

The post is up with a piece on Biden and Warren battling for third place while the AP notes

that Warren's challenge is breaking out of the murky middle.

Meanwhile, our colleagues, Holly Otterbine and Stephanie Murray, are in Plymouth, New Hampshire,

reporting on how Bernie Sanders is gliding toward primary day as moderates brawl.

And the drama on the Dem side is continuing.

The Times has a look at how the Iowa caucuses became an epic fiasco for Democrats,

while the post is a look at how

top Dems are turning on each other, threatening their chances of taking out President Trump.

And the Wall Street Journal has all the details on the president's new budget. He's proposing a $4.8 trillion

budget with big safety net cuts.

And here's what's on tap for Trump's Monday.

The president will deliver remarks to governors at the White House at 11 a.m.

He will have lunch with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at 1230 in the private dining room.

Trump will greet the Parkland families in the Oval Office at 3.30.

The president will then leave the White House at 420 and route to Manchester, New Hampshire, where he will deliver a political speech at 7 p.m.

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