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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman.

And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchable News. It's Thursday, May 2nd, 2024.

Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, Republicans unite against anti-Semitism.

Number two, Senator Ted Cruz is sounding a lot like a bipartisan warrior.

And number three, a new ad supporting Speaker Mike Johnson.

All right, Jake, let's get into it.

We are leading the top of Punch Bowl news, News AM looking at how Republicans in the House have finally found something that they can all agree on that is uniting their conference after months of flailing.

There is a real sentiment of trying to counter the scourge of anti-Semitism on college campuses nationwide. Yeah, and the bigger issue here, so yes, that that's absolutely true.

But the bigger issue here for House Democrats, and this is what I think we tried to get at

with varied levels of success, I would say.

But they are being asked to save Mike Johnson as Mike Johnson just keeps putting up votes that are difficult for Democrats to take.

And that's that is pissing off a lot of House Democrats, right?

Like, I understand, like, this is an issue that Republicans believe is very good for them, right?

They have not much to do, not much to, but they have, they have gotten past a lot of the big legislative cliffs.

They have an impeachment inquiry, which is completely

bottomed out effectively. Mike Johnson is not really that he's, he's, people think he's fine,

but no one's going crazy over him. And, and, and, and they are now seeing across the country

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