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Good morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl News.

It is Friday, November 1st, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, House Democrats dominate airwaves in the final stretch. Number two, Catherine Clark looks to make history.

Number three, Jason Smith hits the road for Republicans.

Let's get into it.

Happy November.

We are here, everybody.

And we are four days from Election Day.

What a ride this has been. And it's kind of amazing to think that we only have a, at least me, I can't speak for everybody else, including those dudes on Twitter who say they know how the election's going to be, that professor, wherever he is, who's gotten every election right since like 1810 or whatever

whatever his streak is, I have no idea what's going to happen in the election. None,

except I feel somewhat confident that Republicans will take the Senate. If you asked me and said your life was on the line and you have to

choose who's going to win the House, I really wouldn't have any idea. I'd have to just flip a coin and make a pick.

And the presidential, I'm also extraordinarily not indifferent. Of course, I'm not indifferent, but I'm extraordinarily

confused about what might happen. I could see, it's amazing. I was talking to someone the other

day and we were saying, you know, Donald Trump could win Pennsylvania, Georgia, the Midwest States, Michigan, Wisconsin, and North Carolina, or none, which is kind of crazy to think about.

I mean, it's obviously not a binary, but I, you know, and on the other side of this, we get back into Congress, the lame duck in the first hundred days.

People have asked me, like, are these Congress, the lame duck in the first hundred days. People have asked

me, like, are these days, these last days crazy for you? And of course they are. But like,

what's crazier for us, a punch bowl news is once the, once Congress comes back, the lame duck,

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