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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 Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, Republicans struggle to find their Harris message. Number two, vulnerable Democrats see a chance for a reset with Biden out and number three inside Johnson's assassination commission.

Let's get into it. House Republicans just got the rug pulled out from under them.

They've spent, goodness gracious, they've spent almost two years running against Joe Biden,

making every single, you know, probing every part of his life, every part of his family's life, his family's business deals, basically setting to tarnishing his name, rightly or wrongly, and setting him up for a, for a presidential campaign.

Now they have Kamala Harris, a 59-year-old woman of black and Indian heritage,

who is now the presumptive Democratic nominee. Couldn't be different. He couldn't be any different

from Joe Biden. Biden is old and occasionally confused. Harris is younger and sharp. Biden's a white

man. Harris is a woman of color. There are lots of firsts in Harris's bio. Just think about what

happened just yesterday.

Tim Burchett called Harris a DEI hire. Burgess Owen said the same. He's one of four,

just four black house Republicans. Glenn Grossman said that Republicans, that Democrats rather

have to stick with Harris because of her ethnic background. And, you know, this is a, this is as tough for Republicans as it is for Democrats.

Republicans have 100 days effectively to define Harris, to figure out what they want to say about

Harris and try to get a message across.

Democrats have the opposite challenge, right?

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