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And welcome to The Daily Punch. Brought you by Punchful News. It's Tuesday, October 8th, 2024.

Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, welcome to debate season.

Number two, the latest from the vault.

And number three, Dems look to knock off Scott Perry in Pennsylvania.

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

Of course, all eyes are on the fact that we have another major, major storm.

Hurricane Milton could make landfall in the Sunshine State by Wednesday night. The big kind of drama on the presidential campaign

show was some reporting by NBC yesterday that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was ignoring

Vice President Kamala Harris's phone calls. DeSantis did speak with Joe Biden Monday,

according to the White House. But the big story for us is its debate season.

And while it looks like, you know, Harris and former President Donald Trump

is not going or not planning to have another debate, unless there's a major change of heart by

former President Trump, there are a ton of debates that are being set up in the next couple

weeks. Yeah, let me, let me start where you started very quickly on the, on the storm that's

barreling toward Florida.

What has the makings of a historic storm?

Historic, not in a, not in a good way.

Historic in its strength and historic and it's, it's, and I'm not a meteorologist,

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