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Good. Good morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchball News. It is Thursday, April 25th, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington

headlines of the day. Number one, John Barrasso's leadership style. Number two, what Republicans

are saying about Trump's immunity claim. And number three, act blue donation surge in the first

quarter. Let's get into it. I am just back from New York, where I was at Columbia

University, my alma mater of sorts, I went to journalism school there.

Mike Johnson was speaking about the protests yesterday in Morningside Heights.

He said, effectively, that the National Guard might need to be called in to break up the protests,

which are, have dragged into, it's a multi-day event at

Columbia. He met with the president of Columbia, and he later called on her or called on her

to resign yesterday morning on the Hugh Hewitt show, and then yesterday standing on

the steps of Low library in New York. So an interesting day

for Mike Johnson, he was shouted down kind of, or not shouted down because he continued to speak,

but he was heckled during his remarks yesterday. Now let's get into the top story of

in Punchable News this morning. This is about Senate Republican Conference Chair John Barrasso,

who was the only member of the GOP leadership to vote against the $95 billion aid package

for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan on Tuesday. A familiar position for Barrasso, who has found himself

standing alone in Republican leadership a lot this Congress. He has opposed nearly all the big

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