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Good Wednesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Jake Sherman. Happy July. We are halfway through 2020, which may very well turn out to be the most consequential year of this century.

So far this year, America killed Qasem Soleimani. We predicted a proxy war in the Middle East that

never came to pass. Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu announced a peace effort that has gone nowhere.

The Senate acquitted Trump on charges of impeachment. The Supreme Court kept DACA alive,

peeled back abortion prohibitions in Louisiana, and protected LGBT people in the workplace.

The United States cut a peace deal with the Taliban in February.

By June, news outlets reported Russia was paying the Taliban to kill our soldiers.

COVID-19 was discovered in January, got a name, and killed more than half a million people

on our planet, including more than 127,000 Americans. It plunged America into a recession, cost tens of millions of Americans their

jobs, and altered the nation's political and economic landscape, potentially for decades to come.

At the same time, protests broke out across America after police in Minneapolis murdered George Floyd,

with people of all races and creeds rising up

against the treatment of black people by law enforcement.

As of today, 126 days before Election Day, the Politico morning consult poll says that a

stunningly high 75% of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track.

59% of those polled disapprove of the job Trump is doing.

This should be quite alarming for the Trump White House.

The vast preponderance of public polling suggests Joe Biden will trounce the incumbent

president as of now.

In the last day, the USA Today, Suffolk polls showed Biden up 12.

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