Good Thursday morning, I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing.

Stay tuned after the show for a message from Farma.

And I'm Anna Palmer. It barely took the president any time before he said this last night at a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina.

I just heard that the United States House of Representatives has overwhelmingly voted to kill the most

ridiculous project I've ever been involved in. The resolution, how stupid is that, on impeachment?

I want to thank those Democrats because many of them voted for us. The vote was a totally

lopsided 3332-951.

Upon arriving in North Carolina, Trump said the same thing, quote, we have just received an

overwhelming vote against impeachment, and that's the end of it.

Let the Democrats now go back to work.

A few things.

First of all, a few smart seasoned people in the White House wondered to us last night if

President Trump actually believes that this vote ended impeachment. Of course it didn't. This was a procedural

vote that means absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things. The White House did,

though, want a big vote on tabling this motion. Kevin McCarthy offered it with that express intent.

The administration believed it would send a message to the

public that a large majority of the House was against impeachment. This was so important to the

White House that Trump allies like Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows skipped the rally in North Carolina

to vote on tabling the impeachment motion. The Dem leadership was split. Representative David

Sicilini of Rhode Island voted against tabling it, as did Catherine Clark of Massachusetts.

The rest of the top of the party, Steny Hoyer, Jim Clyburn, Ben Ray Lujan, and Hakeem Jeffries voted to table.

And there's some noise on the debt limit.

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