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

And I'm Anna Palmer. Nothing is done until it's done. The election is 124 days away and something like 300,000 Trump news cycles away.

But there is now a compelling pile of evidence that Joe Biden

is in an absolutely commanding position against the incumbent Donald Trump. He holds a commanding

lead in nearly every national and almost all competitive state polls. Trump's approval rating is in

the toilet, and most people believe the country is on the wrong track. Biden outraged Trump for the second month in a row.

Natasha Carecki reports that the Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee

late Wednesday reported that they together raised $141 million in June for a total cash

haul of $282.1 million for the quarter.

Both figures best Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee, which reported $131 million in June and $266 million during the second

fundraising quarter of the year. The Trump campaign, however, reports it still has plenty in the bank

with $295 million on hand. Democrats did not disclose that

figure Wednesday. Senate Republicans are starting to sweat a bit. John Bresdenhan and Marianne

quote Roy Blunt and John Thune sounding the alarm a little bit on how Senate Republicans can't catch a

break. Well, good thing we're not in the middle of a pandemic or anything. The Post is reporting

that the president is set to headline a high dollar fundraiser at a private home in Florida next

week. The Post also has a look at how Trump's campaign is still contending with a followout

from the Tulsa campaign rally. Alina Schneider has a look at how Democrats and black groups

are seeing a record influx of cash. Online donors poured a record $392 million into campaigns and causes via Act Blue in June

alone.

John F. Harris has a column up this morning looking at whether the anti-Trump movement will

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