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Good morning, Playbookers.

It's Wednesday, July 28th.

I'm Ragu Mona Vollen.

And this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

All right, we've got big problems for two Trump-endorsed candidates.

In the special election runoff in Texas' 6th district, Jake Elsie defeated Trump-endorsed candidates. In the special election runoff in Texas' 6th District,

Jake Elsie defeated Trump-endorsed candidate, Susan Wright. But here's a caveat from Dave

Wasserman. Before drawing sweeping conclusions about the outcome, a reminder, turnout in this

runoff was fairly pathetic. With all early votes and most election day votes reported, there are only 37,000 votes counted.

Less than 8% of registered voters in the district.

But still, it is a pretty big slap in the face to Trump in a district where his super PAC

spent over $100,000 last weekend.

That's according to the Dallas Morning News.

Here's one outcome that was

certain, regardless of which Republican won. Speaker Nancy Pelosi will have only three votes to spare

on any bill once Elsie is sworn in. Meanwhile, in Ohio, our own Michael Cruz has a long look at the

life and career of Max Miller. He's a former White House aide, and he's the Trump-endorsed

candidate in the GOP primary for the House seat in Ohio's 16th District. It's worth noting

the Trump brand still looms large within the GOP. Here's a stat by way of the New York Times.

Since May 1st, the Republican's Senate campaign arm has invoked Mr. Biden's name in the sender line on its emails

just four times. Mr. Trump's name has appeared there 185 times. Check out those two stories

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