Good Wednesday morning, I'm Jake Sherman, and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, sponsored by ExxonMobil.

A bunch of scoops at the top of playbook this morning.

First up, Vice President Mike Pence brought in $600,000 for the Republican Governors Association in Philadelphia.

This is on behalf of Scott Wagner, the Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania.

On the Democratic side, a big scoop,

we have the DNC shortlist for its 2020 convention. The locations in the running include

Houston, Miami Beach, Milwaukee, and Denver. The convention is in July 2020. The RNC had a record

sitting cash hall for the month of May. The committee brought in $14.6 million,

a record for a May of a non-presidential year. This brings the party's haul for the cycle up to

$199.1 million. The party has $47.1 million on hand and no debt. In a first-in-playbook,

Democratic adman Mark Putnam's firm has cut a bio spot for

M.J. Hagar, a Democrat running against Texas Congressman John Carter in a district north of Austin.

This is a heavily Republican district, which Carter routinely wins by 20 or 30 points.

The ad is entitled Doors, a theme carried throughout the ad. Hagar had roughly $130,000 on hand at the end of March,

compared to $350,000 for Carter, a pretty low sum for an incumbent. Democrats are hopeful they

could catch the eight-term 76-year-old Carter unprepared for a big race. Putnam most recently

cut a series of ads for Amy McGrath, who won a primary to face Kentucky Congressman

Andy Barr. Let's boil down that Trump House Republican meeting last night. First of all, Trump dumped

on Congressman Mark Sanford, a Republican of South Carolina. Trump asked voters to oust him from office

last week. Sanford wasn't at the meeting because his jet blue flight was stuck on a runway in

Charleston. Trump said, is Mark Sanford

here? I just want to congratulate him on running a great race. Sanford was not there. He then called

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