Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It's Monday, June 26th. It's going to be slow in Washington this week since Congress is out for an extended July 4th recess, but on the campaign trail, it's going to be hopping with 2024 hitting the donor circuit before the end of the Q2 fundraising deadline, which is this Friday. One thing we're going to be

watching today, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are going to be kicking off

part two of their, quote, investing in America tour. They're going to be announcing more than

$40 billion worth of investments in new affordable high-speed internet infrastructure. And that's just the first

part of this sort of multi-day, actually multi-week campaign. President Biden is going to be

hitting the trail and touting what he's calling basically the reverse of trickle-down policies

that Republicans have espoused for years, if not decades.

President Joe Biden is going to be giving a speech on the results of what his policies have done in

recent months. I'm looking at a memo that just went out at 5 a.m. this morning from senior

advisor Anita Dunn and some other folks at the White House. They're going to be touting

things like the economy bouncing back quicker than the CBO had projected, the 13 million

jobs that Biden added since taking over the Oval Office, and a stronger financial position

of the middle class despite inflation. And joining me from the campaign trail this morning,

Lisa Kaczynski, my colleague, is going to be talking about Ron DeSantis' continued struggles

on the trail. Good morning, Lisa. Thanks for having me. So for a while, DeSantis was considered

something of a hot shot in New Hampshire, if I'm not mistaken. He had toppled Trump in an early poll in January and even sold out one of his big fundraising dinners in April. But that has changed. So what's happening on the trail there?

There has been so much excitement for Ron DeSantis in New Hampshire for so long at this point.

I had been talking to people really as soon as right after the midterms who were so excitedly anxious for him to come to New Hampshire.

So the expectations for him there were sky high.

And everything seemed to be going great up until he actually launched his candidacy.

Then he comes to New Hampshire as an actual candidate.

He's dragged into this tit-for-tat endorsement battle with Donald Trump over, you know, state lawmakers who are kind of a dime a dozen in New Hampshire.

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