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Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Jake Sherman. Is there one thing going well for Donald Trump right now? He's getting

smoked by Joe Biden. The coronavirus is raging. Governors and local leaders are closing states

municipalities again. The president's campaign is being forced to rethink

rallies after an embarrassing fiasco in Oklahoma. Republicans move their convention to Florida, which has seen

a surge in coronavirus cases. Police reform fell flat in the capital. It turns out that Russia may have

been paying the Taliban to kill American soldiers on Trump's watch. Republican control of the Senate is up for grabs.

The GOP has but a sliver of a prayer of recapturing the House.

The economy is still sluggish.

The United States' relationship with China is in the toilet after the spread of COVID-19.

And Republicans have no earthly idea what they will do if the

Supreme Court strikes down Obamacare, replacing the health care law as a promise that has been

left unfulfilled by the Republicans. The president's advisors will say they've hardly started

campaigning against Biden. They also say the world moves quickly and the political climate can

change in a matter of weeks.

Maybe so, maybe not.

But in order to change his circumstances, the president's advisors believe Trump needs to make a conscious effort to highlight the contrast with Biden.

They're trying to get Trump to hone his meandering message on three targets between now an election day.

The idea that Trump will create more jobs than Biden, he'll be tougher on China and will keep communities safer than Biden will.

Of course, the president has never been able to stick to any message.

So this reporting is meant to be less predictive and more laying a marker for what those around him want him to be talking about

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