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Hey, good morning, playbookers.

It's Wednesday, June 30th.

I'm Rugamonavalin, and this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

All right, we would be remiss to not mention the bit of a circus show.

That is the New York mayoral Democratic primary election.

In case you missed yesterday's update, numbers were released that showed that Catherine Garcia

had come within 2.2 points of Eric Adams. But shortly after the results were released,

reporters and campaign staffers noticed that there was something off. Roughly

135,000 more votes were counted than those reported on election night. About three hours

after releasing the numbers, the Board of Elections issued a statement, acknowledging a discrepancy,

and subsequently took down the totals from their website. After 10 p.m. Tuesday, the board finally came clean with a statement.

The test ballots were never cleared out of the tabulation system and thus added to the additional

votes in the total. The board said that it had removed all of the erroneous ballots from the count

and will rerun the results. Dave Wasserman put it best on Twitter. Imagine the 2020 Iowa caucus, except instead

of a ritual with limited predictive value, what's at stake is the mayoralty of the nation's

largest city. The president said something really important the other day about the infrastructure package,

but nobody really noticed.

At his press conference celebrating the bipartisan deal, Joe Biden suggested that there would

be no coming back for seconds.

When it comes to spending on basic physical

infrastructure, whatever comes to the bipartisan deal is it. Instead, Biden indicated the

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