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

And I'm Jake Sherman. Since the coronavirus began spreading in the Capitol,

Senate Republicans have been forced to hold their weekly lunch in the Hart Senate office building instead of the Mansfield Room.

The large room in heart gives Republicans more space to social's distance while they gosh,

but it also means they have to walk through a narrow hallway with a bank of cameras on their way and to eat.

On Tuesday, NBC News's Casey Hunt used the Tuesday lunch to ask Republican senators what they thought of President Donald Trump's behavior.

The resulting montage of lawmakers mostly ignoring her or twisting themselves in pretzels is well worth your time to watch.

Many of them said they were late to lunch or didn't have a comment because they didn't see the

incident, which, of course, you'd have to be living in a cave with a blindfold on and earplugs

to have missed. This got us thinking where would House Republicans fall when it came to Trump's handling of the racial tensions? The House GOP, of course, is fighting for the majority, too, but they are out of session this week, so they've been spared the camera in your face treatment that senators are getting. We chatted with Tom Emmer, the Republican from Minnesota,

who chairs the NRC, and whose district wraps around the north and west of the Twin Cities,

and Steve Scalise, the number two House Republican. They were mostly unbending in their defense of Trump,

and they thought his actions to restore law and order in America would be politically

advantageous for him and for the Republican Party come November.

Emmer said recent polling conducted by Morning Consult, Politico's polling partner, showed that most

people were okay with the military policing their neighborhood.

Emmer and Scalise viewed the unrest similarly.

They say what happened to George Floyd is a tragedy, and the nation should have a

conversation and reflect on racial injustice.

But that conversation is not possible due to violent protests.

Scleese said anarchists have hijacked the protests, which has made it hard for us to have the full

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