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

And I'm Jake Sherman, a split screen, Mark Caputo in Philadelphia.

Joe Biden took a major step toward clinching the Democratic nomination last night with dominant primary victories,

including the

night's biggest prize of Michigan. Here's David Siders. Last night was so debilitating for Bernie

Sanders that after returning to his home state of Vermont, he didn't even make a speech.

Meanwhile, today in coronavirus, amid the back and forth over the federal response to the coronavirus,

this much the top ranks of Republican and Democratic leadership and the White House can agree on.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi once again has extraordinary leverage over President Donald Trump and

the White House.

One Republican put it to us this way.

Pelosi has Trump over a barrel.

Here's why.

Trump and his White House are the public faces of the fallout over the deadly virus,

rippling across the nation, and he needs Pelosi, his nemesis, to pass a bill to deal with

the fallout.

The U.S. just surpass 1,000 confirmed cases as of last night.

Of course, Pelosi has a laundry list of priorities of her own, but rarely is a leverage

as skews as it is here.

There will be immediate action.

Pelosi is going to quickly cobble together, and the Democrats will vote on a bill this

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