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Good Wednesday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing.

And I'm Anna Palmer. Here's how Republicans and Democrats are different. House Democrats

released an 1800 page $3 trillion stimulus bill Tuesday and they say they will vote on it Friday, despite some

gripes from the left.

Yes, that's a vote on a massive bill after lawmakers get just a few days to review it.

This legislation is a messaging bill that will never become law, but it's a way for the

party to make the point that, in their view, they're working on coronavirus

relief and Senate Republicans are not. Pramila Jayapal and Mark Pocan, two progressive

leaders in Congress, are pushing to delay the vote until next week, saying they need more time

to pour over the legislation. A delay would also be helpful for Jayapal, who was pushing her

own plan to have the government pay for a huge chunk of workers' wages, something Nancy Pelosi has resisted. There are a cross-section of Democrats,

lawmakers ranging from progressive dissentrists who want more time to read this bill, but the

leadership seems to have that under control and is moving toward a Friday vote. If this were the

GOP, the Freedom Caucus wouldn't be asking the leadership to delay the bill.

They'd be saying that if the leadership didn't delay the bill, they'd make sure it failed.

Progressive Democrats don't do that.

Yet.

In the Capitol, power is in numbers.

The only way to have sway is if you can get to 218, the threshold to passage on your

own or prevent someone else from getting there. Progressives won't win these battles against

their leadership until they can do one of the two. New this morning, the Trump campaign sent

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