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Hey, good morning, Playbookers and Rogan Winoval and it's Tuesday.

It's primary day in Idaho, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oregon, and Pennsylvania.

We'll tell you what we'll be watching for.

It's your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

There are three major storylines that continue to dominate the 2022 primary season.

One, Donald Trump's grip on the GOP, two, progressive challenges to Biden-like Democratic centrist,

and three, the rise of anti-democratic and extremist candidates.

All three storylines collide in today's most watched state, Pennsylvania. The best way to

understand the chaotic GOP primaries for Senate and governor there is to remember, as Politico's

Charlie Metessian lays out in today's playbook, that, quote, there are a few states as deeply

infected as Pennsylvania by Donald Trump's election fraud lie. Most of the major GOP

candidates were involved personally,

with trying to overturn the 2020 election results, attended the January 6th, 2021,

insurrection in Washington, or her fashioned themselves into election deniers.

The GOP Senate primary has once again become a battle between Trump and the club for growth.

When Trump's first pick, Sean Parnell,

dropped out of the race after his estranged wife accused him of choking her, Trump backed

to Memad Oz over financier David McCormick. McCormick, by the way, is married to former Trump aide

Dana Powell and attracted some well-known Trump advisors such as Hope Hicks, as Oz and McCormick spent

months tearing the bark off of each other,

an opportunity emerged for the Club for Growth in candidate Kathy Barnett, a far-right candidate,

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