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Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch. Brought to you by Punch Bowl News. It's Friday,

May 21st, 2021.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, we're laying out something new.

We're calling the Biden doctrine this morning.

Number two, we've got a scoop on infrastructure.

And number three, the latest on the DNC and R&C fundraising race.

All right, Jake, let's talk about this number one story.

We go deep into Biden world looking back at the kind of how his term in office is going so far.

Yeah, so we've been watching him now four months.

It's kind of crazy to think about it.

Yesterday was the four-month anniversary of his presidency.

And the, I would say the following.

I would say number one, he is, he's relearning Washington.

So we have a bunch of observations, and this is the first one.

Biden got into the presidency on the idea that he had this unique insight and unique ability to

understand Republicans and work with Republicans. And he's found out that Republicans are basically

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