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Hey, good morning, playbookers on Ragu Minnavalon. It's Thursday. Today's show, the opposition

research that J.D. Vance probably doesn't want you to read. It's your Politico Playbook

Daily Briefing.

J.D. Vance owes his GOP Senate primary victory in Ohio to two people, former President Donald Trump and Peter Thiel.

Trump adorned him over the top in a crowded primary, while Thiel's support, funneled through a super PAC called Protect Ohio Values, aka POV, enabled Vance to outsource many traditional campaign operations, including polling, advertising, get-out-the-vote operations,

and as it turns out, opposition research.

There's one big problem with letting a super PAC do everything.

Campaign finance law prohibits communication between a candidate's own committee and a super PAC

supporting them, but there are ways around that obstacle.

As Politico's Alex Eisenstadt detailed in today's playbook,

Povie set up an unadvertised but public medium account where posted a trove of sensitive documents, polling reports, audio, and video for Vance to use. Some of the files are boring,

such as B-roll footage the Vance Camp could include in ads, but the group also posted extensive

opposition research reports on both his primary opponents and Vance himself.

Among the documents, as Alex noted, was a lengthy study of Vance's vulnerabilities.

It's essentially a how-to guide for attacking Vance, which anyone, including the campaign of general election opponent representative Tim Ryan, could access as of early Thursday morning.

They didn't make it easy to find.

Some 1,200 words into a 1700 word, February 6 post on POV's Medium account, there's a link

suggesting it'll take you to some polling.

You click it, and it actually takes you to a Dropbox folder with dozens of campaign strategy

documents, including PDFs of two versions of a JD Vance vulnerability analysis.

Here's a question then. What's in Vance's Apop book on Big Tech? Quote, Vance has positioned

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