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Good. Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman.

And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl News. It's Friday, August 2nd, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one,

what's on Mitch McConnell's

mind? Number two, how the top Senate leaders see the 2024 map. And number three, the latest on the

House Freedom Caucus. All right, Jake, let's get into it. We are leading Punchful News.

AM with our very own Andrew Desiderio having a sit down with

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a rare interview by the Kentucky Republican. It's a very,

a very interesting look kind of deep into McConnell's mind. Of course, he was booed at the GOP

convention last month, but it's really interesting to see

how he is cutting his own path way when it comes to certain issues, whether it's Ukraine,

funding, foreign policy in particular, but also, you know, how he kind of is dealing with a kind of

former president, Donald Trump, as well as J.D. Vance, the vice presidential nominee, who is not a,

not close, I guess, is the best way to say it with McConnell. They have a very different worldview.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

At the top of the actual newsletter this morning, we do have a quick line about the prisoner swap,

which was a big story yesterday in Washington.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris went to Andrews, Joint Base Andrews, late last night to welcome

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