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Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off. Conditions apply. Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake

Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, Brad to by Punch Bowl News. It's Thursday, November 10th,

2022. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, the latest on Kevin McCarthy's bid for speaker. Number two, the state of play in the

Senate. And number three, what's happening in that House whips race? All right, Jake, let's get into it.

All eyes are on Kevin McCarthy.

As politicians on both sides of the aisle are continuing to process what happened on election night and the fact that the red wave did not materialize as he had predicted.

We have some news in terms of kind of his strategy as they try to kind of game out how he is going to

win the speakership should Republicans take the majority in the House?

Yes.

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