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Good morning, Playbookers. I'm Deputy Editor Zach Stanton. It is Friday, November 3rd, and here's what's driving the day.

In New Hampshire, Nikki Haley, whose campaign seems to be having something of a moment, held town halls yesterday, and in itself, that is not surprising.

But what was interesting was someone who was in attendance and something they said,

and someone was Governor Chris Sununu. Haley made a point of asking Sununu, are you ready

to endorse me yet? You know, sort of playful. Sununu, who is a leading non-Trump figure in the GOP and someone whose endorsement could

effectively seal the deal for a candidate looking to consolidate the non-Trump vote in the

New Hampshire primary, responded by saying, getting closer every day.

That's probably not the news Ronda Santis wanted to hear,

but it's something that you should pay attention to. In New York last night, a federal jury found

Sam Bankman-Fried, the one-time cryptocurrency king of the FTX empire, guilty on seven

criminal counts of fraud and conspiracy. On this one, we're watching to see how the government

responds, both in the

SEC, which has brought more than two dozen crypto suits since FtX collapsed, as our Declan

Hardy notes, and may be emboldened to bring more, and in Congress, where there might now be a

renewed sense of vigor when it comes to regulating crypto. But far and away the biggest story in D.C. right now is the Republican-backed $14.3 billion

aid bill that passed the House yesterday and is now headed nowhere in the Senate.

And it's headed nowhere for largely two reasons.

The first is about something that is in the bill, which is the way House Republicans

are paying for it, by cutting funding for the IRS, cuts that the nonpartisan Congressional

Budget Office, say, would actually add almost $27 billion to the federal deficit over the

next decade. And the second reason is something that isn't in the bill, which is aid for Ukraine.

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