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Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch. Brought to you by Punchable News. It's Thursday, October 21st, 2021.

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

Number one, the Democrats' new isolation strategy. Number two, Steve Bannon's fate in the House,

and number three, a blast from the past, Ed Buckham, the Republican operative is back.

All right, Jake, let's get into this.

The number one story of the day, leading Punchable News a.m.

is this new strategy that we are seeing unfold between President Joe Biden and Democratic

leadership in terms of trying to push forward with a deal on reconciliation.

Yeah, so listen, right now, as we say every day, the Democrats need to get moving, number one.

But number two, they need to, they've come to a new conclusion, according to our reporting, which is that it will be

easier to get a deal with Joe Manchin than it would be to get a deal with Kirsten's cinema.

And what they're trying to do is they are trying to isolate cinema.

So they're trying to get a deal with Mansion and basically put cinema on ice, not on ice, but I would say, you know,

force cinema to make a decision. Does she want a deal or not? And try to force her into a corner.

And that's a lot of pressure to withstand, right? I mean, is cinema going to, if they get a deal with Mansion,

is cinema going to stand between a victory, between Democrats and a victory?

And that's going to be really difficult, I would imagine, for cinema,

who has been accused by the White House of being accused by a lot of people, of being, you know,

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