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Today's show, a bit of a tour through the swing states in the upcoming midterm election.

It's your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

We are 18 days out from Election Day, and Politico colleague Natalie Allison got our hands on some new polling data out of Nevada

that shows the closely watched race between Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Mastow and Republican Adam Lacksalt tightening even further.

According to a poll conducted this week by the conservative Club for Growth and shared exclusively with Politico,

Laxalt has inched ahead of Cortez Mastow by two percentage points, within the poll's margin of error,

a gain from a month ago when he was down three percentage points.

Alaska's independence seemed poised to swing dramatically toward the Democrats,

and that could be an ominous sign for Republicans

throughout the nation. Politico's, David Siders, reports from Wasilla, Alaska.

An excerpt in a state that Donald Trump carried by 10 percentage points in 2020, Alaska's closest

approximation to the former president, Sarah Palin, hit the wall. And for the first time in nearly 50 years, Alaska had sent a Democrat to the House.

It probably wouldn't have happened without Alaska's unusual ranked choice voting system.

The state hadn't turned Democratic overnight after all, but it was possible that Palin's

loss had revealed something alarming for Republicans about

the limitations of a MAGA personality's appeal in the post-Donald Trump presidential

era, not just in Alaska, but in the lower 48 as well.

Politico's.

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