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Hey, good morning, Playbookers.

I'm Rogum Winovalin.

It's a Wednesday.

Here's a question.

How much can one debate matter?

It's your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

Let's state the obvious.

John Federman struggled to effectively communicate during his one-and-only Senate debate

with Memid Oz yesterday in

Harrisburg.

We usually don't dwell on a single debate in a single race, but this one is different.

Control of the Senate and the future of policymaking in Washington may hinge on the outcome

of the Federman Oz race.

The conventional wisdom over the summer was that Oz was a deeply flawed candidate who

couldn't win, but the race

as a toss-up.

Republicans just decided to pour an additional $6 million into Pennsylvania to help Oz.

Stephen Law, who runs the most important Senate GOPi Super PAC, told Politico yesterday,

we believe if we win Pennsylvania, we win the majority.

And then Federman failed to meet even the low expectations his own campaign said for a Monday

in a memo that predicted awkward pauses, missing some words, mushing other words together,

...