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For Joe Biden and Donald Trump, all roads lead to Pennsylvania.

It's your Politico Playbook Daily briefing.

For months, President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have been shadowboxing on the campaign trail,

zigzagging across the country on parallel paths that

never quite intersected. That's about to change. On the final weekend before election day,

both men will campaign in Pennsylvania. And as Politico's Christopher Catalago and Meredith's

McGrath report, the must-win battleground has emerged as a proxy fight between the two.

They write, the stops foreshadow

a likely 2024 rematch and escalate the posturing that's been simmering since Biden vanquished

Trump two years ago, thanks in large part to reclaiming Pennsylvania. Christopher told us on Thursday

night that for Biden, he clearly feels more comfortable returning to Pennsylvania than he does

traveling to the other

battleground states. It's not just evident in the numbers. He's been back there exponentially

more times than almost anywhere else. But also in the way, he talks about his Grant and Roots

and even the level of detail he shares with people about the state of the Senate race between

John Federman and Mehmet Oz.

While the White House and Biden allies are confident, they'll at least walk away from the midterms

with a split decision. At the top of the ticket, what Josh Shapiro expected to win, it would still

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