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Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch. Got to by Punchful News. It's Tuesday, October 4th, 2022.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, Republicans fear governors' candidates in Pennsylvania and Michigan could hurt their chances down ballot.

Number two, Herschel Walker facing another brutal story on his personal life.

And number three, CPC chair, Primalogia Paul, and her leadership ambitions.

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

It is fall here.

Man, we are in a little bit of a brutal, this is my weather report, to start the morning.

But it feels like election day is around the corner just with the change of the seasons.

House Republicans are concerned about top of the ticket troubles.

And they're not talking about Senate races.

They're talking about some of the gubernatorial candidates that are potentially hurting their chances

in the key states of Pennsylvania and Michigan. Yeah, they'll, they'll belly ache about

Senate candidates pretty soon, but it's less, it's less clean of a story for us because, I mean,

there was a lot of belly aching about Blake Masters in Arizona and

Hershal Walker and Georgia.

And so, I mean, the Senate candidates are not like, aren't getting off Scott free here.

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