presented by BP.

Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It's Wednesday, September 4th.

Apologies for my voice. I have been sick now for a freaking week, but we will get through this podcast somehow.

We've got 61 days until the election, and last night the Trump campaign was out with a new memo,

arguing that it's

Trump, not Harris, who has the momentum. Campaign managers Chris Lasavita and Susie Wiles

write that Harris's honeymoon phase is over and of course they're blasting her for avoiding the

press and not doing press conferences, which by the way we the media would love to see. Thank you very

much. The memo also touts the

support of Brian Kemp, the popular Georgia governor that Trump recently made nice with after harassing him

from the campaign trail. And they tout, of course, former Democrats Tulsi Gabbard and RFK's

endorsements, though let's be honest, those two were always on the fringe, not exactly part of the Democratic fold.

The Hill isn't back yet for another week, but one Congress story you want to keep an eye on.

House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCall last night issued a subpoena for Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken.

Blinken, as you may know, refused to testify about the bungled Afghanistan pullout three years ago.

But House Republicans are set to issue their final report on this matter next week. And they really want to

keep this in the spotlight now that the Gold Star families who lost loved ones that day during the

Afghanistan pullout are publicly blasting Harris for not meeting with it. As for the top of

playbook today, a few days ago,

conservative commentator Eric Erickson raised some eyebrows on Twitter when he threw out a rather

provocative idea. His argument was that Republicans may actually be fine with a Trump loss on

election day, and more than fine, that some actually are privately pining for it. He's actually not wrong. And this

...