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Good morning, everyone.

I'm Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels.

It's Wednesday, September 6th.

I'm going to get to what's driving the day in just a second, but first, let's play a little

game.

Our colleagues over at Political Magazine got their hands on the Spotify playlist of some of the 2024 presidential candidates.

Now, can you guess the candidate from these three songs?

The winner will get nothing.

We don't give gifts out here.

That's not what playbooks about.

So the first song.

Dancing Queen by Abba, obviously. Cool Summer by Banana Ramah.

And pour some sugar on me by Def Leopard.

To find out who the candidate is, you got to read the story.

And honestly, I seem to play with some of these folks, they're trying to prove something. Go take a look. And what's driving the day to day? We have an exclusive look at the top of playbook at the state of play deck from the last campaign manager to reelect a Democratic

presidential incumbent. Jim Messina, you know the man. Basically, it is how Jim views how

Biden is going to win. And he's kind of trying to calm down a lot of Democrats. And they're

hand-winging. He calls it bedwetting. You have to read a book to see why. But essentially,

lays out the path of victory for Biden.

And also something really interesting that we talked about was the third party threat and whether people are taking it seriously enough.

So you're going to want to read Playbook to see that.

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