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Good morning, Playbookers. I'm Deputy Editor Zach Stanton. It is Friday, September 8th,

and here's what's driving the day. In campaign news, South Dakota Governor Kristy Noem is expected

to endorse Donald Trump at a sold-out

fundraiser today, an acknowledgement both of his frontrunner status and of her effort to put

herself front and center in the veep stakes, the sort of nascent race to be Donald Trump's running

mate.

Our own Adam Wren has a good read-up on that this morning that you should check out.

There are three things that you should know about concerning each of the three branches of government today.

The first comes from the White House.

At the G20 meeting in New Delhi, the Biden administration will unveil its plans to counter

growing Chinese influence throughout the developing world.

And the pitch to these developing countries goes something like this.

Join us and you'll see economic development that prioritizes a Western-dominated rules-based

order, and we will work with you to fight climate

change, and will take an inclusive approach to growth. And the skeptical response from these

developing nations might go something like this. We've been burned by decades of Western-imposed

austerity and high debt burdens, so why should we believe you on this?

How will Joe Biden win them over? Well, it turns out that the strategy is to promise a whole

lot of investment in their nations, which, as Gavin Bade writes this morning, marks a dramatic

shift from decades of U.S. economic policy that largely focused on

removing tariffs and other trade barriers in hopes that private U.S. companies would

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