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Today on the Playbook podcast, one day into early voting in Texas and the primary battle of the year is already red hot.

Trump's top team huddle at the Capitol Hill Club to figure out how to win the midterms and why the most political pop concert of the year is headed to D.C.

Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.

And I'm Adam Wren, and it's Wednesday, February the 18th.

Adam, great to have you back again.

I want to talk about Texas again.

We did this yesterday morning, but this race just keeps getting more and more interesting, doesn't it?

For listeners who didn't tune in yesterday and are not across this,

the early voting is started in the Texas primary is the Senate battle for Texas. It's absolutely fascinating. Both parties

have got really, really interesting primary battles going on. Both of them have a sort of

essence of the fight for the soul of the party about them. And if the chips fall in a certain way,

it feels like this Senate seat is really up for grabs. And we talked a lot yesterday, Adam, about the Democratic battle, which is

essentially a head-to-head between James Telerico and Jasmine Crockett. And then late on Monday

night, James Talariko, who'd been supposed to appear on the late show with Stephen Colbert,

a big platform for a politician

that most people have not yet heard of, and the interview gets pulled at the last minute after he's

done it. Adam, just talk us through this on why it's so interesting. Yeah, well, it's fascinating

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