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Today on the Playbook podcast, all the fallout from Texas last night in the most important

primaries of 2026. We got the reaction,

we got the analysis, and we'll tell you what's coming next. And war in the Middle East,

day five, the White House messaging battle continues here in D.C. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.

And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Wednesday, March 4th.

Dasha, how you doing? Did you enjoy the elections last night?

Oh, you know, I loved it. Gosh, there's so much to think about, to dig into, so many implications, bellwethers, if you will.

We are recording this in the dead of night, as we tend to do.

They have not literally called the Democratic Senate primary race at this point because

there's been some issues for some of the voting, but it looks absolutely on course for

James Tenerico to beat Jasmine Crockett in that all-important Senate battle Dasher. And in the other one,

the big Republican battle at the same seat, it's going to a runoff. John Cornyn and Ken Paxton

will be duking it out head-to-head later in the spring. Let's unpack what we know.

Let's talk about the Dems first because we know how closely that race has been watched.

Yeah, well, Jasmine Crockett, of course, is taking issue with how this whole thing went down with the

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