Hello and welcome to the Punch Bull News Readback Podcast.

I'm your host, congressional reporter Max Cohen,

and today I'm joined by our senior congressional reporter, Andrew Desiderio,

who is just on the campaign trail in three key swing states ahead of a very busy time in Washington.

But Andrew was in Arizona.

He was in Nevada, and he was in Michigan.

So really great for you to join us, Andrew.

Welcome back to D.C.

Yeah.

How are you doing? How is it trips? I'm good,

Max. It's, uh, it's always good to, uh, get out of D.C. in August, uh, and escape the scorching

humid temperatures here, although going to the literal desert, um, in August isn't so great either,

because then you've got the dry heat

or you feel like you're literally walking into an oven because it's like 100 and approaching

110 degrees. So there's that little trade-off. Yeah, I was going to say, I know you and Jake

talked about that on The Daily Punch a lot about what Arizona was like.

And listen, the dry heat versus the humidity, we can debate this endlessly.

But, you know, it certainly is a change of pace.

How about they? They both suck.

They both suck.

That's good.

Yeah, well, let's start off with that, with that dry heat then.

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