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The Daily Punch

Thune’s next big fight: Governing

The Daily Punch

Punchbowl News

Politics, News, Government

4.6666 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Anna and Jake discuss how John Thune must somehow balance a vengeful president, unhappy conservatives, worried GOP moderates and Democrats, all while seeking to protect the Senate’s institutional power and his own majority. Punchbowl News is on YouTube! ⁠Subscribe⁠ to our channel today to see all the new ways ⁠we’re investing in video.⁠ Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress? ⁠Subscribe⁠ to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at ⁠punchbowl.news.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer.

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And I am Jake Sherman.

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And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchable News. It's Tuesday, July 29th, 2025. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines. Number one, Thune's next big fight. Number two, Dems on defense in Nevada. And number three, the latest redistricting battleground in Indiana. All right, Jake, let's get to it.

1:11.5

First of all, I just want to give a shout out to St. Olaf College. I'm wearing my sweatshirt from my alma mater. Go Minnesota. Go Oli's. You know, we talk about fish all the time, so I had to bring a little bit of personal flair this morning. Although, I would say, you know, I wonder if fish has ever played St. Olaf, but I'm sure they have in like the weird early 90s.

1:12.1

Um, I wonder if Fish has ever played St. Olaf, but I'm sure they have in like the weird early 90s. Let's see. I'm going to look this up while I'm here. No. All right. Doesn't look like it. I bet they made it Carlton, but I don't know. They've played. I mean, yeah, they, I don't know. They've definitely played Minnesota a number of times. Carlton, yes, there we go. 41191. I called it. Did you know the cave? Yeah, I know what the cave is, yes. Cool. That's a small venue. All right. It was 91. This was very early. We got some other big personal news. Flyout Day, Jake.

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We have the logo.

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We're revealing it this morning.

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Yes, we have our logo for Fly Out Day our new show, which is going to premiere in September.

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Yes.

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Very exciting.

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Haley Talbot has been captaining our construction at the Punch Bowl News Townhouse, which, you know, I want to call Punch Bull News Studios.

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So we'll have to workshop that one. I'm not quite sure we're ready for that.

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It's not as, well, I guess there is more than one studio now, or there's two studio spaces. So it are, you know, it, it reminds me of like the big lots in in hollywood definitely the same

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exactly yeah just call us you know hollywood hollywood to capital hill yeah exactly very it's very cool

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to our youtube channel which is where you might be

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watching this. You might not be. But we have the link in the newsletter this morning. Can we talk about

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