From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, June 24th.

As we begin an eventful week in New York and national politics, the main event nationally is this Thursday night's

televised debate between President Biden and former President Trump, as you all know,

and tomorrow is primary day in New York State with the marquee race in the Democratic

congressional primary being in Lower Manhattan, Lower Westchester and a little of the Bronx

between Jamal Bowman and George Latimer. But there are many other things on the ballot, too,

including another Democratic congressional primary, John Avlon versus Nancy Goroff on Long Island,

as they each hope to take on Republican Congressman Nick Lulota and flip that seat

blue. Of course, the New York suburbs so key in 2022 to Republicans having control of the House.

It will be a very key area in 2024 for who controls the House.

So who has the better shot at defeating Nick La Lolaola Goroff or

Avalon. We'll talk about that race coming up. But we'll start on the national scene. A few things I've

read or heard about Thursday night's Trump-Biden debate. It's the earliest presidential debate ever coming even before the party's conventions

this summer. I wonder what the implications of that might be. The political columnist John

Heilman in his Puck News newsletter this morning wrote, it might wind up being their only debate,

even though a second one is already scheduled

in September. I wonder what kind of politics might lead to a cancellation of debate number two.

Also, a respected New York journalist I know, and I'm not going to name them because we had

this conversation off the air, and I didn't ask if I could use it, but a respected New York

journalist predicted a Biden victory in November.

Why?

Because so much of Trump's support in the polls comes from people who say they pay little

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