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🚨Introducing a new chapter for Playbook.

Last month @adamwren, @DashaBurns and @wsteaks took over as co-authors, and today is our official relaunch.

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Donald Trump is scrambling to blunt the effects of rising oil prices. Josh Turek doesn't think his moves will help much.

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Ukraine alleges it's not getting the usual help from the U.S., while the Trump administration says it's working for peace.

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The new White House press secretary is already out of her role.

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Republicans are running out of time to turn voters’ minds around on affordability woes — some of which the GOP helped set in motion.

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Scoop: A new internal poll for North Carolina Republican Laurie Buckhout’s campaign finds her narrowly ahead of Democratic Rep. Don Davis, 43% to 42%.

The details in Playbook PM: https://t.co/TER9u29OT9

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President Donald Trump has coveted the Nobel Peace Prize. Today’s laureate is in many ways his antithesis.

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The Supreme Court sounded torn over a major climate change case that kicked off its new term today.

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Pete Buttigieg is barnstorming the nation in the final weeks before the midterms.

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Top Republicans envision a “Golden Age” of artificial intelligence. Democrats see a political opening as voters sour on Big Tech.

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Two months out, congressional leaders are staking out very different strategies for how to win over voters on their No. 1 issue.

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Iowa farmers have borne some of the brunt of Trump’s policy whiplash. That doesn’t mean they’re abandoning the GOP.

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Bernie Sanders to pressure Trump to pursue an international agreement to pause the AI race ahead of his upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, reports @wsteaks in @playbookdc.

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I asked noted angler @RahmEmanuel — until recently on a CNN contract — how @GavinNewsom beat him to fly fishing on CNN.

He sent me this:

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wrote in to @playbookdc this morning about Trump calling AI fears a “hoax” — a term he most often uses when talking about Russia/impeachment or Jeffrey Epstein

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The economic picture for Americans — and Republicans’ political prospects — continues to look cloudy.

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Gavin Newsom built a national image around his sharp approach to taking on Trump. Now he’s trying a different role: Democrats’ chief consoler.

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Two months out, these are the narratives that will determine who wins control of Congress.

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Joe Morelle is gaming out potential election threats -- and thinking about reforms to pass next year.

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During Gavin Newsom’s first stop on his tour in South Carolina, he was nearly upstaged by another photo line for Don Lemon — who has said he’s serious about a potential 2028 presidential run.👇

More in @playbookdc: https://t.co/aYQf8iSvNc

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Scoop in @playbookdc: VP Kamala Harris is planning to announce travel to multiple states, including purple ones, ahead of the midterms.

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