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|  Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on Nov. 7. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images | |  | DRIVING THE DAY | | WHO SAID IT? — We hope everyone is enjoying the final hours of the long holiday weekend. If you're in Washington, it's cold and rainy. And while you gather around the hearth with family and wait for tonight's episode of "The White Lotus" to drop, see if you can answer these: Match the quotes with the correct speaker: 1. Former Gov. HOWARD DEAN (D-Vt.) or former Rep. TOM TANCREDO (R-Colo.)? — "I am hoping for [DONALD] TRUMP's nomination." — "There's a significant number of people out there who really are opposed to him, and I don't think will change their minds over the course of the next two years." 2. Former Gov. TERRY McAULIFFE (D-Va.) or Gov. ASA HUTCHINSON (R-Ark.)? — "I hope, someday, we won't have to be responding to what former President Trump has said or done." — "I think we would all like Donald Trump to run again." 3. Republican pollster GLEN BOLGER or Trump national security adviser JOHN BOLTON? — "Trump has significant negatives that makes it very difficult for him to win a majority of the vote." — "One question we asked was: do you want Trump or do you want a fresh face? I think in our last poll over 50% said they wanted a fresh face." 4. The NY Post Editorial board or NYT columnist MAUREEN DOWD's right-wing brother, KEVIN? — "Donald Trump is radioactive." — "And so — again — Trump puts his own ego before common sense, before tolerance, before judgment, before country." 5. Trump or YE (formerly known as Kanye West) or JOE BIDEN? — "Trump was really impressed with NICK FUENTES." — "I told him he should definitely not run for President." — "I really like this guy. He gets me." — "KIM [KARDASHIAN] is a **** **** ****, and you can tell her I said that." — "You don't want to hear what I think." 6. White House deputy press secretary ANDREW BATES or former Gov. CHRIS CHRISTIE (R-N.J.)? — "This is just another example of an awful lack of judgment from Donald Trump." — "Bigotry, hate, and antisemitism have absolutely no place in America — including at Mar-A-Lago." 7. Rep. ADAM SCHIFF (D-Calif.) or ANDY BIGGS (R-Ariz.)? — "KEVIN McCARTHY has no ideology. He has no core set of beliefs. It's very hard not only to get to 218 that way. It's even more difficult to keep 218. That's his problem." — "[McCarthy] doesn't have the votes." See answers below in the Playbookers section. Good Sunday morning, and thanks for reading Playbook. Drop us a line with your own quiz questions: Rachael Bade , Eugene Daniels , Ryan Lizza .
| | | | A message from The American Petroleum Institute (API): With much of the election cycle behind us, the next Congress can resolve current and future energy challenges by addressing the mismatch between available energy supply and growing demand that is putting upward pressure on prices. A recent Rystad study found that implementing API's 10-Point Policy Plan could spur nearly $200 billion in direct investment, generate over 225,000 jobs by 2035, and provide consumers relief with more U.S. natural gas, oil, CCUS and hydrogen supplies. | | | SPECIAL REPORT — Our colleagues Annie Connell-Bryan, Joanne Kenen and Jael Holzman are up with a special report on families with transgender kids across the U.S. who say policies that are limiting gender-affirming medical care in their states are forcing them to flee. Increasingly, trans people are fearful of efforts by conservative governors and legislators to restrict access to medical care for gender dysphoria, a condition that stems from one's lived experience of gender being different from the sex assigned at birth. Annie, Joanne and Jael write that the fight over access to that care — like the fight over abortion rights and other issues at the intersection of health, politics, gender, culture and race — is impacting where Americans want to live, work and raise families. POLITICO spoke to more than a dozen trans adults and families with trans children, including CARRIE JACKSON, whose family was living in Texas when Gov. GREG ABBOTT issued a directive requiring the state's Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate parents with medically transitioning kids. As a result of the policy, parents could be brought up on charges of child abuse, as well as people who worked with trans kids if they didn't report such families to state authorities. "I had this realization," said Carrie, who has a transgender child, "that there is no way forward that involves staying in Texas." Following the rollout of the Texas directive, Carrie moved her family to Maryland for protection. Read the full report here
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The Jackson family at their new home in Maryland. | Jackie Molloy for POLITICO | | | | | A message from The American Petroleum Institute (API):   America faces growing energy challenges. America's energy industry has a plan to provide relief to families, strengthen national security and strengthen our economy. | | | SUNDAY BEST … — Colorado Gov. JARED POLIS on whether he supports a national assault weapons ban, on NBC's "Meet the Press": "If you're talking about a similar process, where you need an additional license or background check for some of the most high-powered weapons, I did support that as a member of Congress. That's the kind of thing that we should be looking at nationally, but not to the exclusion of all these other things that we're talking about, which can be important as well." — Sen. CHRIS MURPHY (D-Conn.) on the Biden administration's push to pass an assault weapons ban, on CNN's "State of the Union": "I'm glad that President Biden is gonna be pushing us to take a vote on an assault weapons ban. The House has already passed it. It's sitting in front of the Senate. Does it have 60 votes in the Senate right now? Probably not. But let's see if we can try to get that number as close to 60 as possible." — Rep. BRIAN FITZPATRICK (R-Pa.) on the need for new red-flag laws, on "Fox News Sunday": "There are ways you can write it where it preserves due process, protect law-abiding gun owners' rights, but at the same time, it advances community safety. Because like I said, with every single one of these tragedies, whether it be Parkland, or Uvalde, or Chesapeake, Va., or any of these, it's incumbent upon us to analyze the situation: Where were the gaps?" — ANTHONY FAUCI on Republicans' calls to bring him in for testimony, on CBS' "Face the Nation": "I didn't get involved before in the politics. And I'm not going to get involved now in the politics. I'd be more than happy to explain publicly or otherwise, everything that we've done, and I could defend and explain everything that we've done from a public health standpoint." — Rep. JAMES COMER (R-Ky.) on the pushback to McCarthy's bid to become speaker, on "Meet the Press": "There's been instances in the past that certain Republicans' voices weren't heard in the conference, but at the end of the day, we need to give Kevin a chance. I think a lot of these members are frustrated because of the things that PAUL RYAN did or things that JOHN BOEHNER did. Kevin McCarthy has never had a chance to be speaker." On Trump's dinner with Fuentes and Ye: "Well, he certainly needs better judgment in who he dines with. … I would not take a meeting with that person, though. I wouldn't take a meeting with Kanye West either, but that's my opinion." — Hutchinson on Trump's dinner, on "State of the Union": "I don't think it's a good idea for a leader that is setting an example for the country or the party to meet with an avowed racist or antisemite. And so it's very troubling, and it shouldn't happen. … And when you meet with people, you empower. And that's what you have to avoid." — Schiff on whether the Jan. 6 committee's report will focus solely on Trump, on "State of the Union": "I certainly hope not. I would like to see our report be as broad and inclusive as possible. We are discussing, as a committee, among the members what belongs in the body of the report, what belongs in the appendices of the report, what is beyond the scope of our investigation. And we will reach those decisions in a collaborative manner." TOP-EDS: A roundup of the week's must-read opinion pieces.
| | BIDEN'S SUNDAY: The president is returning to the White House from Nantucket, Mass.
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|  Georgia voters wait in line to cast their ballots in Atlanta on Sunday, Nov. 27. | Ron Harris/AP Photo | | | PLAYBOOK READS | | 7 THINGS FOR YOUR RADAR 1. RUNOFF REPORT: "Voters turn out for Saturday voting in Georgia Senate runoff," by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Tyler Estep: "Impressive lines were reported throughout the morning — and in some places, only grew from there. Wait times at the DeKalb County elections office eclipsed two hours. A huge line of voters was already gathered in Marietta when Cobb County opened polls at noon." 2. 2024 WATCH: "Republicans shrug off Trump '24 bid: 'The excitement's just not there,'" by David Siders: "More than anything, what the first week of Trump's 2024 campaign has laid bare is that the former president is no longer in a separate league from other potential presidential contenders. He is a dominant — but not the singular — force in the GOP, and his candidacy is starting at a time when Republicans are still digesting his contribution to the party's shortcomings this year." 3. SLUMPING SANCTIONS: "Biden eases Venezuela sanctions as opposition talks resume," by AP's Zeke Miller: "The Biden administration on Saturday eased some oil sanctions on Venezuela in an effort to support newly restarted negotiations between President NICOLÁS MADURO's government and its opposition. The Treasury Department is allowing Chevron to resume 'limited' energy production in Venezuela after years of sanctions that have dramatically curtailed oil and gas profits that have flowed to Maduro's government. Earlier this year, the Treasury Department again allowed the California-based Chevron and other U.S. companies to perform basic upkeep of wells it operates jointly with state-run oil giant PDVSA." 4. PUTTING THE 'WHY' IN N.Y.: "New York Democrats didn't defend their bail law changes. It bit them at the polls," by Anna Gronewold: "New York Democrats knew Republicans would hammer them over public safety during the midterms. They expected the messaging around changes to the state's bail laws — the claims that the so-called reforms had actually allowed dangerous criminals to roam the streets. State lawmakers and Gov. KATHY HOCHUL even took steps to insulate themselves, rolling back some of the changes and devising a fact-based response to the attacks. But it didn't work. And Democratic Party leaders are trying to understand why."
| | | | A message from The American Petroleum Institute (API):   Nearly 9 in 10 Americans support producing energy in America vs. overseas. Policy choices matter. See our plan. | | | 5. WAR IN UKRAINE: "U.S. and NATO Scramble to Arm Ukraine and Refill Their Own Arsenals," by NYT's Steven Erlanger and Lara Jakes in Brussels: "Now, nine months into the war, the West's fundamental unpreparedness has set off a mad scramble to supply Ukraine with what it needs while also replenishing NATO stockpiles. As both sides burn through weaponry and ammunition at a pace not seen since World War II, the competition to keep arsenals flush has become a critical front that could prove decisive to Ukraine's effort." — "Pressure builds to step up weapons tracking in Ukraine," by WaPo's Karoun Demirjian: "Both the State Department and the Pentagon have outlined plans, including more inspections and training for the Ukrainians, meant to prevent U.S. arms from falling into the wrong hands — initiatives that have failed thus far to quell Republican skeptics calling for audits and other accountability measures." — "Hardship and hope: Winter, missile storms show Kyiv's mettle," by AP's John Leicester 6. SPORTS BLINK: "U.S. soccer briefly scrubs emblem from Iran flag at World Cup," by AP's Jon Gambrell in Doha, Qatar: "The U.S. soccer federation briefly displayed Iran's national flag on social media without the emblem of the Islamic Republic, saying the move supports protesters in Iran ahead of the two nations' World Cup match Tuesday. Iran's government reacted by accusing America of removing the name of God from their national flag." 7. TROUBLING TREND: "The Exceptionally American Problem of Rising Roadway Deaths," by NYT's Emily Badger and Alicia Parlapiano: "The U.S. has diverged over the past decade from other comparably developed countries, where traffic fatalities have been falling. This American exception became even starker during the pandemic. In 2020, as car travel plummeted around the world, traffic fatalities broadly fell as well. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Travel declined, and deaths still went up. Preliminary federal data suggests road fatalities rose again in 2021."
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