Happy Tuesday and welcome back to The Best & The Brightest. I’m Peter Hamby.

Thanks to Julia Ioffe for filling in for me yesterday. And speaking of Julia, please check out The Powers That Be tomorrow for our conversation about the Biden administration’s diminishing patience with Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s a fantastic episode. (As always, it’s free to listen. Subscribe here or here.)

In tonight’s issue, the latest poll from our partnership with Echelon Insights, which found that voters everywhere are deeply frustrated with this election season—and turned off big-time by Donald Trump using campaign contributions to pay his legal fees.

But first… here’s Abby Livingston with an update on today’s madness on the Hill…

An eye-popping 61 percent of likely voters described their mood about the 2024 election as...