How to Left Join then get the latest row in Second Table using where Date

Is anyone know how to query this example table?

here the preview : imgur.com/a/NpyCvqp

i think its a left join from table 'branches' to table 'branch_operationals' which i should put 'where date' inside the query .

Here the example

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TABLE 'branches'

id | code | name

1 | T2QD5 | NewYork_Spot

2 | MKGHB | London_Spot

3 | IGHCZ | Miami_Spot

4 | PJDSO | Tokyo_Spot

TABLE 'branch_operationals'

id | branch_id | date | status

1 | 2 | 2020-12-05 | closed

2 | 2 | 2020-12-06 | closed

3 | 3 | 2020-12-06 | open

4 | 2 |2020-12-06|closed

5 | 2 |2020-12-06|open

6 | 1 |2020-12-16|closed

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EXPECTED RESULT

id (from 'branches.id') | code | name | status

1 | T2QD5 | NewYork_Spot | closed

2 | MKGHB | London_Spot | open

3 | IGHCZ | Miami_Spot | open

4 | PJDSO | Tokyo_Spot | null

.

and here my current query

select * from branches left join branch_operationals on branches.id = branch_operationals.branch_id where (date = 2020-12-21)

but its return null (empty data), but when i remove the 'where' statement, it shows all data from table branch_operationals with each data from table branches

currently im using Laravel 8, and here my laravel syntax

$branches = Branch::leftJoin('branch_operationals','branches.id','branch_operationals.branch_id')->where(function($q) use($request){
    if($request->search){
        $q->where(function($q) use($request){
            $q->where('code','like','%'.$request->search.'%');
            $q->orWhere('name','like','%'.$request->search.'%');
        });
    }

    if($request->date_filter){
            $q->where('date','2020-12-21');
    }else{
            $q->where('date',\Carbon\Carbon::now()->toDateString());
    }
})->get();

i need the query syntax or the laravel eloquent syntax

can anyone help me? thank you for your attention :)