Politics

TL/DR - Tim Sheehy, a Republican challenger to Mr. Tester, raised $2.5 million in the fourth quarter, which included $450,000 of his own money. In Ohio, Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown raised $6.6 million in the same period and had $14.6 million on hand. Among the Republican contenders in Ohio, Bernie Moreno collected $800,300, State Senator…

TL/DR - Jean Carnahan, the first woman to represent Missouri in the Senate, has passed away at the age of 90 after a brief illness. Carnahan was appointed to the Senate seat that her husband, Mel Carnahan, a two-term Democratic governor of Missouri, won posthumously in 2000. She served in the Senate for nearly two years and held a post on the…

TL/DR - Kari Lake, a supporter of Donald Trump, was offered a deal by the head of the Arizona Republican Party, Jeff DeWit, to sit out the U.S. Senate race in Arizona. Lake refused the offer and later leaked a secret recording of the conversation to the Daily Mail. Following this, Lake was booed off stage at the Arizona GOP meeting, and it was…

TL/DR - The US is considering how to respond to proxy forces in Iran following a drone strike that killed three US service members in Jordan. The Biden administration could strike the forces directly, attack their Iranian suppliers, or use a combination of strikes and messaging to deter escalation. Despite sanctions and previous attacks,…