Happy Monday, I’m Peter Hamby and this is The Best & The Brightest, our daily political email focused on the inside conversation in Washington. Tonight, with the Iowa State Fair kicking off this week, notes on the declining importance of early state politics in national presidential campaigns, and how the DeSantis campaign fell through the social media looking glass.
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Happy Monday, I’m Peter Hamby and this is The Best & The Brightest, our daily political email focused on the inside conversation in Washington. Tonight, with the Iowa State Fair kicking off this week, notes on the declining importance of early state politics in national presidential campaigns, and how the DeSantis campaign fell through the social media looking glass.
But first, a few words from Abby Livingston…
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- Cruz Feels the Burn: Ted Cruz is the top fundraiser among the incumbents and candidates running for Senate this cycle, but he has burned through much of that cash, according to recent F.E.C. tabulations. Cruz has raised $37 million during the last four years but has had a strikingly high burn rate—he has spent $33 million—pushing his cash on hand well below the $5.7 million banked by his Democratic challenger, Colin Allred. Traditionally, senators save as much money as possible during the...
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| If you squint hard enough, the Republican presidential race actually looks closer than the national narrative suggests. Only slightly, of course: Donald Trump still has a commanding lead in the nomination fight, even as he faces 78 criminal charges, and counting, from multiple indictments. But a new poll out of Iowa is giving a measure of comfort to his Republican rivals.
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