NEW: Sen. Tester (D-Mont.) is defending a key Senate seat, and Dems must retain it to maintain their slim majority after Joe Manchin's departure.

Campaign finance reports show Tester raised $7.1M in Q1 of 2024, four times as much as his GOP opponent.

crp.org/mtrace

NEW: As of the end of the first quarter, Ohio’s Senate race is proving to be one of the country’s most expensive elections as Republicans push to unseat Democratic incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown and clear a path to a Senate majority.

crp.org/24oh

NEW: With more than $23.9M spent on lobbying and millions more on ads, ByteDance is fighting to keep TikTok alive in the US.

Trump also posted on his social media platform, Truth Social, accusing Biden of being “responsible for banning TikTok.” 1/🧵

crp.org/tk

NEW: The U.S. Chamber, Business Roundtable and other biz groups have sued the FTC to block its ban on noncompete agreements.

The FTC voted 3-2 Tuesday to pass the new rule, which would bar new noncompetes and wipe away existing agreements covering 30M workers. thehill.com/business/46177…

In 2012 about 30% of Ted Cruz's individual donors were out of state.

In 2018 that jumped to 41% as he came off presidential run.

This year he's up to almost 55% of individual donors coming from out of state according to OpenSecrets.org

houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas…

Strong fundraisers vie to succeed Leader McConnell as U.S. Senate Republican leader.
McConnell has raised more than $1 billion for Republicans since 2015. (That's a lot of speech.)
Via OpenSecrets.org kentuckylantern.com/2024/04/22/str… via Kentucky Lantern

NEW: In every Senate battleground state, the Democratic candidate is significantly outraising their top Republican opponent.

And, in every race where the GOP primary has not yet happened, the Dem candidate is outraising all GOP candidates combined.

crp.org/dems24

Court docs mistakenly made public reveal GOP megadonor, Jeff Yass, was deeply involved in TikTok’s genesis.

Yass has funded an advocacy drive to prevent its banning and is also the largest donor this election cycle, with more than $46M in contributions.

nytimes.com/2024/04/18/bus…

Court docs mistakenly made public reveal GOP megadonor, Jeff Yass, was deeply involved in TikTok’s genesis.

Yass has funded an advocacy drive to prevent its banning and is also the largest donor this election cycle, with more than $46M in contributions.

nytimes.com/2024/04/18/bus…