By Rudi Keller | Deputy Editor
In the 32nd state Senate District in far southwest Missouri, incumbent state Sen. Jill Carter is seeking a second term. Her Republican primary opponent, Dr. Ellen Nichols, is the wife of the man Carter beat in a 2022 primary.
Nichols says she’s ready for a change after a career as a neurosurgeon. She’s not in the race for payback, she says.
Carter isn’t so sure.
“If it’s not revenge, then what is it?” Carter said.
Rebecca Rivas has the story.
Incumbent Missouri Republican Sen. Jill Carter and Dr. Ellen Nichols will face off in the Republican primary for the Missouri Senate District 32nd seat on Aug. 4. (Photos submitted)
by Rebecca Rivas
The 32nd state Senate District Republican primary represents a rematch of sorts from 2022. Carter was the only Republican primary candidate that year to unseat an incumbent, then state Sen. Bill White, and he accompanied Nichols to Jefferson City on filing day. The race is not about revenge, Nichols said. She’s been interested in public office for a long time, she said, and she now has the opportunity to go for it.
However, Carter isn’t convinced.
Missouri political fundraising this year is dominated by the fights over constitutional amendments on the Aug. 4 ballot. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)
by Rudi Keller
Ballot measure fights are consuming the big money in Missouri elections this summer, with more than $27 million raised for proposals on the Aug. 4 ballot, according to reports filed this week with state and federal authorities.
There’s no hotly contested statewide candidate race on the primary election ballot, but there are four constitutional amendments, with two drawing by far the most attention and money.
The U.S. Supreme Court sided with President Donald Trump in many of its decisions this term, with a few high-profile exceptions. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)
COMMENTARY
by Daniel R. Schramm
The Supreme Court checked President Donald Trump with high profile decisions against him on tariffs, birthright citizenship, and his desire to fire Lisa Cook at the Federal Reserve Board without cause.
But the court gave Trump expansive new authority under its unitary executive theory. And the court ruled in favor of the Trump administration about 80% of the time in emergency docket applications over a one-year period.
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