Your Saturday Briefing: DeSantis Looms; Super Bowl’s Tight Odds

Something for the weekend 

Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, during the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas in November. 

Photographer: Ronda Churchill/Bloomberg
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Greetings from New York City.

It was a busy political week in the US, a sort of limbering up at the starting blocks for the 2024 national races. President Joe Biden’s State of Union was about as decorous as a junior high school cafeteria. While Republicans raucously went after the president — who gave back like a man who’s looking for a second term — the race among Republicans is beginning to churn. Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is slated to announce her candidacy next week.