Your New Senator Is a Total Lightweight. She’s Perfect.

There’s been lots of reporting lately about the breathlessly fawning personal letters Natalie Harp habitually writes to her boss. Last night, the Daily Beast released two of them in full—and they’re so, so much creepier than advertised. We don’t want you to click away, so we’ll stick them down in the Cheap Shots—and we are relying on the honor system that you won’t simply skip ahead. All we’ll say up here is: Yikes. Happy Friday.Join Catherine Rampell and JVL for Receipts Live today at 12:30 p.m. EDT today on Substack and YouTube.Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., attends the Senate Judiciary Committee mark up on the nomination of Todd Blanche to be attorney general, in Hart building on Tuesday, August 4, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)by Andrew EggerDarline Graham’s Taiw