 Complete the following phrase:  During the U.S. Senate election in 1940, United States Attorney Maurice Milligan former opponent Jacob Milligans brother and former governor Lloyd Stark both challenged Truman in the Democratic primary. Truman was politically weakened by Pendergasts imprisonment for income tax evasion the previous year; the senator had remained loyal, having claimed that Republican judges not the Roosevelt administration were responsible for the bosss downfall. St. Louis party leader Robert E. Hannegans support of Truman proved crucial; he later brokered the deal that put Truman on the national ticket. In the end, Stark and Milligan split the anti-Pendergast vote in the Senate Democratic primary and Truman won by a total of 8,000 votes. In the November election, Truman defeated Republican Manvel H. Davis by 5149 percent. As Senator, Truman opposed both Nazi Germany and Communist Russia. One week after 