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A bevy of potential Republican presidential candidates stood up to challenge Donald Trump over the weekend, and anti-Trump conservative Charlie Sykes said there was something different this time.

Republicans with their own White House aspirations made clear at this weekend's Republican Jewish Coalition conference that the party should move on from the former president, who announced his 2024 campaign last week, and Sykes told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Trump's gambit had failed to pay off.

ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl described a scene of Donald Trump flying in the helicopter to Andrews Air Force Base to give a final speech as president and then jetting off to Mar-a-Lago before incoming President Joe Biden could be inaugurated. Republican Party chair Ronna Romney McDaniel called as a kindness to the outgoing president only to get an ear full about his determination to start his own party.

After some discussion, the GOP told Trump that he could abandon the GOP and start his own party, but he would no longer have any of his legal bills paid by the party. Trump ultimately held back, but now that he has taken over power and control of the party, it means that no candidate can make it through a Republican primary without the blessing of Donald Trump.

Former White House communications chief, Stephanie Grisham, confessed that Donald Trump's announcement speech wasn't quite what she thought it would be.

Speaking to Alex Witt on Sunday, Grisham agreed that it was "low energy," an attack Trump once lobbed at Jeb Bush. She said that it appeared that in his speech they were doing some message testing with the speech, which may have been why he was reading it from the TelePrompter.

Former FBI counter-intelligence official, Frank Figliuzzi, cited reports that someone matching the suspected shooter's name, age, and hometown as the Club Q shooting called in a bomb threat. It prompted Figliuzzi to ask how the shooter was allowed access to guns.

"Even the complainant may have been his mother and the target of the threat may have been his mother's home," he explained. "If that comes out to be accurate and confirmed, of course, it will raise questions of why this individual was permitted to possess a weapon. And the larger question of what criteria should forbid or preclude someone from possessing a weapon? This person reportedly, according to police, had two weapons -- including a long gun that he used in this episode. Here we are again talking about mass violence. Talking about what looks right now in the early stages to be a targeted event. As the reporters said, November 20th is Transgender Remembrance Day. It's important in the law enforcement community when they are investigating things like this to look at anniversaries, days of remembrance, and what does the calendar say about maybe a possible motive."

Donald Trump was restored to Twitter on Sunday along with all of his previous tweets and a large following that is 20 times larger than his following on Truth Social. It sparked Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) to assume that the former president was about to bail on his social media site.

"Well, look, I get that people are on all sides of the debate. The fact that he did it with a poll of however many of those could be bots, they aren't real people voting in that. Secondarily, I don't know if that decision should be made by some poll," said Kinzinger.

@realDonaldTrump was removed from Twitter in the days following the Jan. 6 attack and after several months of claiming the election was "rigged." When that happened, all of the amplification and promotion of his tweets went along with it.

Presumably, the House Select Committee pulled some information from Twitter, but the newly restored account means that those links to other accounts are also available again.

The Justice Department announced a special prosecutor to handle two cases involving possible indictments of former President Donald Trump. It was reported last week that prosecutors inside the DOJ believe the indictment will be handed down for the document scandal in the next 30 to 90 days.

Speaking on CNN Sunday morning, it was reported that Trump's Twitter account has been restored with all 72 million followers, significantly more than he has on his personal social media website, Truth Social.

A Republican Party official in Nevada drew gasps by smearing a former party chairwoman as an "alcoholic bimbo" in a lengthy rant about Donald Trump.

Michele Fiore, an outgoing Las Vegas city councilwoman who lost her election for state treasurer, was shown on video leaked to the media attacking Amy Tarkanian, the state's former GOP chairwoman and the wife of Douglas County commissioner Danny Tarkanian, reported KSNV-TV.

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) "willingly ignorant" comparison of Russia's invasion of Ukraine to immigration across the southern border of the U.S.

The Georgia Republican called for an audit of U.S. funding to Ukraine in its battle against Russian aggression, which she compared to the surge of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border under President Joe Biden.

Republicans appear to have won a narrow House majority, but minority leader Kevin McCarthy faces a real challenge in becoming the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

The California Republican has been working behind the scenes to secure the votes he'll need to take charge of the chamber, but Washington Post reporter Jacqueline Alemamany told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that other GOP lawmakers despise him.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough reacted to Herschel Walker's bizarre diatribe about vampires and werewolves during a campaign speech.

The football legend-turned-Republican Senate candidate is facing off Dec. 6 in a runoff election against Sen. Rafael Warnock (D-GA), and he spoke for more than two minutes about a late-night movie he had recently watched, which prompted him to compare the relative strengths of the folkloric creatures.

Former President Donald Trump has been written off before, but MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said this time feels different.

The former president announced his 2024 campaign this week, but several GOP megadonors have already said they would not support his White House bid, and several rivals are emerging as challengers for the Republican nomination.

Former President Donald Trump announced his candidacy for 2024 a full two years ahead of the election and the co-hosts of "The View" had a lot of opinions about it on Wednesday.

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said ahead of the announcement that the reason Trump wanted to announce so quickly after the midterms was that he thought it would make things more difficult for the Justice Department to indict him.