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Nebraska Republican Charles Herbster is being accused by multiple women of sexual harassment, groping and various other forms of sexual misconduct. It made it all the more confusing that he has decided to make talking about sex education a key point of his campaign speech at Sunday's rally.

According to Herbster, he wants to take sex education out of schools and put it back in the home, where he said it "belongs."

Former NFL superstar Jack Brewer appeared at the Donald Trump rally in Nebraska Sunday, announcing Republican gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster.

Herbster has faced criticism over the past week as a second woman has come forward with sexual harassment allegations, saying that he inappropriately groped her.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) went on a self-pitying rant against House minority leader Kevin McCarthy with a supportive constituent during a virtual town hall on Thursday night.

McCarthy had said in a private discussion that the Florida Republican put other lawmakers in danger with his rhetoric after a mob of Donald Trump supporters broke into the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection, and caller identified as David from Fort Walton Beach called Gaetz to discuss the incident.

A Republican lawmaker tripped himself up during a hearing with Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday.

Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) challenged Mayorkas to explain statistics showing deportations for violent criminals had gone down compared to the final year of the Trump administration, and the secretary explained his claim that deportations had actually gone up under President Joe Biden.

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski unloaded on Republican lawmakers who brushed past leaked recordings of House minority leader Kevin McCarthy's private criticism of Donald Trump by suggesting the audio was fake.

McCarthy faced the GOP conference Wednesday after his private remarks were leaked and appears to have the party's continued support, and at least two Republican lawmakers claimed the recordings might have been deceptively edited.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough uncorked a rant to demonstrate how Democratic candidates should call out the "freaks" who populate the Republican Party.

The "Morning Joe" host urged Democrats to follow the example of Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, who forcefully denounced the "groomer" slurs lodged against her by a GOP colleague because she supported LGBTQ rights.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) fumed at one of President Joe Biden's judicial nominees over her inclusion on a civil rights group's "hate list."

The Tennessee Republican confronted Nancy Abudu during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for her nomination to the 11th Judicial Circuit, complaining that the Southern Poverty Law Center had placed her on a February 2019 list of GOP candidates peddling hateful messages.

A new poll shows Republican voters are largely unconcerned about candidates accused of violent acts or making bigoted statements, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said the results showed the "fascist strain in the Republican Party."

The Politico/Morning Consult survey found a stark partisan split in concerns over sexual misconduct or domestic violence, and an even greater divide on candidates who make racist, homophobic or antisemitic remarks.

Secretary of state Tony Blinken and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) clashed during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

The Kentucky Republican agreed there was no justification for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but he expressed strong opposition to Ukraine joining NATO because he said that would commit U.S. troops to the war.

George Conway ripped Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell for missing his opportunity to destroy Donald Trump after the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Just hours after the deadly U.S. Capitol riot, the Kentucky Republican told a reporter that he was "exhilarated" that Trump had "thoroughly discredited himself," comparing the insurrection to a political suicide by the then-president, but panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" why McConnell helped revive his political fortunes.

In the 1950s it was Elvis Presley that parents and religious leaders claimed was leading the nation's children to Satan. He gyrated his hips to '"savage rhythms," and played “the Devil's music." Now one conservative is trotting out the same tired accusations, but only targeting women.

Rolling Stone cited a podcast exposed by Media Matters by Michigan Republican candidate for Secretary of State, Kristina Karamo. The Michigan GOP has given her their endorsement, despite her connections to QAnon and some of her more bizarre opinions.

Celebrity physician turned Pennsylvania politician Mehmet Oz faced off against his GOP opponents in the first debate Monday evening. The state's primary election is on May 17, but support numbers at just 18 percent, former President Donald Trump endorsed him because he had a good television audience, which Trump believed would translate into votes.

There were several questions that may have come as shockers to the viewers as the Republicans debated the 2020 election and the so-called "big lie." When Oz was asked whether it was time to move on two years after the 2020 election, the physician said "no."

On Monday, Los Angeles Times legal analyst Harry Litman explained that it appears former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is "up to his neck" in two possible federal crimes.

But former Watergate attorney Jill Wine-Banks said on MSNBC later in the day that such crimes could be the reason that the Justice Department isn't acting on the contempt of Congress charge.