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The right-wing Wall Street Journal editorial page is warning Republicans against dismissing more troubling election results that resulted in the party losing mayor's offices in GOP strongholds including Jacksonville, Florida and Colorado Springs, Colorado.

"Three times in a row, since 2018, Republicans have been disappointed on election night in November, in large part because they lost the suburbs," the editorial begins. "More defeats Tuesday for the GOP in Pennsylvania, Colorado and Florida suggest the erosion is continuing."

Florida Democrats see a glimmer of hope in Florida with the mayoral election win in the state's largest city.

The party doesn't hold a single statewide office, and there's a strong chance the GOP challenger to President Joe Biden will be a Florida resident, but Democrats are cautiously optimistic after former TV anchor Donna Deegan's election as Jacksonville mayor, reported Politico.

The National Archives is set to hand over new evidence to special counsel Jack Smith in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, and CNN legal analyst Eli Honig argued on Thursday that former President Donald Trump has little choice but to watch it happen.

In breaking down the latest maneuvers by the special counsel, Honig predicted that Trump would try to block the National Archives from transferring documents to Smith's office -- but he also said this attempt was highly likely to flop.

New evidence in the special counsel’s investigation of Donald Trump over allegations he improperly handled classified documents suggests the former president knew the proper process for declassification, CNN reports.

The National Archives in a May 16 letter to Trump informed the former president that it intended to provide special counsel Jack Smith 16 records that could show Trump and his advisors had knowledge of the appropriate way to declassify such documents, the report said.

Attorney Tim Parlatore abruptly decided to step down as a Trump defense lawyer this week, and now reporter Hugo Lowell of The Guardian is starting to fill in some details about the reasons for his resignation.

Writing on Twitter, Lowell reports that Parlatore's letter was "the culmination of weeks of frustration over how he felt he was hamstrung" in trying to do his job in defending the former president in special counsel Jack Smith's investigation of his handling of top-secret government documents.

Donald Trump and his Republican allies are working to undermine the various prosecutors investigating his alleged crimes, but legal experts say those efforts could actually backfire.

The ex-president routinely complains about those prosecutors, often using racist language against Black investigators, and his GOP allies have tried to discredit them or launched their own counter-investigations to derail them.

Former President Donald Trump's legal defense team is now down one lawyer.

CNN reports that attorney Tim Parlatore abruptly decided to step down as a Trump defense lawyer this week, although he insists that his decision is personal and not related to any issues related to his work for the former president.

Former President Donald Trump erupted on Monday after special counsel John Durham released a 300-page report regarding the FBI's investigation into alleged collusion between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign

Trump took to his social media site, and claimed, "WOW! After extensive research, Special Counsel John Durham concludes the FBI never should have launched the Trump-Russia Probe! In other words, the American Public was scammed, just as it is being scammed right now by those who don’t want to see GREATNESS for AMERICA!"

The indictment of Rep, George Santos (R-NY) on charges wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds and making false statements to Congress by the Department of Justice could be a preview of similar charges being levied against Donald Trump.

That is the opinion of former Homeland Security Department official Paul Rosenzweig who claimed that looking at the allegation made in the indictment could also be applied to the former president who is being investigated by special counsel Jack Smith for similar crimes following his 2020 presidential election loss.

Republican donors are still talking themselves into Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a viable alternative to Donald Trump, whom their internal polling indicates is still deeply unpopular in key states.

The Florida Republican still hasn't formally entered the 2024 race, but his early stumbles and perceived problems with his prickly personality have helped the ex-president build a healthy lead, although the governor's team remains convinced by their internal polling that donors will rally around him once he jumps in, reported Politico.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough kicked off Friday's "Morning Joe" by focusing on comments Donald Trump made about the government documents he was hoarding at his Mar-a-Lago report during his CNN town hall on Wednesday, with Scarborough asserting the former president gave more ammo to special counsel Jack Smith.

During his conversation with CNN moderator Kaitlan Collins, the former president argued with her about the legality of taking the documents that led to the FBI showing up with a warrant with the case subsequently handed to Smith.