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Former FBI Counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok attacked Donald Trump's comments regarding the former president's hoarding of classified documents. Strzok appeared on MSNBC with Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday after news broke about the government's year-long quest to obtain access to the documents taken by Trump to his Florida resort.

According to The Washington Post, Trump spent months resisting the government's request to return classified documents — including ignoring a grand jury subpoena — before the FBI conducted the raid on his Palm Beach residence on Aug. 8. Authorities reportedly removed more than 700 pages of documents.

Republicans have played up the idea that no American should be handed free money for student loan repayment. But a June NPR/Ipsos poll among American adults showed that 55 percent of Americans support giving the $10,000 in loan forgiveness to families making less than $125,000 a year.

The Republican House Judiciary committee posted a comment, "If you take out a loan, you pay it back. Period." They later ranted in all-caps, "NOTHING IS FREE."

The mudslinging between U.S. Senate candidates Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz escalated this week, with the celebrity doctor turned political candidate making jabs about his opponent’s health.

“If John Fetterman had ever eaten a vegetable in his life, then maybe he wouldn’t have had a major stroke and wouldn’t be in the position of having to lie about it constantly,” Rachel Tripp, Oz’s senior communications advisor, told Business Insider in a statement.

During an appearance on Fox & Friends this Tuesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis slammed White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, accusing him of dealing “a lot of damage” to the country with his approach to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I think he’s done a lot of damage,” DeSantis said. “I think he should have been gone long ago. And if you think about what he’s done with his arrogance, that’s part of the reason why he’s advocated policies that have been so destructive. He thinks people who disagree with him are somehow beneath him.”

The Tuesday response to Gov. Brian Kemp's motion to quash his closed-door testimony in the probe outlines potential lines of questioning for the governor and hints that the wide-reaching investigation will likely not finish before the November midterm election.

President Joe Biden responded to an off-topic question about the FBI from Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy during an announcement about student loan forgiveness.

At an event on Wednesday, Biden said that the federal government would forgive $10,000 in student loans for people making less than $125,000 annually. People who received Pell grants qualify for $20,000 in loan forgiveness, he said.

Donald Trump Jr. attacked President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan on Wednesday. Biden announced his plan to forgive $10,000 in student loans for borrowers earning less than $125,000 per year and an additional $10,000 for Pell Grant recipients.

"Canceling student debt is a tax on the most responsible people in the country. Forcing people who worked hard to repay their loans or those who didn't have the luxury of going to college, to subsidize people who wasted $ on worthless gender study degrees is a slap in the face," he wrote.

Over the past year, a few special elections for congressional seats have shown that the Republican Party isn't as enthusiastic as the Democrats appear to be in the election and it's hurting their results.

After the New York 19th Congressional District special election on Tuesday, numbers guru Steve Kornacki detailed that the once Republican seat that flipped to Democrats had a significantly higher turnout among Democratic voters than in previous elections. Pat Ryan won the district that is being seen as a bellwether because it has traditionally been a Republican district.

Coming off her loss for reelection, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has vowed to do “whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office.”

That, apparently, includes running for president in 2024. During an appearance on NBC News last week, Cheney admitted it was something she was thinking about.

Attorneys for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) filed a motion in Fulton County, Georgia on Wednesday arguing that the senator does not have to comply with a subpoena to testify on any topic.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is seeking to have Graham testify before a grand jury related to an investigation into alleged illegal election interference by then-President Donald Trump and others.

Reports of Democrats' midterm death may be greatly exaggerated. In fact, Democrats have momentum. Public reaction to the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision has demonstrated the deep unpopularity of Republican abortion restrictions, including Kansas voters' recent and resounding rejection of a change to the state constitution that would have made an abortion ban possible. And a summer of explosive Jan. 6 hearings has shown the depths to which MAGA Republicans aim to go in dismantling democracy. Meanwhile, the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act has been a tremendous victory. FiveThirtyEight now has Democrats ahead on the generic ballot.

Democrats have a path to retain control in Washington. But the fight must be for much more than that. From abortion access to fair elections, state legislatures are increasingly the venues that control ever-broader swaths of our social, economic, and personal lives. Building progressive power in state legislatures is a key to securing the very future of our civil rights and democracy. Remember: whoever we elect to legislatures this year will be in office during the critical post-2024 election period.

On Wednesday, a CNN panel discussed the Democratic victory in the special election for New York's 19th congressional district, a race that for weeks had been believed to be leaning toward Republicans — and the implications for the GOP abortion stance after Democratic candidate Pat Ryan ran a campaign that put the issue front and center.

The saga, some panelists suggested, is a sign that Republicans are being hurt by overreach on the issue, as near-total abortion bans around the country produce shocking stories — like the Louisiana woman forced to carry a headless fetus to term.