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Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake was still claiming that she could win the seat as of Wednesday morning while speaking to far-right activist Steve Bannon during his show.

"You're gonna win this!" Bannon proclaimed.

A Wednesday morning briefing by police on the Chesapeake, Virginia mass shooting at the local Walmart revealed further details about the incident.

In addition to the information revealed by police, WAVY-TV News and VICE are both reporting on some accounts posted on social media by people who say they were in the store during the shooting.

On Wednesday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that an "anti-woke" bank founded by a longtime Republican campaign strategist and a former Republican senator from Georgia had gone bust.

Nick Ayers, who previously served as chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence and helped advise the failed election-denialist primary challenge by former Georgia Sen. David Perdue against Gov. Brian Kemp, founded the bank, GloriFi, in large part with money from former Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler.

At least seven people, including the gunman, were killed late Tuesday evening at a Walmart store in southeast Virginia.

Chesapeake police responded to the shooting at the retailer on Sam's Circle about 10:12 p.m. and found multiple victims dead inside the store and others wounded, reported NBC News.

Questions about the Supreme Court have surfaced in the past year after it was discovered that Justice Clarence Thomas' wife, Ginni, helped lobby lawmakers for the overthrow of the 2020 election. Since then it has been one scandal after another.

In the spring of 2022, Justice Samuel Alito's justification for eliminating Roe v. Wade case was leaked to the press, prompting Republicans to demand an investigation into who leaked it. A new report from the New York Times has revealed that Alito might have a history of leaking information about the rulings to allies.

In about a month, the House will change hands to Republicans, but before that can happen, the Supreme Court agreed that Trump's taxes should be handed over to the Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee that requested them as part of their ongoing investigation into emoluments violations.

In a simple decision, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that "the application for stay of the mandate presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is denied. The order hereofore entered by the Chief Justice is vacated."

Among the arguments before the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday was that former President Donald Trump should be treated in a special way because he was the president.

The three-judge panel includes two appointees by Donald Trump: Judges Britt Grant and Andrew Brasher. The third, Chief Judge Bill Pryor, was confirmed under former President George W. Bush.

A mother of a teen victim at the Parkland shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School has ousted a school board chair that was hand-picked by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The Miami Herald reported that Broward School Board member Lori Alhadeff was elected as the chair of the board at the meeting Tuesday.

A Michigan man has been arrested after threatening to murder FBI director Christopher Wray and California Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA). According to MSNBC, the man was mentally ill, but was motivated by QAnon conspiracy theories.

Reporting the breaking news, Chris Jansing cited new court documents as the source of the information.

Andrew Weissmann, a former prosecutor under special counsel Robert Mueller, predicted that an indictment of former President Donald Trump will likely come relatively soon for his decision to stash top-secret government documents at Mar-a-Lago.

Speaking to MSNBC on Tuesday, Weissmann predicted that things are going to start speeding up after the appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel.

If there's any consistency to the Republican Party it's that they seemingly run from Donald Trump each time things get hairy -- and then they ultimately come crawling back.

Writing for The Atlantic Tuesday, Adam Serwer predicted that history would repeat itself this time too. In the third election in a row, Republicans have lost in races that they were expected to win after multiple Trump-backed candidates flopped in November.

Former Donald Trump aide Alyssa Farrah Griffin doesn't think that Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is going to make it to the top spot in the House, she told her colleagues on "The View" Tuesday.

Addressing McCarthy's threats to remove Democrats he doesn't like from congressional committees, Griffin explained that even if he gets elected as the Speaker, he still has no unilateral power to remove someone from a committee, it has to be a full vote from the House. There might not be enough people willing to make that move given the retribution and backlash it could cause them.

Longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz recently conducted a focus group of one-time Trump voters and found many of them appear ready to move on. While he may not have been right about his polls for 2022, speaking to voters he was able to uncover differing attitudes.

Speaking to a group of voters who at one time supported Donald Trump, he asked them about their attitudes toward the former president, and they weren't positive. The small group of voters from mostly red states said words like "narcissist," "tired" "unsettling," and "mistake." There were still a few who viewed Trump with words like "high hopes," "fighter" and "a leader."