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Former Republican Congressman Denver Riggleman highlighted what he called the "batsh*ttery" of the GOP when giving an assessment of the future of the party and its relationship with voters. He predicted that this would ultimately lead to "chaos" even if Republicans were running the House.

Speaking to CNN's Jim Acosta, Riggleman said that the key piece of conspiracy theorists like QAnon and the MAGA world is fear. But fear is not a sustainable emotion for people.

Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen penned an op-ed on Sunday predicting that Republicans will continue to dig their own grave after experiencing a flaccid 2022 midterm election.

"While Democrats deserve credit for a campaign well run, this extraordinary and unexpected outcome is the direct result of a Republican Party that embraces extreme, deeply unpopular views — and is led by an extreme, deeply unpopular former president," Cohen explained.

Former VP candidate Sarah Palin was in Toronto over the weekend before heading to Washington, D.C. While waiting for a flight, she was heckled by someone in the airport.

Speaking to Cindy Adams about glaciers, Palin, who is neither a geologist or a climatologist explained in an interview that her father was a scientist and that they would go up into the mountains and go fossil hunting. Her father, a science teacher and track-and-field coach, would discover the fossils of sea creatures while in the Alaska mountains.

Lawyer and Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway spoke to MSNBC's Katie Phang on Sunday and explained that he doesn't believe Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) will run for president in 2024 and that Donald Trump will have the path cleared before him.

For all of the people that Trump supported in the election, DeSantis did support many of those Republican candidates too. Running for governor in Kansas, Derrick Schmidt lost his attempt to take out Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, despite DeSantis coming to Kansas City for an event in support of Schmidt.

Donald Trump's former White House communications director and first lady chief of staff, Stephanie Grisham, spoke to Alex Witt on MSNBC Sunday about the former president's anger over the 2022 midterm elections.

Among those Trump is blaming for the Republican failures is his wife, Melania, who generally tries to stay out of politics entirely. The New York Times reported this week that the president is raging at anyone and everyone, including his wife along with Sean Hannity and casino mogul Steve Winn.

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress uncovered a number of problems that came from the FBI, Secret Service, Homeland Security and other law enforcement agencies that failed to work as they should have ahead of the attacks on Congress.

Writing for Just Security, former FBI agent Asha Rangappa explained that after the Sept. 11 Commission found failures, there were major changes to the government and intelligence community. In that case, however, there was no direct link to someone to blame. In the case of Jan. 6, there is a lot of evidence that federal agencies didn't sound the alarm to the U.S. Capitol, elected officials, the Capitol Police or the Washington, D.C. Mayor to warn that they were certain an attack was coming.

The Obama Presidential Center aims to be a kind of community center. But on Thursday it became a target of hate.

Fox Chicago reported that a noose was discovered at the worksite for the center on Chicago's South Side.

A new survey done by the Jewish group J Street revealed that many Jewish voters are not fans of Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans. J Street senior vice president Dylan Williams posted a link to the recent 2022 survey of Jewish voters.

"Since 2010, J Street has conducted Election Day polling of the American Jewish community," the report explained. "Despite an election season that was atypical in every way, the results of this year’s poll was largely consistent with previous findings: American Jews remain overwhelmingly liberal and supportive of Democratic approaches to domestic and foreign policy. The one major change is that 'the state of democracy' now sits at the top of election concerns for American Jewish voters."

The red wave never manifested the way Republicans thought that it would, but the failures of the GOP are also paired with successes from Democrats, according to one data scientist who spoke to New York Magazine.

As the midterm season began, Democrats faced one strong headwind with inflation and poor job approval for the sitting Democratic president. Center for American Progress data scientist and analyst David Shor explained that the real success comes not from ushering voters to the polls through "get out the vote" efforts, but from persuading independents to trust them over Republicans.

Notorious Kansas Republican Kris Kobach has been declared the winner of the race for Kansas attorney general, according to NBC News. The election was a very close one and it wasn't declared until two days after the Tuesday election.

The Kansas Reflector cited last-minute polls from Emerson College that showed Democrat Chris Mann only slightly ahead (43.8 percent) of Republican Kris Kobach (42.7 percent) with likely voters.

In a strange turn, Judge Thomas Hogan, an appointee by President Ronald Reagan, released Jan. 6 defendant Ryan Nichols after 20 months in prison due to Nichols' access to discovery, reported Politico's Kyle Cheney.

In the new decision, the judge says that he still considers Nichols to be a danger to the community, but that there were problems that prevented him from being able to prepare for trial properly.

The 2022 election was supposed to be such a "red wave" that Republicans were gleeful months right up until the end. But the Republican Party failed to live up to the hype on Election Day.

While many were quick to blame Donald Trump, because his candidates seemed to fare worse, the Washington Post argues that it was more than that.

Libero Milone was hired to fix the Vatican's 2015 banking problems but what he allegedly ended up facing was threats and a forced resignation by prickly and paranoid clerics. Now he's suing for $9.25 million.

The Daily Beast reported that Milone, a former CEO of Deloitte in Italy, was hired to bring the Vatican bank back into "compliance with international norms on money laundering." Instead, he and his assistant say they were the ones who were falsely investigated, stolen from, harassed and ultimately shoved out, all for doing the work the Pope asked.