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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.

Former Trump White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Thursday downplayed Republicans' surprisingly disappointing midterm election results while also suggesting the party should not sweat any future backlash against enacting strict anti-abortion laws.

During an appearance on Fox News, McEnany acknowledged that abortion rights "certainly did motivate the left" to mobilize during the 2022 elections, but she said that wouldn't be the case going forward.

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.

A former megachurch elder from California was charged with murdering her 11-year-old adopted daughter months after her husband took his own life.

Leticia McCormack, a former elder at Rock Church in San Diego, was arrested and charged with three counts of torture and three counts of willful cruelty to a child, and her father was charged with murder, torture and willful cruelty to a child and her mother was charged with three counts each of torture and willful cruelty to a child, reported the Christian Post.

Chase Oliver, 37, is a Libertarian Party candidate who ran his campaign from his basement in Atlanta. According to Vice News, Oliver may have prevented Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock or GOP candidate Herschel Walker from the 50 percent threshold needed to win after he scored 2 percent of the Senate vote in the state of Georgia, forcing a runoff on Dec. 6.

Oliver, who supports gun rights, legal weed, access to abortion, and immigration reform, says the development is a good thing.

Republican candidate Kari Lake complained that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' victory speech gave the impression that "Trump Republicans don't have a chance."

During an interview with right-wing host Steven Crowder, Lake said there was a plot to "slow roll" the election results in Arizona where she is running for governor.

Republican pollster Frank Luntz analyzed the results of Tuesday's midterm elections to determine the message voters had sent.

The conditions were ripe for the GOP to take back majorities in both the House and Senate, but each remains in play for Democrats, and Luntz told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that voters are sick of the "chaos" that Donald Trump introduced to U.S. politics.

A new report from the Washington Examiner's David Drucker claims that Republican operatives are furious that former President Donald Trump cost them multiple winnable races with candidates that Drucker describes as a "basket of lemons."

Ohio Republican strategist David Myhal went on the record to tell Drucker that "it’s time for Trump to retire" and then added that "I see golf courses and a rocking chair in his future."

Donald Trump was hoping to surf a Republican "red wave" to a fresh White House bid, but with only limited gains in Tuesday's midterm elections -- and an outstanding result for his chief intraparty rival -- the former US president seems to be left out to sea.

Though Republicans look likely to wrest control from the Democratic Party in at least one chamber of Congress, projections show they will not gain the large number of seats typical when the sitting president's approval ratings are so low, and inflation so high.

With Donald Trump at his most vulnerable point politically since the Jan. 6 attack, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis should act with haste if he wants to be the 2024 GOP presidential nominee.

The dynamics were explained to The New York Times by longtime Mitch McConnell advisor Scott Jennings, who said exit polls show Trump was less popular than Biden and said the former president should not attempt a comeback if wanted Republicans to win.

The billionaire owner of Fox News used his newspapers to roast former President Donald Trump one day after the 2022 midterm elections.

The cover of Rupert Murdoch's New York Post is printing a Thursday cover with an egg-shaped Trump on a brick wall with the headline, "Trumpty Dumpty." The sub-headline said "Don (who couldn't build a wall) had a great fall — can all the GOP's men put the party back together again?"