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A California GOP challenger in Maxine Waters' 43rd District was arrested in San Francisco Saturday after violating a restraining order placed against him by a fellow GOP candidate running against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

"We call on the Republican Party to disavow the white nationalism and anti-Semitism that exists within their ranks in such open display," Emily Mayer of IfNotNow told Newsweek.

"Republicans were left floundering in their defense of a president who kept admitting to what he was accused of," S.E. Cupp said.

Pence told Fox News that he was "not only confident" that he'd be on the 2020 ticket, but that he was also "confident that we're going to win in 2020."

"I think a full blown defense that says 'this is a hoax' and 'there's absolutely nothing to it,' will be difficult for them to sustain," Senator Chris Coons said.

"This is the most desperate defense," Joe Scarborough said.

President Donald Trump's Republican allies have propagated a baseless conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 presidential elections.

"We have a president of the United States ... who literally just makes s--- up," Joe Walsh said.

"It's lack of character among people on these committees. Just a lack of character," MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said.

"If you find yourself lying about a war hero, you should probably question your choices in life," Representative Sean Maloney said.

During the impeachment hearings, President Trump has attacked Maria Yovanovitch on Twitter, as well as other officials who have testified, and his party worries it may backfire.

"He's been racist, he's been a jerk," Ana Navarro said, "he's attacked people like me, he's attacked Donna Brazile, he's attacked Don Lemon."

"Well wait a minute, no sir," Chris Wallace said. "They're career foreign service officers and these are people who worked in the Trump administration."

"That's at least one promise that they fulfilled," quipped "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough on his MSNBC show.

"We have a situation where we see the national security of the United States ... compromised over the president's political interests," Steve Schmidt said.

Former Obama and Trump ethics chief Walter Shaub denounced the language Republicans have been using to discuss the alleged whistleblower. "The party won't be satisfied until somebody gets killed," he wrote.

Republicans "are going to try and discredit the witnesses. But as Sam Stein said, they are unimpeachable witnesses," Susan Del Percio said

"I think it's really regrettable that now the president and his supporters and others are advocating his [or her] unmasking," the former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told CNN.

"Three years ago, they were shouting about law and order over Hillary Clinton's emails," Andrew Napolitano wrote. "Today, they are shouting to let Trump be Trump."

"The only thing that can counteract bullets is more and bigger bullets," GOP Senator Tom Cotton said.

Graham said Tuesday that evidence against Trump from Gordon Sondland's testimony was a "bunch of BS."

Michael Steele said Republicans in Congress are "so afraid of this one man that they're willing to sacrifice everything that they've stood on."

"Those people who listen to the opinion shows on Fox, and those people who listen to my former world – conservative talk radio – they have no clue," the former GOP congressman warned.

"I don't know what the hell is wrong with these people," Michael Steele said.

"It's frustrating for Americans to watch this," Jeanine Pirro complained.

Researchers analyzed all of the GOP candidates' tweets (more than 22,000, in total) posted during the primary stages of the 2016 presidential campaign, using a topic network designed to work with big data.

"Any other American who offered cash to the jury before a trial would go to prison," Richard Painter said.

"You know the Republicans have a losing fight on their hands, because all they can do is talk about process," Joe Scarborough said.

"The party was shaken by that," Scott Reed said. "We're all worried," he added.

"As expected, the right-wing will impugn someone's character," Senator Mazie Hirono said.