The Arizona Republican party has cut ties with the two men who posed as communists to try to make a damaging contribution to Rep. Tom O’Halleran (D-AZ) just before the midterm election.

In a disjointed Facebook address, Scott Wagner, the Republican challenging Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D), warned the governor to put on a “catcher’s mask” because he is going to “stop all over” Wolf’s face with “golf spikes.”

Nikki Fiske, a 72-year-old teacher in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, has been put on “home assignment” by her school district because she spoke to the press about White House aide Stephen Miller’s odd childhood habits, according to a Thursday Los Angeles Times report.

Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), challenger to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), raked in a whopping $38.1 million in campaign donations in just three months.

You just raised a record-breaking $38.1 million in three months. From 802,836 contributions. No PACs, no special interests, no corporations. All people, all the time, everywhere, every single day. pic.twitter.com/IDMFNFwezB

— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) October 12, 2018

Despite his impressive fundraising, Real Clear Politics still has him trailing Cruz by 7 points.

Two Republicans posed as members of the Northern Arizona University Communist Party to make a damaging donation to Rep. Tom O’Halleran (D-AZ), who is running for reelection next month, according to a Friday Guardian story.

The postal service is instituting price hikes, including on a parcel delivery system used by Amazon, though the department denies that the increases are due to President Donald Trump’s desire to punish the online giant, according to a Thursday Politico report.

Amazon and other large bulk shippers enjoy special rates with the postal service, so it is not immediately clear how hard it’ll be hit by the hike.

Senators of both parties are coalescing around opposition to continuing arms trade with the Saudis, prepping a resolution of disapproval next time the deal comes up and using legislative maneuvering to push off the deal in the meantime.

Surfaced in a batch of emails Buzzfeed News obtained from the Department of Homeland Security, then-DHS secretary John Kelly called Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) an “impolite arrogant woman” as he belittled her criticism of the administration’s travel ban.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was “surprised” to hear that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein would no longer be participating in an interview with senators.

President Donald Trump said it would be a “shame” if the Democrats won the House, but that Republicans would just have to “fight it out” due to the “absolute haters.”