A recently closed Republican party minority outreach center in Georgia is now home to a shop selling sex toys to an upscale clientele, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

“While family and friends distributed posters of a missing Republican Party of Florida executive director last week, he was holed up in a Hampton Inn, where authorities say he trashed his room,” the Tampa Bay Times reports. “George Riley Jr., who was reunited with his family this weekend, was

Aaron Blake: “Donald Trump is eyeing a more authoritarian second term in the White House. And, increasingly, Republicans seem inclined to support that goal.” “Polling on the GOP’s appetite for a more powerful chief executive has been slow in coming. But it has been coming. And the emerging picture

“I think Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base.” — House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), in an interview with Puck.

“Wyoming is a supermajority state, with Republicans making up 86 of the state’s 93 legislators,” USA Today reports. “But uniformity doesn’t mean unity, as the widening chasm between the state’s further-right Freedom Caucus and more moderate establishment Republicans has grown in recent years and