New York Times: “The ActBlue chief executive, whose own lawyers warned her that she might have misled Congress about how her organization vetted its foreign donations, will invoke her Fifth Amendment rights when she testifies before a House committee, she wrote in an opinion essay published on Wednesday in the Washington Post.”

“Regina Wallace-Jones wrote that she would not engage in questions from the Republican-led House Administration Committee, which she had agreed to appear before on Wednesday morning to discuss the committee’s investigation into the operations of ActBlue, a Democratic payment processor.”

“Rep. Nancy Mace’s trouncing in Tuesday’s South Carolina gubernatorial primary dealt a blunt defeat to a once rising GOP star, a politician who had basked in national attention during her dramatic political transformation,” the Washington Post reports. 

“Mace had real political talent and promise, but her downfall and isolation followed years of brazen political opportunism, a hunger for media attention at any cost, rejecting advisers’ counsel and turning on many allies, more than a dozen former aides, colleagues and supporters in both South Carolina and Washington said in interviews.”

Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA) “was caught faking a phone call in order to avoid answering questions about his party’s plan to cut Social Security and Medicare,” the Daily Beast reports.