Links: Midterm ad spending; student loan forgiveness; Newt Gingrich's culpability

At Politico, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's super PAC is canceling $8 million of ads it had planned to run in Arizona, where Trump-endorsed GOP candidate Blake Masters is losing in every public poll to incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly. Cook Political Report still rates the contest as a toss-up, as does Politico itself. The McConnell PAC is also canceling ads in Alaska, where Sen. Lisa Murkowski appears headed for an easy reelection.

On ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders rightly tackles Republican criticisms of President Biden's decision to forgive some student loans, pointing out that they do not worry about the inflationary effect of tax breaks for the uber-rich. He is shakier in defending the proposal from the criticism that it is unfair to expect working-class people who did not go to college and who are also struggling financially.

In a guest essay at The New York Times, former prosecutor and FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann explains the many ways the redacted affidavit explaining the reasons for granting a warrant to search the property at Mar-a-Lago is deeply damning. At best, former President Donald Trump was far more reckless about top secret documents than former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was. Should we "lock him up!"? The best line in Weissmann's essay however was this: "There is nothing that prevented [Trump] for over a year from publicly answering those questions; he surely has not remained silent because the answers are exculpatory." Bingo.