by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, May 2. Also, check out video of Virginia Trump Chair (and Prince William County Board Chair) Corey Stewart, who is planning to run for governor next year, rant about illegal immigration. Now that Cooch has announced he isn’t running, there’s room for other wingnuts, like Corey — gonna be ugly.
- Cruz, Who Has Long Disparaged Trump, Still Won’t Say If He Would Support Trump As Nominee
- Trump Refuses To Walk Back Sexist Comments About Clinton
- Cruz makes desperate bid to wrestle Indiana from Trump
- Sanders makes a public plea for Democratic superdelegates to switch allegiances (It’s not going to happen, nor should it given that Clinton has won millions more votes than Sanders.)
- Obama’s “Trudge up the Hill” joke wasn’t really about Hillary. It was a Bernie Sanders dig (“Obama’s problem with the Sanders theory of politics”)
- Supreme Court slows pace of taking on new cases
- Senate on pace for lightest work schedule in 60 years (“But Republicans aren’t backing down from the election-year message that the chamber is ‘back to work.'”) The Big Lie party, part infinity.)
- Science Says This Centuries-Old Discovery Will Save the Planet (“The case for electrifying everything.”)
- Democracies end
when they are too democratic. (“And right now, America is a breeding ground for tyranny.”) - Trump campaign chairman in Virginia to run for governor (Yeah, he said this on Saturday…was tweeted out by reporters then.)
- Whitbeck, Dunbar, and Cruz are big winners at RPV State Convention (Yep, the crazies and the haters.)
- Editorial: Norfolk Southern deal — a terrible waste of taxpayer money
- For local transgender teen, national debate on restrooms is just a start (“Cayden McDonald, 18, of Woodbridge, says the issue is part of the fight for equal rights.” Go Cayden!)
- Virginian-Pilot editorial: Good choices for Election Day
- Feds pressure Va., DC and Md., on new safety agency for Metro
- A chance of rain every day this week, up and down temps
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