by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, May 3. Also check out the video of crazy Ted Cruz debating a clueless, brainwashed Trump supporter. That video right there epitomizes everything wrong with today’s extremist Republican Party.
- How Bernie changed Hillary (“Sanders has left a lasting imprint on Clinton’s candidacy, even if few in her camp are willing to admit it”)
- Mitch McConnell’s Senate majority is just this pathetic: How he’s giving Paul Ryan a run for his money (“Paul Ryan’s House is a disaster, but McConnell’s SCOTUS obstruction is its own brand of self-defeating stupidity”)
- The steady downward spiral of the Republican Party in 2016 (It started well before 2016 — certainly go back to the “Gingrich Revolution”/”Contract ON America” days, and definitely include the rise of the “Tea Party” extremist movement in 2009-2010.)
- Republicans have a massive electoral map problem that has nothing to do with Donald Trump (“If Clinton wins the 19 states (and D.C.) that every Democratic nominee has won from 1992 to 2012, she has 242 electoral votes. Add Florida’s 29 and you get 271. Game over.”)
- The implosion of Ted Cruz (“Carly Fiorina, we hardly knew ye.” We’ll never forget her “singing,” though! LOL)
- What to Watch For as Voters Go to the Polls in Indiana
- Trump meets Ed Klein: America’s least-credible journalist has an inside line to the 2016 GOP frontrunner (“Donald Trump had lunch with sleaze-hound Ed Klein, which points to an ugly Trump-Clinton general election”)
- Cruz’s spanking fetish: Ted Cruz’s authoritarian streak comes out when he urges spanking a child to silence dissent
- If You Think Ted Cruz Is Extreme, Wait Till You Meet the Conservative Activists Who Endorse Him (“They include the star of Duck Dynasty and advocates for killing abortion doctors and gay people.”)
- Gov. Terry McAuliffe says the election is over for Bernie Sanders (“Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe says Bernie Sanders can stay in the race as long as he wants, but Hillary Clinton will become the eventual Democratic nominee for president.”)
- Corey Stewart Exclusion from RNC Slate Hurts Cruz, Fuels Infighting (Agreed.)
- Preservation groups says pipelines threaten historic sites
- Justin Fairfax running as Democrat for lieutenant governor (He very well could be the favorite. We’ll see who else gets in…and when.)
- Va. Supreme Court rules same-sex couples equal in divorce law
- Gov. McAuliffe’s dramatic move to restore voting rights to felons reverberates (“McAuliffe has done the state a great service. If he had to do it through executive order rather than go through the roadblocks set up in the GOP-dominated General Assembly, so be it.”)
- Editorial: Virginia Republicans fuel suspicions (“Ted Cruz finished a dismal third in the state’s March 1 Republican primary” yet he “swept 10 of the 13 at-large delegates to the national convention.”)
- He once hoped for the GOP nomination, now Jim Gilmore can’t even get elected delegate to convention
- GOP lawmakers hire attorney for felon voting rights case (Yep, Republicans continue to be the party that wants as few people to vote as possible, because they know that when more people vote, they lose.)
- State behavioral health agency questions IG report on Jamycheal Mitchell’s death
- Virginian-Pilot editorial: Important votes in Norfolk, Chesapeake
- Oyster shells, costs piling up in Virginia Beach for non-existent oyster restoration plan
- Capitals fall behind early, can’t complete comeback in Game 3 loss to Penguins
- Much-needed rain dominates the balance of the week
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