by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, June 16.
- Trump’s campaign of innuendo: Like many Republicans before him, Trump’s arguing through insinuation
- Favorability of Trump’s GOP Lowest in Bloomberg Poll’s History
- Democrats Hold Senate Floor Until Early Thursday In A Push For Gun Control
- Trump and the GOP’s Jurassic Park (“Republican leaders can no longer control what they created.”)
- Trump is massively unpopular: The GOP’s 2016 nominee is killing their prospects with Latinos
- Virginia senators show support for Democratic filibuster on gun control (“Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner joined other Democratic lawmakers in an old-fashioned filibuster on the Senate floor on Wednesday.”)
- Clinton maintains lead after claiming nomination – CBS News poll
- Trump’s relationship with RNC sours (“Tensions flare as the party hires a fired Trump aide and uses vendors linked to #NeverTrump, while fundraising flags.”)
- Franz von Papen was wrong, and so is Paul Ryan (“In 1933, Franz von Papen was hungry for revenge.”)
- Hope dims for Senate action on guns after frenzied day
- Trump Is His Party’s Cross to Bear (“But how will Republicans bear him?”)
- Trump’s fear doesn’t sell: His horrible response to the Orlando massacre will rightfully turn more voters to Hillary
- Trump’s madness is the GOP’s: Republicans have long called Obama a terrorist sympathizer
- Trump tweets Breitbart article to prove President Obama is an ISIS sympathizer (Trump’s completely unhinged.)
- In Hampton, Clinton chides Trump over ‘Twitter rants,’ praises military families
- Environmental groups protest McAuliffe’s energy policies (“A grassroots alliance of 57 groups chided Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Wednesday for, in their view, turning a deaf ear to the concerns of communities facing impacts from natural gas pipelines, offshore drilling, coal ash, climate change…
- ACLU criticizes ‘unparalleled power’ of Virginia commonwealth’s attorneys (“A report issued Wednesday by the ACLU of Virginia seeks to educate voters about what it says is the undue power of commonwealth’s attorneys and to encourage more candidates to seek the office.”)
- Our view: 5th District is the election to watch (“Voters in the 5th District certainly can’t say they don’t have a choice — Garrett and Dittmar begin with pretty stark differences.”)
- Hillary Clinton stops in Hampton – to take notes
- Sex offenders who are still locked up may have won right to vote again in Va.
- Former Miss Universe, civil rights legend Dolores Huerta team up against Trump (“On Wednesday, she joined two pro-immigrant advocacy groups in Arlington to encourage other Latinos to join her in registering to vote and casting their ballots for Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee.”)
- Forbes, like Cantor, caught up in anti-establishment wave
- With Forbes’s defeat, Virginia’s delegation to Congress grows less experienced (“Retirements and losses mean GOP members may lack the seniority to bring home the bacon.”)
- Dominion to dye-test runoff into wildlife refuge near airport (“State ordered the follow-up after January oil spill into Roaches Run, Potomac River.”)
- Liberty president defends omission of LGBT material from textbook (Ah, “Liberty”)
- Virginian-Pilot editorial: Move over, Virginia (“The ‘Move OVER’ campaign has arrived in Hampton Roads, via a collection of billboards pleading with motorists to give police, fire and rescue personnel and their vehicles more breathing room.”)
- Portsmouth Mayor Kenny Wright faces 5 challengers in November election
- 4 candidates will run against Suffolk Mayor Linda Johnson in November
- Heavy rain potential tonight but very nice weekend ahead
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