by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, August 10. Also, check out the video of Tim Kaine campaigning in Austin, Texas yesterday.
- From Trump’s words, a pattern: Outrage, headlines, then denial
- Further Into the Muck With Mr. Trump (“Rarely, if ever, has another candidate been so willing to descend to such depths of indecency.”)
- Trump’s reckless call to ‘Second Amendment people’ (“The GOP nominee seems to offer a veiled threat in comments about Hillary Clinton and gun rights.”)
- Did Donald Trump Just Suggest That Someone Might Shoot Hillary Clinton? (“Maybe.”)
- Clinton expands battleground with push into Arizona, Georgia
- Joe Scarborough: The GOP must dump Trump (“A bloody line has been crossed that cannot be ignored.”)
- NRA circles the wagons around Trump (“The gun rights group spends big on new ads against Clinton as Trump comments unearth some dissent within the NRA.”)
- From fringe to mainstream: Conspiracies, baseless accusations and lunacy is the new normal for Republicans (And no, it’s not just Trump.)
- Trump’s Assassination Dog Whistle Was Even Scarier Than You Think (“Republican nominee engaged in so-called stochastic terrorism with his remarks about “Second Amendment people” and Clinton”)
- The Moment You Realize Trump Finally Crossed the Line (Many of us realized that when he launched his campaign and viciously attacked immigrants.)
- Douthat: Trumponomics Is Reform Conservatism’s Evil Twin
- Former Secret Service Official: Donald Trump Is ‘Pretty Close to the Edge’
- Trump: “I want to debate very badly. But I have to see the conditions” (WTF?)
- These Republicans Don’t Trust Trump’s Environmental Views
- Trump’s loaded words fuel campaign freefall (“Detouring off script again lands the GOP nominee in perilous territory.”)
- At annual experts’ debate on strategy, zero Republicans make the case for Trump
- Donald Trump’s worst-of-both-worlds campaign (“Trump has merged the weaknesses of an unqualified, outsider candidacy with the unpopular, plutocratic tilt of the conservative billionaire class’s policy preferences. It’s a worst-of-both-worlds campaign.”)
- Paul Ryan easily wins his primary but GOP’s populist storm still rages
- Kaine on Trump: ‘I really, frankly couldn’t believe he said it’ (I can totally believe he said it; the guy’s completely evil.)
- Trump’s Ambiguous Wink Wink to ‘Second Amendment People’
- Tim Kaine to Austin Democrats: ‘We’re going to go after Texas’
- Big Oil’s master class in rigging the system (“If Republicans really care about the First Amendment, they should call on ExxonMobil executives to testify and set the record straight.”)
- Schapiro: The Trump-ercussions of 2016 for the Virginia GOP (“Once a model of discipline and organization, Virginia’s Republican apparatus is cracking up. “)
- Douglas Wilder wants Rep. Bobby Scott for Kaine’s Senate seat (“Wilder does not want Kaine’s seat, but he feels strongly about how it should be filled.”)
- Virginian-Pilot editorial: Lawmakers’ grubby grab at U.Va. (“To be clear, the implication of this letter — either taken on its face or to its logical conclusion — is that the General Assembly, in the exercise of its multitudinous powers, would presume to now manage Virginia’s colleges and universities.”)
- UVa says it’s confident review will vindicate $2.2 billion fund
- ‘Don’t give up hope,’ McAuliffe official says at forum on nullified felon voting order
- Fairfax City residents angry over closed meeting dealing with mayor’s resignation
- Virginia work center inmates moved from unsafe building in Southampton
- Trump returns to Virginia Wednesday with speech in Abingdon; event is closed to public
- Richmond mayoral candidate Jon Baliles: an interview with The Times-Dispatch editorial board
- Suffolk businessman, former Chesapeake councilman vying for state House seat held by Lionell Spruill
- Editorial: Hamilton’s advice to Jefferson’s university
- Chesapeake council postpones vote on solar farm, again
- Petition to recall Portsmouth Mayor Kenny Wright fails
- Richmond’s Townley Haas wins gold as part of 4×200 freestyle relay team
- Surprise, surprise — heat and humidity building once again
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