Wednesday News: Clinton, Gore Talk Climate Change; Trump “Retreats Into The Fringe Media Bunker”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, October 12.

• Clinton dedicates an entire speech to climate change (“After two debates miss the mark, Clinton takes talk on climate into her own hands.” Thank goodness, it’s about freakin’ time!)
• As Party Splits Over Trump, Republican States May Tilt (“Donald J. Trump’s feud with his own party is tearing at the nation’s political map and could imperil Republican lawmakers in Congress. Democrats are moving swiftly to exploit the rift, in hopes that a large victory margin for Hillary Clinton would lead to gains down the ballot.”)
• Wounded, Trump Retreats Into The Fringe Media Bunker
• Once you know Trump’s history, what his campaign has done is unsurprising. That makes him scarier. (“The candidate has a long history of racism, misogyny, and corruption. It’s who he is.”)
• Hillary Clinton is proposing a policy to tackle deep poverty
• Why Donald Trump’s furious tweetstorm at Paul Ryan is so revealing
• Election Update: Women Are Defeating Donald Trump
• Donald Trump’s Weird World (“The candidate’s willingness to act as a Kremlin apologist is baffling.” We need to see the money trail…))
• Douthat: The Republican Inferno
• Donald Trump’s strategy for minority Americans? Don’t let them vote. (Actually, that’s Republicans’ strategy more broadly, and it’s utterly un-American.)
• Clinton campaign chairman ties email hack to Russians, suggests Trump had early warning
• Trump declares war on GOP, says ‘shackles have been taken off’
• The religious right makes a deal with the devil (“Evangelical leaders defending Trump have destroyed their credibility.”)
• Why we shouldn’t forgive the Republicans who sold their souls (“The GOP’s inability to stop Trump shows the party is unfit to lead the country” We should have figured that out with Newt Gingrich after 1994…)
• Donald Trump is one more bullyboy in a world of strongmen (“But how does the United States credibly reinforce the rules of behavior among nations when a leading presidential candidate supports torture, discrimination and abuse?”)
• Donald Trump is four centuries too late (“He would have enjoyed the wealth and suppression of the 17th century.”)
• Why Hillary Clinton is the right choice for progressives (“A vote for her is the best chance to advance our issues.”)
• Al Gore, With Hillary Clinton, Reminds Florida: ‘Every. Single. Vote. Counts.’
• Clinton turns to Al Gore and climate change to excite millennials in Florida
• Exclusive: Trump campaign CEO wanted to destroy Ryan
• Trump: Maybe Ryan won’t be Speaker if I win White House (Yep, Trump’s a wannabe third-world dictator.)
• 27 days before elections, GOP at war with itself
• GOP Stockholm syndrome: Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz’s sad loyalty to their tormentor, Donald Trump (“When other Republican leaders abandoned Trump, Rubio and Cruz reaffirmed their fealty to the man who abused them”)
• Donald Trump goes rogue: Suggesting that Pennsylvania will have voter fraud, Trump’s undermining the system
• CNN host shuts down interview with Trump spokeswoman
• Republicans tell Trump to quit claiming rigged election
• Seth Meyers nails delusional Trump: If big crowds made you win — ‘our next president would be IKEA’
• ’46 percent is bad, 37 percent is worse’: CNN host schools Kellyanne Conway on her boss’s bad poll numbers
• Congressman says he might continue to support Trump even if he said ‘I really like to rape women’ (“Testing the limits of loyalty.”)
• ‘Just an overall assh*le’: Apprentice contestants reveal Trump talked down to women ‘like children’
• Mark Warner exaggerates in saying Donald Trump is ‘OK’ with nuclear proliferation (This is PolitiFact at its nitpicky silliest.)
• Roanoke College Poll: Clinton’s lead in Virginia increases
• Upcoming candidate forums and debates
• Virginian-Pilot editorial: Carbon dioxide, the calling card of our future
• JLARC staff suggests broader state role in water supply planning and permitting
• Editorial: Henry Marsh was a black mayor before Joe Morrissey
• Will Bedell and Brat debate before Nov. 8?
• Trump drives division between 5th District candidates
• Northern Virginia congressional race heats up with ad flap
• Schapiro: Richmond’s seven dwarfs (“Stoney may be learning a bitter truth: Money can’t buy you love. And then there’s Morrissey.” Anyone but Morrissey!)
• Richmond mayoral candidates talk art and culture and its role in the city
• In first attack ad of campaign, Mosby says she wouldn’t trust Morrissey with her daughter (“Richmond City Council President Michelle Mosby took a hard shot at former Del. Joseph D. Morrissey and his reputation as a champion for black voters in the first attack ad of the mayoral campaign, which began airing on local radio stations Tuesday.”)
• Alexandria mayor: We’re working on solving the sewage overflow
• Dodgers stave off elimination, send series back to Washington in 6-5 win
• Nice weather in cruise control through the weekend