by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, November 4. Polls open at 6 am tomorrow morning…under 24 hours to go! Oh, and if Trump endorses a Republican candidate (in this case, far-right extremist Geary Higgins), that says all you need to know about them – make sure you vote for their Democratic opponent (in this case, John Bell)!
- Trump’s Syria pullout follows years of Kurdish struggle
- Trump’s false claim of ‘centuries’ of fighting between Turks and Kurds (It was actually the Ottoman Empire up until World War I, but whatever…details, details.)
- Britain’s snap election is unlikely to make Brexit any clearer, analysts say
- In China, every day is Kristallnacht
- Trump calls Ukraine corrupt. He still wanted to build a resort there.
- Mikhail Gorbachev tells the BBC: World in ‘colossal danger’ (“In an interview with the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg, former President Gorbachev called for all countries to declare that nuclear weapons should be destroyed.”)
- India air pollution at ‘unbearable levels’, Delhi minister says (Switch to clean energy ASAP!)
- Blood Gold in the Brazilian Rain Forest (“Indigenous people and illegal miners are engaged in a fight that may help decide the future of the planet.”)
- ‘Quid pro quo, yes or no?’ Trump allies face Ukraine question
- Mulvaney allies try to stonewall impeachment probe
- POLITICO Playbook: Did Trump just threaten a shutdown over impeachment?
- Manafort Spread Ukraine Conspiracy Theory Months Before 2016 Election
- Inside the Republican Plan to Deep-Six the Trump Impeachment Hearings
- Trump: ‘Nothing Wrong’ If There Was A Quid Pro Quo, But I Didn’t Ask For One (Uhhhh…no.)
- 4 White House officials slated for depositions in impeachment inquiry not expected to show up
- Trump says Republicans should release their own transcripts in impeachment probe
- Trump Reportedly Obsessed With Impeachment Coverage: ‘We’re Getting Killed’
- Another Government Shutdown? Don’t Rule It Out. (“Donald Trump doesn’t seem to learn from past mistakes. Will Republicans in Congress?”)
- The fate of America’s Amazon is hanging in the balance
- Trump threatens to cut US funding for California wildfires (WTF??? Oh yeah, we’re talking about petty, nasty, vindictive, small Trump.)
- Trump made an empty promise on guns — again (Is anyone surprised?)
- McDonald’s CEO out over ‘poor judgment’ in relationship with employee
- Now the real battle for the Democratic nomination begins (It continues to be ridiculous, by the way, that the first two Democratic nominating states are overwhelmingly white.)
- The most important divide among Democratic voters (“If older voters maintain that margin this time around, that would greatly ease Biden’s path to reclaiming the top spot in Iowa and/or New Hampshire. If young voters show up in greater numbers, then Warren’s or (especially) Sanders’s path becomes notably easier.”)
- ‘The stakes are enormous’: is Hillary Clinton set for a White House run?
- How The 15 Percent Threshold For Primary Delegates Could Winnow The Field
- Democratic Strategists Set Up $75 Million Digital Campaign to Counter Trump (“David Plouffe, the former Obama campaign manager, will advise the effort, which aims to compete with the president on his terms.”)
- Trump signals alarm with Democrats poised to escalate impeachment offensive
- One Year From Election, Trump Trails Biden but Leads Warren in Battlegrounds
- Pete Buttigieg: race is between me and Warren – as new poll puts him fourth
- Can Warren Actually Avoid Taxing the Middle Class? (“Her Medicare for All plan makes big assumptions about how much money she’ll be able to squeeze from the health-care system.”)
- Trump campaign’s strategy to attack Democrat Warren: Define her as dishonest
- Warren Goes 1 for 2 on Medicare (“The revenue ideas are pretty good. The plan is still a problem.”)
- As Warren Gains in Race, Wall Street Sounds the Alarm (“With a populist message that promises to rein in corporate excess, Ms. Warren has been facing more hostility from the finance industry than any other candidate.”)
- A Bitter Fight For Governor Could Bring Kentucky Democrats Back From The Dead (“Beating Republican Gov. Matt Bevin on Tuesday won’t turn Kentucky blue. But it might help revive a Democratic Party the GOP thought it had killed.”)
- Three governor’s races will test whether every election is about Trump
- Why These 5 States Hold Odd-Year Elections, Bucking The Trend (“Virginia held its first gubernatorial election in 1851 with an update to its constitution, and since then the state has resisted a move to even-year elections…Virginia politicians seem to believe that the off-year schedule helps insulate the state from national moods.”)
- Off-Year Election Preview: Is It All About Partisanship? (“If Democrats do flip both legislative chambers, they will have their first governing trifecta in Virginia since 1993, and with the decennial redistricting on tap, the timing couldn’t be better. The last thing most vulnerable Republicans in the state want is any help from Donald Trump, though again, he will crow if the GOP does better than expected. And if they don’t? It won’t necessarily mean a lot in terms of 2020, since Republicans aren’t counting on Virginia’s 13 electoral votes. But similar suburban voters in other states could be the ballgame.”)
- Video, Photos: 500+ at GOTV Rally in Sterling with Joe Biden, Terry McAuliffe, Eileen Filler-Corn, John Bell, Phyllis Randall, etc.
- Biden rallies Va. Democrats before pivotal state election Tuesday
- Video: Qasim Rashid Demolishes Not Just His Republican Opponent’s Lies, but the Lies of Many (Most?) Virginia Republicans Running This Year
- Editorial: 50 years ago today, Holton’s landmark election (“Fifty years ago today, Virginia became a true democracy.”)
- Kaine: Holton’s transformative election 50 years later
- Gilmore: Process, not partisanship, determines endorsements for Clean Virginia (Party should definitely be a consideration, given that if Republicans control the General Assembly, we’ve unlikely to achieve any of Clean Virginia’s goals.)
- Virginia is all-in on offshore wind but Dominion’s decision raises questions about cost, competence
- Hampton Roads will be a major battleground as Democrats try to take power in Richmond (“The $7.9 million spent campaigning in six targeted Hampton Roads House districts — the 94th in Newport News, where there was a tie vote in 2017, the Hampton-and-Poquoson 91st, the Suffolk-and-Chesapeake 76th, Virginia Beach’s 83rd and 84th and the Norfolk-and-Eastern Shore 100th district — speaks to how fierce the fighting has been during these off-off year elections.”)
- Editorial: In race for port traffic, Virginia digs in
- Janet Brooking column: Virginia needs a stronger phone-while-driving law
- Metro leader’s proposed budget includes a fare increase — and later hours
- Election 2019: Heath and Pillion vie for the 40th’s state senate seat
- Civil War historian, Virginia Tech professor Bud Robertson dies
- For crowded Northern Virginia schools, a question of where to put all those students
- Dry and pleasant to open the week before a shot of winter-like cold Friday
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