by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, March 1.
- Why the Taliban Is Celebrating Trump’s Peace Plan
- Trump ally Graham and ex-aide Bolton voice concerns over Taliban deal (“Senator ‘very suspect of the Taliban’, ex-national security adviser slams ‘Obama-style deal’ and Democrats call for oversight”)
- Analysis: After 18 Years, Is This Afghan Peace, or Just a Way Out? (“Afghanistan has gone from being a “good war” to a longstanding burden the U.S. now seeks to unload, much like the British and Soviets before it.”)
- Iran Cases Almost Double; WHO Says No Pandemic Yet: Virus Update
- First deaths confirmed in U.S., Australia and Thailand
- Wash. state sees 1st virus death in US, declares emergency
- A $30 Oil Price Is the Real Virus Threat to OPEC
- Middle Eastern Stocks Plunge as Oil Gets Hammered by Coronavirus
- Trump Makes Us Ill (“Going viral is not a good thing this time.”)
- Inside Trump’s frantic attempts to minimize the coronavirus crisis
- Can We Really Un-Trump America? (“Ex-Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer breaks down the Democrats’ chances in November.”)
- Trump made a baseless attack on two Supreme Court justices. Here’s why he did it.
- 4 Takeaways From Joe Biden’s Big Win In South Carolina (“If he had lost, Biden’s campaign was likely dead. But he far exceeded expectations with a 30-point win in the state’s Democratic presidential primary.”)
- If anti-Sanders Democrats were serious, they’d unite around Biden right now
- 4 winners and 3 losers in the South Carolina Democratic primary (“Winner: Joe Biden…Loser: Mike Bloomberg…Loser: Tom Steyer…Winner: James Clyburn…Winner: The contested convention…Loser: Assuming normal voters think like professional activists”)
- Joe Biden’s big South Carolina win: Is the stage set for a Super Tuesday comeback? (“Joe Biden’s massive South Carolina win eclipses Pete Buttigieg, challenges Bernie Sanders ahead of Super Tuesday”)
- 5 takeaways from the South Carolina primary (“Biden’s bet on South Carolina paid off…The electorate in South Carolina was the most diverse and moderate yet…Sanders shows signs of vulnerability…Buttigieg and Klobuchar are in trouble…The pressure is on for Bloomberg”)
- Winners and losers from the South Carolina primary
- South Carolina blows up the 2020 primary (“If there was a best case scenario for Joe Biden, this was it.”)
- The resurrection of Joe Biden (“Wednesday was the start of Lent, and Joe Biden gave up losing.”)
- 5 Takeaways From the South Carolina Primary
- How Worried Is the Sanders Campaign About Biden’s Big Win?
- Fear Powered Joe Biden’s South Carolina Victory (“Black voters have everything to lose from Trump’s reelection.”)
- South Carolina takeaways: Biden revived – but Super Tuesday is make or break
- Joe Biden breathes new life into his campaign with landslide South Carolina win
- Joe Biden’s First-Ever Primary Win Is a Big One
- Biden romps to victory in South Carolina
- Analysis: Biden buys time with emphatic South Carolina win
- Biden Wins in South Carolina, Adding New Life to His Candidacy
- South Carolina may have just rescued the Democrats (Thank you African-American voters!)
- Biden wins in S.C., potentially reshaping Democratic race (“Former vice president becomes first candidate to score clear-cut victory over Sanders”)
- With Super Tuesday looming, Biden’s victory recasts the Democratic race
- Eighteen days that resuscitated Biden’s nearly five-decade career
- 4 takeaways from the S.C. primary
- Tom Steyer drops out of presidential race (“Steyer, one of two billionaires in the Democratic primary race, spent more than $130 million on advertising with lackluster results.”)
- Joe Biden Is Now the Only Democrat Who Can Stop Bernie Sanders
- Joe Biden bundlers see surge of pledges from new big money donors after he wins South Carolina
- ‘Two Person Race’: Ex-Obama Adviser Says 2020 Fight is Now Down to Bernie and Biden
- Embattled Chris Matthews Left Out of MSNBC’s S.C. Primary Coverage
- For Buttigieg, a Search for Black Support That Never Arrived
- Warren comes out swinging after South Carolina drubbing (“Warren’s shift comes at a low point for her candidacy. She has not placed first or second in any of the four contests before next week’s Super Tuesday.”)
- New Suffolk/Globe poll finds Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren locked in statistical tie in Massachusetts
- At CPAC, Glenn Beck says the Bernie Sanders “revolution” will lead to “another Holocaust” (I’m not a Bernie fan, but…seriously?!? Yep, Glenn Beck continues to be insane.)
- Bernie Sanders Has Some Work to Do in the Suburbs (“Virginia’s shift to the Democrats has been led by suburban moderates, especially college-educated women. Some wonder whether Mr. Sanders is what they signed up for.”)
- Kate McKinnon’s ‘SNL’ Elizabeth Warren Destroys Fred Armisen’s Bloomberg
- With Virginia’s 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary on Tuesday, Where Are We with Absentee Voting?
- Video: Democratic Presidential Candidates Stump in Virginia [UPDATED]
- If They Trust Joe, I Trust Joe
- Former VA Gov. Terry McAuliffe Endorses Joe Biden for President (As does Rep. Bobby Scott, dean of the Virginia Congressional delegation.)
- Bloomberg and Sanders head to Northern Virginia to make their pitches
- Terry McAuliffe endorses Joe Biden after South Carolina victory
- Klobuchar, in Richmond on Saturday, says she’s a good fit for Virginia
- Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders promises government that works for all at Virginia Beach rally
- Tim Kaine campaigns for Joe Biden in Richmond
- Has the Virginia General Assembly Progressed Beyond the Days of Hannibal?
- EDITORIAL: Pipeline is needed even more now (I’m including this simply as another example of how horrible the right-wing, pro-fossil-fuel Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star editorial board is. They’re also flat-out wrong that blocking the Atlantic Coast Pipeline will mean “potentially delaying the retirement of dirty coal plants.” In fact, those coal plants generate a small % of Virginia’s electricity, are going away regardless, and have nothing to do with the fracked-gas pipeline whatsoever. A far better answer, regardless, is energy efficiency and other clean energy sources.)
- Hicks: “ Expand Virginia’s non-carbon power capability by building a small modular reactor
- Clayton Turner: Remember the remarkable Katherine Johnson
- Editorial: Monuments about more than Civil War history (“Virginians would do well to consider who we celebrate in our public spaces, rather than simply whether Civil War-era statues should remain.”)
- Virginia social services’ plentiful rules, lack of central authority ensure plenty of heartbreak
- Richmond neighborhoods: A look at changes in the city, one neighborhood at a time
- Warmer today, then even warmer with some scattered showers into midweek (“Temperatures continue to climb into the work week as a slow-moving front generates the chance of off-and-on showers.”)
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