by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, November 9.
- There have now been 50 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 worldwide
- Global Stocks Surge to Record High on Biden Presidency Optimism
- U.S. Climate Reversal Will See Biden Join World’s Green Momentum
- Merkel to Biden: Europe ready to ‘take on more responsibility’
- As Biden’s victory is hailed, some prominent world leaders remain silent (“Russia and Brazil are yet to offer congratulations to the president-elect.” Two of the worst leaders in the world, Putin and Bolsonaro.)
- The End of ‘America First’: How Biden Wants to Re-engage the World
- U.S. crosses 10 million COVID-19 cases as third wave of infections surges
- Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine is more than 90 percent effective in first analysis, company reports (“It is the strongest signal yet that the unprecedented quest to develop a vaccine that could help bring the pandemic to an end might succeed, breaking every scientific speed record.”)
- Pandemic on course to overwhelm U.S. health system before Biden takes office
- Trump in denial over defeat as Biden gears up to fight Covid
- President-Elect Biden Has A Plan To Combat COVID-19. Here’s What’s In It
- Biden unveils coronavirus crisis team tasked with curbing surging cases
- Obamacare faces Supreme Court remade by Trump
- In a Divided Washington, Biden Could Still Exert Economic Power (“If Republicans control the Senate, a Biden administration could take a cue from President Trump and find ways to act unilaterally on some economic issues.”)
- The Crisis of American Democracy Is Not Over
- Biden plans to move fast on the pandemic and the economy
- As Biden Plans Transition, Republicans Decline to Recognize His Election (“Former President George W. Bush and a handful of other Republicans congratulated the president-elect, but most party leaders stayed quiet or urged President Trump to fight.”)
- Republicans already racing to fill Trump power vacuum (“Would-be 2024 GOP candidates are making moves and a battle for Republican National Committee chair could be coming soon.”)
- Chris Wallace: Ted Cruz is like a Japanese soldier who thinks the war is ‘still going on’
- Trump continues to defy results as world and some in GOP begin to move on
- Statement by President George W. Bush (“I just talked to the President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden. I extended my warm congratulations and thanked him for the patriotic message he delivered last night.”)
- Three things to watch after a tumultuous election
- That’s the sound of 75 million Americans exhaling
- An open letter to the most important Republicans (“It is time to be normal again.”)
- Third Term of the Obama Presidency (“Joe Biden represents a move back to normalcy, but progressives will push for change.”)
- Even in defeat, the embers of Trumpism still burn in the Republican Party
- Trump to continue to hold campaign-style rallies as legal team girds up
- Trump may not, but many in inner circle accept defeat
- Top congressional Republicans still haven’t acknowledged Biden’s victory (Disgraceful.)
- Trump Lost the Race. But Republicans Know It’s Still His Party. (Time for the Lincoln Project folks to start a new, conservative party?)
- Trump Advisers View Legal Challenges to Biden Win as Futile (Waste of time and resources.)
- Lindsey Graham: If Trump concedes election, Republicans will ‘never’ elect another president (WTF???)
- How to Protect America From the Next Donald Trump (“The Constitution is supposed to protect us from demagogues. Can we make it work again?”)
- Biden’s DOJ Must Determine Whether Trump Should Be Prosecuted
- How Democrats Missed Trump’s Appeal to Latino Voters
- Infamous ‘Hoax’ Artist Behind Trumpworld’s New Voter Fraud Claim
- Joe Biden Offered Us the Chance to Heal. Are We Willing to Take It? (“His victory speech—and Kamala Harris’s—was an invitation to the United States of America to come back from the brink”)
- The Lucky Breaks That Prevented an Election Meltdown (“The Upper Midwest Wrapped Up Early…No Red Mirage in the Southwest…The States Biden Lost Were Just Close Enough…. Fox News Has Been More News Than Fox…They Weren’t As Ready for This As We Thought They Were”)
- Here are the GOP and Trump campaign’s allegations of election irregularities. So far, none has been proved. (“So far?” Try “never,” because they’re all complete bullshit.)
- What Happens if Trump Won’t Concede (“Biden will take office on Jan. 20. But the attempts to treat his presidency as illegitimate have already begun”)
- Pressure mounts on federal agency to affirm Biden victory (“Until the General Services Administration determines Biden is the president-elect, his transition team cannot access government funds or communicate with federal agencies.”)
- How ‘Obamagate’ and Hunter’s ‘laptop from hell’ fizzled
- With Biden’s Win, Climate Activists See New Potential But Say They’ll ‘Push Where We Need to Push’
- The Trump legal team’s failed Four Seasons press conference, explained (Beyond parody.)
- No, not that Four Seasons. How Team Trump’s news conference ended up at a Northeast Philly landscaping firm.
- Surge in youth voter turnout may have helped propel Biden to victory
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ends truce by warning ‘incompetent’ Democratic party
- The media never fully learned how to cover Trump. But they still might have saved democracy.
- Trump spokesperson posts fake Washington Times front page of Gore win
- Fox News Tries to Tell Trump Through the TV: The Party’s Over
- ‘We will not allow anyone to stop us’: Day and night, under historic scrutiny, the nation’s vote counters carried on (Heroes.)
- ‘A Vexing Decision’: Calif. Governor Mulls Who Will Replace Harris In Senate
- “It is not cheating, it is democracy”: A first-hand look at ballot counting in Pennsylvania (Also known as “counting every vote.”)
- How Democrats Lost So Many South Texas Latinos—the Economy (“Party messaging didn’t resonate in socially conservative border communities fearful of Covid-19 shutdowns and the loss of well-paid oil-industry jobs”)
- Pete Buttigieg is a near-certainty for Biden’s Cabinet (Yep, he definitely deserves it!)
- Stacey Abrams: We will have unprecedented resources for Georgia Senate runoffs
- ‘I loved John McCain’: Inside Arizona’s GOP movement to defeat Donald Trump
- Biden slightly widens lead in Arizona’s Maricopa County
- Photos From Black Lives Matter Plaza, DC, As Thousands Celebrate Biden/Harris’ Victory, and the Beginning of the End of the Trump Disaster
- Jeopardy! Host Alex Trebek Dead at 80 (R.I.P.)
- Graphs: Key Takeaways From the 11/3/20 Virginia Elections (Biden won VA by nearly 10 pts; Rashid got the most votes ever by a Dem in VA01; Spanberger got the most votes ever in VA07; Luria got BY FAR the most votes for a Dem ever in VA02; Wexton got BY FAR the most votes ever in VA10; Webb got the most votes ever by a Dem in VA05…)
- AP confirms Spanberger victory in Richmond-area congressional race (Yep, we’ve know that for days.)
- Virginia coronavirus trends point to winter surge, public health officials say
- Sunday (11/8) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,302 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 192,175), +42 Hospitalizations (to 13,064), +3 Deaths (to 3,707)
- COVID-19 outbreaks are increasing within Virginia’s hospitals, health officials warn (Ugh, that’s really not good.)
- Northam’s Budget Amendments Face Final Hurdle Monday
- Virginia deserves credit for making it easier for people to vote, but reporting the results needs work
- Congratulations to President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris (The conservative blog Bearing Drift shows how to do it. Nice job, unlike so many Virginia Republicans!)
- COVID-19 in Southwest Virginia is surging. Some officials are skeptical that new restrictions might help.
- Opinion/Editorial: Northam worsens VMI mess (Hmmm…)
- Lynchburg goes blue for president for the first time since Harry Truman in 1948
- 2 months later, Portsmouth’s police chief is still in limbo. Will election results change that?
- Police chief defends accommodations, beverage trade, with armed group at gun rally
- Decades After Flood of ’85, Roanoke Continues Flooding-Resiliency Efforts
- D.C.-area forecast: Staying warm for a few more days, but rain returns midweek
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