by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, November 4…the Day After (ominous drums)…;)
- Climate change: US formally withdraws from Paris agreement (F’ing crazy.)
- Republicans clinging to Senate majority
- Democrats hang on to the House majority, but fall far short of their hopes for expansion
- We still don’t know much about this election — except that the media and pollsters blew it again
- Trump blatantly seeks to undermine democracy with false claim of victory, attempt to subvert election
- With nine states still counting millions of votes, Trump falsely claims he won (“Trump made a series of false and misleading claims about the state of the 2020 race early Wednesday morning. Here are the facts.”
- Trump Says Vote-Counting Should Only Continue in States Where He’s Behind
- Biden Has a Good Chance of Winning — and Having a Dreadful Presidency
- The Morning After. Here’s Where Things Stand.
- The President Begins His Final Assault on Democracy
- Trump’s call to halt vote counts is his most brazen swipe at democracy yet
- Where the race to 270 stands (“The election is far from over with millions of votes outstanding in key states. Trump claimed some legitimate vote counting should stop while Biden urged patience.”)
- The Nightmare Is Here (“Even as the election remained unresolved, President Trump declared victory and denounced efforts to count the remaining votes as ‘a fraud.'”)
- Trump falsely and prematurely claims election victory
- Kellyanne Conway says Trump may lose ground in Electoral College from 2016
- Trump, Biden’s paths to victory in U.S. presidential election
- The Note: Sleepless night sets up nightmare scenarios
- Once Again, a Nation Cuts It Too Close for Comfort
- Republican Senate would darken outlook for aggressive U.S. climate policy
- Trump Wins Key States, Florida and Ohio, Biden Tells Supporters ‘We Believe We’re on Track to Win’
- Trump Says Vote-Counting Should Only Continue in States Where He’s Behind (Nope, not how it works.)
- Donald Trump Is Lying About The Early Election Results
- Biden: The election ‘ain’t over until every vote is counted’
- Trump’s Supreme Court vow was what he planned all along
- Trump seeks to stop voting, but only counting remains
- The Remaining Vote in Pennsylvania Appears to Be Overwhelmingly for Biden
- USPS disregards court order to conduct ballot sweeps in 12 postal districts after more than 300,000 ballots cannot be traced (WTF???)
- ‘We’ll Be Working 24 Hours’: Vote Counting To Continue Through The Week
- Trump-Biden Election Fight May Be Too Close to Call for Days
- Democrats did not have the night they hoped for in the battle for the Senate
- Republicans clinging to Senate majority as Dems under-perform
- However the election ends, white supremacy has already won (“America has shown a fidelity to white supremacy we can’t dismiss, regardless of the election’s final outcome”)
- The Worst-Case Election Scenario Is Happening
- Biden Path to Electoral College Win Widens as Votes Come In
- Biden Retains Path to Win Pennsylvania With Mail Vote
- Republicans confident they will keep Senate control after fears of backlash
- Voter turnout is estimated to be the highest in 120 years (“The US Elections Project estimates nearly 67 percent turnout — the highest since 1900.”)
- While You Were Sleeping, Biden Got Back in the Game
- Election Results And Updates: Votes Still Being Counted In 6 Key States
- 2020 Presidential Election Is A Nail-Biter As Key States Still Counting Votes (“Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin remained up in the air, and both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have paths to victory.”)
- Five takeaways from election night 2020
- Now We Wait….
- Sen. John Cornyn has fended off Democrat MJ Hegar to win reelection in Texas
- Mark Kelly Defeats Martha McSally in Crucial Arizona Senate Race
- Hickenlooper becomes the first Democrat to flip a Senate seat tonight.
- Democrats’ hopes of flipping Texas again fall short as Republicans dominate the state’s 2020 elections
- Fulton, Gwinnett counties struggle to count absentee ballots
- Fulton election results delayed after pipe bursts in room with ballots
- Republican Tommy Tuberville defeats Sen. Doug Jones in Alabama
- What’s more important than a timely election result: Counting all the votes
- Right-wing propagandists try to concoct a Philadelphia election scandal (“A single Trump poll watcher was briefly barred from a polling site before being let in, and they’re crying fraud”)
- Live Blogging the 2020 National Election
- Spanberger, Freitas 7th district race to be decided by absentee ballots
- UPDATE: Spanberger appears headed for razor-thin win in Seventh District
- UPDATE: Biden claims early win in Virginia, a Southern swing state growing bluer
- Republican Bob Good wins as competitive Virginia congressional seats hang in the balance
- Virginia Election Results 2020: Live Blog
- Rep. Jennifer Wexton reelected in Virginia’s 10th District
- Mark Warner Wins Third Term in U.S. Senate
- Elaine Luria takes lead over Scott Taylor in 2nd Congressional District race
- Good declares victory over Webb in 5th Congressional District race
- UPDATE: Sen. Mark Warner elected to third term, challenger Daniel Gade says he’s not ready to concede
- Election Day 2020 Open Thread: Final Predictions; Which Races to Focus On; What Are You Seeing/Hearing Out There?
- On Election Day, Elected Officials and Leaders to Visit Voting Sites Throughout Virginia
- Qasim Rashid’s Election Night Remarks
- No Good Bob Is No Good For Virginia’s Fifth CDC (Nor the Nation Nor Even VA GOP)
- Few lines, almost no waits: Record early turnout transformed Election Day in most of the region
- Whatever the Results Tonight, One Thing Is For SURE – Qasim Rashid Is Incredibly Impressive. Check THIS Out!
- McEachin pulls ahead of Benjamin in 4th District, but early votes still out in Richmond and suburbs
- How moderates like Rep. Abigail Spanberger survive in tribalistic times
- Schapiro analysis: It’s Va. Democrats’ turn to live in an ‘insta-call’ state
- In six rural Virginia counties, residents vote overwhelmingly to keep Confederate monuments
- In historic change, Virginia voters approve bipartisan commission to handle political redistricting
- Virginians approve turning redistricting over to bipartisan commission
- Tuesday (11/3) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,261 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 184,679), +65 Hospitalizations (to 12,739), +8 Deaths (to 3,666)
- Boysko: Let’s set the record straight. Broadband is a priority in Virginia
- Voters bet on casinos as Norfolk and Portsmouth vote to allow gambling (Yuck)
- UPDATE: Stoney with slight edge in Richmond mayoral race; absentee results still unknown
- Fairfax County’s seismic changes
- BREAKING: Biden, Dems Win Big in Arlington
- In a first, Roanoke elects a majority Black city council
- Lea wins second term as Roanoke mayor
- D.C.-area forecast: Great stretch of weather straight through the weekend
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