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Quick Hits:

• Governor Northam will be holding a COVID-19 update today at 1 pm.
• Trump says RINOs (Republican in name only) are a dying breed. Trump commented on this in an email where he asked his supporters to let him know which candidates he should support during midterms. “I am working hard to make sure these anti-Trump ‘Republicans’ don’t get into office, but I need YOUR help. We need true, America FIRST conservative candidates running for office, and I could really use the input of the American People, like YOU, to find them,” the email reads. “I need YOU to tell me what type of candidates I should endorse for the 2022 Election. Remember, I don’t care what MEGA DONORS or special interest groups want… I only care what YOU want.”
• Today, Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger is expected to announce from VCU’s campus legislation that would create an emergency supply of key ingredients used in essential generic medicines and incentivize domestic manufacturing of these ingredients.
• Three rural women leaders on Sept. 24 called on Virginia’s Republican members of Congress to support their constituents by voting to extend the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) beyond 2021.

More Virginia News

• Glenn Youngkin’s play: Forever- and Never-Trumpers
• In Virginia governor’s race, GOP sees harbinger of 2022 success
• Handful of Virginia House races highlight fight for control of chamber
• Democrats’ Spending Fight Carries High Stakes for Their Candidates
• Democrats lean into vaccine mandates, coronavirus response in Virginia governor’s race
• Virginia students lagged on required immunizations last school year
• ‘I feel incomplete’: A VCU nurse lost her father in April. Because of COVID, she couldn’t fly to India to bury him
• Richmond is spending millions more on paving. An audit found 20% of inspected projects needed repairs within two years
• $50 million gift to prompt construction of UVa performing arts center

National News

• Pfizer CEO: We can do both booster shots and primary vaccines
• Merkel’s party lost, should go into opposition, rival party says
• Supreme Court observers see trouble ahead as public approval of justices erodes
• Cheney on same-sex marriage opposition: ‘I was wrong’
• Facing a heap of defeat, progressives stake hopes on spending bill
• ’No backup plan’: Democrats reject grueling debt limit off-ramp
• Pelosi sets infrastructure vote as Dem leaders struggle to unify caucus
• Joe Biden, welcome to the thunderdome
• Election leaves Germany in limbo
• Pelosi sets Thursday vote on bipartisan infrastructure bill
• Two kids, a loaded gun and the man who left a 4-year-old to die