• Election results in Virginia, New Jersey, Maine, etc.: Virginia voted on Tuesday to elect Democrat Abigail Spanberger as governor. Voters even allowed death-wisher Jay Jones to ride Spanberger’s coattails to victory as the new attorney general. Republican hopes were dashed in New Jersey, where Democrat Mikie Sherrill beat Republican Jack Ciattarelli for the governorship. Maine approved a “red flag law” that will allow family members to petition to have guns removed from their kin without police consultation. The Pine Tree State also rejected voter ID and other election safety measures. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s 5-2 Democrat majority was confirmed, with three justices surviving up-or-down votes. Colorado approved a wealth-redistribution measure that would have the wealthy pay for public school lunches. Overall, it was an excellent night for Democrats, with Texas’s reiteration of parental rights and citizen-only voting the only exceptions.

• Mamdani and the Dems’ future: Yesterday, in a result that was long predicted and should surprise no one, Zohran Mandani won the New York City mayoral election decisively. The Democrat socialist pulled in over 50% of the vote, easily besting Andrew Cuomo, the scandal-plagued former New York governor. While Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries recently denied that Mamdani represented the “future” of the Democrat Party, Tuesday’s election results suggest otherwise. Long has the Democrat Party capitulated to the demands of the radical Left fringe, a fringe that is fast becoming the party’s mainstream base. Deny as they might, the Democrats are the party of extremists. They are now the home of open, proud, and unrepentant Marxists like Mamdani, who believes that capitalism is the problem. No wonder hundreds of thousands of the city’s residents are now looking to escape from New York.

• Schumer Shutdown enters day 36, the longest ever: Not all records are meant to be broken, but the government shutdown orchestrated by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has surpassed the previous 35-day record. Both the House and the Senate are now seriously considering new funding legislation, as the current measure would only fund the government through November 21. House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected the idea of a December funding end date for the new bill, citing last year’s Christmas funding crisis, and instead favors a January date. Senate Majority Leader John Thune seems to be on the same page, favoring a January date. Thune is also hopeful that, after the Democrats used the shutdown to juice turnout in elections yesterday, they may be willing to reopen the government before the end of the week.

• Tariffs at SCOTUS: One of President Donald Trump’s favorite foreign policy tools is under threat of being pulled from his toolbox as the Supreme Court hears arguments challenging his use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to enact his sweeping tariff agenda. Trump argues the IEEPA grants him authority to “regulate” imports in response to identified emergencies. A number of Democrat-run states and small businesses sued. The justices will be weighing the fact that in 1971, Richard Nixon employed the precursor to the IEEPA, the Trading with the Enemy Act, to justify imposing a temporary 10% tariff to protect American products from unfair exchange rates. In Nixon’s case, it was temporary, but Trump has been using the IEEPA to enact longer-term trade deals. A majority of Americans oppose tariffs, which have not helped lower prices while negatively impacting small businesses across the country.

• New evidence of Comey’s duplicity: A trove of new evidence released by prosecutors and the FBI belie former FBI Director James Comey’s claims that he’s the real victim in the Trump administration’s indictment. A slew of emails and notes from then-Director Comey show that he hoped to please Hillary Clinton, as he expected her to win the 2016 presidential election, and that he was aware of and cheered on media leaks he claimed he had not sanctioned. Comey also used a private email account to conduct FBI-related matters. In one email, Comey communicated with FBI special government employee Daniel Richman about influencing a New York Times reporter regarding the Clinton email scandal. In another instance, Comey misled Congress when he claimed he didn’t recall if he had been briefed on Clinton’s plan to tie Trump to Russia, when in fact he had taken handwritten notes of the briefing dated September 2016.

• More hate toward a Republican: Helena, Montana, unlike Virginia, decided not to elect a candidate who wishes death on Republicans. Haley McKnight, a North Carolina expat who was running for the city council in Helena, left a threatening voicemail for Montana Senator Tim Sheehy after he voted in support of the Big Beautiful Bill in July. Haley identified herself in the voicemail before launching into a screed of insulting invective. Calling an elected official a “coward and thief” is one thing, but most Americans agree that wishing for untreatable pancreatic cancer is over the line. McKnight cautioned Sheehy about meeting her in the street because “I will make you regret it,” before ending the voicemail with “F**k you. I hope you die.” Classy. Results are not yet final, but it seems clear that McKnight has lost her race, which can only be a relief for Montanans.

• SNAP funding confusion: Funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was set to expire on November 1 due to the government shutdown, but then activist judges ordered the government to fund the program anyway. The White House acknowledged the court’s decision and suggested it would deplete emergency disaster funding to make 50% payments to the 42 million Americans on food stamps. Yesterday, though, President Trump confused the situation by suggesting that SNAP benefits “will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government.” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt echoed Trump’s rhetoric while suggesting that the White House is not defying the court order. Taxpaying Americans may disapprove of welfare payments being made while air traffic controllers remain unpaid, but a lack of clarity from the White House doesn’t improve the situation.

• EV sales plummet: One of the features in the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act was the elimination of the $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit, which expired at the end of September. Unsurprisingly, EV sales in October took a massive nosedive, dropping roughly 80%. The EV tax credit was always a gimmick — an effort to push Americans to adopt the more expensive and inherently limited EVs, all under the guise of “saving the planet.” Instead of resting on free-market capitalism and trusting the American consumer to make the best choice for themselves, the government put its thumb on the scales, and as a result, everyone has ended up paying more for their vehicles, regardless of whether they chose the higher-priced EVs. Now that the EV market is in a massive slump, will automakers pull back even further on EV production? Many see 2026 as a make-or-break year for EVs.

• Harvard explosion: Two men from Massachusetts were arrested on Tuesday following an explosion at Harvard Medical School over the weekend. The Boston Fire Department said the explosion was intentional but that no one was injured. Police conducted a full sweep of the building and found no additional devices. The blast occurred on the medical school’s fourth floor, which includes labs and offices associated with the medical school’s Department of Neurobiology. Early Saturday morning, an officer who responded to a fire alarm encountered two people running from the Goldenson Building on Longwood Avenue, according to Harvard University Police. There was no structural damage to the building, and all the labs and equipment remain intact.

Headlines

• UPS plane disaster leaves at least seven dead, 11 injured (Fox News)

• FAA resumes flights at Reagan Airport after shutdown over United Airlines flight security threat (Just the News)

• Trump re-nominates Jared Isaacman to head NASA months after yanking nod (NY Post)

• Chris DeMuth resigns from The Heritage Foundation (National Review)

• Army’s clock must now start ticking faster when a soldier goes missing (Army Times)

• Satire: Mamdani announces plan to blame racism after his policies fail (Babylon Bee)

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