The Patriot Post® · Monday Executive Summary
Top of the Fold
Senate votes to advance Amy Coney Barrett nomination to Supreme Court, setting up final vote today (Washington Examiner) | Relentless Trump names judge to replace Barrett’s vacant seat on the Seventh Circuit (The Daily Wire)
The deep state: General Services Administration (GSA) secretly offered FBI documents on Trump officials (The Daily Caller)
Government & Politics
Republicans begin to close early voting gap as voting outpaces 2016 (Disrn)
The big Trump rallies you don’t see (Washington Examiner)
Facebook and Twitter CEOs to voluntarily testify before Senate on censorship (Fox News)
FBI asks Hunter Biden’s ex-business associate Tony Bobulinski for an interview (The Post Millennial)
Demo-gogues
Biden: “This is the most consequential election” due to possibility of “four more years of George” (The Daily Wire)
Kamala Harris: “Yes, I do” think Trump is racist (Washington Examiner)
Harris bursts out laughing when asked if she has socialist perspective (Fox News)
“Spineless enablers”: Hillary Clinton, who thought flyover country wanted her in office, claims most Republicans secretly want Trump out of office (Washington Examiner)
The Latest on COVID-19
U.S. sets coronavirus case record (85,000+) amid new surge (The New York Times)
Italy orders bars to close early, shuts gyms as cases balloon (Reuters)
Spain imposes national night-time curfew to curb infections (BBC)
National Security
China to impose sanctions on U.S. arms suppliers to Taiwan (Fox Business)
Afghan forces reportedly kill al-Qaeda second-in-command (Disrn)
Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate
“Confusion and error”: Cardinals and Bishops come out against papal comments on same-sex civil unions (The Daily Wire)
Music publicist fired by email for attending a Trump rally (The Federalist)
Netflix cancellations soar 800% after “Cuties” debacle (The Daily Wire)
Stranger Than Fiction
Conservatives push to discredit Facebook, Twitter, and Google just days before the election, claims fake news network CNN
“We must treat the Hunter Biden leaks as if they were a foreign intelligence operation — even if they probably aren’t,” admonishes fake news network The Washington Post
Chelsea Handler tells a black man what to do: “I had to remind” 50 Cent he was black, so “he can’t vote for Trump” (Disrn)
California middle-schooler threatened with jail time for missing 90 minutes of Zoom class (The Daily Wire)
Trump condemns “coyotes” on southern border; dimwitted leftists take him literally (The Daily Wire)
Cat learns new “trick” — turning on the sink — and ends up flooding owners’ home (Fox News)
On a Happier Note…
Suicide rate fell last year after a decade of steady rise (Fox News)
Poland bans abortions of babies with genetic disorders (Disrn)
Nest of “murder hornets” annihilated in Washington state to protect honeybees (USA Today)
Texas 14-year-old wins $25,000 for developing potential COVID-19 treatment (ABC 7)
Boys find and return purse stolen three years ago: “Restores my faith in humanity” (Fox News)
Trump grants clemency to man sentenced to 30 years for non-violent drug crime (Disrn)
Sudan becomes third Arab state in weeks to announce ties with Israel (The Jerusalem Post)
Closing Arguments
Policy: Promises made, promises kept means four more years (GOP)
Policy: A $15 minimum wage would wreck the economic recovery (American Enterprise Institute)
Humor: Celebrities launch Adopt-a-Coyote program after Trump’s mean attacks (Genesius Times)
Related humor: Democrats propose stopping coyotes by distracting them with decoy roadrunners (The Babylon Bee)
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