The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Executive Summary
Top of the Fold
Handmaid’s Fail: Senate confirms originalist Amy Coney Barrett 52-48 and adjourns until after the election (The Washington Free Beacon)
Supreme Court rightly rejects late ballots in battleground Wisconsin (The Washington Free Beacon)
Leftmedia
CNN and MSNBC skip historic Senate vote confirming ACB (Fox News)
Media excuse Joe Biden’s mix-up: He was talking about George Lopez (The Daily Wire)
Defund NPR: Man plots to kill Biden, NPR omits from story that he was a Bernie Bro with books on Islam (PJ Media)
Elsewhere in Politics
COVID aid on hold until after the election (Bloomberg)
Democrats who endeavor to pack the Supreme Court say Republicans will regret Barrett confirmation (Fox News)
In new spin, Biden floats rotating SCOTUS justices if he’s elected (New York Post)
Trump asks justices to block North Carolina mail-in ballot extension (National Review)
Awkward: Biden unmentioned in Barack Obama’s telling of healthcare bill’s passage (The Washington Free Beacon)
Biden draws bulk of fundraising support from wealthiest zip codes (National Review)
Another rapper endorses Trump, rips Biden’s tax plan (Not the Bee)
Hunter Biden sought to avoid registering as a foreign agent in Chinese business venture (The Daily Caller)
Déjà vu: Polls in battleground states nearly identical to 2016 (The Daily Wire)
For the Record
Biden cannot claim to fight for our nation’s soul while supporting unborn genocide (The Federalist)
When Kamala Harris could have pushed to investigate police shootings, she didn’t (The Federalist)
Around the Nation
Zeta becomes a hurricane as it takes aim at already hard-hit Louisiana (Washington Examiner)
Utility says its equipment may have sparked California blaze that’s forcing large evacuations (AP)
Fatal police shooting of a knife-wielding black man prompts heated protests in West Philly (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Man who bought firearms used in San Bernardino terrorist attack gets 20 years (The Daily Signal)
The Latest on COVID-19
Cases are skyrocketing, but deaths are flat — so far (Time)
Hospitalized patients already taking aspirin daily were 47% less likely to die of coronavirus (Daily Mail)
National Security
In western Arizona, over a hundred miles of new border wall is getting results (Washington Examiner)
Germany favors U.S. partnership to thwart Russia and China’s “global supremacy” quest (Washington Examiner)
Six cases of Chinese infiltration of universities and research — and what Trump is doing about it (The Daily Signal)
U.S. threatens to destroy Iranian missiles shipped to Venezuela (Fox News)
Colleges hid more than $6.5 billion in foreign funding (The Washington Free Beacon)
Stranger Than Fiction
Elton John gets his own Barbie doll (KTLA 5)
KFC’s fried chicken-scented fire log is back (Best Products)
Social media erupts over woman who focuses on getting her dad to vote for Biden while he’s literally dying (The Daily Wire)
Billionaire Bill Gross allegedly blared “Gilligan’s Island” theme song on loop to annoy neighbor during dispute over sculpture (The Daily Caller)
Other Notables
Fox announcers caught on live mic bashing military flyover said they were mimicking crew (Disrn)
NASA discovers more water on the moon than previously thought (Disrn)
Japan pledges to be carbon neutral by 2050 (NPR)
Closing Arguments
Policy: Biden’s energy agenda would destroy the American energy renaissance (National Review)
Policy: It’s time to transform the U.S.-Japan alliance (American Enterprise Institute)
Humor: Newly sworn-in ACB immediately orders all nation’s women to wear Handmaid’s outfit (The Babylon Bee)
Related humor: Democrats ask ACB to recuse herself from any cases involving the Constitution (The Babylon Bee)
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