Election Day

• Voters head to polls in contests seen as referendum on Joe Biden presidency (Fox News)

• Glenn Youngkin’s crowds dwarf Terry McAuliffe’s on election eve (Politico)

• Tone-deaf McAuliffe makes final pitch to Virginia alongside Randi Weingarten who nonsensically kept schools closed (Daily Wire)

• McAuliffe missteps give Glenn Youngkin an opening in marquee race (National Review)

Politics

• World leaders agree to end deforestation and slash methane emissions (The Guardian)

• All hat and no cattle: Biden naps during “one of the most important meetings in history” (Free Beacon)

• Biden calls climate crisis “an existential threat,” apologizes for Trump wisely pulling out of Paris Accord (Fox News)

• “Holding this [infrastructure] bill hostage is not going to work”: Joe Manchin says he won’t be pressured into reconciliation vote (Axios)

• Cori Bush unloads on Manchin: “Anti-Black, anti-child, anti-woman, anti-immigrant” (Daily Wire)

• Catastrophe for religious freedom? Supreme Court allows lawsuit against Catholic hospital over refused transgender hysterectomy (National Review)

Security

• Border deaths soar as 2021 sets record for most migrant fatalities (Washington Times)

• Record fentanyl seizures at border contributed to soaring overdose deaths in U.S. (Washington Examiner)

• Pentagon to add a climate policy czar … while China builds hypersonic missiles (Daily Wire)

Notables

• The Southwest Airlines “Let’s Go Brandon” narrative appears to be crashing and burning (PJ Media)

• Vaccine offers more protection against COVID than natural immunity, CDC asserts (CBS News)

• Seattle police union lambasts mayor for $25,000 officer hiring bonuses after pushing defund movement (Fox News)

• A plurality of Democrats want someone other than Biden to be the 2024 nominee (Fox News)

Non Compos Mentis Award

• Loudoun County school board official claimed he might not have seen email informing him of sex assault — despite responding to it (Daily Wire)

Closing Arguments

• Policy: What to do about the Left’s empty environmentalism (National Review)

• Policy: What will drive China to war? (The Atlantic)

• Satire: Colin Kaepernick sad that no slave owner will enslave him no matter how many times he tries out to be a slave (Babylon Bee)

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