### 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)
  • 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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