memeorandum: Newt Gingrich: If it's close in Virginia, Democrats will steal it (Allahpundit/HotAir)

2:05 AM ET, November 3, 2021

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Glenn Youngkin's repulsive final push reveals a dark truth for Democrats — With Virginia voters set to elect a governor, Republican Glenn Youngkin's final messages are positively overflowing with sunny calls for unity. One closing ad features footage of African American families smiling …

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Allahpundit / HotAir:

Newt Gingrich: If it's close in Virginia, Democrats will steal it — Here's what passes for a sober, responsible GOP elder statesman in the age of Trump. — I'll say this much in his defense, though: Given Terry McAuliffe's history of screeching about election fraud, we may see a …

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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:

Election Day Live Updates: Polls Close in Virginia; Result Is Expected to Signal Nation's Mood — Voters are deciding governor's races in Virginia and New Jersey, several key mayor's races across the country and a referendum on policing in Minneapolis. Follow along for the latest results and analysis.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Breitbart, Ace of Spades HQ and Townhall

New York Times:

Virginia Election Results — Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime fixture in the national Democratic Party, is seeking a new term in a race widely viewed as a bellwether for the midterm elections. His opponent, Glenn Youngkin, a former private equity executive, has made hot-button cultural issues central to his campaign.

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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:

Virginia Results: Giving Up on Rural America Is Proving a Nightmare for Democrats — Margins matter. — About a year ago I wrote about the big “trade” that had taken place in our politics. Democrats were picking up former Republican “red dogs” who live in the suburbs.

Discussion: Washington Examiner and Fox News

Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Takeaways from Tuesday's elections: Bad omens for Democrats

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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump gloats as Virginia results come in

CBS News:
Election Day 2021: Polls close in Virginia and New Jersey governors' races

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Samantha Putterman / PolitiFact:
Virginia Democratic party, McAuliffe campaign not involved in white supremacist stunt

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Kevin T. Dugan / Curbed:

We Staked Out Eric Adams's House in Brooklyn And he came home. Twice! — Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Getty Images, Kevin Dugan, Willy Blackmore — Where the hell does Eric Adams live? For anyone trying to get a grip on the notoriously hard-to-pin-down Democratic candidate …

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Thomas Barrabi / Fox News:
NYC mayoral election: Democrat Eric Adams soundly defeats Republican Curtis Sliwa

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Annabelle Timsit / Washington Post:
NYC police unions warned vaccine mandates would pull 10,000 officers off streets. So far, the number is 34.

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Rolling Stone:

On the Ground With the QAnon Believers Who Flocked to Dallas for the Grand Return of JFK Jr. — Though the Kennedy scion failed to appear at Dealey Plaza this afternoon, some are hopeful he might make an appearance at a Rolling Stones concert later — DALLAS — QAnon true believers gathered en masse …

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Dallas Morning News:

QAnon supporters gather in downtown Dallas expecting JFK Jr. to reappear — Some believe the reappearance of John F. Kennedy's son, who died in a plane crash in 1999, will bring about the reinstatement of Donald Trump as president. — Scores of QAnon believers gathered Tuesday afternoon …

Discussion: Newsweek, D Magazine, Washington Examiner, Daily Kos and Raw Story

Adam Liptak / New York Times:

Prominent Conservatives Back Letting States Limit Guns in Public — A brief filed in a major gun control case to be heard on Wednesday by the Supreme Court argued that limits on the public carrying of weapons were consistent with the Second Amendment. — WASHINGTON — When the Supreme Court hears …

Discussion: Reason, Slate, Politico and New York Magazine

Ellena Erskine / SCOTUSblog:
We read all the amicus briefs in New York State Rifle so you don't have to

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Patrick Hauf / Washington Free Beacon:
Supreme Court Orders Review of New York Abortion Mandate

Discussion: HotAir, New Republic and National Review

David French / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:

The Threat From the Anti-Woke Right — America is confronting two powerful illiberal movements. Where you stand on their relative threats depends on where you live. … Late last week, my friends Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt published an important piece in the online journal Persuasion that contained a startling statistic.

Discussion: The Dispatch

Lindsay Ellis / Chronicle of Higher Education:

U. of Florida Doctor Says Administrators Blocked Him From Participating in Lawsuits About Masking — A fourth University of Florida professor says administrators rejected his request to testify in litigation against state leaders this year, and denied him the opportunity to share his expertise …

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Miami Herald: UF restricted five more professors in cases against the state

Ryan Mills / National Review:

Minneapolis Voters Reject Plan to Disband City's Police Department — Minneapolis voters on Tuesday rejected a progressive plan to do away with the city's police department and to replace it with a vaguely defined “Department of Public Safety,” which would not have been required to employ any actual police officers.

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Star Tribune:
Minneapolis voters reject plan to replace Police Department

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CNN:
Minneapolis rejects policing overhaul, CNN projects

Discussion: The Texas Tribune and New York Post

Philip Klein / National Review:

The Absurd Twitter Suspension of Quin Hillyer — In any ranking of dumb Twitter suspensions, Quin Hillyer's has to land pretty high up there. Full disclosure, Quin is a former colleague of mine at the Washington Examiner as well as a former National Review author. He recounts his story:

Discussion: Washington Examiner

The Virginia Public Access Project:

Election Results … 2021 General Election

Kyle Cheney / Politico:

Trump urges judge to slow down Jan. 6 investigators' access to records — Former President Donald Trump is pleading with a federal judge in Washington to slow down the Jan. 6 committee's effort to obtain his White House records, instead asking her to order a document-by-document review that could take months.

Discussion: Insider, CNN, Alternet.org and Lawfare

CNBC:

Trump ally Rudy Giuliani seeks to block feds from getting 3 items of thousands seized under search warrant — Rudy Giuliani is seeking to prevent prosecutors from seeing just three items out of the more than 2,000 items contained on electronic devices seized from him as part of a criminal probe, a court filing revealed.

Discussion: Insider, Raw Story and Political Wire

Mike Carter / The Seattle Times:

Republican Ann Davison leads police abolitionist Nicole Thomas-Kennedy in Seattle City Attorney race — Republican Ann Davison held a strong 58% to 41% lead in the race for Seattle City Attorney, with returns Tuesday showing voters rejecting the brash language of her police abolitionist opponent …

Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:

Trump's Odds of Escaping Criminal Charges in Georgia Do Not Look Good — Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger confirms the ex-president threatened him over the 2020 election results while demanding he magically come up with enough votes to beat Biden.

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Raw Story and The Hill

Washington Post:

About 400 D.C. jail inmates will be transferred to a federal penitentiary in Pennsylvania because of unacceptable conditions, officials say — The U.S. Marshal's Service plans to move about 400 inmates out of the D.C. jail after a recent surprise inspection found evidence of “systemic” …

Discussion: Washington Examiner and WTOP

Allahpundit / HotAir:

Hot new idea for Dems' reconciliation bill: A huge tax cut for the very rich; Update: “Beyond unacceptable” — They said if Republicans voted for Trump in 2020, America would end up with an administration devoted to lining the pockets of rich people. — And they were right!

Discussion: Committee for a …, Washington Times, Reason, CBS News, Washington Free Beacon, New York Times, Roll Call, HuffPost, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, National Review, The Hill and CNN

Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:

Cincinnati elects its first Asian American mayor, Aftab Pureval — Aftab Pureval won Cincinnati's race for mayor on Tuesday, according to unofficial results, making the 39-year-old lawyer the first Asian American elected to lead the city. — Pureval defeated David Mann …

Discussion: WXIX-TV and emptywheel

Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:

Curtis Sliwa tried to bring his cat to vote. It got weirder from there. — Curtis Sliwa brought a special guest with him to vote on Tuesday: Gizmo, one of the 17 cats he lives with in a studio apartment. — But Gizmo was denied entry to the polling site, on Manhattan's Upper West Side …

Discussion: NBC News, THE CITY, Mediaite, Associated Press and Insider

New York Times:

Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System — Saying it wants “to find the right balance” with the technology, the social network will delete the face scan data of more than one billion users. — Facebook plans to shut down its decade-old facial recognition system …

Andrew Desiderio / Politico:

Josh Hawley blocks confirmation of several State Dept. nominees — Sen. Josh Hawley on Tuesday blocked swift confirmation of several State Department nominees, in a continuation of the unprecedented GOP-led campaign to slow-walk most of President Joe Biden's picks for top foreign policy posts.

Discussion: Raw Story

Matt Friedman / Politico:

Shocker in New Jersey: Governor's race a nail-biter — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli were locked in a neck-and-neck battle Tuesday night, with the outcome too close to call in a race Democrats had long been confident about.

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Glenn Greenwald:

To Protect Fauci, The Washington Post is Preparing a Hit Piece on the Group Denouncing Gruesome Dog Experimentations — For years, the White Coat Waste Project was heralded by The Post as what they are: an activist success story uniting right and left. But now its work imperils a liberal icon.

Reuters:

INSIGHT-From Boeing to Mercedes, a U.S. worker rebellion swells over vaccine mandates — In Wichita, Kansas, nearly half of the roughly 10,000 employees at aircraft companies Textron Inc and Spirit AeroSystems remain unvaccinated against COVID-19, risking their jobs in defiance of a federal mandate, according to a union official.

Discussion: Breitbart