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Tuesday, November 2, 2021

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Terry McAuliffe Closes His Campaign by Complaining There are Too Many White Teachers

From the story: Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, called for the state to “diversify” its teaching staff at an event on Sunday, after complaining about the percentage of white teachers in Virginia (The Daily Wire). From Tom Elliot: McAuliffe’s closing message: Va has too many white teachers (Twitter). From Bloomberg: Sabato’s Crystal Ball, an elections forecaster and newsletter at the University of Virginia, has changed its rating for the Virginia governor race to “Leans Republican” from “Leans Democratic,” which the race had been listed as since March (Bloomberg). From Hugh Hewitt: I expect Youngkin to emerge as the winner early on Tuesday evening.The question then becomes: What do congressional Democrats do in response? President Biden is fixated on spending massive amounts of federal money despite his plunging favorability ratings. Will Democrats in Congress study a Youngkin win and conclude, “Um, let’s change course”? My guess is no (Washington Post). More evidence the momentum is shifting Youngkin’s way (National Review). From Ari Fleischer: Prediction: Youngkin will win comfortably tomorrow, beating McAuliffe by 4.7 points. There are 3 reasons: 1) Y is a reasonable, smart and reassuring. He’s a good candidate. 2) M is a political animal. Not popular these days. 3) The suburban anti-woke rebellion is real (Twitter). From Dr. Albert Mohler: …in absolute political terms, Terry McAuliffe should have been a shoo-in. Virginia is an overwhelmingly blue state, and especially in terms of recent statewide elections, but Terry McAuliffe turns out to have made a massive mistake in which he has basically denied the authority and influence of parents in the public schools. When it comes to the education of own children, he has drilled down on it. He’s not backed down off of that position. And what we are looking at is, again, a massive collision of worldviews (Briefing).

Georgia the Latest to Sue Biden Over Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors

From the story: The complaint brought by Gov. Brian Kemp and Attorney General Chris Carr deepens a divide over the Biden administration’s strategy to contain the pandemic. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis filed a similar challenge this week, and Georgia’s litigation Friday was brought in tandem with Alabama, Idaho, Kansas, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia (AJC). From Governor Brian Kemp: Vaccine mandates are the last thing businesses need right now. We filed suit and are fighting back (Twitter).

Chicago Judge Halts Police Vaccine Mandate and Orders Arbitration

From the story: A Cook County judge ruled Monday that the city’s vaccination policy can remain in place for now, but the city can’t enforce the Dec. 31 deadline for officers to get the shot without first arbitrating it with the police unions. The written decision by Judge Raymond Mitchell to grant a partial temporary restraining order centers on the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police’s lawsuit against the city over Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate (Chicago Tribune). From WBEZ: The ruling is a major victory for police unions, who have held that the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate violates their collective bargaining agreements. Judge Raymond Mitchell ruled Monday that the mandate should be halted for police officers until those complaints can be settled in arbitration (WBEZ).

China Locks 30,000 Visitors Inside Disneyland After One Guest Tested Positive for Covid

From the story: More than 30,000 visitors to the Shanghai Disneyland theme park were kept within the park’s gates on Sunday and forced to undergo Covid-19 testing after a customer tested positive for the virus, a move that underscores China’s eradication efforts. With fireworks exploding above them as they awaited nasal swabs, the Disney visitors became the latest Chinese residents to experience life under a “zero tolerance” policy for the virus enforced by their country’s government. Leaders there have taken stringent measures to contain pockets of the coronavirus in the country, despite criticism from business groups and a close to 80% vaccination rate.

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President Biden Appears to Doze Off During Climate Conference

From the story: The 78-year-old Biden – who warned military service members this summer that top Pentagon officials consider climate change to be the “greatest threat” to America’s national security in the coming years – sat with his arms crossed, appearing to drift in and out of sleep (Fox News). From Katie Pavlich: Climate change is such an imminent and dire threat to humanity that Joe Biden fell asleep while people were talking about it (Twitter). From Townhall: Meanwhile Biden and other global elites are doing their part to “fight climate change” by traveling in a 85 vehicle long motorcades. Meanwhile China, whose communist leaders failed to show up at the conference, continues to be the world’s worst polluter (Townhall).

26 New York Firehouses Out of Service Over Vaccine Mandate

From the story: The FDNY shuttered 26 fire companies citywide on Saturday due to staff shortages caused by the COVID-19 vaccination mandate, according to furious elected officials, who ripped the move as “unconscionable” — and warned it could have catastrophic consequences (NY Post). From ADF’s Kristen Waggoner: The Biden administration’s threat to impose an unlawful national vaccine mandate is going to result in some real, but predictable, consequences (Twitter).

Minneapolis Votes Today on Disbanding Police

The Democratic Governor and both Senators, also Democrats, oppose the referendum. But, Ed Morrissey explains, they aren’t campaigning against it.

Hot Air

Colin Kaepernick Equates Being an NFL Athlete to Slavery

From the story: Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick was slammed over the weekend in response to video clips that circulated on social media where he tried to suggest that NFL athletes were treated the same as slaves (The Daily Wire). From The New York Post: The former NFL player uses the analogy in his drama series “Colin in Black & White” to depict the league’s draft process and training camp. Netflix released the limited series Friday, billing the special as recounting Kapernick’s “formative years navigating race, class and culture while aspiring for greatness” (The New York Post). From Burgess Owens: How dare @Kaepernick7 compare the evil endured by so many of our ancestors to a bunch of millionaires who CHOSE to play game (Twitter). From Clay Travis: Colin Kaepernick compares the NFL combine, which allows all players of all races a voluntary chance to become multi-millionaires, to slavery (Twitter). From Sportscasting: The league’s minimum salary jumped to $660,000 this season, up from $610,000 a year ago. According to Over the Cap, 41 players were slated to make the minimum salary as of Sept. 10, 2021 (Sportscasting). From Marco Rubio: A guy paid millions to sell shoes made by Uyghur slaves in China apparently has a Netflix series about injustice in America (Twitter).

In Taunting Tweet, Elon Musk Offers to Solve World Hunger

From the story: Musk responded to a repost of a CNN article that quoted David Beasley, the director of the UN’s World Food Program, who said billionaires need to “step up now” — namely Musk and Jeff Bezos (Fox Business). From Elon Musk: If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it (Twitter).

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Poll: More Americans See Democrats as Threat to Democracy

It’s the last page in this 26-page Marist Poll document. And the poll includes 31 percent Democrats, 27 percent Republicans.

Marist