mark matson. we have a new record for the nasdaq. [closing bell rings] s&p looks like we'll fall a few points short. the nasdaq at the 33rd record of the year. 159 records under the president. here we go with a nasdaq making a record. i will be here tomorrow for "the claman countdown." melissa: on the ground in the midwest, president trump touting the economic recovery in minnesota. nasdaq closes at a new record high, its 33rd close of the year. s&p will close just below record territory here. the dow kicking off the week slightly in the red. i'm melissa francis this is "after the bell." here is connell mcshane. connell: good to see you again, melissa. i'm reporting live today from racine, wisconsin. a beautiful place. you see lake michigan behind me. we're 40 miles to the south of milwaukee, on the very day that the democratic convention kicks off in that city, kind of.

things look very different than in years past. it is a virtual convention. speaks come in from across the country. former first lady michelle obama, senator bernie sanders will speak there is a republican on the list, speaking at the democratic convention former ohio governor john kasich. president trump in person will make his way to wisconsin. he will be in oshkosh trying to rally supporters ahead of the republican national convention which begins virtually next week. the real reason we are here to speak to the voters, trying to get a pulse of the people if you will. you will hear from some of those voters in just a few moments. first our top stories with fox business team coverage. blake burman is at the white house. we start with lauren simonetti on the markets. lauren. lauren: connell, good to see you. the markets are closing the session out mixed. we have a new record close for the nasdaq. apple shares, where do they end the day?

they are within striking that two trillion dollar valuation t would be the first u.s. company to reach that milestone. so, the number for apple would be 467.76. a little bit shy today. we do have breaking news for you connell and melissa, epic games asked a federal court in california to block apple from removing their uberpop lar popular fortnight game. they asked apple to stop terminating their developer account. a story we'll continue to watch. s&p 500 inched so close to the first record close in six months but it did fall short. it was up today, it snapped a two-day losing streak. the dow was held back by boeing, financials. american express, jpmorgan, and goldman sachs. two dow stocks, retail stocks, both reporting tomorrow. walmart and hole depot did close

and -- home depot hit record highs. walmart has lost a little bit of momentum a blowout quarter could propel the stock back. earnings are expected to fall 1.6%. revenue to rise 3.8% just over $135 billion in the quarter. home depot, like i said, another so many records for home depot this year. earnings there will rise more than 16%, revenue more than 11%. look, customers despite stimulus checks coming back, being pulled, lower amounts right now, they are still expected to remodel, mulch, paint, you name it. store traffic has been consistently robust. that is not expected to change anytime soon because we are living in a booming housing market. connell, back to you. connell: yes we are, lauren. good to see you, thank you. melissa. melissa: not backing down, president trump says that he is willing to fund the post office

if democrats can agree to his version of the latest coronavirus relief package. blake burman is live at the white house with details on this one. blake. reporter: hi, there, melissa. there is no perhaps bigger issue here in washington, d.c., then the fate and finances of the u.s. postal service. to that end house speaker nancy pelosi is going to be bringing back the house this weekend, this upcoming weekend, in between the two political conventions to vote on legislation potentially to shore up the post office's finances. ahead of that she wrote to the democratic colleagues to start off the week, lead into it, at a time of the pandemic the postal service is election central. americans should not have to choose between their health and their vote. then from one week from today the democratic controlled house oversight committee will hold a hearing involved the newly installed postmaster general lewis dejoy. they believe the president is trying to sabotage as nancy pelosi put it before the election will likely feature a

surge of mail-in voting during the covid-19 pandemic. but the post office has been financially underwater by the billions and the president says reform measures are needed. >> i have encouraged everybody, speed up the mail, not slow the mail. i also want to have a post office that runs without losing billions and billions of dollars a year as it has been doing for 50 years. reporter: comments from the president on the south lawn as he left for minnesota and wisconsin where he is campaigning today. melissa, connell, traditionally, traditionally during the week of a political convention the candidate who doesn't have the convention going on normally sits off to the sidelines. there is a little bit of reciprocity when that candidate has their convention. president trump doing anything but as he is hitting the campaign trail the week of the democratic national convention. back to you. melissa: oh, yeah. everything that was once the way it was is out the window, blake.

we know. that thank you. here is dan henninger from "the wall street journal" he is also a fox news contributor. i think i must be in bizarro world. i go on vacation and i come back suddenly people are waking up to the fact that the post office is in crisis and they're saying he is going to sabotage the post office? they have been doing a darn good job of sabotaging themselves for the entire time i've been in financial news. i mean their legacy costs, their unfunded liabilities, their pensions, their health care are, that number outstrips their total revenue. save the post office with some bill? what are we talking about here? the thing needs to go bankrupt. what is going on, dan, help me out? >> boy, i wish i could help you out, melissa because i'm in the same boat. i've been on vacation myself but watching out of the corner of my eye this day after day after day

story built around the post office? are you like a saturday night live return. i love all the pay-ons from nancy pelosi and rest of them how crucial institution to the post office is to the political life of united states. i think the president raised a good issue. it is not fraud. i wish he would stop talking about fraud and mail-in ballots but the question whether mail-in ballots are going to arrive in time and whether the election officials themselves, this is the real story here, whether the people who count ballots in places like florida, remember florida, happening chads, whether election officials are going to receive these ballots in time and be able to count them all on the night of the election. i think the president is absolutely right that the election results could extend in some of these substantially important states for days. you know there will be litigation over that. that is way beyond the issue of whether the postal service

should be receiving adequate funding or not. melissa: i mean not only that all you have to do is look in my district here in new york. the master of disaster, governor cuomo himself, who somehow is going to take some sort of victory lap tonight at the convention which boggles my mind when we had so many people die from covid in nursing homes here, also when he was the one who wanted to flood the zone with envelopes out to the 12th district that were postage paid for primary in new york. it took six weeks. there wasn't a republican in sight. took them six weeks to figure out which democrat won the primary for the 12th district. one out of five ballots were struck down and not opened because they weren't postmarked. there was something wrong with them as soon as they showed up. we saw right here in new york that we aren't good at doing this suddenly on the fly by mail. why would it be any different in a presidential election, dan?

>> there is no reason to think it is going to be different. in that controversy in new york state the new york state director of elections testified in court that allowing people to postmark their ballots within seven days of the election was simply incomprehensible and impractical. you cannot allow people to put something in a mailbox within seven days of a presidential election. so i think the burden should be on yes, indeed, politicians like governor cuomo and governors out across this country to move up the date by which you're allowed to postmark a ballot, mail-in ballots so the postal service in its wonderful, incomprehensible competence can actually get these pieces of mail delivered. everyone knows, melissa, these days, if you want to mail something first class what do you do, you send it fedex. you don't send it through the post office. there is real issue here. it is nothing, quite frankly to

do with president trump trying to destroy the postal service. melissa: now, i mean, also there are some obvious things we do, right? you could stretch out how long you could vote. instead of making it one day, make it three days in some places. there are a lot of fixes that don't have to do with the post office because we all know, as you said, if you have something really important, i mean, social security, now payments are electronic. your taxes, refunds, you go electronic. there isn't that much that is really important that people count on to move through the usps any longer, frankly when you do the regular mail it is not that reliable but you could ask for your absentee ballot right now. there are a lot of things that could be done. why are we even considering the post office as part of this solution? >> well, because we're worried about the validity of the election.

let's make no mistake about it, in the middle of a pandemic, with a lot of people staying home it will be difficult for people to vote in person. i think there should be a burden to try to cast their ballot in persons. i have no real objection to the mail-in procedure but i think it would have to be done every enough that the ballots can be counted in time because make no mistake, you can bet that both the republicans, both the trump camp and biden camp have armies of lawyers sitting to wait and challenge the outcomes in florida, pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan and arizona. melissa: yeah. >> we could be into a situation where the results are not known and are litigated for months. i don't think we want to go through that again. the simple fix is mail them in within 14 days of the election. melissa: right. if you want to, if you don't want to go to a polling place, you want to vote absentee, go online, request a ballot right now. get on top of it.

dan, thank you for this. >> that's right. >> connell. connell: in touch, melissa with the voters here in wisconsin. you might remember that "after the bell" visited racine a year. right when we were kicking off our state economy series. so much has changed since then. business owners are working to pick up the pieces in the middle of a pandemic. american workers have seen their jobs drastically a changed. many are gone for good. former vice president joe biden has a lead over president trump in crucial state. the lead is the six points in the average. last time around wisconsin seemed to be something of a tipping point for the president as he barely defeated hillary clinton. that surprise win here helped to put him in the white house. how do voters feel today? much that seems to pend on territory personal attitudes how

the coronavirus pandemic was handled. >> when we look to the where the united states is compared to advanced economies, i think we could be much further along we take this more seriously. do you agree with that. >> i work in a hospital. i work with covid patients. yes this is very important to me. >> i think it has been handled very poorly. i think we needed -- connell: all right. we'll have much more to come from here. we'll hear from more voters in a moment and take a closer look at the path to reelection for the president. i got to tell you if he wants to repeat the success four years ago t was such a slim margin of victory, he will need the support of a couple key demographics. we'll get into that in detail when we come back. we'll tell you what they are. we'll have more from new york. melissa. melissa: meanwhile biometric scans and disinfection chambers, the future of air travel is

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government purchases for unemployed people that need it, we saw the dairy demand come back. so we've seen prices go up over $20 right now, from the low of less than 13. connell: now you are getting back on your feet. the politics of all of this is what everybody is curious about because president trump did very well in winning wisconsin by a slim margin with the rural farm vote, he did well with people like you. you voted for him last time around. how about this time around? a, are you still with him? do you think farmers like yourself are still with the president? >> you know think the administration has done a good job with the trade, getting the usmca in place updating that. getting trade with japan started. the china issue is something we would like to see gotten better. it is working on it. what i think the rural areas still leaning towards president trump. i see a lot more trump-pence

signs out in the rural area than i see a biden. connell: still with him yourself. >> i'm leaning towards him. i still would like to see what biden is going to bring to the table on agriculture side. connell: so you're open -- virtual convention but you're open to listening to former vice president biden? >> right. connell: more so than hillary clinton last time around? >> i think so. we had eight years of overregulation and in my mind. i think the regulation has calmed down a little bit with president trump's administration. so i'm hoping that we can continue own with that same pro-business structure. and i think biden is little bit more than side, than i think mrs. clinton was. connell: so the farm vote is huge for the president if he wants to keep this state in his column whereas the support of another group, suburban women is crucial in just about all of these swing states.

i spoke with mercedes schlapp about that. she is a senior advisor now for the trump campaign. she was at a rally here in wisconsin over the weekend. she argues the president has growing support in this demographic both inside and outside of his campaign. take a listen. what argument do you make to the suburban college educated woman that maybe isn't so sure about the president's style. >> right. connell: but hasn't decided who she will vote for this time around? what is your argument? >> i fit that realm of suburban mom, mom of five kids, working mom, college educated. i had the opportunity to work with the president in the white house, i got to see him first-hand how he made decisions. he is a man with a lot of common sense, very results oriented and would listen to women advisors. connell: he is not thrown off by strong women? >> never thrown off by strong women. he surrounds himself with strong

woman. it is important to share the message who the president really is to the suburban women. what i have been finding we're going across wisconsin and the field offices are filled with women. they're the ones who are the volunteers making the phone calls, knocking on doors, because they're sharing that message of, listen, under president trump we're going to combat the coronavirus, we know it has been the global pandemic impacting all of us. connell: right. >> at the same time, we got to get this economy strong again. one thing that we're seeing is the only one that could get it roaring again is going to be president trump. we're making that contrast message with joe biden and kamala harris which we know are going to increase our taxes and basically move to much more government controlled, almost socialist take over. connell: they have certainly on out in person the trump campaign in wisconsin for what it is worth. our thanks to mercedes schlapp. melissa, back over to you. melissa: no, so great to hear what voters on the ground are

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their own votes when it comes to november. i was talking to a guy named bill who is former navy seal. he runs global who makes precision machine parts. his company started to make parts for ventilators earlier this year when the demand spiked. bill is a guy who supported the republican candidates for years. as we were talking it is obvious he had some reservations who he would support in 2020. so i asked him if he plans to stick with the president this year? >> um, we'll have to see on some of. that i don't like some of the, i don't like the covid leadership. i don't like the anti-science approach and and i, lead it much more differently. so -- connell: but you haven't decided yet. >> have not decided yet. connell: what are you waiting for, do you know? >> probably some debates. connell: okay. >> probably a good sounding of

the biden-harris ticket on what some much their ideas are but, look, we're in the upper midwest here and you know, manufacturing is a bigger share of the gdp for this region than it is for any others. connell: yeah. >> so we got, thinking about some of these critical issues. got to be thinking about health care. you know, my view is, i don't know why we're putting so much attention on discarding obamacare. it's, it is keeping people insured. there are positive developments to it. let's go after the bigger things out there. connell: let's talk more about this. president trump is currently on his way here to the state of wisconsin. he will address voters at an event where scott walker is already hanging out, the former wisconsin governor joins us now from oshkosh, we're waiting for the president which i would talk with you about in a moment, governor but if i could ask you to respond to a voter like bill we just heard from, he runs a company, a kind of traditional

middle of the road republican, for people like you for a long time but he is not sure what he is going to do this november. what do you say to a voter like that? >> i think there are two things for him and a lot of independent voters here who ultimately win elections for either party. look what the president did a week ago? congress couldn't get it done. he took on both political parties, democrats, republicans, the like, the heck with them all. helped hard-working taxpayers not only in wisconsin and across america get the support they needed which wasn't happening in washington. that is why people voted for him the last time. many people will vote the next. a lot what we're talking about this week, joe biden ran to the middle in the primaries. did the opposite and came to the far, far radical end of his party, so much so he out sewered agenda to bernie sanders and aoc. and senator harris, the voting record is more liberal than

bernie sanders. i think most independents will vote a majority of them to donald trump. connell: let me ask you about that, we just received from foxnews.com, some of the remarks he will deliver in oshkosh. looks like he will step up the attacks on joe biden, along the lines what you're talking about but in much more aggressive language. the president i understand will say, joe biden is the most dangerous candidate to seek the office of the presidency in our lifetime saying that he is a trojan horse for socialism. that's, that's a real escalation of the kind of rhetoric or language you were using. what do you make of all that? >> well, i think that is actually pretty accurate. look at this. you talk about jobs. manufacturing, agriculture, two of our largest industries in the state. they will be decimated. talking about tens of thousands of jobs that would be lost because of the plan that aoc and senator harris who is cosponsor of, that joe biden essentially

allowed them to take over his agenda. most candidates went to the primary voters and come back to the middle to show how they govern. he done it exactly the opposite. he outsourced his agenda like he will outsource a lot of these jobs in wisconsin. i think it is not a step too far to say this is really about freedom, free enterprise, capitalism, saving the day for the american people versus socialism where the government takes over everything from your health care to the economy, to a whole gamut of things. that is really what is at stake in this election. connell: yeah the president wants to make it a choice between those two things and keep it on economic issues. we've been talking to voters around your state here for the last couple of days. you know, it is interesting, the economy has improved, right? it had a terrible shock like the rest of the country during, when the pandemic first hit, unemployment went above 13% t has come back to 8 1/2%. not great but getting better. voters, many of them acknowledge that. but even some trump voters from

2016 like the man you just heard from, governor walker, they're not sure what they're going to do. they don't necessarily talk about economic matters. they sometimes bring up the handling of the pandemic and things like that. so what do you say to voters who have those concerns about the president? >> i think it is health, jobs and safety. so i do think health is a key part of that. but if you look at joe biden talking about this plan. that plan would have been thrown out, experts say what happened was a global pandemic we faced would not have largely have been benefited from the so-called plan they passed on. donald trump reached out, listened to the experts. assigned my friend vice president mike pence to work with governors, mayors, others across the country. we're on track. the left likes to make it either/or. shut everything down or you're safe and healthy. the fact you can do both. we have can walk and chew gum. we can be healthy, practice good health out in the open. we're safely distanced.

i was wearing a mask up until moments i went on air. all those things can be done, we'll be safe. joe biden is hiding out in the basement. i don't think america wants a president who will hide in the basement. connell: governor, good to see you again. enjoy yourself up in oshkosh with the president at that outdoor rally, former governor scott walker. melissa back over to you. melissa: dominoes is hiring again. the pizza chain is hiring 20,000 new employees from delivery drivers to store managers on a continuing spike in covid-related demand. domino's previously went on a hiring spree for 10,000 new workers at the start of the pandemic in march. they're reporting same-store sales up 16.1% in the second quarter. it is the strongest in nine years although i heard there is a run on pepperoni. you have to be careful on that one. we'll be right back

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♪. melissa: excuses for skipping the gym are starting to run out. new york governor andrew cuomo citing reopening of gyms.

>> gyms can reopen soon as august 24th. one of the requirements is mandating matchings at all time. the local health departments must inspect before or within two weeks to make sure all the guidelines are in place. melissa: new york city councilman steven levin joins us now for more on this we had a bunch of things delayed. gyms had sort of no end date in sight. how bin door dining? have you heard there is no date on that? do you know anything about that progress is going? >> we haven't heard anything about indoor dining in recent weeks but we have seen across the city a lot of restaurants have been able to set up the outdoor dining areas using parking space on the street. that is really successful and in my neighborhood, i live in greenpoint, brooklyn, i see a lot of restaurants taking advantage of that. obviously when it starts to get colder in the fall there is

going, we're going to have to decide what to do. i'm open to exploring, allowing for heating to be put outside or other ways to keep people comfortable but, i think the governor, by doing what he is doing, he has been really smart about being very, very careful and very cautious and very conservative with a small c about how we do this reopening and we see in the numbers, and the data, that it has been pretty successful here in new york. we went through hell back in april and may. melissa: except for, we can't not mention thousands of people who died in nursing homes because of his decision. >> yeah. melissa: beyond that, i'm sure one of the biggest problem, rental vacancies in july were up 122% versus the same time last year. by a lot of estimates a million people have moved out of new york and are not coming back. you know we personally know so

many families who left permanentnantly for florida, main, new jersey, for other countries. i'm wondering it must be a huge topic in the city council what will you do at the very least for the lost revenue for all people who committed not coming back? are you worried? >> absolutely. this year we had a 9 billion-dollar budget gap. we're required to have a balanced budget. we had to make $9 billion worth of cuts, basically. we're looking at a similar thing in this coming budget will be for the coming year. it's devastating. we need help from the feds. we need a stimulus bill that will help for revenue replacement for localities but long term, this is, new york will take a long time to really build back. we're really worried about other types of commercial businesses not just restaurants but any other type of commercial business like the bodega or

laundromat who had hard time making the rent and it goes up and down the economic ladder. landlords not receiving revenue have a hard time making mortgage payments. somewhere somebody has to step in to keep this thing going or we'll see people go out of business. melissa: right. >> employees laid off and foreclosures. i mean it is, we absolutely, you know, kind of need all hands on deck. that is why we so desperately need the federal help. melissa: a lot of people don't, you can't just flood zone with money from the fed. you have to address the reasons people are leaving. >> yeah. melissa: crime is through the roof. the streets are filthy. the quality of life in new york was on the decline long before covid and the people who have left are all the people with money around the people that are staying behind are people who can't leave. so you have got to really dire

situation. what are your thoughts on city council about addressing those reasons why people are leaving? that falls squarely in your court and in the hands of -- that is what government is supposed to be doing, making the place clean, safe liveable. >> yeah. there is a lot of belt tighteningening that is happenir sure. i mean in the previous seven years or so we had a growing city budget every year. so they were able to fund a lot of things that we really cared about but might not have been absolutely essential. this year we went through the process of cutting a tremendous amount of priorities even within the city council. we cut about $400 million of priorities out of the, just city council priorities out of 1.1 billion. so we cut about 35%. it took us a long time to do it. the belt-tightening is going to have to continue. when we see the mayor just announced you might expect to see even dirtier parks because

the revenue is just not there. and so i'm confident once things get back on track, thank goodness we are, we are at a low point in terms of our infection rate. so we can kind of slowly get back to some semblance of normally and so people can continue to work whether it is working remotely social distancing within some type of office setting well-ventilated, so on, so forth. we can put a floor on that tax base because our personal income tax, property tax, and that is where -- melissa: you're really in the camp, yeah, i mean you're really in the camp spending more money making these problems better. a lot of people think it is about the policy. >> yeah. melissa: the mayor increased, doubled the spending on homelessness went through the roof. seems like solution where the money is being spent is what's the problem. you know we aren't letting police do their job. i mean the city has degraded on

so many levels as that budget as you said has expanded, really quickly. it is not about the money in a lot of people's eyes. it is about better policy, no? >> well i think, you know i think that generally our quality of life has been pretty good over the last decade. i think that we need, you know, i think what we need is a bridge to a year from now when things hopefully, when there is a, whether there is vaccine that comes on the market, and i'm very hopeful by all accounts, all these are in development into the beginning of next year, the calendar year, hopefully a bridge to get us across. so far, just to be clear, we haven't, after that first stimulus bill back in april, we haven't seen a dollar from the federal government. we did a tremendous amount of belt-tightening here in the city. melissa: okay. >> you know, it's hard, it is also, you know, economy all the way up and down. melissa: yeah. i mean we had a lot of vacancies

and a lot of squeegee men before covid came along. thank you for coming back. >> thank you for having me] melissa: connell. connell: we spoke with the racine brewery owners. we'll swing back with them how they handled the pandemic i unfortunately the pandemic has hit them in a personal allstate won't raise your rates just because of an accident, even if it's your fault. way isn't that what i said? no you were talking about allstate and insurance. i just... when i... let's try again. everybody back to one. accident forgiveness from allstate. click or call for a quote today.

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connell: i stopped to see our friends at the racine brewing companied today, they were our hosts back in april, and the owners have been challenged so much since then. you had a personal loss, right? >> i did. we lost my father march 31st, and we were just able to have a service for him yesterday. connell: just yesterday. goes on and on. the circumstances around that, i know it was frustrating, you

said, what happened, right in. >> it was very frustrating. he was in the hospital less than 48 hours before, we didn't think things were handled the way they should have been, so we've been pretty vocal about that, and we almost lost my stepmother as well. connell: she caught the virus, but she's recovered. neither one of you did? >> we did not. connell: what about the business? >> it's been kind of a roller coaster since all the mandates have come in, been released and come back. so we're trying to push curbside sales as much as possible, you know, especially people nowadays are, well, some people are -- most people are a little leery of going out. and, you know, we're, we're just trying to reach our customers, you know, the best ways that welcome -- connell: i remember being here, people love being in this location, and it's just not that way -- i mean, you think you'll make it through? >> yeah, we're pretty confident that, you know, we're going to

make it. i mean, it's, you know -- >> we have a really amazing community. we have a good strong following, we have some really good supporters. our revenue is definitely not where it was this time last year, but we're plug along, and we're just going to keep doing what we're doing. ♪ muck ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. the radical dem' politics of hate is in full, ugly view as cross many streets in america's largest cities, and democrat-run cities all across the country. deadly shootings over the weekend, those shootings are rising, murder rates are soaring, and left-wing activist groups like antifa and black lives matter have been emboldened by radical dems and corporate interests like never before. the left's culture of lawlessness resulting in another weekend of widespread, brutal violence. 51 people shot in new york city