office, and people are not spending money at moment. [closing bell rings] liz: oak okay, great to have you. mark scribner. former docusign chairman and ceo, current u.s. undersecretary of state for economic growth, keith krach, tells us where the trump administration stands on the tiktok deal. melissa: app 500 and nasdaq hitting records today but losing steam in the afternoon. the dow in the red for the third day in a row. the index is 6% away from record territory. apple becoming the first american company to hit the two dollar mark but it is ending off the highs of the day and failing to close above the milestone. i'm melissa francis and this is "after the bell." hey, connell. connell: hey there, melissa, i'm connell mcshane reporting live from another swing state.

we're in westchester, pennsylvania. the expectation this will be biden country. not far from home in delaware. the focus is kamala harris as she gets ready to take stage in the democratic national convention. we'll talk about this state important overall, this area is so pivotal for the hopes of the democrats. in moments i will speak with everyday americans and business owners. stay tuned for that. we'll get their perspective which is why we are here. first our top stories, fox business team coverage set up with gerri willis on the markets and blake burman at the white house. gerri, we start with you. reporter: that's right. not as exciting of a day as we had yesterday that's for sure. all three major averages finishing lower taking a breath. all three stock averages down after a big day yesterday. the big stocks driving the dow down, target and lowe's hit all-time highs on blowout

earnings. target having an incredible quarter, online and stores open at least a year up 24.3%. all-time high. as you can see that stock up just a third of a percent. target up 12.6%. lowe's comp sales up 35.1%, a 30% surge in revenue. the website up 135%. two very big reports from those companies when it comes to earnings. we want to talk about apple as well here. that stock crossed the two trillion in market value today. it has been a big former. the first u.s. company to do that. as we see right here, not quite there at the close as i see it. oh, they do close above the two trillion milestone. apple shares up 60% year-to-date. an incredible performance. as you recall the first to reach the one trillion, just under pardon me, just under the level they had to be for that

milestone. they were the first to reach the one trillion milestone back in august of 2018 and it didn't take long for amazon, microsoft, alphabet to catch up. they of course will try to be in the running as well. back to you. connell: just quite didn't get there today on a number of levels. thank you, gerri willis. melissa? melissa: calling for boycott, president trump taking aim at goodyear tires. our own blake burman is live at the white house with the details. blake. reporter: melissa calling for a company headquartered in the swing state of ohio. this is the tweet from the president. writing, don't buy goodyear tires. they announced a ban on maga hats. get better tires for far less. this comes after a goodyear employee posted a work meeting slide which said items supporting the president and police were not allowed, while supporting black lives matter and lgbt causes were allowed. the company said the slide did not come from corporate. they asked employees at work to

refrain expressing support for any candidate or any party, that the company undoubtedly supports law enforcement. press secretary kayleigh mcenany earlier this afternoon suggested that the presidential call for a boy cott is not actual government policy. >> the president was talking on to his supporters when he tweeted that in particular. look, this president will never apologize for standing with law enforcement. he won't. he thinks it is unacceptable. if you can wear black lives matter hat, guess what you should be able to wear a blue lives matter too. reporter: elsewhere, white house chief of staff urged the house speaker nancy pelosi, white house, urging house speaker nancy pelosi who is going to be putting forth that bill this weekend regarding the post office to include other items into the bill. the white house saying that even though they have gotten a little it about further along in the process, quote, we're still not yet there. >> let's add in the things we

can agree upon. perhaps funding for schools, ppp, maybe even the stimulus check although don't know we could get an agreement on that. as we look at enhanced unemployment. i think we can get an agreement on that. let's add four or five of those things. reporter: pelosi spoke with the postmaster general louis dejoy, she seem unimpressed with his actions to freeze cuts until after the election. the postmaster general frankly had no intention of replacing sorting machines, blue mailboxes other key infrastructure that have been removed. plans for adequate overtime which is critical for the timely delivery of mail are not in the works. that continues to be one of the big issues here in washington. back to you. melissa: all right. blake, thank you for that. pumping more money to a lot of cause. democratic freshman congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez suggesting a

grassroots approach to save the postal service. take a listen to this one. >> so one of the best whichs to support the post office is to buy stamps. what do you all think, would you guys be down and excited if i set up a national progressive pen pal program? melissa: i know i would. my pen pal would be charlie hurt, "washington times" opinion editor and fox news contributor. i mean i can't think of a better way to get young people involved than having them use their pencil and pen which they do not own any longer, on a piece of paper and sticking it in the mail which they don't know how to use and having them go buy stamps which they think are stickers i can tell you because i have three young people who only send -- they don't even send emails. email is like too slow, too lame, to old. they're into the instant everything. so the last thing they're going

to do is a pen pal campaign but what do you think? is that the secret to the saving the post office, charlie hurt? >> also think about this, think about what it will do for literacy rates. one of the things we also discovered i don't know, texts, first email, now texts it makes everybody, including you and me illiterate. we start sending each other little emojis, little acronyms for everything instead of actually using our words. so i think it would be a tremendous thing to do. in fact i'm going to take away all of my kids phones and i will tell them all, if you want to reach me, in fact, i might do it with my wife too. if you want to reach me. write me a letter. put it on a stamp, put it on the blue boxes they think are robots from "star wars." melissa: yes. yes. that's genius. you may have changed my mind on this issue. i was mocking it initially.

now i see the wisdom in it. i heard so many debates about the post office in the past couple days. they all make me laugh really hard. i've been running for postmaster general for the better part of 10 years, because it is very clear how to clean it up. >> you would be a good one. melissa: there are businesses they have -- express mail, i wouldn't take any garbage from anybody. the problem is legacy costs. they keep saying, use a trick of words where i heard joe manchin saying it to bill hemmer earlier, that the post office is self-sufficient, self-funding, a service. they scamper around the whole idea the whole problem is the unfunded liabilities, the legacy costs, that they are promising health care and pensions to everybody whoever worked at post office, god love you, i would love to give it to you. companies don't work that anymore. people outlive companies. it is not a practical thing you could do any longer. if they were a business, they would have restructured in

bankruptcy. they could have got rid of the costs come out with something profitable like fedex or ups. >> exactly. melissa: no one will say the real problem out loud, charlie, what is with the post office. where am i wrong with that? >> don't forget this the whole post office was founded on the idea they would have a government guaranteed monopoly on a business. that is what they have been given from the inception. i'm not arguing against that. there was a real purpose for the postal service at the time t was argument for encouraging free speech and encouraging debate and argument among people. which is all a really great idea. and not to mention education. but they were given this government guaranteed. monopoly and they totally screwed it up. i don't know how you could possibly have this sort of monopoly and then get your lunch eaten by places like fedex or ups which come in.

if you want to go back to that, let's just abolish ups and fedex and give them, even, you know, increase their monopoly so they also do packages. it's insane. i remember the first post office modernization bill that i ever covered in congress. it was 20 years ago! even then they have been arguing about this, trying to figure this out for decades. it is a disaster. the idea that you actually have sitting politicians sitting around today, oh, you know what? let's get the post office to run a federal election. you have got 80 days, go. are these people crazy? yes, they are. we know the answer to that. it's insane! melissa: yeah. it is and you know i would say i know my postman. he comes into our building. he is a great guy. he works really hard. the weather is terrible. he is bringing all these packages. the problem is the government made a promise which was actually a lie saying that we will pay these people this pension and this health care.

and it's tragic because we've seen the government do that in a lot of different situations. >> absolutely. >> that is one of the problems with all the roads and bridges in new york. all the money supposed to fix them goes to pay legacy costs. it is not the fault of the worker who accepted the promise in exchange for their work. it is the politician who wanted to get elected and made promise who knew he would not be around when it wasn't affordable to the american people. what should we do with the post office now? >> you first thing you have to make sure what their purpose is, demand they actually succeed at whatever their purpose is. you're so right. everything that goes wrong with the federal government, it goes back to one thing, that is failed promise. the reason we have failed promises because politicians who want to get elected will say whatever, will spend whatever of

our money to quote, unquote get these promises done. then of course no surprise to anyone who is watching, it fails and by that time the politicians is long gone and we're stuck with the bill. melissa: failed promises. also known as lies. >> yes. melissa: charlie hurt. always an explosion of common sense with you. i love it. >> amen. >> connell, over to you. connell: melissa, the path to the white house may very well-run right through main street pennsylvania, if you will. we were last year in chester county a year ago. obviously a lot in the country has changed since then. what not appear to have changed is the political trends. this area has been leaning blue more than a decade. the decoratic party counting on home court advantage for former vice president joe biden. he lives in nearby wilmington, delaware. latest polls show the democrat nominee with a nine point lead in pennsylvania over president trump. last time around president trump came back and won this state at

the end. narrow victory over hillary clinton, primarily driven by a lot of strength in the rural areas. people who want ad change. so flip that around now as we bring in voters. can biden count on the same desire for change? who are you supporting. >> joe biden. connell: tell me why? >> we need to get trump out. i have always been a democrat. i have always been supported him. he is local guy. he has empathy. he has been through so much in his life and he can relate to people in a way that nobody else can. connell: who are you supporting this year? >> right now, trump. connell: why do you say right now? >> because i don't love him but i love, not love, i a republican government, is more supportive for my family now. >> i think he is a smart man in

some of the decisions he makes. sometimes when he speaks i'm embarrassed. >> i'm 21 years old. a lot of our peers are not big of a fan as biden. they view him being too centrist. i have met him before. i went to his high school. i think he is could really take the election this time. >> i do want change. so i do think that is important to me. i do like the things that biden represents though. so i do think, i think that, i think he will have good people that will work with him. i would say it is as much a pro-biden vote as anti-trump vote. >> i can't in good conscience support either one of them. connell: so you will not vote? >> i will vote third party. >> i do support the biden-harris ticket, people say i do anybody except trump, letting people opposed to him think they can get away with the bare minimum. you have to hold them confidentable as well. connell: more from the voters as coverage from the battleground state of pennsylvania continues

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♪. connell: more from here in chester county, pennsylvania. the town of westchester where we are is home to dozens of family-owned businesses. i was talking to owner of the market street grill which is across the street. we talked about politics and how they're pivoting operations in the restaurant during these challenging times. terry, how do things, how did things go for you back in march?

>> march 13th, you know, that was it. stopped pretty much at a standstill. couldn't believe it. really couldn't believe it. did some take-out the first weekend. was shocked, done. connell: you're a breakfast place. >> breakfast, lunch. connell: business people coming in and out. a lot of traffic gone. >> right. connell: like many business owners you had to get creative. tell us how you did that. how are things now? >> we had to get creative. we had to completely switch up how we did business. the amount of take-out we were doing going through the roof. that was, we did take-out, but it was you know, a part of the business, a side part of the business. now we had to make it, it was just as important as the dine-in. connell: you signed up with -- >> grubhub, door dash, those type of situations which are great. connell: some business owners said they take 30% from you. >> big portions. big portions. connell: you had to work through that as well? >> i had to. take a third of every check

you're dishing out. we had to do something. i had to raise prices on those apps -- connell: make up for the difference. did that work out? >> absolutely. connell: what is the area like now, terry? this is such an important area politically. frankly why we're here. it is always so close in pennsylvania. you guys, all of us have been really through so much. how does it look to you now? >> it is up in the air. everything is up in the air. this is the county seat. west chester. center of town. we get businessmen. families. i think, i don't know what people are going to do. connell: you don't know which way it will go? >> i don't. >> this is the most divisive we have ever seen it in this area for sure. that much is clear. connell: seems like an area trending more democratic the last few times. >> feels that way. connell: hillary clinton won here last time around. is president trump's message, he has gone after some suburban

vote. trying to real in the message. talking about suburban women, does it resonate with the people that come in here? or is there people pushing back against it? you probably hear all side. >> exactly. connell: you guys hosting a talk show in here. >> primarily in the past it would have been more he was taking hard with that, but times are different. yeah, it is way more divided. that message is getting blurred out this way. >> you're right. it's a talk show. we hear from booth toe booth, it is different, bang, bang. connell: what do you do yourself? you try to play -- >> everybody knows me. everybody knows me. i'm a positive guy. i don't voice my opinion. >> you can't. connell: it is not good news. >> absolutely not. connell: what about the economy? what about the business side of it, to focus on that? are you optimistic? kerry go first about the future? are you nervous? this lasted a lot longer than on people thought. >> we're always optimistic. i am a little nervous but not

horribly. connell: very nice guys. our thanks to kerry and christian for joining us there at the market street grill. melissa. melissa: i love them. they have a talk show. i don't want them to take our show away. they were pretty good there. i love he doesn't express his opinion. that is a smart businessman. good stuff. meanwhile california declaring a state of emergency. governor gavin newsom issuing a deck la wages with more than 30 major wildfires across the state. fires in san mateo, mendocino and napa, 0% contained. wow. fueled by a record-breaking heat wave. the fires have burned through more than 276,000-acres so far. placing tens of thousands of california resident the under evacuation orders. ♪ ike i'm just wasting time. that's why td ameritrade designed a first-of-its-kind, personalized education center.

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♪. melissa: universities bracing for covid surges as students return to campus. unc chapel hill and michigan state sending their students home days after they returned to campus. university of notre dame is moving all undergraduate instruction online for two weeks. grady trimble is live from notre dame in south bend, indiana with more. what, grady, students stay in the room for two weeks and they're thinking they will not get together and party? what's the deal with that? reporter: that is the hope. they have been trying to keep in-person classes here but that is proving to be very difficult because college students have been college students so far. for now they're shifting things online for a couple of weeks and hear's why. they have had 222 cases in the last couple weeks since august 3rd. that is a percent positive rate of 17.2%. some of those cases trace back to off-campus parties as you might expect.

so now the university requiring masks, limiting gathering sizes to fewer than 10 people, essentially quarantining students. the goal getting outbreak under control. then they will be able to return to the classroom of the students we talked to really hope this plan works. >> i don't want to lose another semester of my college experience doing online school at home. i think, and i think everybody really agrees. >> people are saying oh, they're not going to make it. it is like, we do not want to prove them right, right? the way we've been doing it, it kind of looks like we do. that is not the mentality we have to have moving forward. reporter: at other universities going mostly virtual, many students are saying you shouldn't have to so much in tuition. a rutgers student started a online petition for a tuition cut t has more than 30,000 signatures. many schools are not offering refund for tuition if they have

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♪. connell: you're definitely for joe biden. tell us why. >> joe is a local guy too. he lived down the street. people have had a taste of trump politics now, trump consequences. i think people are ready for yet another change and i think it is going the other way at this time. >> people support big government for their own purposes and i'm not supportive of either of that. >> we can't go on how we are now. we tried it. it didn't work. connell: we're back here in chester county in pennsylvania getting you set for the third night of the democratic national convention. that begins a few hours from now. tonight it is the presumptive vice-presidential nominee kamala harris who will take the virtual center stage and other key speakers tonight with senator elizabeth warren. hillary clinton will speak.

former president barack obama will speak as well. here to speak with us, fred hochburg, former head of the export-import bank unpresident obama. working closely with the biden campaign. a lot of people will be watching but what about generating excitement in the virtual evironment? i saw the rates last night. 18.2 approximately watched. a lot. but down 27.2 last time around. does it make it more challenging to generate excitement around the campaign which is one of the challenges for the biden folks? >> a virtual campaign is new thing for all of us. new thing for democrats. a new thing for republicans. 18 is a lot of viewers. i think we're learning our way through but i thought the last two nights were well-produced. it was good television and i thought the roll call was a far more interesting way of seeing it. connell: yeah. going around the country and that. in the backdrops. that seemed to get pretty decent

reviews. let me ask you about hillary clinton because she is going to speak tonight. i just saw a reporter from "politico" put excerpt of her speech on twitter that speaks to what we're doing in chester county, pennsylvania, it is an area joe biden should win. matter whether you win big in area like this in swing state so you offset the strength of your opponent donald trump in rural areas of the state. mrs. clinton will say according to the expert, this not be a would, the cuolda, shuolda election. that is clearly why she lost. >> show biden is a bridge builder. we had alexandria ocasio-cortez around john kasich. we had colin powell. we had bill clinton. we had a wide range of people. a wide range of points of view, saying together, joe biden is a person who believes in this,

pulling the country together we can come up with better solutions that work for more americans. connell: give me a preview tomorrow night. that is always the big one, as much as people get excited about other speeches, if it is michelle obama, who it may be, the candidate speaks. the trump campaign is directly going after joe biden's mental fitness. that is out there in ad this is week. does it add to the pressure, even though you're dealing with such an experienced politician does it add to the pressure to perform tomorrow night? because that is now out there? >> i think for any presidential candidate, even on a, even on a re-election the night they speak at the convention, when all the country, the largest audience they have to date will be on joe biden's eyes tonight. the next three will be the debate. these are all high-stakes events. i've known joe biden, goodness, for 30 years. he is experienced. he knows how to handle these things.

he is well-prepared. he knows who he is, he knows what he stands for and what his values are. connell: what do you say the attack from the trump administration which essentially amounts or from the president himself that vice president biden is, has lost a step or lost a little bit on his fastball. what do you say to that? >> joe biden has been in government and public sphere for 40, 50 years. he understands when people make attacks, groundless attacks. i think he is pretty good fending them off. not taking them to heart. connell: we'll see tomorrow night. i want to ask you about the economy a little bit. that is the other thing we hear. even in a pro-biden area where we are, seems like a lot of support for the former vice president but those that are reluctant, especially former trump voters, people who voted for trump last time around, i'm willing to listen, i'm willing to change but i'm worried that my taxes are going to go up, not just go up a little, go up a lot. what will you say to those voters? >> i think what we need is a strong economy. what we've seen in the last six months in particular

donald trump through his inaction and lack of leadership on covid has tanked the economy. so we need to rebuild the economy. joe is talking about doing infrastructure. let's be clear. president trump is going to be infrastructure president. he was builder. so i think we have a lot to move this economy forward and move to the united states economy both forward and globally forward. we can do a lot more exporting which i worked on with joe biden and barack obama in the last administration. i'm confident. connell: taxes are going up, right? do you think they're going up right away given what we're coming out of with a weak economy and the pandemic? >> we're going to ultimately at some point as a country we're going to have to pay for this but we're not going to be, i don't think we'll see any of that until we get the economy back on a firm footing. that is my personal belief. connell: timing does matter. a lot of people on wall street seem to be betting on that as well. we'll see what happens, if the former vice president takes over and wins this election. we'll watch tomorrow night and

kamala harris. thank you. one last point. make it quick. >> they're betting on a stable economy because a stable economy is a growing economy. connell: fair enough. thank you, fred. melissa. melissa: all right. bracing for -- ahead. talk to one gym owner in new york about the unclear guidelines across the state as he prepares to reopen for business. in just a few minutes president trump is set to give an update at the white house. we'll take you there live as soon as it begins. you doing okay?

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♪. melissa: it is not as easy as simply reopening the doors. new york announcing that gyms can open as early as next monday but some business owners are asking for just a little bit more clarity on the governor's plans. joining us now is steve, the vice president of the new york fitness coalition and owner of the tight till boxing club. i saw this announcement come out. we were very exciting that the gym in our building would be opening. i looked down at the details. it says you need to get your gym inspected two weeks of opening, before you open, or else you can't do it. who are these inspectors? how many of them are there? how do we get them to come by? that is one of many details that

had me scratching my head. how about you? >> thank you for having me, melissa, and there are a number of us that have been scratching our heads but we're making a lot of headway. seems that after governor cuomo made the announcement on monday and passed his executive order to go ahead and open up the clubs as early as this coming monday up until september 2nd, he passed it on down to the local municipalities, county executive, so to speak, all over new york state. and that was the first that they heard about it as well. so with our 800 member owner coalition we have been able to be in close contact with these officials and really help guide them as to how to structure the opening as well as the testing, and the scheduling to get all of our fitness centers open on

time. melissa: okay. so but this sounds like a classic process with somebody never run a business. he makes announcement with no preparation. you guys are calling around helping them think through how how to enforce this as a real life. as a person that works every day and runs a business and here we are, now it is wednesday. you could potentially open monday but you're still helping them think through the details? are you going to be able to open monday? >> personally i am not going to be opening monday. i already set my date for september 2nd. this way i can get all of my protocol for the opening inspection. but like i said we can open if you have already been inspected as early as this coming monday. but, you are correct and we really, our coalition and the fitness owners, we really can't

fault the county executives because they're just hearing about it for the first time. thankfully we have already had a plan in place for weeks, if not months that we've been able to supply to all of the, to all the officials that need to be involved with the process. so we have been working in concert with them almost like a partnership to allow all of us to open properly while they get their end in order to make sure these inspections to happen in a timely manner. melissa: is it frustrating to you that you guys were put at the bottom of the list? you know, i mean there was this phased opening and you could look ahead to see who was where. all of sudden gyms were nowhere on the list when they were going to get to open and indoor dining is nowhere on there. there is a lot of places that they sort of left for dead with no insight into the future and as a business, how frustrating is that and how have you dealt

with that? >> there is a lot of frustrating components about this, melissa. in regards to the fitness industry because obviously that is what i can speak about, we were categorized to open in phase four. scratching of the head process why we were actually removed from phase four without any scientific data to support the governor's decision to remove us pretty much only saying that he views us as problematic based on the 47 other states that have had no cases of covid directly related to an individual that has checked into their gym. so that has been the frustrating part. the indoor dining, yes, i absolutely understand.

what we are trying to do with our coalition, we view our industry as being essential. health and wellness is essential. melissa: right. >> everywhere. so while we were not considered -- melissa: no. i mean that, yeah, no, i'm sorry we're out of time. i don't mean to cut you off, you are essential. i know the point you're making this is supposed to be about health and some people when they have given up their gym routine, you know, they have gained weight, they become more unhealthy in the name of health. it never made any sense yet our governor will write a book. good luck to him. steve, thanks for coming on today. we appreciate it. connell, speaking of gyms, you were at one earlier today, that true? connell: not to work out. it is different in pennsylvania. they have been open since june the gyms. they have more restrictions in place. they put more heavier restrictions they're allowed to operate indoors but directed the gym owners to prioritize outdoor

physical fitness activities. be outside if you can. everybody has got to wear a mask. they provide space in the gym for social distancing. as long as you follow that you can be open. i spoke to the premier personal training studio general manager just down the street here, brian, we've been talking about what it is like to slowly reopen in a place like this. tell me how business, first of all? you've been through a lot but you're back open again, how are you doing? >> it's a steady incline. we're not where we were, about 40% down from when the pandemic hit. but like i said, it's a steady incline. every week one, maybe two people coming back. we are getting some new people coming in. connell: okay, but they allowed you to open in the state. how did that go? how did the state regulations go? was it tough to get back open up? when were you guys allowed to open? >> we had to wait until chester county went into the green phase.

it wasn't super difficult for us. it wasn't a different from the day-to-day operations of us. we only have one to two people in the gym at a time. connell: you do personal training. >> we do one-on-one training. connell: but you're classified as a gym. >> yes. connell: they were allowed to open again. how has that done. under new york, it has been slower. how has it been going? >> here there is no problem with social distancing. mask wearing. we take a temperature at the door. everyone comes in here, so it is by appointment only. for a place like this it is smooth. there is something needs to be said about increasing new systems and exercise is wonderful way to do it. connell: get confidence back, numbers stay down. >> it could be a more important thing to people than it used to be before the pandemic. connell: obviously, it hasn't been easy here. nothing like challenges you were talking about, melissa, with the gyms back in new york. that the is point making at the

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sec, adding the number of shares to be offered and price range for proposed offering having not yet been determined. now this. >> what's your sense, the overall numbers are not terrible to the economy. what's your sense of people's spending, people that do come in, are they still buying as much as they were? >> i'd say it's less. i think people are unsure of where the economy is going at this point. it's an election year. we have, you know, people are uncertain of how things are going to change going forward. will businesses shut down again, how many more businesses will close in the future. i mean, we've seen a lot of this too during all of it. connell: right. >> we're lucky to have survived with two stores. connell: colleen ca trel, co-owner of a women's boutique

here in westchester, i would say that might provide manager of an opening for president trump politically. he's going to be challenged to do well here in chester county. as we mentioned earlier, it's moving more and more to the left. colleen doesn't seem like a big fan, but other business owners who are frustrated in a similar way with the restrictions and how long things have been shut down, there was one guy who owns a diner, for example, i'm leaping towards trump for that -- leaning towards trump for that reason. run up the scores in the rural areas and to that point, we're heading up to northeastern part of the state, joe biden's hometown of scranton tomorrow where president trump might have more support than he has here. we'll see. melissa: no, it's interesting. i mean, definitely when they talk about the pandemic and who does it hurt the most in terms of the candidates, the idea that the business owners who are frustrated with how they've been handicapped would go for

somebody who's for larger government. i mean, they don't like president trump in general, i don't know, that seems like one for him. we'll see. anyway, great reporting today, connell. we love it. all those people that you talked to, fantastic. "lou dobbs tonight" starts right now. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. the radical dems' zany, oft-times bizarre virtual convention is heading into a third round this evening. the dems fumbling their way through a virtual a ca cough gnu of bizarre speeches, strange videos and other worldly song. some of the biggest names to speak so far have each failed -- even failed to mention joe biden or his choice for vice president, kamala harris. the dems' clear lack of enthusiasm for biden is clear for all to see, brought into the spotli