to demographics, some countries around the world, for example in china or in japan are moving towards robotics at the expense of replacing workers. [closing bell rings] this will be a concern for workers down the road. another exciting area within technology. liz got it. got to run. michael, there are the bellsta. will do it for us. connell: all right, looking at stimulus hopes sending stocks soaring for the fourth day in a row. we are up again. a nice looking finish. nice to be with you, connell mcshane reporting live from orlando, florida. as we continue our swing state economy series. >> i'm jackie deangelis in for melissa francis today. this is "after the bell." we have earnings optimism contributing to today's rally. the nasdaq is out of correction territory. big tech leading the way today. apple surging ahead of the big iphone event tomorrow and

amazon rising ahead of its two-day prime event. connell: we'll be out on the road speaking to voters. we'll be in the crucial battleground state of florida throughout the week. now today we're in a city that really has been especially hard hit during the pandemic, orlando. usually thrives on the tourism business. working now to bring travelers back. maybe you can tell from looking behind me, i'm on the scene at seaworld today. president trump is actually on his way here this hour as well, not to seaworld but to the orlando area. we'll talk a lot about that. we'll cover all the top stories as we normally do. much more in florida. fox business team coverage with blake burman at the white house speaking of president, hillary vaughn reporting from the supreme court on capitol hill and blake burman on the north lawn. reporter: wouldn't it be something if president goes to seaworld that would be quite a curveball. i-4 corridor is incredibly crucial in florida. tampa to daytona beach and points in between. that is where the president will be in sanford later this evening

as he is set to leave the white house later this hour. connell, jackie, white house says trump campaign get used to president going out on the road. their plans are to have him hit two or three different campaign events per day they say in the near future. ramp that up even higher getting closer to election day. while cdc guidelines still say social stancing remains best, the vice president mike pence saying this afternoon that the campaign is still comfortable with having large-scale rallies. listen. >> the american people have a right to peaceably assemble. they have a right to gather, to hear out our candidates and our cause and we'll carry our message all across this country and all the way to victory on november 3rd. reporter: one state, but two stops for joe biden today. he is in ohio, toledo and cincinnati on his schedule. earlier today the former vice president visited auto workers and pledged the overwhelmingly majority of americans would not have their

taxes raised in a biden administration. watch here. >> here is how my plan works. i will not raise taxes on anyone that makes less than $400,000 a year. if you make more than 400,000, beep your horn, you will get a tax raise. i will raise your tax slightly. reporter: back here in washington the stimulus stalemate continues because over the weekend many senate republicans came out against the white house' 1.trillion dollar proposal. nancy pelosi said the white house plan is inadequate. connell, still, very tough to see how anything happens here on this front before the election. back to you. connell: does seem increasingly like that is the case. blake, thank you. blake burman. jackie. >> here to react is dan henninger from "the wall street journal." a fox news contributor. always great to see you, dan. follow up what blake was reporting regarding stimulus. looks like the stock market, you have a dow rally 250 points. nasdaq out of correction

territory. the stock market says we think something will happen with stimulus yet both sides are still digging their heels in? >> yeah. that's right, jackie. looking increasingly to me that the stock market, they must have sources none of the rest of us have because nobody that i know thinks there will be a stimulus bill at this point. it would need to get through the senate. the senate republicans have been telling steve mnuchin and the white house, chief of staff mark meadows, they do not want to do a deal. i think at this point senate republicans, jackie are focused on two things. one, getting amy barrett confirmed and secondly holding on to their control of the senate. six or seven of those republican senators are at risk right now. they could lose the senate indeed. and they need all the republican votes they can get and by and large republican voters are not in favor of spending another nearly $2 trillion on top of the 3 trillion that has already been

spent. remember there used to be something called the tea party and those tea party movements were formed because of the spending in washington they are very concerned about indebtedness, if republicans would vote nearly two trillion dollars they could put their hold on the senate at risk. >> if stimulus isn't a huge part of equation, at least the optimism we're seeing today, do you think it is optimism about earnings, the trajectory of the u.s. economy and we're working our way through the pandemic and hopefully brighter skies are ahead? do you think the investors are looking at the markets saying this is still the best place to invest in? >> that is an interesting question. yeah, they could be looking at earnings but, again, the betting anyway is that joe biden is likely to win the election on november 3rd and given everything that is?

the is in the biden proposals next year you would think that would probably suppress growth. higher taxes, higher business taxes which would trickle down to affect consumers. he would put a stop to, reverse much of the deregulation that the trump administration has done to stimulate growth. so i think there is, there is a sense in which the market may be trying to discount the fact that there will probably be a slower growth economy next year and that may explain why so many wall street economists want a stimulus bill now. they would like to see that two trillion injected into the economy ahead of the biden presidency next year which i think is going to be bad for economic growth. >> you're saying something i've been hearing a lot of, that the market is looking at this saying it is a slam-dunk in some ways for joe biden, not necessarily taking into account what we saw last time leading up to the election. the polls did happen to have it wrong.

there was a silent ma scott out there that voted four the president. i'm not saying it is going to happen again. i don't have a crystal ball but it is certainly possible, dan. could optimism actually be that the market thinks president trump will be reelected? >> it could be, this is sort of based on the idea there is a large tranche of so-called silent trump voters that indeed would be the purpose of the president doing so many rallies. i mean traditionally you would think these rallies would be doing nothing more than solidifying the trump base when in fact he needs another five or 6% of voters put him across 50%, so-called undecided voters. i myself think the president really could use a big national event. he pulled out of this week's debate. maybe there is going to be one next week. but, it is a little difficult for me to see how just trump rallies will put him across the goal line. i think something larger than

that has to take place to open, to close this gap with joe biden. >> really quick in the final moments here. we're watching big tech, we're watching the nasdaq coming out of correction territory and there are a lot of investors betting on the amazons, facebooks, googles of the world, a joe biden presidency would be very bad for those companies. >> yeah. the democrats have been extraordinarily critical of big tech and i think they are probably going to move on the antitrust front to try to suppress them and that cannot be good for the share price of those companies that have been driving the stock market for as long as they have. >> dan henninger, great to see you. connell, send it back to you. connell: jackie, we'll spend the entire week here in florida obviously looking at the economy and looking deep into certain voting blocs that could help decide the outcome on the third of november. today we start with senior citizens. the senior vote president trump

won it easily in 2016. nearly 330,000 advantage in a state he won over hillary clinton by 113,000. polls show joe biden ahead of the president among those 65 and older. it is a concern to the trump campaign, the president will be in the area, first time back on the trail since contracting covid and vice president mike pence was here over the weekend. he stopped by the villages, well-known retirement community which is an hour's drive to our north. we've been out and tried to speak to as many voters as we can ourselves. we have seen some of the potential roadblocks for president's re-election in those conversations. number one his response to the virus hurt him. the polls show that with senior citizens. some seniors also have been telling us that the president may be losing support though among those who value the military. ♪

all right. look like we had a little trouble with the voters in florida. maybe we'll get back to that later in the show. i will say this, one comment we had from one gentleman brought up president's comments in the past about late senator john mccain. that rubbed him the wrong way. if it is not the virus, i will say at the same time the president had enthusiastic supporters. we'll play a clip of that as well. we'll try to do that later on in the show. because he is counting on the enthusiasm of voters to make up for some gaps in the polling data. we'll try to get the voters on as we continue from here in orlando, a little bit later on in the show. if we have any ready you can tell me i can go to it. otherwise we will continue, because seniors are just one group, jackie to watch in florida. as we continue through the week a closer look at suburban voters tomorrow from tampa. potential shifts i should say in

the latino vote later in the week from miami. here is one group of voters here, the ones enthusiastically supporting the president before we go back to jackie. take a listen. >> i think because he gets things done. he's threw all the negativity that democrats have given him and all the wild -- >> been on a wild ride? >> yes. >> a wild ride. >> taking care of our elderly. i'm a senior citizen on social security. >> our va. >> our va. our vets. >> he has done what he said he was going to do. connell: jackie, gives you the idea the polling doesn't look great because the president won this group by such a wide margin the last time around f you lose a little bit of that, you have to make it up somewhere else. later in the week we take a potential shift in other demographic groups. for now back to you. >> that is always interesting when you talk to the folks, i'm wondering, we're looking at florida, we're looking at texas this time around, these are states typically republican but

they're turning more purple as we speak. talking to folks on the ground, are you getting that sense? are they more purple than they were? connell: in other states, we had a conversation in georgia, you see some of that much closer than it has been in the past. what happens in states like that, north carolina, texas, at the end of the day they go back to what they have been. that is what some of the experts have been. even though they're leaning direction in some of the polls in the end they go back to what they have always been, republican in recent elections. the president needs to win to florida in florida. the path to 270 pretty much doesn't exist without the state. >> fears of a second wave may be on the table. 18 states are reporting 25% increase in new daily coronavirus cases. we'll tell you where later this hour. plus much more from florida, connell. connell: yeah. we'll have the tourism industry covered. of course it has been left realing from the pandemic

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♪. >> the military, i mean what he said about mccain is, i mean, the nerve to say something like that, a hero like that when he kind of weaseled out of vietnam. so i, any vietnam veteran is normally a strong republican at this point might be getting second thoughts about that. connell: interesting, they have changed their mind you think? >> just the things he said about the military in general, and his treatment of mccain, was part of the greatest hero of my lifetime. connell: fair and balanced as promised that is the biden supporter we reference ad few minutes ago talking about potential roadblocks for the president with the senior citizen vote here in florida. now florida of course is the ultimate swing state. where we are in orange county,

is democratic strong hold when it comes to politics. hillary clinton won here with more than 60% of the vote four years ago, joe biden would need similar or better numbers if he wants to turn the state blue. the mayor of orange county is jerry demings. we stopped by to talk to him about the economy and much more. mr. mayor, thank you for letting us coming on. the area has been hit so hard because reliant on tourism. how are you doing now? are you bouncing back at all? >> we're beginning to slowly bounce back but i have to say we have a multibillion-dollar impact on the economy. convention business impact we've seen 1.billion dollar impact. when we add the impact from our theme parks and other impacts, so we believe our economy will

be u-shaped. we think it will likely be a three-to-five year time frame. connell: republican governor, ron desantis said basically the state can open up. is there something you're doing to override any of that? because that might have an impact short term on the economy or are you on board with many of the governor's rulings? >> i think when the governor made his announcement on september 25th that businesses can reopen what he had not adequately done communicate with local governments. we got the notice after 4:00 p.m. on a friday. the order took effect immediately. so there was not enough time to really communicate to our resident the what the governor's order truly meant. what we have seen since that. is a lot of confusion throughout the state about what the order means. it did preempted local governments, being able to for example, impose fines on

individuals. connell: so someone doesn't have their mask on, you can't fine them? >> well, that's correct. but what we have done here is has been very proactive. we have a public awareness campaign and a compliance team of individuals that go out to our businesses and inches speck them to make certain they are following the cdc guidelines. connell: let me ask you about politics. that is why we're in florida this time of year in the year 2020. the state is always close and you know a lot about democratic politics having served in a number of positions yourself forepeople that don't know, your wife is the congresswoman, val demings who is considered as a possible running mate for joe biden. you guys know the politics of this area. tell me what is going to happen this year? what normally happens in florida at least in recent history, you might see a democratic candidate ahead in the polls in a statewide race for president or governor or senator. then the last few weeks the lead goes away and republican wins by

a couple points. if this year is different why would be different for vice president biden? >> i'm a student of politics, certainly the politics in the state of florida and central florida area. my prediction biden will likely win the presidential elections here within florida this year, albeit i think it will be a close race. i believe he will likely win because people are frustrated now because of the high unemployment rates we see here within florida and they're really has been i think, a lack of leadership and clear direction from the top, from the white house right down here to our governor as we have dealt with the pandemic in recent months. connell: now what i've seen biden is doing better among some groups that president trump did well last time. for example, senior citizens, maybe not doing as well in the minority community as hillary clinton did last time. if that is the case, will he

have a tough time winning at the end if he is not able to turn out those voters? >> there is no question this will be a close race. i think that biden is going to have to get into florida and make certain that he interacts with the voters here within florida. connell: in person? >> in person. he is going to have to step up his game in that regard but my sense of it is, there is a certain amount of frustration that is going on with america now being a divided america. i believe that citizens want someone to come to the middle to unite us and, at this point, i think that the president's rhetoric has been somewhat divisive over time and continues to be that way. we all look for some hope that someone can bring us to the middle regardless of the politics. so we're looking for a change i believe. connell: is he really middle of the road? the argument from the other side is that the left side of the party will pull him to the left on a number of issues?

>> i think that what you will see is that he is going to come more to the center. because he has to, because that is where the majority of americans are. his message has to resonate with those who are the fence-sitters, who have not determined who they are going to vote for at this point. i believe that is where this race is either going to be won or lost and i believe that biden has, at this point a slight momentum here in florida going forward. we're just really days away now from the november the 3rd election day and of course vote by mail already began. early voting will start soon here in florida. connell: that is more democrats doing that than republicans? are you worried about the vote by mail process in terms of getting it counted and any problems it might come up there? >> i have been assured by our local supervisor of elections that they have the appropriate

cybersecurity protocols in place as well as the mail, security protocols in place and so i believe that there should be no problems with an accurate count during this election cycle. connell: demings is a self-described moderate democrat. he is a former sheriff and police chief. so when i was speaking to him i asked him about the movement among some in his party to defund the police and he says, in his view at least there are vocal minority and that most people he speaks with actually disagree with the set meant, it could be sentiment to catastrophic to minority communities. that is interesting take. jackie: thank you, connell. new york to london, seven hours and 14 days, how long it takes because of the quarantine requirements but u.s. officials working on using increased availability of covid-19 testing to reduce the quarantine time for travel to london.

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♪. jackie: the battle lines drawn in washington. the first day of hearings for amy coney barrett's nomination to the supreme court is in the books. let's go straight it hillary vaughn on capitol hill for those details. hillary? reporter: squawkky today's hearing was less about judge amy coney barrett's judicial history and more about the timing of this hearing, the politics and of course the president. >> the bottom line is justice ginsburg when asked about this several years ago said that a president serves for four years not three. there is nothing unconstitutional about this process. >> this is a charade when they say this is a normal judiciary committee hearing for supreme court nomination. there is nothing about this

that's normal. >> wait to confirm a new supreme court justice until after americans decide who they want in the white house. reporter: this hear cog have been mistaken for one about obamacare. it is the topic that dominated senate democrats opening statements. talking about an upcoming aca hearing in front of the supreme court just one week after election day. >> you are being sent to the bench to do his political chores. >> democrats and their allies shouldn't claim to know how any judge would rule in any particular case. >> this supreme court nominee has signaled in the judicial equivalent of all caps she believes the affordable care act must go. >> i will object to anyone, anytime, anyone who tries to attribute to you a policy position and hold you to that. you're not a policymaker. you're a judge.

reporter: after several senate democrats accused president trump of court-packing by trying to fill as many vacancies as possible before he ends his first term in the white house others have said that is not what is happening here. >> court packing is destroying the system we have now. it is not reforming the system we have now. and nick who uses the language that implies filling legitimate vacancies is actually just another form of court packing, that is playing the american people for fools. reporter: jackie, tomorrow they will begin questioning judge barrett and a lot of those democrats will try to get her to say how she will rule on the upcoming hearing on election day on the aca. jackie? jackie: hillary vaughn, thank you so much for that report. connell: all right, "fox business alert" for you as we're following the president, president trump, the motorcade rolling up as we speak to joint

base andrews. it is up the steps of air force one to the flight down here for florida that campaign rally we mentioned earlier in the program. so let's get you set for that. mark meredith already on the scene just to our north in sanford. he joins us from there with the latest as they wait for the president. mark. reporter: connell, good afternoon, the president will have a large crowd waiting for him as he touches down in sanford. as you well know, it is hot in florida. they are braving temperatures close to 90 degrees. that doesn't seem to stop the turnout. what it is like for us here at the sanford airport. look at the crowd already gathered here. these people have been waiting for several hours. most are not wearing masks. there is really no social distancing whatsoever. the trump campaign did take temperatures of the press corps as they were coming in. supporters were telling me they also had their temperatures taken as they came in as well. but we did not see anything radically different from what we've seen at other campaign rallies. i was just out in nevada a few weeks ago. that was a massive crowd as well

where people really did the same setup. they came out to an airport. they felt this was a good spot for them to be because they're outside. not a lot of masks or no social distancing. talk about where things stand in florida right now, with the trump campaign still trailing joe biden at least according to the "real clear politics" average in the state by roughly about four points. but this is a state that the trump campaign has put a lot of time, money and energy to. i think about the president's several trips down here during the midterms, certainly trying to get the vote out in 2018, making himself a florida resident. he and the first lady. the campaign says they have a decent shot at winning. they won it after all in 2016. here in seminole county the president won by 3500 votes four years ago. not a big margin of error out there. the president will have a supportive crowd when he gets out here. hopefully temperatures cool down a little bit as we get close to

sundown. connell: mark, as you said that looks like the exact same setup before the president contracted covid. there he is goes up. a little bit of entrance than joint base an draws, getting out of a suv as opposed to the beast limousine he normally uses and also the lower steps there as he gets in a different fashion to air force one, close to the front of the plane. all right. so president trump is back officially on the campaign trail, leaving the white house for an out of town event for the first time since he had contracted covid-19. our coverage will continue of the as we said he is headed here to florida. when we look at florida from an economic point of view the pandemic forcing some of the nation's largest theme parks to certainly rethink operations as usual. we'll have an inside look at seaworld where we are today. they are hoping to lure the visitors back in. they also say they're staying true to what they say is the

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♪ connell: back here in orlando, you know, perhaps more than anything any other place in the country tourism drives the local economy here in this area, to put it mildly. 2020 has been tough. covid hit, travel, basically stopped. the unemployment rate in the orlando metro area actually peaked at 21.1% back in may. it improved. back down to 11%. compares to 3.1% at the same time last year. even though things are improving a little bit the layoffs haven't stopped. we had in the news disney recently adding to its total, indicating more than 15,000 of orlando area employees have been cut since the pandemic started. other companies, universal orlando in the middle of another round. seaworld is not immune from the economic pain. interim ceo mark swanson kind enough to join us. thanks for lefting us in the park. great backdrop. >> connell, we're so glad you're here. we have three parks open in orlando and two down in tampa,

notably busch gardens. we have gone to a lot of work to make sure it is safe. people are around us. they were having a good time. connell: we have people out and about. levels are down than what you normally think about, is understandable. how are you doing? are you seeing signs of life or how are things going? >> freight to see families coming out having a food time. when we been open, attendance on the low end, 10, 15% of prior year. we have days we're over 50% depending on the park, depending on the day. we're excited people have come out to have a good time. we're taking care of the safety aspect of that what hasn't changed to come out here to have a fun time. connell: on that safety aspect, you don't have a number? the state is not mandating anything now as i understand it but are you mandating how many people you would let in? are there times yet, this would be a sign of demand because you cut back a little bit? >> certainly days we reached that capacity level. what we do, we kind of take what

are peak day would look like. at a park like this, say on a peak day we do over 30,000. we back up from there, what can we comfortably do and still create the right distancing in the park where people come here, have fun, still have the distancing and still keep everybody safe. connell: that number is not set in stone? you eyeball it a little bit? >> we have a really good team of people doing this for a long time. we monitor at the front gate. we're able to control the crowd and move people around a little bit. look, we're evolving. we'll continue to evolve as we go through this. connell: speaking of evolving, let me talk about the business with you. i mentioned layoffs and other companies similar situation to you. how are you managing the workforce and what are the plans going forward in terms of headcount and the like? >> we're doing what we've been doing. we had a record 2019 adjusted ebitda. we had a record start of 2020 through february. we'll keep doing events. you see behind me the christmas trees. we're doing halloween right now. we're doing beer fest. a lot of these type of things have been canceled in other

types of the country but we have found ways to do them safely. connell: you had to roll back, cut back on some jobs, right? >> we did have to cut back. my point we'll keep moving forward. if we keep doing these events more and more people will come out, see you can come to a theme park, have a great time and feel safe about it. connell: i guess the question in everybody's time, has been from the beginning is time frame. people said we'll never go into the fall to still have this virus around affecting our lives but here we are. do you have any sense yet of when demand comes back? if it doesn't, will you have to go and implement another round of cost-cutting measures or layoffs or that kind of thing? >> i don't know exactly when we'll get back, i don't know anybody does. connell: no. >> certainly vaccine is going to help. more and more people showcasing, we're showcasing what we're doing in florida, what we're doing in texas, what we're doing in pennsylvania, which is operating parks very safely and welcoming people back. connell: right. >> ceo of the company that is what i'm focused on. connell: what about california,

disney run into issues out there. you have a park in california. >> we do, we do. what we keep pointing to the folks in california we're operating across other parts of the country very safely, welcoming people back to not only to work, right? getting jobs back, people, families, coming out to have a good time. connell: the government put more restrictions in place out there. >> certainly more restrictions, i'm asking about your park out there compared to here? >> we're not fully reopened in san diego. we look forward to that. we'll look forward to others in the industry. we have a vested interest in getting to that point. we'll showcase what we're doing in other locations. as a father of three kids. i think it is important that people keep out. connell: what do you think of the governor's approach here in florida. which has been a bit more, not has been as aggressive as governor newsom in california? governor desantis allowed the state to be wide open at this point. up to you to decide. what do you think of that? >> we received wonderful support

from the state level and local level. we worked closely with both parties. i think both parties recognize how important turism is to the state of florida. we're thrilled our five parks are open. we have can't wait to welcome more and more people back. connell: thanks for being here. interesting conversation. good luck. hopefully it comes back sooner than later. >> thanks for having us. we look forward to come back. i hope to see many of your viewers down here soon. connell: mark, thank you. good day here at seaworld. as we continue we'll have a lot more from here in florida as we continue to in a few moments. we have a little bit more perspective, jackie. back to you in new york. jackie: i've got a "fox business alert," connell. disis up after hours after announcing a strategic reorg seeings of its media and entertain businesses. further to accelerate the company's direct to consumer strategy. in light of the rapid success of disney plus making streaming its primary focus. we'll be right back.

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so it was interesting. jackie: that is interesting. certain people don't want to go on the record, and we've talked about this before, how polarizing this election really is, and it's difficult for people. we brought it up at the top of the show that maybe there is a silent majority, and maybe there's not. as you said, maybe you can't read too much into it, but it's interesting, for sure. connell: we'll know on november 3rd or the days afterwards. you're right, it's hard to know exactly how to read into that. it could be just fatigue with politics. i do want to also mention we have a whole week planned here in the swing state of florida. we're headed to the tampa area, and tomorrow we'll see you from beautiful clearwater beach, and there's a look live at the beach. as you can tell, at least as far as i can see, they're getting ready for us as we speak, and we will be on the volleyball court there this evening. this should be fun. we'll be in clearwater, then the fort myers area by the end of the week, on thursday and friday. jackie: it looks beautiful

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