me. learn more today at your chm.org about healthcare that puts you in control. stuart: what ask the median net worth of american families? there is your choices on the screen. ashley, what is your guess? ashley: my first instinct was one but i'm going with number two. stuart: yeah, my first instinct was going with one, you're going with two. there you go, that is the correct answer. $121,700, to be absolutely precise. thanks for all the hard work you did for me last week, ashley. >> my pleasure. stuart: time up for me, stuart it is yours. neil: the big attention of course the final day of full day voting ahead of tomorrow where everyone can do it in person but we have tens of millions of americans have already done it regardless. that is a record, no matter the

state you look at or the locale you look at pretty much across the country it is the same story. a lot of people are a lot jazzed about this election. sometimes we try to pick apart where some of the party celebrities and honchos are going in these last few hours to gauge exactly where they need to be including the president of the united states. jacqui heinrich with more at the white house. hey, jackie. reporter: neil, good afternoon to you. the president promised no more oil drilling just one day after the white house had to walk back his pledge to shut down coal plants following a stinging rebuke from democrat senator joe manchin that came days ahead of the midterms. the president on the oil thing was at a rally yesterday for new york governor kathy hochul when he responded to someone in the audience asking about his campaign promise to shut down fracking and also end drilling on federal lands, new drilling on federal lands. take a listen to what he said? president biden: no more

drilling. there is no more drilling. i haven't formed any new drilling. reporter: there are at least two problems with this comment. first being biden actually has approved more drilling for oil and grass on federal lands and waters. the white house bragged oil and gas has 9,000 unused drilling permits as part of a push for the industry to stablize fluctuating gas prices. some permits were left over from the trump administration. others were issued under this president. the other problem biden is claiming the administration is doing everything it can to bring down energy costs amid russia's war in ukraine. painting big oil the bad guys, raking in profits keeping supply low. and again on friday he promised to shut down coal plants. president biden: also now cheaper to generate electricity from wind and solar than it is

from coal and oil, literally cheaper, not a joke. we're going to be shutting these plants down all across america and having wind and solar. reporter: democrat senator joe manchin called biden's comments offensive, disgusting, divorced from reality, ignoring americans economic pain over rising energy costs and being cavalier for job losses for coal workers. he said the president owes the workers immediate and public policies. it is time he learns that his words matters and have consequences. the white house tried to clean that up. the% secretary that the president's remarks were twisted to mean something he did not intend, apologizing, expressing regrets if anyone took offense to it. just a day later follow i had up with these oil comments so sort of stepping in it again, neil. neil: he said it. you didn't doctor that tape. he said it, no more drilling t was pretty direct. jacqui, thank you very much.

jacqui heinrich at the white house. aishah hasnie following meanwhile among the closely and most closely watched senate race in the country. certainly is a jump ball between this one and the race in pennsylvania. talking about in george where herschel walker is in the fight of his life right now, dead-even money with rafael warnock. get the latest from with aishah hasnie in johns creek, georgia. ashiah? reporter: neil we're actually in macon, georgia now where the warnock camp is about to put an event behind me in the local tavern. it is interesting to watch the two camps, their strategies, both leaning heavily on big names in these final moments to get out the vote. for example, we saw yesterday director spike lee was on the campaign trail for rafael warnock in savannah yesterday, although warnock hasn't had a big political heavyweight campaign with him in about 10 days. that is a very long time. meantime former ambassador nikki

haley was stumping for republican herschel walker in hiram yesterday, where she told supporters do not depend on a red wave. >> are republicans nervous going into the election? >> it is not about nervous as much being humble and disciplined this is about turnout. reporter: yeah, walker has had tulsi gab ard out. he is expecting senator lindsey graham to campaign with him tonight. look at this, this is all about the turnout tomorrow. the latest "fox news" polling has warnock and walker practically neck-and-neck. you know, neil, georgia saw record early voting for a midterm, but the pressure is really on the gop here to prevent a repeat of 2020. remember that when georgia handed democrats the senate. democrats are also feeling the urgency as well. >> i don't think any of us want to wake up on wednesday morning

asking ourselves what more could we have done. reporter: warnock has advantage among independents in this state. keep an eye out on that. it will be about getting base out for republicans. neil: refresh me, neither gets 50% of the vote there is automatic runoff? reporter: absolutely. georgia is very interesting if you don't get over 50% of the vote you go to a runoff. so it is very crucial for both of these camps to get high voter turnout because nobody in georgia, nobody, nobody, not just the camps but the folks here they are done with election she is son. nobody wants to say the "r" word. neil: i can well understand at this point. ashiah, thank you for that. to jeff paul right now in denver, colorado, where they're having a razor tight senate election. wasn't supposed to be that way but considered a toss-up now. jeff, what are you hearing? reporter: neil, if we would have

been talking about this race just a week ago we would be considered the race is leaning more blue. there is some indications they are tightening. some are even calling it a toss-up. on the left you have democratic incouple gent mic incumbent michael bennet since 2009. he tried to distance himself with president biden, disagreeing with him on the border and handling student loan relief. on the republican side, joe o'dea, a construction ceo. relatively new to politics. what is interesting he does not have the endorsement of former president trump gone as far as saying if trump ran again he would actively campaign against him. so we spent time talking with colorado voters asking them about their thoughts on joe o'dea and his chances. >> appreciate that he tries to make that distinction. i'm skeptical of it. i don't necessarily believe it because i think trump has such a strong hold on the party. he probably doesn't have a great

chance but, we, it is probably better chance than normal, leaning a little bit more right than normal here in colorado but i still think we're a pretty progressive state. >> i don't think it helps him because it is not as believable as you think it would be. he says a lot of things but i haven't seen any examples of his actions and what he has done. reporter: now could take some time to figure out exactly how colorado voters decide as you look here. voters are pulling up here, dropping off the mail-in ballots. we spoke with some elections officials here today, neil, they tell us there is a lot of folks out there with mail-in ballots yet to mail them in or drop them off here. neil? neil: thank you very much for that, jeff paul with the latest from denver, colorado. another race that is close and surprisingly so is the battle for who holds on to the

governor's mansion in wisconsin. governor evers has the fight of his life on his hand right now courtesy of strong challenge of republican tim michaels. former republican governor of that beautiful state with us now, scott walker. governor, good to see you. this race has turned into a barn-burner. does it surprise you? >> no. wisconsin has been a close state for the past 20 years. we knew even though tony evers was outspending tim michaels two to one that tim michaels is right on the issues. it is three ps personal economic issues, public safety and it's parental involvement in public education. tony evers is wrong on all three of those and tim michaels has a good gameplan. neil: i wonder so many people focus on senate race, house race, they're very important, you know that quite well but governors a have a lot to decide, more to decide about residents future than either of those, you know, bodies on the federal level.

so, they decide other things too like redistricting issues and all the rest, or at least help oversee that so explain to me what you think is happening at the governor's level because we're seeing this in nearly three dozen races around the country where we have a lot of competitive battles? >> well, you're exactly right. even more so over the next few years because even as i brief it will the house and the senate both flip republican, you will still two years of a democrat president. so that will be a stalemate in washington where things will actually move forward, i believe is in the states. you see tremendous progress out there. you will see some, in fact even in places like new york and oregon you're-likely to see, in oregon's case the first republican governor since ronald reagan was president and new york state it could be the first governor since '94. it is because of these key issues, particularly in those states with public safety. they can actually do something about public safety that is not being done now. i think voters are hungry for it. the other key thing, neil, it

will also have impact on some of the key races for the senate. you were talking about georgia. i think governor chem's big margin he wins with over stacey abrams will help herschel walker get to the 50% threshold. i think kari lake wins and i think it will help blake masters win the u.s. senate race. new hampshire, nevada, the key in each of those could be the key to the get the senate bass. neil: governor, i would be remiss, maybe get intra-party dust-up republican party between former president trump and ron desantis. you heard the president's remarks calling him governor ron desanctimonious, heed that that back as with other republican leaders because he was damaging the party. what did you think of that? >> we have people on the ballot who ron desantis has done a

whale after job. it is incumbent about all of us who care about our states but our republic helping republicans at every level tuesday, the president was right to dial that back. all that is focused in less than two days getting out the vote to make sure that republicans up and down the ticket win all across the country. neil: as you know, ken griffin, a big republican megadonor already placed his critical lot getting beyond this midterm tomorrow, governor, saying he would support governor desantis for 2024. says we have to move on from donald trump. your thoughts? >> well, it is going to be a wide open field. i think president trump based upon what he did for four years, remarkable record as earned the right to be considered for another two terms should he want to get in which is every indication he will but i also think it will be up to primary voters, ron desantis, nikki

haley, mike inches, greg abbott, kristi noem, there is long list of candidates out there, republicans are blessed. we have a great farm team out there unlike the lack of that i think you see on the other side with not only the president, joe biden, but chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. i mean these are candidates of the past. republicans got candidates of the future. neil: i noticed you mentioned names here, you left out this guy scott walker. are you just not interested in running? >> i'm a quarter century younger than joe biden. so i got men of time but right now the work i do young america foundation is too important. i have plenty of time. neil: let me ask you about that one time you've been very patient with this obnoxious line of questioning. >> i don't mind, neil. neil: i know. you're very gracious. one line had it that president said 2 would be a act of disloyalty for someone to challenge him if he decided to run himself. what do you think of that? >> i think in the end again it

is up to the voters. the people, the most important people listened to, i learned a long time ago are the voters. it is not pundits, not media, not political insiders. ultimately it is the voters. a the love people made that mistake in 2016 when they listened to all the pundits didn't see donald trump coming. more than him personally voters wanted somebody that would shake things up. that is exactly what donald trump did. why he has the right, i think he earned the right to be considered. whether or not voters pick him or not will be up to them. neil: good catching up with you, governor walker. be well. hope family is doing well. scott walk irformer wisconsin governor. talk about a guy, recall electionses, everything else, always put to the metal here and survived it. we have a lot more coming up including what is behind the dow surge. people are maybe pouncing there is political angle to this that the markets sensing a republican pickup in the house they control that body you about increasingly

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neil: all right, there is gubernatorial race going on in new york and normally that would

be an afterthought because the bluest of blue states the given a democratic candidate always wins, she, in this case, kathy hochul the gubernatorial candidate for democrats racks up such a big win in the new york city the rest of the state doesn't matter and typically statewide candidates go on to win on the democratic side. that could be changing this year because of the crime issue. it has gotten to be a very, very big issue. doesn't alexis mcadams no more? she has the latest from new york. reporter: hi, neil, yeah, that's right. we're hearing that it is really close and closer than democrats thought it would be at this point in a deep blue state here in new york. crime is the hot topic in this race as you mentioned. it will be the top priority that is pushing new yorkers out to the polls because they can feel it in the streets and when they get out of on the subway. the latest "quinnepiac poll" with kathy hochul with a four point lead over congressman lee

zeldin. as zeldin closes president joe biden campaigned for hochul over the weekend, he slammed the republicans that he didn't really have a plan for the crime issue. listen. president biden: governor hochul's opponent talks a good game on crime. it is a talk. governor hochul had a choice, keep cops on the job or cave to his republican leaders. i give you one guess what he did. he caved. reporter: president biden there, neil was trying to hype up the democratic party here in new york. congressman zeldin is focused his campaign around the big surge in crime. he blames hochul's policies for the lawlessness telling voters she is not getting the job done. >> you hear a lot from new yorkers that they care about wanting to be able to feel safer on the streets and on the subways. kathy hochul made a strategic calculation. she wanted to just get people to look away, stop focusing on this

issue. reporter: governor hochul has been touting her record on taking illegal guns off the streets. the changes she said she made to the state's bail reform law. this morning the governor slammed her opponent saying he is just trying to scare new yorkers in order to get votes. >> check the source. he has been hyperventilating trying to scare people for months and new yorkers are on to it. reporter: neil, although she continues to say it is a scare tactic by the republican party not just here in new york but across the country, people who live here, people we talk to on daily basis seeing stories they don't feel safe taking the subway and want to see whoever is new york's next governor. neil? neil: alexis, thank you for that. bill clinton is coming under controversy right now for dismissing as did governor hochul some of lee zeldin's focus, virtually all the focus on crime, quoting the former president here, lee zeldin he makes it sound like kathy hochul

gets up every morning, goes to the nearest subway stop and hands out billy clubs and baseball bats and gets on subway. a lot of people took that the former president and governor was dismissing crime concerns and being hyped. i wonder what scott bolden former dnc party chairman. do you think that was pretty stupid of bill clinton to say. >> i don't think it was stupid at all. he was making fun of the messenger, not the message crime is an issue. who would think democrat or republican candidate or leader would want to be soft on crime? making people feel safe as a leader is a number one issue and every day democrats or republicans should get up and think about wanting to make people safe. clinton -- neil: that is not happening right. scott, that is not happening. when the president says a former president says this is essentially hyped by gubernatorial candidate the numbers are what the numbers

are. the attacks on subways are real. they're very palpable. they are reason why a lot of people are afraid to go on subways. governor hochul herself, right, who did not address bail reform. has not on her list of issues instead focusing on guns. is zeldin that crazy. >> zeldin is good identifying problem, hanging it around the governor's neck who is the incumbent but he doesn't have any solutions to the problem. again. neil: he does. he wants to get rid of prosecutors who allow this turnstile system of justice. you might note agree with that. that is one way to address it. that is what cops have urged. >> and governor hochul has suggested, not only suggested but recommended, not only bail reform but getting guns off the street. that is their plan. you don't hear zeldin talking about his plan. you her him talking about the crime problem. it is easy to talk about the problem. it is easy to scare people but i think the democratic governor and all those who on the democratic side want to solve the issue and --

neil: do they really, scott? i understand where you're coming from. >> come on. neil: do we really? she has their one big debate. she dismissed this problem. you might just say that the opponent comes in and tries to seize on it, this the issue for me. it is the issue that seems to be working for him but it is not a made-up issue. >> it is not, an issue that has not gone away, democrat or republican. i'm a former new yorker. crime is always an issue. good leaders, democrat or republican are always looking for ways to fight crime. you want to fight crime, you give young people jobs and give them alternative to a criminal lifestyle. neil: wait a minute, no, scott. live you to death last time you were crediting with this president overseeing record number of jobs in this tenure. it can't be just about jobs. people are still shooting and knifing and flinging people on subway tracks even with all those jobs. >> well, we created 160,000 jobs a month but then we're also

underemployed and employers are still looking to fill jobs. that is just one part of the solution, not necessarily the problem. community policing, getting guns off the street. coaching and counseling police in regard to how they're committed to law enforcement rand implementing good plus procedures. you can't say that is democrat or republican problem. that is an american problem. neil: both sides have to recognize it, mutually right. we can talk about this all day. i want to get your take president's role in the final 24 hour dash to the finish line here but he might have revealed something he didn't intend to, talking about energy whether he is to blame for part of the energy problem. this is from the president. i wanted reaction. president biden: no more drilling. there is no more drilling. i haven't formed any new drilling. neil: there is no new drilling i haven't formed any new drilling. he said what is dismissed on the

part of his opponents when he said just that what do you make of it? >> he has a huge energy reserve first of all. secondly most importantly, i thought that we were going to be talking about this comments on coal if you will alternative energy like solar and wind because that is where we're going. he may not shut down the coal mines immediately but eventually we'll move away from that. that is going to be the number one source of energy for america. neil: i get where you're coming from, scott, do you feel he is disingenuous, another word for it, lie towing people he was open to allow companies to drill for more oil, in fact he said there is against it, didn't do it, won't do it? >> i don't know what context of that statement, what was -- neil: response to a protester saying that he is not done enough for the environment and all of that. he more or less said, haven't drilled, don't intend to drill. >> yeah but there is still drilling going on. he is talking about new drilling i would surmise.

he is talking about new drilling because he is trying to move away from traditional carbon-producing sources. neil: i understand, can you then understand scott the oil industry which is often vilified. i'm not apologists for them they don't want to commit billions of dollars when they know the guy in the white house isn't keen on their industry, doesn't see much of a future for their industry. why should they put a lot of money on production all of that on the line if they're going to be soon out of business? >> well, i don't think, clinton says, i'm sorry, i don't think biden says they will be soon out of business. what he is saying is we'll eventually move away from that. there is still drilling going on. these are profit-driven companies. >> i know that, but you're very good with money in and money out. love talking to you because you're very up on all these subjects, a lot of colleagues, no offense taken are not. i'm telling you they're looking at, oil companies are looking at that, why invest in the future the democrats essentially don't seem to want any part of? >> is that why they're taking

advantage of the energy crisis and the ukraine war by making tremendous profits at the gas lines? that is a political issue for both republican and democrats. neil: you don't think, half of those oil price run-ups before the first russian soldiers were near ukraine. >> i can tell you i'm looking at gas prices in d.c. and new york and paying five or six dollars an hour when we are releasing barrels of our own. neil: you don't blame the administration any of that? it is all the evil oil guys? >> i think the profiteering taking advantage much the ukrainian war, the crisis we're in that contributes to inflation i don't think the energy companies are doing enough or not doing their part. i will leave it at that. neil: all right. we'll leave it at that scott always having you. we might get disagreeable now and then, not nasty. >> great seeing you as well. neil: scold bolden former dnc

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neil: all right. we knew this date would happen. we didn't know it would be so frequent among technology giants, announcing they're going to be, well, having layoffs, big layoffs. perhaps the biggest going on at meta, of course the old facebook fame company. isn't so famous anymore for all of the wrong things. edward lawrence at the white house what is going on, edward? reporter: neil, you can't fit anymore companies it seems on the graphic. there is a lot of companies. the concern will that spill over into other sectors. here at the white house mixed message related to the economy. president is in charge after booming economy what he will tell you. he is looking at unemployment rate at near record lows. that is a reason we cannot be in a recession. on inflation the president is saying what he is doing is working. president biden: our approach is working. since i came into office we

created 10 million brand new jobs. [cheers and applause] unemployment rate at historic low of 3.7%. we're making things here in america again. [cheering] reporter: however cordtoring the bureau of labor statistics the economy added back all the lost jobs from the covid slut down and created804,000 jobs above february 2020 levels. we announced layoffs at tech firms. here are big ones on the screen, twitter, lyft, meta, laying off with two dozen other companies in the tech industry. with some in the federal reserve, some members are saying core inflation has not even peaked yet. you see where cpi inflation has gone under this president. republicans say this is the biden economy. >> some people are still giving this administration the benefit of the doubt, whether energy prices or border crisis or anything else. we all know these are the results of intentional policies,

catastrophic policies that are doing this on purpose. the only way they will stop is by force of law. that will take new people in positions of power. reporter: president will be in buoy, maryland, for a campaign event. we'll likely hear how his policies eventually will work. he just needs a little more time. we've been hearing that message, neil, more than a year. neil: edward lawrence thank you for that, edward. to randall quarles, former federal reserve vice-chair, what he makes of all of this. randall, i was wondering knowing you would be in light of the layoffs are we seeing the impact of higher rates that have been nonstop for you know, what about nine months right now? >> yeah, i think we are and i think we're seeing them at about the delay we would expect to see effects of fed monetary policy. we know monetary policy acts with long and variable lags.

while there is good reason to think those lags are probably shorter in the current environment than they have been in some previous tightening cycles there is going to still be a delay, call it six months or longer. we're now beginning to see the effect of the fed's policy. we'll continue to see that play out over the next several months. neil: i know it's a gut call, you don't want to rain on your parade of colleagues but do you think they have overdone it? some are concerned by the time they realize inflation might be getting under control a lot of jobs have been decimated? >> well the task is very hard because of these long delays. so, i wouldn't criticize how they're doing their task but the job that they have to do, which is very hard to do given these lags is -- neil: what are the average lags? on that, i'm sorry, randall, i do want to be clear, what are the lags? if nine months isn't enough to tell, maybe a year isn't, i mean we could conceivably a few

months from now rates quintuple what they were at the start of year, 5%, then the damage would be felt? >> so historically the estimates have been that it could take up to a year, even as long as two years for monetary policy to work its way through the economy. again i think there is food reason -- good reason to think there is less time now, because the fed communicates comprehensively what the policy will be so the policy works its way through the economy faster but there is some delay and so really we're just beginning to see, it is reasonable to believe that we're just beginning to see the interest rate increases of 25, 50 basis points from the spring beginning to work their way into the economy now. the 75 basis point repeated raises that we saw over the summer and the fall -- neil: right. >> those effects will be felt in a few months. neil: we've had four of those

type increases, 3/4 point type increases. do you expect something similar in december or no? >> well i think that the fed has signaled as clearly as the fed is going to signal that the december increase will be probably a little less. i think that is reasonable right now, given, again, you want to allow sometime for the economy to catch up to what as you note has been really a quite dramatic increase percentage increase in the cost of debt service because of the percentage increase in the interest rate over the course of the last several months. neil: randall quarles, thank you very, very much, former federal reserve vice-chair weighing in on rates going up and up and impact but which might start to see it in the company layoffs. too early, too soon to know but we'll watch it for you. meantime words from elon musk which have nothing to do with what is going on at twitter.

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on the back of this, elon musk says, look, gridlock is good. to independent-mind #-d voters, shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties. i remember voting for republican congress given the presidency is democratic. he followed that up by saying that hard wore -- core democrats or republicans never vote for the other side so independent voters decide who is in charge. i want to note other headlines came through in twitter namely, elon musk, we have allianz, the asset manager in germany joining a long list of diverse companies, carlsberg, audi, carmakers, tesla competitors pausing on their twitter ads. neil: companies like general mills have as well. >> ibg as well. neil: are they pushed by the woke crowd? he hasn't made any decisions yet or -- susan: he made one decision you can't impersonate him if you have a blue check mark. that is his first content

moderation. but he says twitter rules will evolve. neil: that was in response to kathy griffin. susan: kathy griffin and sarah silverman. neil: you can't pretend to be something you're not. susan: they're trying to make the point if you make people pay fordollar a month blue check mark i can do pretty much whatever i want, including imperfects nating people i'm not like elon musk. neil: how is that being received the blue check mark thing? susan: let me ask you this, i think eight dollars a month is a lot. i think blue checkmarks are there for authentication. can i brief you are neil cavuto of neil cavuto and can i trust what you're saying or advocating. neil: i see this every month. susan: a lot of people in silicon valley will make the user interaction and the user experience probably less. obviously misinformation will be a big concern. neil: if you don't pay this, if he gets what they want -- susan: happens after the

midterms. neil: if you don't pay it you can't use it? susan: you can use twitter, lose blue check mark the exclusive group. you're exclusive group of celebrity individuals with big followers and authentication. meaning i can believe that is justin bieber's account, not somebody trying to pretend to be him? neil: this is called social media? susan: this is called social media, yeah. neil: that is interesting. let me get your sense where he is taking the company. obviously doesn't take long to get the response he is getting because they don't like the signal he is sending, right? he wants to open this up to all sorts of points of view and everything else. susan: my thoughts across, my conversations from silicon valley it is total chaos. obviously you have people on one side believe that is what he is doing, cutting 50% of staff in one single email on friday. neil: he wants to hire some of them back, right? >>suzanne smith: >>suzanne smith: susan: he is dying dozens back,

blue check mark verification. some say you step in there, blindly laying off half of the staff without understanding what the future strategy is. he is up against the wall since 90% of twitter sales come from advertising. we talked about the advertiser boycott. not a big amount, talking about 3700 global advertisers, talking about a small sliver right now says we're pausing on the advertisements, he is coming up against an interest payment on that 13 billion-dollars in loans as well that comes up in april of next year. so he has to start generating cash somehow. you know he is losing $4 million a day on twitter according to his tweets over the weekend. that is $300 million a quarter. he needs to drive users. he needs to drive sails and he needs to, you know, get people on board including his employees and it doesn't look good when you're laying off, obviously not good sentiment laying off 50% of the staff right away like that. neil: some could say it is bloated anyway. they have 3,000 additional

workers over last couple years. susan: 7,000 total. look, doesn't he have bigger headaches elsewhere? neil: i was going to ask you, is he spread too thin. susan: a lot of people think so. neil: there is no denying it. susan: you have a 100 billion-dollar space company, trying to launch rockets, create satellite internet. you have the world's leading electric carmaker. telling people to vote republican because he feels that tesla has been undermined by the administration. he funnels in 100,000, he donated 100,000 into republicans in the 2018 race. he likes to go for the other side when it comes to midterms. neil: i think he likes to surprise each side too, right? susan: keep them on their toes. neil: like you do, susan, thank you very much. there is meantime a battle in the grand ol' party don't know if elon musk is awash of it, he could have waded nasty political waters where donald trump is

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reporter: neil, on the ballot here florida governor ron desantis versus democratic challenger charlie crist but there is a second battle looming off to the sidelines and that's

for the republican nomination for president in 2024. that would feature potentially desantis versus former president trump. now the two held competing rallies in florida on sunday. trump in south florida, desantis 250 miles away along the west coast. trump also mocked the florida governor at a rally over the weekend in pennsylvania. he referred to him as ron desanctimonious. so far desantis has not hit back at the jab. >> i think governor desantis has really taken the high road. he is focused on his race, laser-focused on that which i think is important. i think the people of florida are benefiting from it. reporter: most polls show desantis heavily favored in the race. a couple of numbers to keep an eye on, one could desantis' margin of victory if he does win exceed trump's in florida in 2020, that would be 3.4%. also if desantis does win big, would that solidify florida's place as not a swing state but

now a red state? neil, back to you. neil: thank you for that, steve. we have inez stepman independent women's forum. that this fracture, whatever you want to call it is hurting the party? >> i think we damage the party anytime we go through a party process it damages the party. if it becomes completely nasty, supporters of one refuse to support the other in general we could see how that would obviously injure the party but usually that doesn't actually pan out. i think there is a lot less act crimean any between governor desantis and former president trump than these two have against each other. so we'll see. neil: could you see ron desantis running whether trump were or not? >> i think it is possible. it would be kind of followish if he does not. neil: donald trump said that would be an act much disloyalty and he declared and republicans

declared themselves? >> two things, one, you strike when the iron is hot, not what it is not. we don't know what happens in 2028. this is chris christie move. he didn't run and he ran well past out of the news especially desantis's program in florida has been so popular and so good. he won among many great republican governors running the same kind of program where he responds to the base's concern on culture war issues while keeping the economy stronger. i mean everybody is kind of suffering right now but stronger. he has a really droning covid case he did not take the same steps other states didn't. to the reporter, florida is looking more like a red state, not a swing state. neil: that would be conceivably the wind at republicans back two years from now if that happened. do you think it will be a competitive presidential race whether trump runs or not? in other words a lot of people will be in the mix? >> yay.

that is a big question. obviously that happened in 2016 as well there were a lot of candidates and then trump. because trump is trump he tends to be able to set himself up. i definitely think trump is the front-runner, trump is, a lot of people know and like desantis. desantis has a competency record, right? he can point to the fact he actually addressed a lot of concerns, a lot of top priorities for conservative base voters. he has done it, maintaining popularity in a purple-leaning red state, right? >> good point. we shall sigh. i'm going to have more next hour weighing in on some particular races we will have there. meantime the dow is up 211 points here. the contests where we didn't expect there to be contests in the granite state, for example, where maggie hassan looked like strong easy continuation the democrats keep that spot to jump ball. what happened? after this. last thing on my min. hey mom, can i go play video games? sure, after homework.

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