pennsylvania, nevada, north carolina or georgia, we should look at early voting numberses in a vacuum buzz they represent what the national sentiment and mad is, and i think concern mood is, and i think that's what we're going to deliver on election day. maria: what about nevada basically saying, oh, if you have a ballot that gets in after election day, it still counts? >> yeah. i mean, or obviously, there's litigation we have to look at, but the fact that republicans who typically don't vote until election day are voting early, it shows there's real momentum. maria: yeah. >> we could just be driving up the numbers, but it doesn't really matter. maria: we will live it there. great to talk to you both this morning. thank you so much. quick check on markets, cow industrials down 189, opening bell sounds in 30 minutes' time. varney "varney & company" picks it up now. stu, take it away. stuart: just released, the latest fox power rankings. trump has a solid lead in the two top to issues.

that would be the economy and immigration. arizona now leans towards donald trump, and that state the offers him the best opportunity to win the electoral college. nationally, it's still a toss-up. the market is watching. djt, the stock that reflects trump's support, way up again today. that's a clear sign that investors expect donald trump to be the 47th president. look at that on your screen, left-hand side, up another 17%. $5050 -- 55 a share on djt. trump is outraged at a harris demonizing him. he blames her rhetoric for the two assassination attempts. today he campaigns yet again pennsylvania. harris speaking in michigan, says there is overwhelming support for a new generation of leadership. she says black men if are not in trump's club. she was caught on a hot mic saying the campaign needs to move ground among men, end quote. the movie star, julia robert, she has a pro-harris ad. she suggests women at the ballot

box cheat on their trump-supporting husbands and vote for harris without telling them. let's get to the market. the news this morning is all about interest rates and bitcoin. first of all, yields on treasuries up again, 4.32% on the 10-year treasury. mortgage rate as will be going slightly high higher on this news. the the -- 2-year, 1.47%. bitcoin rallying, you're looking at $71,000 per coin. now stocks. the dow's going to be down. i think yields on treasuries hurting the market this morning. you're down 2000 points for the cow -- 200 points on the dow. mcdonald's, their report shows global sales down, u.s. sales holding relatively steady. the stock is down $5, that's 1.8%. as for oil, you're looking at $68, $67 a barrel. gasoline, regular, the average price nationwide is $3.13.

for diesel, $3.57. slightly lower levels. all right. on the show today to, the the reasonture in the harris camp. the president dumped. he's not happy. a week before the election, they do not campaign together. ozempic curbs kidney disease? is there anything weight loss drugs don't help with? why don't we all take them? now three major newspapers refusing to endorse any candidate. whereupon roar from the staff at the washington post. several editorial writers have resigned. they want a harris endorsement. owner jeff bezos says he acted on principle. it is the tuesday, october 29th, 2020 the 24. weave got a jam been we've got a jam-packed show for you. "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ if. ♪ it's the final countdown ♪

stuart: very eloquent, that song, isn't it? why not? the. [laughter] kind of suits. we're just a week from the presidential election, and we have new fox power rankings. the one on your screen shows trump has held steady with his base, basically. good morning, lauren. take us through the rest of it. lauren: the bottom line is the race is anybody's game. let's show you four polls. trump stays steady, that's the key word, at 47% support. but support for harris clearly more elastic. trump leads on the issues. he's up 7 points on the economy, up 15 points on immigration. harris is up 13 if on abortion. but when it comes to the motivating issue, it is the economy, that is a win for president trump. it also helps in arizona. it's a battleground. it has shifted from toss-up to lean republican. fox news if power rankings say it's republicans' best chance of a pick-up. the six other battleground races

too close to call. that is 82 electoral college votes up for grabs, 270 needed to win. the house is also a toss-up. republicans projected to win 208 seats, democrats 20 the 5. in the middle there, 22 districts are toss-ups. house candidates have spent more than $3 billion on their races so far, more spending by democrats and mostly in 40 districts that are deemed the most competitive. here's the senate, projected to flip republican. republicans to win at least 51 seats, democrats 45. four races are more competitive than ever this cycle, ohio, michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin. and those, of course, are battleground states as well. final thoughts here, it seems more likely that trump wins and republicans sweep congress, but we don't mow that. anything can happen. there's also this chance that the electoral college is split,

269-26 the 9. , if it happened one other time before. if that happens, the new congress in january votes on the president. stuart: the bottom line, to me, what you're saying, this latest poll is leading towards trump, and trump wins. lauren: yes. stuart: that's my opinion. lauren: i think i said the same thing. you're just trying to pick it with me. stuart: just want to late on thick. now this. donald trump was in atlanta yesterday where he slammed kamala harris' rhetoric. watch this. >> the newest line from kamala and her campaign is that everyone who isn't voting for her is a nazi. this is the kind of outrageous rhetoric that has resulted in two the assassination if attempts in the last three months. i'm running a campaign of solutions to save our country. kamala's running a campaign of demonization and hate. stuart: well, look who who's here now, marc thiessen, the man

himself. after two assassination attempts, why are the democrats still using what i would call inflammatory language? >> because it's all they have. nobody's voting for kamala harris. nobody even knows who she is or what she stands for. she didn't go through a primary, she didn't lay out a detailed policy agenda. she's just the figurehead standing in against trump. and the only way they win is by demonizing trump. i remember after the first assassination if attempt joe biden said we've got to tone down the rhetoric, we, all of us, have a responsibility to tone down the rhetoric. now they're calling him a nazi and and a fascist. tone down the rhetoric? they've turned it up. and it's irresponsible and it's the false. and it's desperate. stuart: yes. >> calling somebody a nazi is about as desperate as you can get. stuart yeah, i think so. listen to 2000 to what alexandria ocasio-cortez said about campaigning with liz chain knit. watch the. >> -- liz chain knit. >> is that hurting kamala harris

with more progressive voters? >> well, listen, i think there's plenty of people that aren't happy about that, and i think that is part of the nature of putting together a coalition. i don't love it, but that doesn't mean that the we aren't on the same team and and we aren't on the same page when it comes to who is unequivocally the better candidate in order to win the presidential election. stuart: all right, marc. let's suppose that hearst wins the white house. will progressives then get in the way of any if outreach to the gop? if. >> well, ask yourself a simple question, if kamala harris wins the white house, who is she going to be listening, to liz cheney or aoc? i think the answer's pretty clear. aoc and her wing of the party are going to be the ones if charge. but my question isn't why is kamala harris campaigning with liz cheney, it's why isn't donald trump campaigning with nikki haley? about 2 in 10 voters in the swing states are undecided,

leaning one way or the other but still say they could change their votes, and a lot have reservations about donald trump. they agree the country's headed in the wrong direction, why not pick somebody who's just like them the go out and campaign for them? someone has deep reservations for trump but has made the decision to support him? that's nikki haley. she's the perfect person, it's political malpractice not to have her out there. stuart: that would be an october surprise, would it not? mark if thiessen, see you again soon. we've got system red ink on the screen. down 170 on the dow, but nasdaq's come back to a loss of -- a gain of 6 points. david nicholas joins me now, in new york city with me. you met with president trump last night. what did he have to tell you? >> that's right, frump. he says he watches the show, he said he'd be watching the show. stuart: did he? >> he did. he said i'll be watching the show. stuart: let me talk to you about bond yields. up this morning, i think putting

investors off. does that signal a trump win? >> it's interesting, if you look at where the 10-year bomb is, about 3.6%, it's up to 4.3 now. guess what else would happen? if on september 18th, vice president harris peaked in the polls. ever since that day, harris has been coming down, bond yields have been going higher. i think concern and i'm a bond fund manager -- the bond market is normally right. that tells me growth. the 10-year is all about growth. i think the bond market believes we're going to see future growth, and that's bullish for a trump win. stuart: it also means mortgage rates are going to be higher. >> unfortunately. the federal reserve caused this. we don't have the supply. causing yields to go higher and p unfortunately, home prices -- stuart: let's suppose trump wins. which sector the obviously the market are going to do well? >> look, the third quarter earnings for the 493 companies are essentially flat, so we need growth. the mag if 7. that everyone likes, defense contractors, lockheed martin's one of my favorites, eli lilly.

and he's bitcoin. we have yet to to invest our clients in bitcoin, we are just now starting the to make allocations for bitcoin. i think it's going to the rally pretty big. i think president trump is the first bitcoin president. stuart: did you know the magnificent seven are worth more than the success markets of england, canada, germany and -- combined? and you think they're going to keep going? >> we talk about the mag 7, that's where the earnings growth come is coming from if. if harris tax pail goes through which would be the largest tax hike in american history, these 493 companies coulding lose 10% earnings per share going into next year. it's a big deal. stuart: got it. david nicholas, see you soon. we just got the latest read can be -- it's not the latest read, it's a read on home prices. what are the numbers, please? lauren: home prizes did rise 5.2% on an annual basis, the

lowest since last october. they did cool on the month, so they actually fell from july to august. the biggest increases here in new york city, 8.1%. the small pest increases in denver, less than 1%, but almost everywhere you look prices keep going up. stuart: they can do. coming up on this show, "the washington post" refuses to endorse harris, and the media are is melting down. >> we need absolute malpractice and cowardice of the washington pote is really unspeakabling. >> the decision to not endorse in this election the most consequential in you are our mission's list i have is abominable. stuart: the l.a. times and usa tood also will not be taking endorsements. charlie hurt on that later. trump announcing yet another tax break, this time for care gives? >> i will support a tax credit, full tax credit for family caregivers who ache care of a parent or a loved one. they deserved it.

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first time since june that it hit 71,000. we're a week from election day. trump will deliver remarks from palm beach this morning, then he heads to a rally in allentown in pennsylvania. aishah hasnie's in palm beach. what are we going to hear if trump today? >> reporter: well, i think -- good morning, stuartment i think it's fair to the expect the former president to sort of put out a rebuttal to these remarks we're expecting tonight from vice president kamala harris at the ellipse in front of the capitol in which she is expected to basically compare him to a fascist and a dictator, things the campaign of the former president have been really pushing back on. this all happened last minute. we were on our way to the pennsylvania for a big rally tonight, the former president is doing in allentown, and we got the word and rerouted and came down here to the palm beach where he's going to make these remarks in the next 45 minutes or so. melania trump was also just on "fox & friends" also pushing back on this rhetoric saying

that it's terrible, that he is not a dictator to. so i'm told by the campaign that they see tonight's remarks by the vp as really a continuation of the democrats trying to the demonize the former president, and they feel like it hasn't been working for the last three and a half years, it's not going to work this time, it's not going to bring in any new voters in this final week. so you can expect some, perhaps, prebuttal remark manies from the former -- remarks from the former president. they also think the speech is trying to energize her base in these the final days of the campaign. the former president has been pre'em sieve sievely countering these remarks on the campaign trail, he talked about this last minute if strategy by the democrats in atlanta last might at a rally. watch this. >> -- called me everything from if a mad if genius looking to take over the world to the very, very stupid person. i've covered from stupid to the mad if genius that will

eventually succeed in taking over the world. now, these are bad people. this is the kind of outrageous rhetoric that has resulted in two assassination attempts in the last three months. >> reporter: so, stuart, we're not sure9 if the president's going to take any questions from us. the setup doesn't really make it easy unless they bring us over a mic, but if we do get some questions, perhaps he'll also make some news today. he ends the to do that when he has these press conferences. but so far this is just listed as remarks today, and we're expecting him to counter what we might hear from the vice president tonight. stuart: we'll see. aishah, thanks for being with us. see you again later, i'm sure. now this, trump has promised to cut energy prices in half. watch this. >> i will cut your energy prices in one year, 12 months we're going to cut 'em in half, 50. that's going the written down everything. that'll -- bring down everything. we have it underground.

we don't even use what we have. it's ridiculous. we will give our companies the lowest taxes, the lowest energy costs, the lowest regulatory burdens and free access to the best and and biggest market on the planet. stuart: all right. joining me now, the governor of north dakota, doug burgum. governor, you've been floated as a possible energy secretary. how would you help trump cut energy if prices in half? is it drill, baby, drill and change the regulations? >> well, stuart, great to be with you. president trump has all the momentum because he's got a vision for affordability, and hearst has just -- harris has just resorted to the name calling which people know is not true about president trump. and part of his plan is on the supply side from energy which is harris, biden administration's done everything they can to restrict u.s. energy production whether it's the electricity that we need to win the a.i. war that we're in with china or whether it's just u.s. natural

gas which we need here at home, but we offer a affordability. we need it to support our allies9 and the sentence that you just showed, there's a lot packed in there but on the deregulation side which president trump was focused on when he was in office, part of the the thing that's forcing up the cost. he's got howard lutnick if, elon musk, all these great focus advising him on how to take cost out of government. president trump understands we have a balance sheet. it's not just our debt, it's our assets, and america has got some of the greatest resources in the world. stuart: governor, trump also unveiled a new tax break for caregivers. here it is. >> i just announced that the i will support a tax credit, full tax credit, for family caregivers who take care of a parent or a loved one. they deserve it. [cheers and applause] and they add so much to our country. nobody speaks about 'em, but they do. it's a big factor, and a lot of

people ask me about that, and i think it's fair because we have so many different ways to make money. we have so many ways s. and we're going to bring elon n. stuart: a full tax credit for caregivers. how would that work, and he actually do it? >> well, i think he can, and if he's going to have the support of the senate and the house, he can. this is a great idea. it's a huge pain point for americans. very few people talk about the rising cost of nursing care and nursing homes x. if you're a low income family on med if decade, you get wiped out. i mean, literally, the assets you've saved for your whole life could be wiped out in your first year of nursing care. these things now can cost $10, 12, 14,000 a month. a tax credit to keep someone in their home with a loved one taking care of them, if we can keep someone out of a nursing home in congregant living and with their family that cares about them for 3 months, 6 months, 112 months longer, this could be a money saver for america. and it shows that president

trump understands the affordability skies in our country and how much he cares about american families. stuart: president trump also a talked about musk, elon musk, saying he can cut $2 trillion from the cost of government. how's he going to do that? $2 trillion is an enormous amount of money, governor. >> well, it is and, think i -- i think, again, the way that president trump is going to lead the way on solving this, harris left us with a $1.8 trillion deficit this year. we know what her plans are, higher taxes and more regulation. president trump's plan is going to be about growth. anybody, again, like an elon, a howard lutnick, myself as a business guy my whole life before being governor, you've got to grow the revenue side at the same time reduce expenses. we've got a big opportunity the raise revenue, grow our economy. but the de-reg portion of it, we could the take a trillion dollars of cost out of the private sector. not just out of the government

spend, but out of the private sector. every one of these businesses pays so much extra cost for these ridiculous federal regulations that don't help anything. and if people care about the environment, they should be voting for president trump because u.s. energy's the cleanest in the world. stuart: new approach to to government, get with business people involved. governor doug burgum, thank you very much. we appreciate it, sir. >> thank you, stuart. stuart: i see red ink for the dow but not much for the if s&p and the nasdaq. the opening bell is next. ♪ have you ever felt a warm embrace? if ♪ confident. measured. ready. the markets, like life, will turn and challenge us. but when emotions run high, we stay grounded.

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stuart: all right, we've got just a minute and a half to go before the market opens. dow's going to be down about 1000, slight gain for the nasdaq $100. jacob sonnenshein with me this morning. why do you think it's time to to buy google? why buy 'em now? >> google has underperformed badly to the point where it's trading at 19 time it's forward earnings. that's a very rare occurrence for google. we know it's about regulation and possibly losing market share in search. that's' great news because you already are had the derating, quote-unquote, in terms of the pe multiple because of that

longer term the risk. that's' longer term. that's going the play out over time. but right now we have an earnings report that's going to remind if investors that revenue's going to grow about 12, search business slowing down but still growing. you're getting a good business trading at 19 times, the stock has nowhere to go but the pop, and then you worry about the long-term regulatory issue. stuart: the longer it goes on, this regulatory issue, the better it is for google now. would you say that? >> maybe. the long longer it gets on, the longer google will trade at probably slightly below a s&p 500 multiple, but that's to going to give you understoods for these little pops. i think google's going to pop after earnings because the stock has nowhere to go if the earnings are going up while we wait for the regulatory stuff. stuart: it's going to pop on the earnings report. my goodness me, that's a dangerous thing to say. we'll be watching. the bell has rung, the market is now open and we've opened lower.

certainly for the dow industrials. off 150 points, just one-third of 1%. but it you look a the dow 30, there's plenty of red ink. i can see about 8 or 9 winners, the rest are loserers at this point. the s&p 500 also on the downside, .14% down. the nasdaq composite may eke out small gain. yes, it does. .05%. show me big tech, please. we always do at this time. alphabet, meta, microsoft, amazon up. apple down but only 23 cents. mcdonald's reported this morning. if morning, taylor. i thought they had a good -- yeah, they did have a good report. the stock was down earlier, now it's the up a bit. >> yeah, look, up about a one-half of 1%. seam-store sales concern same-store sales missed estimates just a little bit. analysts were looking for a .6 of 1 drop. but same-store sales in the drop

were up .3 of 1. higher spending but fewer customers. when they come in, they are spending more, and those value meals, the mcchicken and the mcdouble, doing really well. we know, again, they're extending that through december, so those promotions are working. stuart: ford motor company down big today, i guess, yeah, down 8%, $10 a share. global price warsesome. >> it is. st the hitting the guidance. it's coming in at the low end of the range. take a look at what they said about ev losses, up to $1.2 the billion in the quarter. we had $500 million in cost savings, but the problem is all of that was wiped out due to, like you said, pricing pressure from the industry. that means they have to lower the price because it's competitive within evs. stuart: they lost $1.2 billion on evs? >> yes. stuart: goodness me. we had some earnings reports earlier today. the let's start with pfizer. did they get a boost from covid? thought we were past that.

>> non-do covid sales are finally doing well. this is a company that came in at the beginning of the or year and needed to do a big turn-around. they've engaged in cost cutting, big urn-around that appears to be paying off. non-covid sales revenue up 14. they're seeing strength in the oncology products as well. stuart: crocs. obviously, the shoe people. they are down 15%. what happened? >> yes. okay. so there's crocs and then the crocs also owns this brand called hey dudes. they're kind of like slip on, come comfy shoes. so the actual crocs are doing pretty well, but the hey dude brand that crocs owns, continuing to weigh on them. they said they need more time to turn the around that brand. and so, again, sort of a bifurcated, if you will, crocs market right now. stuart: that is a significant loss. 15%, that's way down. >> then we have an airline. you know what i think about airlines? jetblue. >> you might be right on this one. they're looking at fourth

quarter, next quarter, losses that could be up to to 7% in terms of the decline in revenue growth. they did say that the demand is healthy in peak season, and they call it close-in bookings, bookings that happen right before the flight if takes off. that's at least doing well in lat am, but it's sort of that future revenue growth decline that analysts do not like to see. stuart: thanks, taylor. royal caribbean, i think they're up a little bit today,and that adds to their gain. they've almost doubled in the past year. >> yeah. and also cruise lines were up almost 4, 5% yesterday. so this is extending those gains. look, you know, stu, i'll keep it simple for you. they're raising guidance. they say pricing and demand is strong. that's as good as it gets. stuart: nice chart. when it goes from lower left to upper right, you know -- >> yeah. stuart: i really want to see dqt, the proxy for trump's success in the polls. up again. >> it was the up 20% yesterday. this stock, we talked about, i mean, we talk about this every

day. september 23rd, we bottomed out at $12 a share, right? $11.75 in intraday trading. it's a $51 stock. i don't come to to you today with some big fundamental news. this is, many people say, a meme stock or what not, tracking trump in the polls. but, hey, the betting markets have spoken. stuart: that's exactly what it because. it tracks trump in the polls. trump goes up, dvt goes up in the market -- on the market. >> yep with. stuart: bitcoin. i checked it earlier. we had it, now it's $700,900 -- 70,9000. isn't it pretty close to the record? >> yeah, 73,000 is near the record we had. i don't come to you with a lot of fundamental news, you could argue this is similar to the trump trade. he's come out and and said i want to be the crypto president, wants to look at how we're thinking about gary gensler at the sec who's been anti-crypto at this point. this is an industry bracing for what's been a big election.

more crypto money in this election than there's ever been. stuart: got it. and then we have google, they report after the bell today. what can we expect? >> look, revenue, $86.4 billion, earnings about $1.84 per share. both of those higher than they were year-over-year. look for search revenue also to rise up to about $49 billion. the stock is up 20% this year. stuart: got it. thanks very much, taylor riggs are. a quick programming note, "the big money show" will be hosting a special show on monday, november 4th, economy on the ballot. we'll make sure to tune in at 1 p.m. eastern on this network. coming up, melania open up about why she's been hitting the campaign trail more in the final vetch. in the final stretch. >> people see what's going on in the country and what kind of leadership they want. you know? they want prosperity, they want american dream coming back. i want to support my husband as

well. stuart: brian kilmeade will be here with more on his interview on "fox & friends" with melania. kamala harris caught on a hot mic appearing to commit her problem attracting young male voters. >> [inaudible] >> oh, we have microphones -- >> oh, hi. >> i didn't realize that. [laughter] stuart: you've really got to watch out for the hot mic. she didn't mean to say that out loud. jimmy failla takes that on. trump promised to the dismantle the department of's and expand school choice. former education secretary beth she devos is here, she likes trump's proposal and will come right behind me to shake hands. ♪ she's got a ticket to ride ♪ she's god a -- got a ticket to ride -- ♪ but she don't care ♪

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kamala harris cast the deciding vote on trillions of dollars of new spending. and what happens when we spent all that money? if groceries, gas, housing became less affordable. when the government prints and spends money that it doesn't have, all of us pay that terrible hidden inflation tax, and we have kamala harris to the thank for it. >> reporter: so democrats say that these kinds of clean energy programs will help the environment while guaranteeing the employment of union workers at ports. now, the vice president, she talks about vague plans for an opportunity economy which includes the forced transition the electric like president biden. listen. >> we have an opportunity to turn the page and chart a new and joyful way forward. let me tell you something, as i travel our country, there is an overwhelming call for a fresh start. >> reporter: so the last time that president biden came to the port of baltimore or came to

baltimore was right after that ship hit the francis scott key bridge. stu? stuart: edward, thank you very much. now this, donald trump has promised to shut down theth the of education if he's elected. betsy devos is a former education is secretary and joins me now. you said if you came back in a second trump term, you would shut down the department of education. why because it have to go? >> well, stu, it needs to go because it has done nothing to the help advance student achievement and done everything to be agenda-driven, farther and farther and farther to the left. every democrat, left-driven administration has taken the department further to the left with all of their policies. they send out money, congress appropriates with all kinds of strings attached that require states and local communities to do things they don't want or need to do for their students. it doesn't add value. stuart: the education department tries to make policy for the states. it tries to impose federal authority --

>> that's right. stuart: -- over the state,, always a supporting the teachers union. >> always supporting the teachers union. it's become, essentially, an arm of the teachers union resident in washington d.c. stuart: can you ever just demolish an entire department in d.c.? >> well, if there's ever a time to do it, i think the will is there now. parents have seen just how little, little they add, and mostly they are negative if the what their students, what their children need. they're not about students, they're all about adult issues and union jobs. stuart: what would you do to enhance school choice if you were to be education secretary again? >> well, there's a great bill that's making its way through congress that would establish a federal tax credit where individuals or corporations could designate a portion of their federal tax bill into scholarship-granting organizations to come alongside what states are doing to enhance school choice programs or to give states where they don't

have them yet the opportunity to do that. stuart: school choice has come a very long way. >> it has. stuart: and you pushed it hard under trump. >> yes. and what happened was everybody's eyes were opened during covid to what was really going on in schools, what many of us have known for decades x. that really has brought momentum behind many states passing statewide programs, supporting parents making those decisions. the money following the children. let them decide what's best for each of hair children. stuart: you are not popular with the teachers union, are you in. >> no. have not been, don't care to be. [laughter] stuart: i'll move on, shall i? another issue in the election is trans-athletes, biological men competing in women's sports. if you were back in the trump administration, would you stop it? >> absolutely. this administration has tried to rewrite the definition for sex to include any gender identity or anything anybody wants to be at any if time. what we're seeing is the practical implications of that on women's sports teams where

men, biological males, are taking over women's spots. they're injuring women. it is dangerous, it is uncalled for, and it defeats the purpose of title ix which was to give women equal ton to the. stuart: would you go for a simple rule, if you've got a y chromosome, you can't compete with women? >> men should not be competing with or against women. women have to have their own teams, their own opportunity to succeed in athletics. stuart: sounds a bit like back to the good old days, doesn't it? >> it does, indeed. stuart: betsy devos, thanks for being with us this morning. >> thanks for the opportunity. stuart: special election night coverage begins november 5th, election day, at 5 p.m. eastern. coming up, with just days until the election, kamala harris has dumped joe biden. the vice president's campaign is split. harris can't define how different she is from biden, so she puts physical distance between them.

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♪ stuart: and here we go, the latest fox power rankings show pennsylvania's senate race shifting from if lean democrat to toss-up. bryan llenas is in bucks county. bryan, the governor says that the county is the swingiest county in the swingiest of all swing states, so what's the trump team doing there? >> reporter: hey, stuart, good morning. well, that is a catchy phrase if, and it is exactly right. the trump campaign believes they are now using a new strategy that is focusing in on data pointing them directly to voters who are likely to vote for trump but-never really voted in past elections or who sometimes vote. and so they've been hyper-focused in targeting this

group here in bucks county. in fact, they believe that this ground game is working in part because this year registered republicans outnumber democratic voters here in bucks county for the fist time. listen. the first time. >> we get out those low propensity voters and we target it right here in bucks county, about 7,000 of them, that's the difference. and president trump, people don't realize this. 87,000 votes, he lost in 20202. 2020. there was almost a million republican registered voters that never voted. never if voted. >> reporter: so the campaign is relying heavily on specially-trained trump force 47 volunteers, team captains like joy ann who are new to politics and motivated. she's a mom and a lawyer, and she's been given an app with low propensity voters. she makes shower that they get to the polls. meantime, democrats are deploying a more traditional ground game in pennsylvania.

they're outspending republicans on tv ads and have opened 50 field offices throughout pennsylvania. i spoke to democratic governor josh shapiro who says he'd rather be vice president harris than trump heading into election day. >> what's clear to me is that the people-powered army that we have out knocking on doors, sending texts, putting lawn signs up in communities where often times you don't see democratic lawn signs, you don't see a lot of democratic activity, that has me enthusiastic, feeling that we're in a strong position to be able to pull this thing out. >> reporter: last night in philadelphia singers bruce springsteen and john legend joined former president obama here in philly, and obama urged voters to reject the division and hatred he says that was seen at the msg trump rally in u new on sunday. today is the last day for folks to pick up a mail-in ballot here in pennsylvania, and stuart, i've got to say, the trump campaign feeling very bullish about mail-in ballots. they usually are losing 3 to 1,

this year it's just a 2- to 11 advantage. -- 2 to 1 advantage. stuart: a new poll shows donald trump leading in a state republicans haven't won in nearly 25 years? which state, lauren? lauren: new hampshire. remember, biden won new hampshire by 7 points, and a republican hasn't won the there in 24 careers, so this is a big deal. it's the momentum. it shows trump is ebbs expand -- expanding the map with potential pickups not just in new hampshire, but minnesota, new mexico, even virginia. stuart: hey, that's something p. all right, lauren. check these markets, please. we've got a downside move for the dow industrials. i see we're off 877 points, dow. down 3 on the nasdaq. still ahead, melania trump opened up about how she's feeling just a week away from election day. brian kilmeade has that.

china plans to double its nuclear arsenal by 2030. is a new arms race beginning, and are we prepared to pay for it? california congressman darrell issa has that. israel waiting for results from the u.s. election before moving forward on a ceasefire deal. morgan ortagus joins us. and the 10:00 hour of "varney & company" is next. ♪ anything could happen, anything could happen ♪ ..

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stuart: all my loving, early 1960s. it is 10:00 eastern. tuesday morning, the dow industrials down 80, nasdaq up ten, not a huge price move in either direction. 86 for the dow, 12 up for the nasdaq, the s&p is