anything. you know, to get into the democratic national convention -- we did get higher ratings than them, by the way, i hate to tell you. they put out a thing, but it turned out to be very wrong. to get into the democrat national convention, you had a card, and it had id on it, and it had your picture, isn't that nice? but to vote you go ahead and do whatever you want. to get boo their national convention -- into their national convention, they have an id card, and yet they don't want it for voting. just think about that. the last administration failed our veterans. i reformed the v.a., passed v.a. choice and v.a. accountability and veterans approval. the v.a. is now at a 91%, the highest ever, right? [cheers and applause] i did more in 47 months than sleepy joe did in 47 years. [cheers and applause] a vote for republicans is a vote for safe communities, great jobs, a limitless future for all

americans. it's really a vote for the american dream, or it is. and it's a vote for your second amendment. it's a vote for your second amendment, remember that. your second amendment. they're going to take your guns away sure as you're there. if something happened with me, the guns are gone, your second amendment will be obliterated totally or almost totally. and in conclusion, over the next four years, we will make america into the manufacturing superpower of the world, and we will end our reliance totally on china. it's already started. we will hire more police. we love our police. [cheers and applause] increase penalties for assaults on law enforcement, and we will ban deadly sanctuary cities that are so dangerous. we will uphold religious liberty, free speech, the right to life of and the right the keep and bear arms. [cheers and applause]

get out and vote, get out and vote. get out and vote. you have no excuse, because we have the, we have the numbers. you've just got to get out and vote. if you don't vote, you're going to be very unhappy. this is your country. your country will never be the same. they'll court pack. they're going to court pack. pack your courts are super radical -- >> we love you! we love you! we love you! we love you! we love you -- >> thank you very much. we will maintain -- i'd love that even longer, you could do it all day, but this sun is killing me. [laughter] it's the only time i've ever stopped applause. i've got to get out of here. my people did a great job. great job, fellas! we will maintain america's unrivaledded military might, and we will insure peace through strength. [cheers and applause] america will -- and you know

this, you know this -- america will land a woman and be the first, right, on the moon. and the united states will be the first nation, first nation tolan an astronaut on mars -- to land an astronaut on mars. we've already started the process. and nasa now is the leading space center in the world times ten. there's nothing even close. and it was abandoned when i got to it. it was abandoned. we will stop the radical indoctrination of our students and restore patriotic education to our schools. [cheers and applause] we will teach our children to love our country, honor our history and always respect our great american flag. [cheers and applause] and we will live by the timeless words of our national motto. as you know, they wanted to get rid of the word "god."

right? they wanted to get rid -- let's take the word god out. they tried it twice, twice, in their pledge of allegiance. the first time i heard it i said, oh, they must have made a typo. then i heard it a second time, i said that's not a typo. they took the word god out, and they politically had to put it back in, but they'll fight for that. and all of a sudden they'll call you horrible people for wanting it. no, in god we trust. in god we trust. [cheers and applause] for years you had a president who apologized for america. now you have a president who is standing up for america and standing up for the great people of north carolina. [cheers and applause] for the last four years, you've seen me fight for you, and now i'm relying on you to deliver a historic vote in the most important election in the history of our country.

most important election. from asheville to charlotte, from wilmington to raleigh and from greens borrow to right here -- greensboro to right here in lumberton -- [cheers and applause] we we like lumberton, we stand on the shoulders of red-blooded american patriots who poured out their heart, sweat and soul to secure our liberty and defend our freedom. we inherit the legacy of american heroes who crossed the oceans, blazed the trails, traversed the continent, explored the wilderness, laid down the railroads, dug out the panama canal, raised up our great skyscrapers, won two world wars, defeated fascism and communism and landed our brave american astronauts on the face of the moon. [cheers and applause] we made america into the single

greatest nation in the history of the world and the west is yet -- the best is yet to come. the best is yet to come. [cheers and applause] proud citizens like you helped build this country, and together we are taking back our country. we are returning power to you, the american people. it's coming back, and you see it, we're driving them crazy. [cheers and applause] they don't know what to do. their heads are exploding. they just, they don't know what to do. they've never had anything like this. with your help, your devotion and your drive we are going to keep on working, we are going to keep on fighting, and we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning. finish. [cheers and applause] were one movement, one people, one family and one glorious nation under god, and together with the incredible people of

north carolina and my little granddaughter named carolina -- but i'm going to give south carolina a little credit for that too, is that okay? is that okay? this let's give them a little credit. we love south carolina. we have made america powerful again. our military, greatest in the world, it was depletedded. it was tired, it was old. greatest in the world, 2.5 trillion. powerful. we have made america wealthy again. stock market, record highs. 401(k)s, record highs. let him double, triple, quadruple your taxes. you'll be taking your 401(k)s, throwing them away. you want to make room in the house that just got a lot smaller. we have made america strong again. we have made america proud again. we have made america safe again,

and we will make america great again! thank you, north carolina! ♪ ♪ arthel: well, with a momentary chant of we love you, president trump saying the best is yet to come as he's wrapping up there in lumberton, north carolina, with a last minute pitch on why those voters and the country would be better with him being back in the white house versus a president biden. and it is game on with ten days to go until election day. both campaigns are making a late gain push into battleground states today to solidify their bases and win over undecided voters. hello, everyone, welcome to "america's news headquarters," i'm arthel neville. hi, eric. eric: hi, arthel. hello, everyone, thank you for joining us and watching the president's rally here on the fox news channel. i'm eric shawn. former vice president joe biden

is back on the campaign trail, he'll be going to pennsylvania. we'll be covering that too. former president barack obama, nice florida in north miami in the next hour or so. we'll be covering that live also. well, the president today voted earlier in west palm beach, florida, or did it in person. then he she set off on a mauer a-thon of campaign events today. he'll be holding three different rallies. we just showed you the president at the first rally of the day. that was in, as you saw, lumberton, north carolina. and we, we're going to show you a bit of the president there. we don't have that. our apologies, we'll get it. we do have live team fox news coverage, hillary vaughn in pennsylvania, but let's begin with steve hey began who's in ohio -- heir began. stop number two for the president who'll be heading there right after he leaves

lumberton momentarily. polls show in ohio the president is leading mr. biden in the latest fox news poll by two points, so what is the mood like and the expectations there? >> reporter: pretty excited crowd here, eric. they were here early this morning. the ohio state football game is behind me, so you might hear some roars from the crowd when the buckeyes score. of it's been a buzzy travel day -- busy day for the prime minister, starting -- president, starting out in florida, a stop in north carolina, then he comes to hah -- to ohio and then in wisconsin. a rural part of the state, circleville, about 30 mile south of columbus. he'll arrive by motorcade, a few thousand people out waiting for him. he told the people in north carolina don't believe the polls, and he also said don't believe the huey p. long about the pandemic. -- hype about the pandemic. one clear attack we can expect on joe biden will focus on the energy industry. former vice president's remarks in the debate the other night,

here's president trump. >> i said, you mean you'd get rid of oil? he said, yes, i'd wean ourselves off of oil. i said we just won texas, we just won pennsylvania -- [cheers and applause] we just won a lot of different places. [cheers and applause] and then they spent the next two days trying to convince you that he didn't really mean that. [laughter] nah, joe's not what, joe is not what you need. i know what you need. i know what you need. you need trump. >> reporter: ohio was an easy win for president trump in 2016. he won by 8.1 percentage points. now it's really seen as a battleground, a state that president obama won twice. no republican, of course, has won the presidency without winning ohio. key issue, of course, the economy and also the pandemic. ohio has seen a spike in the number of cases, ten times this month they're set a record,

setting a new record on friday, more than 2,500 cases. eric, back to you. eric: yeah. you just mentioned the president said don't believe the hype, but so far there have been 193,000 cases in that state. more than 5,000 ohioans have died the from coronavirus. record levels of new infections now and new warningsing, so what precautions are folks taking where you are at this rally? >> reporter: i've got to say, we've seen a lot more masks at this rally than we have at previous rallies. and keep in mind through the spike here, the republican governors has said there seems to be no plateau in sight. he said the number of new cases just seems to be going up and up. eric? eric: all right, steve, or we'll get back to you as soon as the president arrives. folks had been entertained by watching college football until they see the president. arthel? arthel: meanwhile, former vice president joe biden campaigning in pennsylvania today trying to flip that red state back the

blue. biden making a pitch to voters in bucks county saying he best understands the concerns of everyday people. >> he thinks wall street built this country. but you and i know who really built this country. families like mine, working people built it, the middle class and unions built the middle class. arthel: okay. let's go to hillary vaughn, she is live in bristol, pennsylvania, where the former vp just wrapped up a drive-in rally. what can you tell us, hillary? >> reporter: arthel, well, biden is campaigning in two key pennsylvania counties today that trump flipped in 2016, and biden is trying to take back in 2020. but ten day out from election day this is the scene that biden saw leaving his event here in bristol, pennsylvania. more trump supporters showed up outside biden's invite-only event than biden supporters did. but those trump supporters got under biden's skinned today. he could hear them honging and

chanting, so -- honking, so he gave them a new nickname while pretty pitching himself as a president for all. >> we don't do things like those chumps out this with the microphone are doing, the trump guys. it's about decency. i'll work as hard for those who don't support me as those who do, including those chumps at the microphone. look, that's the job of a president. >> reporter: this is the first time biden is meeting key estone voters face to face since his flub at the debate thursday where he said he would end the oil industry. we talked to biden supporters at this event about that moment at the debate. >> i think my initial response was uh-oh, and it was not, it wasn't the best answer. i think he tried to cover it. i mean, i think kamala came out the next day and actually kind of tried to iron out -- >> i think a flat-out statement would be a good thing. right now just flat out say, okay, i changed my mind over the

years or i feel differently about this. >> reporter: biden's running mate, kamala harris, did help do some cleanup on that comment saying yesterday that trump took it out of context. she's on the ground campaigning in ohio today where she says it is a must-win state for them to make it to the white house. but also the biden campaign has an all-star surrogate spread throughout swing states today. bernie sanders is also here in pennsylvania, former president barack obama is in florida, and even some celebrities are popping up around the u.s. cher will be in nevada, and at biden's next event in pennsylvania, jon bon jovi will also be there. arthel? arthel: all right. hillary vaughn, thank you very much. eric? eric: arthel, we just told you about the record number of coronavirus infections happening in ohio. well, it turns out that the rest of the country largely reaching new grim milestones in this continuing pandemic. we have set a record of more than 83,000 coronavirus cases in

a single day, 83,000. staggering number surpassing the previous peak that happened last july, so we may be in a roaring second peak now. the nation seeing more than 8.5 million infections so far. it has caused 224,000 deaths as of this moment. all this raising new concerns about the months awe heed as one study predicts -- ahead as one study predicts we could have a half a million dead only four months from now. christina coleman has the latest on all these numbers for us now. >> reporter: hi, eric. well, this current surge in new cases is more widespread across the country compared to what we saw in mid july during the summer outbreak. the number of hospitalizations are also up 40% in the past month. at least 13 states hit a new record for daily new confirmed cases just yesterday, and they span across the country from oregon to rhode island. since last month cases have increased in all of the regions, but states in the midwest and rocky mountains have been hit

marley hard. six states in those regions have had record highs this week for new cases including colorado, indiana and utah. more restrictions are in effect in one midwest state. yesterday restaurants and bars in four counties in illinois closed again to dine hundred service. of chicago's mayor also has a 10 p.m. curfew in place for nonessential businesses, so more tough times in store for business owners there. also the ongoing effort for a vaccine continues. yesterday astrazeneca and johnson & johnson announced their coronavirus vaccine trials will resume in the after they paused after some volunteers became sick as discussed on "cavuto live" this morning. >> it's good news. we do have to say these trials of vaccine development, whatever company, are more scrutinized they any other -- than any other vaccine development in history. so the public is getting to know about things that we wouldn't normally be informed about.

>> reporter: so we do have some good news there on that front. more work being done to get a vaccine. eric? eric: can't come soon enough. christina, thank you. arthel? arthel: and with election day fast approach, courts in a few battleground states have issued rulings on ballots and early voting. what those judges decided, we'll tell you, plus their potential impact on the race for the white house. that's all straight ahead. ♪ ♪ ♪ smooth driving pays off with allstate, the safer you drive the more you save you never been in better hands allstate click or call for a quote today

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♪ muckarthel: with ten days to go until election day, millions of americans have voted early with record-breaking turnout in several statements across the country. -- states across the country. the latest count shows nearly 54 million people have already cast their ballots. alex hogan is outside madison square garden in new york city where early voting began this morning. so, alec, are new yorkers -- alex, are new yorkers turning out early? >> reporter: oh, they are, and in crowds. arthel, take a walk with me. here you'll see the line entering madison square garden. this is one of the 280 polling places, and voters here in new york will now have -- there you go, we've got some people just walking out. they have until november 1st for these early voting sessions before, of course, the election day on november 3rd.

and this long line, this is already stretching up to four hours. polls opened just four hours ago. >> i just want to get this out of the way. i wanted to have my vote counted. >> you would say get out here today, tomorrow, get your vote in, make sure it counts. >> i just thought of it as a way to really make sure that my vote gets counted. i get -- i'm nervous about mail-in ballots right now. >> reporter: early voting here launched last year during the primary in june. more than 118,000 people voted early. 280 polling places are now to open statewide, so many new yorkers will have to plan ahead or make long drives. roughly two-thirds of the county in the state offer just one polling location. still, more than 53 million americans have already made their pick. those pouring in around the country. 25 states allow early voting which 17 million people have done, nearly 36 million americans have rote voted by

mail. but still new york has the shortest window to vote early with just nine days according to the national conference of state legislatures. minnesota started early voting on september 18th, already collecting more than one million votes. so far registered democrats outvote registered republicans. in 2016 there were 136 million votes. in 2018 the midterm elections shattered usual turnout. now voting experts expect that 150 million votes this year. the number raising the question are more people actually voting, or are they using different methods. now, back here in new york again, take a look at this long line. it's a lot calmer than we've seen earlier because people, again, have been standing here for about four hours. but the nypd will be at about 88 different polling sites in the city to make sure there is extra security because, again, just as the number of people that we're seeing, of course things look different with people wearing masks and social distancing always to stay safe during the pandemic. arthel?

arthel: well, it's a nice fall day, it's 68 degrees in new york city. alex hogan, thank you very much. eric? eric: arthel, some critical court rulings in battleground states late this week handing some defeats to the trump campaign if republican efforts. the texas appeals court upheld an order allowing multiple mail-in ballot drop-off boxes at sites in individual counties. this as the president supreme court unanimously ruled that absentee ballots, well, they can't be rejected if a voter's signature on the ballot does not match the signature on their voter's registration form. meantime, republicans in north carolina are asking the u.s. supreme court to block an order that allows six extra days for the state to accept ballots sent in my mail. let's go to a criminal defense attorney and litigation attorney, former prosecutor and former assistant u.s. attorney. with texas, governor greg abbott

permitted only one ballot box per county. he was, at first, backed up on that. now a court has reversed it. travis county, that's austin, harris county, that's houston, they're deploying more boxes. do you think this order to deploy more boxes in texas will stick? >> you know, it's really hard to say. the one thing we can say about these decisions across the country is there's nothing consistent about them. one of the problems is when it goes up on appeal, the supreme court has gotten involved, but they haven't given any guidance to the lower court. the texas decision, it's so late in the game, an appellate court may be to reverse it -- loathe to reverse it at this point. i think at this point where any change in the status quo is going to be very unlikely. eric: so, basically, you think there could be more boxes in other counties in the lone star state? >> yeah. and if you look at, i mean, look at this, the question on the texas lawsuit, you know, some of the counties like travis, which is predominantly democratic, wanted more boxes. secretary of state, governor

said no. the argument was there's really no rational basis to stop more drop boxes. i mean, it seems patently unreasonable that if you're okay as a state with having a drop box for voters, why not have more than one of them? set rules about security. put them in different places that have of that security. i think it was a tough lawsuit for the republican party to win, and at the lower level and they didn't, and i think it's going to be also hard especially this late in the game for them to change the status quo. eric: meanwhile, let's go to pennsylvania because that's got some head scratching. the voter signature match. when the ballot comes in, they match your voter registration to make sure you're the right person. now the court says don't do that? that doesn't matter? >> well, i think there's been some good studies on this, and it was one of the things that was actually talked about in the lower court when they filed this lawsuit to stop that, is it's incredibly arbitrary. they're obviously not trained in

handwriting recognition. you may have registered 30 years ago to vote. you can imagine somebody who's in their 80s has a very different signature. so there needs to be some protections for the voter because we expect our vote to get counted, and it would be, i think, arbitrary to say we're going to throw that out because some person who's not trained in signature analysis says they don't look closely enough. can that voter challenge -- [audio difficulty] process to do that in pennsylvania. the court said it posed a grave risk if or throwing out a valid vote, we don't want to do that. we want everybody who votes to have their vote count. eric: all right. meanwhile, in north carolina extending the deadline from november 6th, three days after after the election to six days, november 12th. there are different rules. michigan was two weeks out, then that was overturned. pennsylvania is three days later as long as they're postmarked by election day. what do you think's going to happen there? >> you know, i think one of the things we've seen with all of these is the rules are not applied evenly, and so this is

sort of in some ways are are remake of the 2000 election. we learned a lot about how florida counted their votes. but what's interesting about the north carolina litigation is the trump judges who are appointed by president trump on the 4th circuit upheld those changes. so that's what we hadn't seen previously. generally, these have been somewhat decided on partisan lines. the question here is can we count votes. if you as a state can't count your vote, that's i what i think is maybe the issue. you shouldn't punish the voter because the postal service is late in getting those votes to the county authority. eric: all right. speaking of mail-in voting, we're going to have a special report on that on monday to be continued. we'll show you what we found out. alex little down in nashville, always good to see you. thank you for your insight. >> thank you. eric: arthel? arthel: as coronavirus cases surge, what is being done to stop the spread, and is a mask

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eric: a look at some of the headlines we're following outside of the campaign trail. an illinois police officer, police chief has fired an officer who fatally shot an unarmed teen sparking marches like this one late this week. the chief of the police department says the 19-year-old was sitting in the passenger seat of a car that was stopped on tuesday night when the driver suddenly sped off. that car, later spotted by a second officer who police say opened fire as the driver was going into reverse toward or the officer. the chief says the officer committed, quote, multiple police and procedure violations. california's primary utility company cutting power to more than one million people as the region deals with more dry conditions there ripe for wildfires. take a look at this video of the

pope fire late yesterday that has burned dozens of acres in napa county so far. california, as you may know, experienced a record number of destructive fires in this year's wildfires. meantime, look at what's happening further up the coast. >> we've had cars in the ditch, cars in the median, people just not paying attention and not driving with the winter mind. eric: from the heat to the cold, scenes out of slushy i-95 east of seattle. lots of accidents as drivers are trying to navigate through several inches of snow. my assume la, montana -- missoula, montana, saw almost 20 inches of snow in the past 24 hours. wasn't has arrived. arthel? ♪ ♪ arthel: more than 83,000 new confirmed cases of coronavirus were reported across the country

on friday alone, topping the previous single-day high in july by 6,000. meantime, a new analysis suggests 95% of americans wear masks this winter, it could save 130,000 lives. let's bring in sarah haley now, contributor for "forbes" magazine. so this, of course, is very concerning but, unfortunately, not surprising. why are we still here and going in the wrong direction? >> oh, the bottom line is that we have patchwork regulations. not all states are enforcing mask mandates, and not everybody is following them. if we could all kind of come together as a country and all wear masks, only go, you know, distance where we need to distance, then we could actually save more than 100,000 lives together. arthel: you know, let's listen to dr. anthony fauci. he was on c or nn yesterday suggesting -- cnn yesterday suggesting it might be time for

a nationwide mask mandate due to the a rising case totals. >> i think that would be a great idea, to have everyone do it uniformly. one of the issues though, i get the argument, well, if you mandate a mask, then you're going to have to enforce it, and that'll create more of a problem. well, if people are not wearing masks, then maybe we should be mandating it. arthel: so there you have it, you know? dr. fauci said what you just said, tara. but because masks have become so politicized, is it too late for a nationwide mask mandate? you know, listen, president trump can mandate it, but if biden wins, will those trump supporters who refused to wear masks comply with a nationwide biden mask mandate? >> i wish i had a crystal ball. i can't say whether they would or not, but like i said, it is never too late to try and enforce it, it's never too late to try and convince people. and we're getting more and more evidence about a masks. we used to think that it only protected other people.

we now know it reduces your own risk of catching coronavirus by 40%, and you're less likely to be hospitalized, less likely to die. in a way, a mask is kind of like a less effective precursor to a vaccine. it's not quite as effective as we want it to be vaccine to reduce our own risk. so i don't think it's ever too late to change our behavior. arthel: you know, it's worth noting that defying scientific evidence during thursday's debate, president trump said the u.s. is rounding the turn in the pandemic and he says we won't have a dark winter at all, and then joe biden responded saying that anyone responsible for that many deaths should not remain as prime minister of the united states. -- president of the united states of america, and that's a quote from mr. biden. so, you know, what's on the ballot? is it the health of the economy or public health? >> i think a lot of people don't realize the public health and the health economy are

interrelated. you can't have a healthy economy when the majority of your country is not healthy or able to remain healthy. when we get this pandemic under control, we will also be seeing our economy under control and growing because then we can all go out, participating in the economy without worrying about getting sick. it's not an either/or. if you wanted an economy, you need to have good public health. that's just the bottom line. arthel: yeah. if we're not afraid of catching coronavirus, listen, we're all ready to go out there. go to restaurants, concerts -- >> oh, i would love to go to a concert. arthel: okay, i'll meet you wherever, we'll do it. >> all right, sounds good. [laughter] arthel: but seriously, you know, look, finally, you've got this new analysis, circling back to the top, suggesting that if 95% of americans wear masks this winter, it could save 130,000 lives. that means 130,000 people won't have to die necessarily. is this enough to convince people to wear a mask, or do, do

you find that maybe certain groups of the population think this is not their disease meaning somehow they are less likely to contract it, so so they're not as concerned about wearing masks? >> i think there are some people like that, and we've seen so many stories of people who were like that until they got it or until their mother got it or their wife or son got it. and, unfortunately, there are some people who simply need to have it touch them personally before hand. but i would like to think that we keep hammering this message, people will grasp the fact that they can be part of saving a life. you know, that's more than twice as many people who died in vietnam. over 130,000 people, that's more than twice as many. so we can basically, you know, save double the lives of people who died in vietnam by simply putting a covering on our face. that's not a lot to ask. arthel: not at all, man. all right, tara, really nice to talk to you. thank you. >> thank you. arthel: eric? erik.

eric: concerts? wow. i think the last one we went to was needwood mac a -- fleetwood mac a while ago. in a few moments, former president barack obama is going to be holding a drive-in rally in florida for joe biden. there you see the podium in north miami. the former president expected to step up to that podium in just a few minutes from now. could he be the difference in the sunshine state for mr. biden? we will show you his remarks live as fox news channel coverage of the election 2020 continues when we come back. ♪ ♪ here? nah. introducing the all new chevy trailblazer. here? nope. ♪ here. ♪ when the middle of nowhere,

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arthel: former vice president joe biden getting some help from his former boss, former president barack obama about to take the stage in florida. we're told that congresswoman fred' e ca wilson is on stage right now, but when president obama takes the stage, we will -- looks like nobody's up

there right now. but when president obama takes the stage, we're going to take him live. he's hoping to give biden a big boost in this key swing state. john decker is with me now, he's an attorney and white house correspondent at fox news radio. so, john, you already know i might have to interrupt you -- >> absolutely. arthel: listen, at this point it's about precision politics. who is president obama targeting in florida? >> well, the same group, arthel, that he was targeting just a few days ago in pennsylvania, specifically in philadelphia, it's black voters, it's minority voters. in north miami where where the former vice president will be speaking in a matter of minutes, that's a 40% black population, and this is a critical demographic group for joe biden in just a few days in the presidential election. it's a group of voters that, obviously, went overwhelmingly for hillary clinton. but the margins were down for hillary clinton in 2016 compared to what barack obama achieved in raw numbers of votes in both

2008 and 2012. so what joe biden is trying to do is to raise those numbers up to have an increased number of black voters, perhaps a record number of black voter in the upcoming election. arthel: well, there seems to be excitement in anticipation of former president obama to show up. he's got a drum line right there practicing or, you know, entertaining the crowd. this is a drive-in style campaign stop, you can see lots of cars already lined up ready to hear. but the question is, you know, is president obama going to be able to transfer that excitement to his former very p, because florida is one -- vp, because florida is one of the top six pots, if you will, with 29 electoral votes up for grabs. obama has history in florida. he's the first democratic president since fdar to carry -- fdr to carry florida in two presidential elections. he won the state in 2008 and again in 2012, by a slim margin

that time,50.9%. trump won florida in 2006. he made it his home state. we saw him voting there this morning in person. can the obama mojo still work in florida? >> well, that's what joe biden is hoping for. president trump won florida by just 113,000 votes four years ago, a very small margin. and that's the reason why we see both the president in florida today and i'm sure he's going to be returning over the course of the next few days as is joe biden. for president trump, it's the lynch pin to his re-election race. if he does not win florida, the path to 270 electoral votes is really limited if not impossible. that's the reason why the president traveling to florida so often, and it's the reason why we see the former president, barack obama, speaking in a matter of minutes in north miami with the biden campaign trying to block the path to 270 for

president trump. and one way to do that, obviously, is to win the state of florida. arthel: yeah, and, you know, we already said that president trump voted in west palm beach this morning. even the combination nod to in of person voting and to the people of florida. of course, president obama is there trying to get the black vote, but can president trump win the senior vote in florida, or does mr. biden have that advantagesome. >> well -- advantage? well, it depends if you believe the polling. the polling seems to indicate that joe biden is performing better among seniors in florida than hillary clinton did four yearings a ago -- years ago when she lost the state. that's obviously a plus for joe biden. on the negative side though is hispanic voters. polling seems to indicate he's not faring as well with hispanic voters in florida that hillary clinton did four years ago, so maybe it's an offset to a certain degree. but you completely understand, arthel, all of these demographic

groups are necessary for either president trump or former vice president joe biden to put together the coalition that is necessary to one the sunshine state. arthel: uh-huh. so you mentioned senior voters, hispanic vote ors, black voters. what do they have in common in terms of what it is they want in a president? >> well, i think that, you know, no matter what poll you're looking at, the top issue for voters no matter what election cycle also, it's the economy. it's jobs. and the u.s. economy right now, while we're in the pandemic, is not as strong as it was pre-pandemic. and for voters whether you're a senior, whether you're a black voter, whether you're a young voter, no matter what demographic group that you're in, this is typically the number one issue for you as you go to the polls. and so for those voters, they have to make a decision as to who can best manage the u.s. economy over the next four years, or president trump or the former vice president. arthel: all right. john decker, so we made it through. >> we did.

arthel: president obama dud not take the stage just yet, so i did not have to do it in style. there it is. it almost happened anyway. all right, josh, i've got to go. we'll probably talk to you later at some point. thanks, john. there ring. only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.

♪ ♪ eric: well, we know about the crush of early voting across the country, more than 50 million americans have already voted. not just across the nation, but even in zero gravity. nasa astronaut kate rubins casting her ballot from the international space station more than 250 miles up in the atmosphere from earth. astronaut rubins talking her i voted selfie, look at that, from orbit. texas, where most astronauts live to be closer to work, has an extreme absentee ballot procedure in place for anyone whose address on election day happens to be, ready for this? low earth orbit. how about that for mail-in voting? it's also kicked off back here on planet earth in new state today. long lines reported in new york city when that started at 10 a.m. eastern time. arthel? arthel: okay. that's outstanding. president trump and democratic rival joe biden hitting critical

battleground states as election day draws near. you're going to hear from both candidates this afternoon and former president obama any minute now. we're going to bring you all of those events live of right here on fox news. ♪ ♪

>> well we are standing by to show you former president obama is about to speak in north miami, florida. and to get out the vote rally for democratic ticket people

will are in their cars waiting and when this happens you will see it now we'll start with the journal editorial report that's up next arkansas arthel. >> back 4 eastern or before then stand by for us. >> welcome to the journal editorial report, i'm paul with just over a week to go until election day. president donald trump and former vice president joe biden squared off thursday in their second and final debate in nashville. highly anticipated show down pinning two candidates against one another on issues from health care, to climate change. >> i would like to terminate obamacare come up with a brand new beautiful health care. >> what i'm going to do is pass obamacare with a public option become biden care. >> public option. he's talking about socialize medicine. would you close down? >> i would transition from oil industry yes.