>> thanks for joining us. set your dvr for 6:00 a.m. eastern every morning so you don't miss our show and check out brian's radio show. >> see you tomorrow. >> president trump: we're going to win four more great years in the white house. we'll keep it going. [cheering and applause] this is the most important election in the history of our country. the most important election. i never thought i would say it after what we went through with the last one. four years ago. >> this is the most consequential election in a long, long, long time. and the character of the country in my view is literally on the ballot. >> sandra: president trump and joe biden hitting the homestretch in the race for the white house with election day one week from tomorrow.

good morning, everyone, i'm sandra smith. >> trace: good morning, everyone, i'm trace gallagher. more than 58 million people. more than all early voting and absentee ballots cast in the 2016 election. president trump making three stops in pennsylvania today and biden off the campaign trail. >> sandra: the latest rcp average showing biden leading by five points in the battleground state of pennsylvania. trump campaign communications director erin perrine will join us to weigh in. >> trace: peter doocy is standing by in wilmington, delaware and we begin with kristin fisher live at the white house. >> trace: three rallies today in pennsylvania. why so many? >> pennsylvania may be the biggest, most important state on this map. it could very well be the deciding factor on election night. not to mention it's also the perfect place for president trump to highlight one of the joe biden's big mistakes from last week's debate when he said

he would transition away from the oil and gas industry. joe biden has since tried to clean it up saying he was only talking about federal subsidies. couple that with biden's conflicting stamgts on fracking and the trump team believe they have a winning message in the state. expect him to say that a biden win would inflict deep pain and misery on the state of pennsylvania. >> trace: another covid outbreak in the west wing. what do we know? >> yeah, at least five people very close to vice president mike pence have now tested positive for covid-19 including his chief of staff marc short. the white house says the plan is for vice president mike pence to continue campaigning and continue with these rallies and campaign events with just eight days to go. >> you have a lot of young, healthy people in the west wing knowing they're taking risks to work for the american people. just because there is a

pandemic doesn't mean we can stop. the vice president has great knowledge about the disease and the pandemic. >> you had the white house chief of staff mark meadows telling cnn the white house has given up on controlling the spread of the coronavirus. >> so here is what we have to do. we're not going to control the pandemic. we are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigation. it is a contagious virus just like the flu. >> meadows insisted moments ago at the white house he was not waving the white flag of defeat. the biden campaign was quick to pounce on that statement saying it's exactly what he was doing and that he just admitted to it. trace. >> trace: kristin fisher live at the white house. thank you. >> sandra: joe biden is home today and heading to jordan tomorrow as the real clear politics rolling after shows he is in a virtual tie with

president trump in the reliably red state. biden saying he is optimistic while not taking anything for granted. >> i'm one of those folks, competitors it's not over until the bell rings. i -- we feel good about where we are. i don't understatement how he plays. >> sandra: peter doocy live in wilmington, delaware. any biden surrogates on the trail today? >> sandra, biden has his wife, jill, in georgia where he is going to head tomorrow. both of them were in pennsylvania this weekend and that is where the biden pitch to restore the soul of the nation was interrupted by a bunch of trump supporters honking their car horns. >> i'm running as a proud democrat. i will govern as an american president. for everybody.

>> i'll work as hard for those who support me as those who don't including those chumps with a microphone out there. >> nothing on the schedule today for biden. kamala harris is back in d.c. for senate votes and if she is the last person in the room there is more to her than the nonpartisan gov track rating the puts her as the senate's most liberal member. >> is that a socialist or progressive perspective? >> no. [laughter] no, it is the perspective of a woman who grew up a black child in america, who was also a prosecutor, who also has a mother who arrived here at the age of 19 from india, who also,

you know, likes hip-hop. what do you want to know? >> harris and mike pence might cross paths later on today for the first time since their v.p. debate in salt lake city a few weeks back because he is going to preside over the amy coney barrett vote this evening. >> sandra: more reaction coming up. peter doocy. >> vice president mike pence is staying on the campaign trail after five members of his staff tested positive for covid. his office says he continues to test negative and his campaign efforts are essential work. he appeared at a campaign rally in north carolina on sunday and plans on attending the confirmation vote for judge amy coney barrett later today. new yorkers are no strangers to long lines. this weekend's early voters waited hours to cast ballot. the city board of elections saying the turnout is heavy

december weather they stood in long lines. >> sandra: what's the mood inside the trump campaign eight days out now? >> we feel like the president is in a great position to win again come eight days from now. hard to believe the election is so close. listen, we have the ground game. we have the largest political grassroots movement that has ever existed in politics with over 2.5 million trained and activated volunteers who made over 156 million voter contacts. the gold standard used to be the obama reelection with 2.2 million volunteers. we have eight days to go. our supporters are energized and engaged and we're ready to win this for the president. >> sandra: real clear politics average for pennsylvania shows joe biden leading by more than 5% as we head into just a week

before election day, erin. the president spending a lot of time on the ground there today. three campaign stops, three maga rallies and he is making this case against joe biden on his own words on fracking. here is the president. >> president trump: he said for a year there will be no fracking. and then he got through that and he comes to pennsylvania and says you can frac. then he denied it in the debate. one of the better parts of the debate he said he is getting rid of it. i think pennsylvania is going to -- he will not let you frac. it is not him, his party will never let you. >> sandra: what's the case he is making to voters on the ground there, obviously referencing back to a big moment on the debate stage last week there, erin. >> president trump has been saying this all along that joe biden is an extremist and environmental extremist. it would -- banning fracking would cost 600,000 jobs in

pennsylvania. that economy $261 billion. that's economic devastation for pennsylvania. listen, joe biden likes to try to talk out of both sides of his mouth and then he calls trump supporters chumps? pennsylvaniaians are chumps to joe biden? they want energy independence, good jobs and both with president trump at the helm. >> sandra: a lot of talk about the huge turnout so far for this election. is that a good or bad thing for president trump? >> the more people who are involved in the electoral process in the united states is a good thing for every american. we know where our voters are and how we'll get them out. the grassroots army i talked about is the work they've been doing for week. absentee, early in person or getting them ready to go on election day. part of our data operation on the early stages how do you plan to vote and supporting people doing that. the more people involved the

better. >> sandra: friday the united states had a single day record for new coronavirus cases topping 83,000. then on sunday mark meadows chief of staff says this, erin. >> we're not going to control the pandemic. we are going to control the fact that we get vaccines. therapeutics and other mitigation. >> why aren't we going to get control? >> it's a contagious virus just like the flu. >> why not make efforts to contain it? >> we have to make sure we have the proper mitigation factors, therapies, vaccines, treatments to make sure that people don't die from this. >> sandra: at "politico" put it this morning the final week of your campaign president trump cannot escape these facts. does it help to be saying things like that and how can the president tell the american people especially the undecided voter, that he is the right candidate to carry us through this pandemic considering it is just not over yet? >> president trump has done not only in word but in action more

work than joe biden would have ever done facing this pandemic. let's remember in the end of january when the president stopped inbound flights and was raising the flag about the coronavirus during the state of the union address, maybe democrats forgot about that. nancy pelosi was pulling political stunts by ripping the speech up. president trump has done absolutely everything. surging resources, ppe and ventilators and testing for a novel virus, a brand-new virus. we have made testing capabilities available and we will have a vaccine in record time thanks to president trump's leadership and operation warp speed. we know joe biden would say no to all of that and we know joe biden is an unmitigated failure when it comes to standing up to con taij ons like this. h1n1, they depleted the national stockpile. >> sandra: we continue to see that on the campaign trail. joe biden is campaigning in georgia tomorrow. kamala harris will be on the

ground in texas on friday. two reliably red states. put the real clear politics average for those two states. georgia the president leading with a slim margin. clearly joe biden and kamala harris and their ticket see opportunity in these traditionally red states. are you concerned? >> no, we're not concerned and it is really funny there is any notion that joe biden sees opportunity anywhere other than the basement in delaware he is hanging out in again today. eight days to the election. president trump is non-stop. our team is non-stop across the country. i'm in wisconsin now. the vice president will be out there. the first family, the second lady. we're aggressive and let's be honest here, joe biden and democrats aren't serious about texas and georgia and not putting the resources necessary to move the needle at all. a waste of their money and time. if that's their campaign strategy is to try to get their

bad candidate out of his basement to give a speech and belittle the american people when he has a chance in states where he has no shots, have at it. >> sandra: we welcome the biden campaign to send us anyone our way. we invite them daily. erin, thank you. fox news has covered for this election. bret baier and martha maccallum will host special coverage on election day. you don't want to miss a minute of that. >> trace: judge amy coney barrett now just one step away from being confirmed as the next associate justice on the supreme court. taking a live look now at capitol hill. senators voted mostly along party lines to limit debate on the nomination in a rare sunday session setting the stage for a full senate vote tonight. >> sandra: election drop boxes set on fire. the f.b.i. is looking for whoever destroyed dozens of voter's ballots. that story is just ahead. a grassroots ground game in support of president trump as

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>> sandra: f.b.i. is investigating called a deliberate attack on a ballot drop box in boston that was set on fire earlier sunday morning outside the boston public library. 35 ballots were destroyed. there will be increased security around drop boxes. >> trace: president trump hitting battleground pennsylvania today fighting for its 20 electoral votes making three stops in the state he

flipped red in 2016. the real clear politics polling average has biden leading the president there by more than 5 points. "washington examiner" chief political correspondent byron york writes if the president wins pennsylvania he will owe the victory not to his campaign but to the big trump rallies you don't see. here to explain is byron york. i read your column about the grassroots rallies. a lot of it was news to me. you write in part quoting here it was the biggest political rally no one saw and gatherings like it have been happening for months. in some of the places president trump needs most to win if he is to be reelected and remarkably the rallies are not the work of the trump campaign. the road rally in washington, pennsylvania was staged by local trump supporters linked by facebook. how the enthusiasm in some of these areas is higher today

than 2016. >> there are large rallies of support for president trump in key areas that are receiving almost no coverage in the press. there was over the weekend a huge tristate road rally. it was in ohio, west virginia and pennsylvania in which thousands of trump supporters got together. they are hoping to show that support for trump, enthusiasm for trump in pennsylvania is not only as strong as it was in 2016 when he won pennsylvania, but even stronger now. and this is all going on under the national media radar. it is not easy having 2,000 cars is a pretty big thing but it is going on out here. >> trace: you mention that really in these rallies there is a huge concern now building in pennsylvania about people who work in the energy industry, byron that maybe joe

biden will be bad for their future jobs. >> they all say they experienced a real boom after president trump was elected in 2016. remember, he did so on the platform of becoming energy independent and encouraging more energy exploration in the united states. and they saw that big boom in pennsylvania. and ohio, in west virginia. and they looked at what joe biden said in the debate the other night and said in which he said he would transition away from oil and gas and what they hear from that is he is going to destroy the oil and gas industry. they want to do anything they can to stop joe biden from being elected. >> trace: it is also notable joe biden held a rally in scranton. bon jovi and his wife was there, near scranton, 232 cars, a big difference than the trump rally. i want to play the sound bite

on 60 minutes last night from kamala harris. touching on socialism. >> i promised joe i would always be honest with him. >> is that a socialist perspectivetive. >> i won't be confined and that would be a mistake. >> trace: what did you make of that answer, byron? >> well, it was a total non-answer. first of all, a few democrats like bernie sanders call themselves socialists, many democrats refer to themselves as progressives. there is nothing wrong with asking kamala harris if she counts herself as a progressive and to just stone wall it and literally laugh it off indicates that she really doesn't want to deal with the reality of her record, which is by the way, as one of the most

if not the most liberal senators in the united states senate. >> trace: i want to lastly get to this topic of media bias. the media trying to shut down the other side especially in the case of this hunter biden laptop where anybody who reports on this or disagrees with this really, you know, is stigmatized and they focus on an op-ed in the "wall street journal" by kimberly extras el writing instead of playing watchdog for the public today's media devote themselves to attacking anyone who breaks from their orthodoxy. denounce independent voices and twitter brigades and unleash reporters who are ideological reporters massacre aiding as media critics. >> this is a scandal at any time. it is 12 days since the post

broke the hunter biden story and the post is still banned from twitter. why is that not a scandal? hard to believe what is going on. when that happened, when the story broke on october 14th, facebook limited the distribution of the story it said because it would check the facts of it. it had a third party fact checking partner who was going to look into it. we haven't heard anything about that. what are the facts here? so it's extraordinary what the social media companies are doing to suppress speech right now. >> trace: that was my final point, the fact checking apparently continues. byron york, always good to see you, sir. thank you. >> sandra: brand-new numbers showing the labor market is on the rebound. will it boost the president's chance for reelection? maria bartiromo live on that next. for so long.

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>> trace: bottom of the hour. president trump making three campaign stops in pennsylvania today. joe biden leads by more than 5 points in the state the president won in 2016. >> sandra: it was another bloody weekend in chicago where 24 people were shot, 6 killed. a 3-year-old girl was among the victims. she is recovering in a hospital and is in good condition. >> trace: snowfall in colorado helping to stop the spread of

wildfires. a foot of snow in colorado where fires have burned nearly 400,000 acres so far. >> sandra: the economy always a key issue in a presidential election as the job recovery constitution. some battleground states that president trump won in 2016 are seeing higher unemployment rates than the national average. how will those numbers factor in in the final days of his campaign? maria bartiromo is the host of sunday morning futures on fox news channel. good morning to you. what do we need to know about this? what is happening in some of those key states that the president won as far as the economy and unemployment numbers? >> a couple of key things, sandra. thank you so much. you want to look at where we are in terms of economic growth. we have some critical numbers coming out this week. this week we will get the gdp for the third quarter. we're expecting a huge boom of better than 30%. this is just simple math. in the second quarter we had a huge contraction of 30%.

this will be a snapback quarter in the third quarter. we expect further growth in the fourth quarter 5 or 6%. economic growth is job creation, the unemployment story and going to be about oil and gas in swing states. it's why it was such a big deal at the debate where president trump stopped and had joe biden repeat himself saying i want to transition the oil and gas industry. the american petroleum institute says that 10 million jobs are affected in the oil and gas industry and out of those 10 million jobs 7 1/2 million will go away if fracking is banned. the trump administration will make a lot of noise about this. a big deal about the fact that joe biden wants to either regulate it out of business or do away with fracking even though joe biden comes back and says wait, i'm not against fracking. he flip-flopped a couple of times and the trump administration jumped on that.

oil and gas and fracking will be critical. other issues to look at is pure unemployment, where are we with just a few days away from the election after the massive shutdown? we have gained back half of the jobs lost at the beginning of the pandemic. people are going to ask themselves how do you feel today versus how i felt four years ago? this is going to be largely about the economy. it will also be a bit about foreign policy along with it. the coronavirus. the trump administration will try to make this about the economy broadly speaking, jobs and wages going up. given the fact that before covid arrived we did see income inequality narrow for the first time in decades. joe biden camp will make this about coronavirus and they are going to continue to attack president trump's handling of it. >> sandra: just to lay it out as a clear picture what we're seeing as far as unemployment and maria you point out the pandemic, more than 20 million jobs lost and we have clawed our way back. some states are faring better as we enter election day than

others, the key battlegrounds that do have an unemployment above the national average are michigan, ohio, and pennsylvania. all above 8%. the national average right now is 7.9%. it has come down a lot, maria. there are three battleground states where the unemployment rates are below the national average. arizona, florida, wisconsin. will that help the president in those states, maria? >> don't forget some of this is because some of those states have not reopened. they have not allowed as much activity as, say, a florida or wisconsin. and that's why you are seeing the unemployment situation and foot traffic in terms of retail stay under pressure. look, retail and consumer spending is 2/3 of economic growth. some of these companies and these industries that rely on foot traffic, rely on cash flow, they may not come back. you will see unemployment numbers like that if we don't see a slow but sure reopening

of our states, reopening of our economy. we are going to have to learn to live with the coronavirus unfortunately until a fact vaccine is on the market. >> sandra: congratulations on the new book "the cost." trump, china, american revival. you wrote this along with james freeman. a frequent guest on this program as well. congratulations. >> thank you. we're proud of the book. it is out tomorrow and, of course, you can pre-order it right now. we look back at the last four years, this incredibly extraordinary period that we're in. we take a look at trump's economic policy, we take a look at the extraordinary resistance he has faced his entire presidency and we also take a look at the plans. biden versus trump on the economy and taxes. >> sandra: pick one up wherever books are sold. maria, thank you. dow down 329 points as we begin the new day. >> trace: seattle police department is feeling the effects of funding cuts after the city council axed its navigation team tasked with

helping the homeless get into shelters. homeless encampments are popping up across the city. dan, what do you know? >> well, trace, seattle is finding out one of the consequences of defunding a police department. we have seen a noticeable spike in the number of homeless camps throughout the city. camps are getting bigger and have a more permanent feel to them with some tents pounded into trees. we're seeing more shacks built out of plywood. before the covid pandemic there was 3700 people unsheltered in seattle. the number went down as the city moved many homeless to hotels to protect them and then the black lives matter protest and calls to defund the police. city council cut 100 officers this year and defunded the navigation team where officers joined outreach workers to

clear homeless camps. the mayor vetoed the cuts. the council overrode the veto. >> we have seen an increasing proliferation and one reason why i opposed the end of the navigation team to do the outreach needed to get people into somewhere safer. >> one of the new homeless encampments is in a city park that is in a protected watershed. seattle spent $11 million to restore the watershed. now mounting trash in the creek that flows into the pew gent sound. when neighbors call city departments they are told there is nothing that can be done. >> all we can do is wait for the next screaming woman or fight to break out in the park to call 911. that's where we are left. >> seeing this crisis is spinning out of control, one council member has come up with a plan to reignite these homeless encampment sweeps but it does not include the police,

trace. more dangerous for the city workers and less effective. >> trace: it's incredible. thank you. >> sandra: 2020 campaign enters into its final week the biden campaign is far outspending the trump campaign in terms of tv ads. how much will this matter with voters? plus president trump promising the best year ever for the u.s. economy next year. but what kind of policies can americans expect if there is a second term for president trump? white house economic advisor larry kudlow will join us next to weigh in on that. new projects means new project managers.

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fortune, jeopardy and local news. the way the seniors have broken to biden and how the president handled the pandemic looks like it is paying off. >> first let's happy amy coney barrett to the u.s. supreme court day. we should all cheer that later today along with the president's other successes to the u.s. supreme court. as for biden, perhaps he can get some advice from michael bloomberg as to how much and how it feels to spend the most money and yet still lose an election. as we get into these final days, joe biden based off the number of people voting for him couldn't get elected mayor of wilmington, delaware as the focus is really on the president. and do americans want to give the president another four years as he has worked to revitalize the energy sector versus biden who would spend it backwards. do they want to keep the tax

cuts with the most robust economy in the u.s. >> trace: he is saying the money isn't all that important. we know in politics it is important but not the end all. you can't buy everything is the theme here. >> right, but look at how joe biden raised that money. the fact is in september alone joe biden raised $383 million from 5.5 million people for an average donation of $44. that builds you a grassroots organization, too. so he has both. he has an air war, air cover and ground game. that's what you need to win these elections. by contrast donald trump does not have that. remember, he has raised and spent, $1 billion but short at the end. not up on tv. biden has a 3-1 advantage over donald trump in terms of cash on hand. not only are they not up on tv in a lot of places they're

taking down tv buys. when we look at the race with eight days left you have to do everything. by all quantifiable metrics joe biden has an air war and ground game. donald trump doesn't have either one. >> trace: the ground game he does have. here is what the trump campaign is saying. the money. it makes no sense to run tv ads in states we know we'll win and in other states they are useful tool to reach the right voters with the right message. right voters with the right message again to you, mary anne. the idea the president doesn't have a ground game really? all the evidence is contrary to that. you look at the enthusiasm base, we talked about this with byron york, there is a mass ground swell grassroots swelling in these key states lining up for the president. it goes to the car rally. thousands of cars for the president, 232 for joe biden's campaign and that included bon jovi rocker who was there with dr. jill biden.

>> let's start with the facts. joe biden restricts the number of cars and people that can come to his rallies. donald trump doesn't. if he had a grassroots organization he wouldn't be short an cash. when you look at it that way that's not what's going on here. this race has been really very stable and very clear throughout. joe biden for the most part nationally has had an enduring lead. a rating above 50% which neither donald trump nor hillary clinton had four years ago. i think you have to keep that in mind when you look at the race and when you are holding off the republicans to vote on election day the best organization in the world is going to have a really hard time trying to overcome an 80% turnout in texas. >> trace: last word, david. >> mary anne could be the spokesman for the washington football team. let's limit how many people we let in because you couldn't sell the stadium anyway. a number of points that is a

decider at the en. she talked about the money biden is raising. he is winning the zip codes where people make $100,000 or more. as we get into the last eight days, can the president turn out the same coalition of voters, union workers, people making less than $50,000 a year, people with some level of higher education or have at least have a high school degree? he won all those in 2016. in addition to where do late deciders go. thanks very much. >> trace: david, good to see you. mary anne, good to see you. great debate. >> sandra: house speaker nancy pelosi says she will run for speaker again if democrats keep the house. but will she have the support of one of the party's most vocal members? and the senate is set to confirm amy coney barrett today but joe biden suggests there may be some changes on the way for the u.s. court system if democrats win next week.

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>> i'll put together a national bipartisan commission of constitutional scholars, democrat, republican, liberal, conservative and i will ask them to over 180 days come back to me with recommendations as to how to reform the court system because it is getting out of whack. >> sandra: joe biden suggesting changes may be underway to the supreme court if he is elected president. what could those look like? constitutional law attorney jonathan turley joins us now. what was your takeaway from what we just heard? >> it's rather alarming because it's almost a form of enablement by commission. what vice president biden is

referring to are a series of proposals put out by professors to fundamentally change the supreme court and some of them are quite whacky. you are talking about proposals that would in one case this has been put forward by pete buttigieg, just go ahead and select five democrats for the court, five republicans and then five sort of transient or temporary justices. that's the type of proposal that is being batted around in addition to court packing. and recently a harvard professor said the quiet part out loud. he told his readers that they don't have to worry about the republicans retaliating with their own court packing scheme because it would also change the political system and guarantee the republicans won't win another election. he said that's the reason we have to change the court so they don't strike down those changes. it is perfectly bizarre.

>> sandra: you are writing about this on a piece on the hill entitled the worst proposals to reform the supreme court. in it you write this. i'm not opposed to the reform of the supreme court but the commission is not about reform. it is about schemes to receive partisan outcomes of the bench. he offers it as a vehicle for the frustration of the 30% of his base that wants extreme measures to satiate their anger. tell us more. >> unfortunately much of our political system has been directed by the extreme elements of both parties. the rest of us in the middle are left just watching agape. there is this great frustration among many democratic voters over the merrick garland controversy and now this vote shortly before the election. they are even calling this vote a form of court packing, which is legally and logically

incomprehensible. this is not court packing. it is filling a vacancy according to the constitutional system. you can disagree with the nominee but you can't call it court packing. what this commission seems designed to do is to give a form of enablement to vice president biden and the democrats. what's also worrisome is when you look at what they're saying, they're saying that if judge barrett is confirmed today, it will give them license to tear apart one of the most important institutions in the country. it is like kids saying step over this line and if you do, then i have a right to fight you. >> sandra: on our screen now is the president's motorcade arriving at joint base andrews after the president left the white house a short time ago. he is on his way to pennsylvania where he has three campaign stops today before, of course, the big night with amy coney barrett 7:30 this evening. all of this will go down as

we're talking about that, jonathan and watching the president, could you just give us a little bit of an idea of what we're about to see election night in some of the possible disputes and battles that may be to come? final thoughts. >> sandra: i have to tell you, i'm very nervous. i have covered about four or five of these election nights for the networks. every one has had legal challenges. this one i think is going to be a perfect nightmare. we have never relied on this number of mail-in votes. >> sandra: i'll have to leave it there. we're up against a hard break. the president on his way to pennsylvania. jonathan, thank you. we'll see a lot of you this week and election night as well. we'll be right back. here's to the duers. to all the people who realize they can du more with less asthma thanks to dupixent, the add-on treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma. dupixent isn't for sudden breathing problems.

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>> sandra: brand-new hour. here is has happening inside "america's newsroom." >> everything else in 2020 the campaign trail yesterday looked strange. president trump holding a rally in new hampshire. jill and joe biden appearing in a virtual concert. >> the way every one of us votes now will determine the future for a long time. not just for four years. >> trace: the president in pennsylvania. two are rallies. >> president trump: pennsylvania an important state. very important to me. i'm there all the time. i went to school there. >> joe biden no events today but georgia tomorrow. >> sandra: confirmation vote is expected to take place at 8:00

eastern tonight. sunday senators voted to limit debate on the confirmation. >> as the u.s. sees a record high 83,000 coronavirus cases in a single day, how concerned should we be about this twin demic? >> sandra: more an those stories throughout the hour. our top story. early voting off to a strong start. massive surge in big states leading to long lines as voters show up in person to cast their ballots. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," brand-new week. the last week before election day. trace, good morning. i'm sandra smith. >> trace: good morning. i'm trace gallagher. with eight days left before election. more people already have voted early or absentee than voted early or absentee in 2016. nearly 59 million people so far casting ballots. >> sandra: we're hearing all the stories.

what are you seeing? >> sandra, that we are. voters across the country, man, oh man, long lines across the country. if you voted this weekend, you know exactly what it was like. this is a live look outside madison square garden in new york city. lines over the weekend were around the block. election officials say so far more than 58 1/2 million americans have voted. that was more than back in 2016. early voting kicked off in new york state on saturday. new york city nearly 94,000 people voted. that's double the number that turned out over the nine days for the whole primary that occurred in june. there are now calls to better protect our democracy after the revelations about iran. the iranian regime accused of hacking into our election system and grabbing voter registration information. the call is to kick out iranian diplomats. new york congressman lee zeldin

said they should boot the diplomatic corps at the united nations and any in washington in retaliation for their election intrusion. zeldin points out iranians have been expelled from our country before and visas denied. it is time to tell the iranian diplomats to pack their bags. >> it would be an important action for the united states action to take to be revoking the u.n. diplomats who are here from iran. their visas as well as those further applications in the future. there will be additional applications that will be submitted when there is a u.n. general assembly, a meeting of the world bank or imf. >> there is a different type of attack on voting in boston. someone set the ballot box on fire early this morning. looking at a picture of who police believe is the possible suspect. officials say 35 of the 122 ballots in that box were destroyed but they were able,

they say, to save 87 votes. the ballot box in boston happens to be the second one in just over a week that was set on fire. last weekend in los angeles another ballot box was torched. there is no suspect in that case. officials in los angeles say they have been able to identify all the ballots and voters who had those ballots and they have sent new ballots to the voters whose old ballots were destroyed in that fire. >> sandra: eric shawn for us. thank you. >> trace: f.b.i. director christopher wray reportedly in danger of losing his job. the washington host and axios say president trump is frustrated with the wray for not announcing an investigation into joe biden and he could be fired after the election. let's get to griff jenkins live in washington what's the latest on this? >> good morning, trace. not just wray, we hear the president is considering firing a handful of top officials including f.b.i. director

christopher wray as well as c.i.a. director and mark esper. by all against direct for wray has had a disappointing tenure leading f.b.i. at a time when the organization has been in crisis due to poll ittyization into the previous administration. he has ignored the pleas of rank and file agents and -- the official went further saying it is not personal, it is about insuring there will be public trust in the f.b.i. now, trace, fox news also spoke with the f.b.i. about this report and they say that director wray is just under seven years to go in his term and keeping his head down and focusing on the work of the f.b.i. what about joe biden mistaking

president trump for george bush? >> this is interesting. gaffes aren't anything new to joe biden. he is off the campaign trail today. his campaign is down playing the gaffe from yesterday's virtual concert appearance where biden seems to confuse president trump with former president george w. bush before correcting himself. watch. >> four more years of george -- we'll find ourselves in a position where if trump gets elected we'll be in a different world. >> president trump capitalizing on it. joe biden called me george yesterday. couldn't remember my name. got some help from the anchor to get him through the interview. the fake news cartel is working overtime to cover it up. we'll have to wait and see with president trump's three rallies today maybe director wray comes up and maybe so does this gaffe. >> trace: indeed. griff jenkins live in washington thank you.

>> sandra: the senate moving forward with plans to confirm judge amy coney barrett to the supreme court today after yesterday's vote to limit debate setting up for a final vote for her confirmation this evening. democrats taking to the senate floor through the night and into this morning to speak out against her confirmation just days before the election. republican ron johnson laying out the battle lines yesterday on sunday morning futures. >> she is a wonderful person, a great judge. she really ought to get at least as many votes as ruth bader ginsburg got. it will be a partisan vote. >> sandra: mike emanuel is live in washington as the democrats said it looks like the goose the cooked. >> the final confirmation vote in an historic moment will come around 7:30 or 8:00 eastern time on the floor of the united states senate. judge amy coney barrett has sailed through the confirmation process. her confirmation to the high

court will give conservatives a 6-3 majority. at 48 years old she is expected to serve for decades tackling the biggest legal issues facing our country. a republican who voted against the procedural vote murcowski will vote for her confirmation tonight. mitch mcconnell confirming a third trump justice is a huge legacy item for this senate. >> we made an important contribution to the future of this country. a lot of what we've done over the last four years would be undone sooner or later by the next election. it won't be able to do much about this for a long time to come. >> lifetime role on the bench is a huge deal, sandra. >> sandra: murcowski isn't the only senate republican taking issue with this process, who else? >> one republican who voted no

will be a no tonight. susan collins of maine is facing a tough reelection. democrats are frustrated wishing this would wait for the outcome of the election. >> i am voting no. i believe and have from the beginning it's an illegitimate process. there is too much at stake. joe biden and the american people and i all agree that the people of our country should be able to complete this election which is in 10 days and let the winner of the election make a decision about who will serve for a lifetime on the highest court in the land. >> trace: the latest example of it being frustrating to be the minority party in congress if you don't have the votes to stop something, all you can do is give speeches. sandra. >> sandra: thank you, mike emanuel. >> house speaker nancy pelosi says she will run for speak en again if democrats keep control of the house. alexandria ocasio-cortez won't say whether she will support

pelosi. >> i want to make sure we win the house. i do believe we will. if speaker pelosi is the most progressive candidate i will be supporting her. >> she had a public cat with alexandria ocasio-cortez and three other progressive congresswomen last year over the policy differences. >> sandra: navy and coast guard identifying the crew killed in a plane crash in alabama. 30-year-old navy lieutenant ross and coast guard ensign garrett were on a routine training flight that took off from florida when their plane crashed in a residential neighborhood in alabama on friday. no one was injured on the ground. >> trace: a car parade for president trump sparking protests, fights and arrests in new york city. plus joe biden's position on energy and fracking sparking questions about his plans for the economy. national economic council director larry kudlow is next.

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>> trace: both presidential candidates getting key endorsements in recent days. "new york post" editorial board throwing its support behind president trump saying he is good for the future of the u.s. economy quoting president trump will not remake the country but he will not get in the way. reelecting him is the best choice for the united states. meantime a once in a century endorsement for joe biden. the conservative leaning new hampshire union leader supporting a democrat for the first time in 100 years quoting again we were hopeful with trump's win that he might

change that. the weight and responsibility of the oval office might mold a more respectful and presidential man. we have watched with the rest of the world as the mantel of the presidency has done very little to change trump while the country and world have changed significantly. president trump is not always 100% wrong but he is 100% wrong for america. >> president trump: we had 160 million people working. we've never been anywhere close to that number. we'll be back very soon. 11.4 million people hired over the last three months which is a record. >> sandra: eight days to go until election day. economy shaping up to be one of the key issues in the final stretch of the campaign. president leading most polls on which candidate is best for the economy. according to axios president trump doesn't have a second term economic plan. joining us now from the white house larry kudlow director of the national economic council. of all people you have a rebuttal to that.

what is the president's economic plan if he is elected to a second term? good morning. >> good morning. of course he has a second term plan and by the way, we've published that plan in one of the campaign documents and the president himself has been out there talking about a middle class tax cut, a new middle class tax cut. he has also talked about retaining business tax cuts and making them permanent. he has also talked about investment tax credits so we can onshore companies that moved away or those that would come to the u.s. because of our low taxes. he has also indicated in every single speech he gives there will be additional measures to roll back costly and burdensome regulations particularly on small businesses. he has also talked about an infrastructure package.

he couldn't get bipartisan assistance from the house. those are just some of the things he has talked about. there are others i could go down the list. those are the key economic growth, look, there is a clear contrast here, sandra, clear contrast between one side that wants to raise taxes and regulations and end oil and natural gas, and that's economic decline, recession, stagnation and pessimism. on the other side you have president trump who wants to continue to lower taxes and regulations, which boost middle class benefits from $6500. he will protect energy independence and also good trade deals. that's an optimistic pro-growth prosperity message. it couldn't be clearer here. >> sandra: so here is a bit of the write-up in axios getting the attention, larry. trump talks a lot about regaining economic momentum loss due to the pandemic.

it is reasonable to assume he would seek to maintain the status quo on things like taxes and regulation and occasionally mentioned his desire for a big middle class tax cut as you just mentioned, larry. what such cuts would look like, however, is unclear without a plan. it goes on to say that in 2016 the trump campaign clearly laid out a position's section that forecast economic growth, a penny plan. joe biden's website has what it calls a section on economic policy. hillary clinton had that, mitt romney, barack obama and others. they make the case this does not exist with the trump plan for a second term. so can you offer them more specifics when it comes to taxes, regulations, gdp growth and spending? >> look, first of all i want to say this. we are in a strong v-shaped recovery from the pandemic contraction. that's a very important point. we will get a big gdp number i

believe it will be out thursday. we have a lot of momentum not only from the third quarter but spilling into the fourth quarter and if we stick with pro-growth incentive-oriented policies we will have a bang-up 2021. the president has been saying that on the air. now in terms of a blueprint, the bidens don't have a blueprint blueprint. other people have priced out some of their ideas but then again i can't be sure what my friends in the other side are going to really do because they keep thanking their point of view on things like taxes and fracking and natural gas and oil and so forth. so it is what it is. we will have -- look, my group, the nec, working with treasury, ca and others we are deep into discussions about a possible second term details for tax cuts and regulations. i've also talked a lot with

ambassador lighthizer for second term plans. the same policies that gave us 6500 dollars increase income for middle class families and that the trump policies didn't just go to rich people. that's always the charge. in fact, his tax and regulatory cuts went to the middle income and lower income people. those folks that needed it the most got the most benefits from the trump plan. that will continue because he is going to stay on this pro-growth track. that's why i say to people don't swap horses in midstream. stay with the person that brung you to the dance. >> sandra: do you think the economy is the number one issue for this election, larry? >> well, i do. i should rank it with covid. i think that would be a fair assessment. i think those are the two. i also would think, sandra, look, what i learned from president reagan years ago when i was here the first time, president trump has said the

same thing, you've got to be strong at home in order to be strong abroad. if you're weak at home you'll be weak abroad. president trump used a tremendous growth rate, low unemployment, increasing incomes in his first three years pre-pandemic and you see the results now. we've completely, for example, just hot in the news have completely redrawn the map of the middle east to defend israel and bring them together with arab states for the first time and to isolate iran. we have done that because we have tremendous strength and that includes strength in oil and natural gas, fracking and drilling. that's a key part of this. >> sandra: to be strong at home we have to get rid of the virus as well. tied in with the economy and everything we're talking about, larry. >> i agree. >> sandra: i want to get this in here. mark meadows, clarify his comments talking over the weekend about not being able to

control this virus, larry, listen. >> we're not going to control the pandemic. we will control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigations. >> why can't we control the pandemic? >> it is a contagious virus just like the flu. >> why not make efforts to contain it? >> we are making efforts to contain it. >> sandra: what are we supposed to make of that, we aren't going to control the virus? isn't that the goal? >> i think, look, what the chief was trying to say and maybe there was a talk over there. >> sandra: there was. >> mitigation. our game plan is we want to work intensely with governors, mayors and local officials of every state particularly where these hot spots are jumping again in order to mitigate and control the virus. mitigation is absolutely key. mitigation means sticking to the guidelines that have worked

in the past, masking, distancing, testing, good hygiene, be concerned about family gatherings. be concerned about large gatherings. what the chief was saying is those are the mitigation policies that have worked and we will continue to work plus let's not forget our scientists are saying we're getting closer and closer to a vaccine. we've already developed a lot of therapies. that will be put out in the weeks ahead. so i think that's part of it. so it's a question of again working with all state and local official efs to use the guidelines, have all the ppe that we've done in huge amounts and tension, and that will mitigate and control the virus. that's what we've done in the past and we'll continue to do that. i think that's where the chief was going. >> sandra: there has been some reports that the president is considering firing the f.b.i. director christopher wray, gina haskell and others mark esper

from defense. is that true? >> i can't say anything about that. that's not my lane. no comment on that. >> sandra: final thoughts if i can ask you the red and blue states of recovery. joe biden's k-shaped economy is made in the lockdown state. not sure if you had a chance to read that yet. a lot of talk about k-shaped recovery, v-shaped recovery. you said to me a moment ago and it stuck with me you don't think the president needs to lay out a detailed plan ahead of election day. do you think there might be growing pressure on the president to do so considering how important that is in this election? what, for example, are you forecasting for economic growth in a second president trump term? >> well, look, all right, there is a lot of hits there. first of all let me say on the question of a detailed plan we are working carefully to back

up the president's promises for an additional middle class tax cut as well as to maintain business tax cuts permanently offshoring tax incentives, infrastructure and so forth. also more deregulation efforts. also i think there will be some executive orders to protect energy independence coming down also an trade. look, we've put out a lot. we've mentioned it, i've talked about it. there is more coming on that score. i would say to you when i think with your second question is look, i think we've come a long way just in five months, okay? 11 1/2 million jobs have gone back to work. that's about half. much more needs to be done. there is still too much hardship but we're proud of that. and we're not going to shut down the economy. we are going to work towards mitigation that i mentioned before. elsewhere, we've seen a tremendous boom in housing, a tremendous boom in retail

sales, a tremendous boom in car sales, tremendous boom in new business start-ups and applications. in america, you may fail in one and then you get yourself up and start a new business. that's what's happening as long as we keep the economy open. so i think we're in good shape. now q3 will be strong. q4 will have plenty of momentum. 2021 could be a tremendous economic year provided that we don't roll back the tax cuts and deregulations that gave us the big growth, the low unemployment, and the benefits to those who need it the most in the middle class. in other words, let's stay with first principles here. let's have ourselves an economy that rewards work and doesn't punish work. let's have ourselves an economy that provides incentives for success. that's what i think is the key point. >> sandra: all right, larry. thanks for the time this

morning. as always, really appreciate it. tune in for full election night coverage. bret baier and martha maccallum starting here 6:00 p.m. eastern time on the fox news channel eight days away. >> trace: fights break out at a jews for trump parade in new york city. a group of anti-trump demonstrators confronting the pro trump demonstration as election day nears. a live report on that straight ahead. a big day on capitol hill. senate republicans set to confirm judge amy coney barrett to the supreme court over the strong objections of the democrats. reaction from ken starr is next.

>> sandra: a live look at downtown pennsylvania. the president is set to speak to american workers. the lehigh international airport. that will be his first stop. then lancaster county and then it's on to blair county. three stops in battleground pennsylvania today for the president. we'll see him a short time from now. >> trace: busy day for the president. democrats holding the senate floor throughout the night. republicans appear to have the

votes to make amy coney barrett a member of the supreme court. we bring in ken starr. always good to see you, sir. you've seen this and watching c-span or whatever and see the democrats controlling the senate floor for the better part of several hours now. marathon floor talks. they take and put them on social media. they know they have no chance here to block the confirmation of amy coney barrett. what is the play here for democrats in your mind? >> i think they're playing for the election to get the base all stirred up but it is a great day if this goes the way we think it is going to go. millions of americans, it's a great day for the supreme court because the spirit of justice scalia lives on. she will be her own justice but her approach is that of justice scalia, let the people rule themselves, let's not be ruled

by judges. it comes down as simply as that. >> trace: i want to put this quote on the screen from michael bennett. ours is a senate where words have lost their meaning. liberation is no longer necessary because conclusions are all foregone. i find as it is interesting the same senators who were saying the republicans this whole process is rigged are the same ones saying they're in favor possibly packing the court. it seems like there is kind of a loggerheads. senators at loggerheads here. >> exactly. it's a little bit of whining sore losers but we lost justice ruth bader ginsburg to death and it was a tragedy. life then marches on. we don't hold seats open. when we have the circumstances this year as we said a zillion times now the president and the senate controlled by the same party.

history is the guide. 29 times. this is essentially the last death cries of the losing cause. they should have anticipated this a long time ago and i'll be blunt. they should have persuaded justice ginsburg to step down before the last election. but in any event what's done is done and we will have a new day on the supreme court with again the spirit of justice scalia being revived and restored by the presence of his former law clerk. who will be her own judge. >> trace: you talk about the spirit of justice. one of her first cases, it could be pivotal in this election, the pennsylvania case, whether or not you can count ballots after election day. the supreme court, of course, locked 4-4 on it last week. republicans are hoping that it comes back up again. this could be significant in her first couple of days on the court. >> there is no question for the

sake of the court as well as for justice barrett i hope it doesn't happen. the pennsylvania situation is really a travesty. imagine knocking on the door of your favorite voting booth, voting place and saying i know that the voting booth is closed but i want to vote. they would be turned away and might be arrested. what the governor did he tried to get legislation through to protect ballots coming in after the election is all over. the legislature said no. so it's going to be a very interesting fight, probably renewed in the supreme court of the united states and that's unfortunate but that's one of the reasons the supreme court sets. >> trace: always good to see you, sir, thank you. >> thank you, trace. >> sandra: fox news alert. fights breaking out between supporters and opponents of president trump in new york city's time square during a jews for trump car parade.

11 people were arrested. david lee miller is live in new york city on that for us. david lee. at least one high profile person was caught up in all this. >> that's right. we're talking about the man often referred to as america's mayor. former nrk city mayor and personal attorney rudy giuliani was caught up in scuffle. his car was hit with an egg rolling down fifth avenue along with other vehicles demonstrating support for the president. supporters shouted at giuliani. using explicit language that we can't repeat that he is not welcome in new york city. the confrontation took place near trump tower. hundreds of cars were driven in into manhattan as jews for trump and black voices for trump. giuliani was not injured and safely drove away from the

scene. anti-trump demonstrators attempted to tear banners off cars and threw red paint. they carried a massive 2020 playing through time square. punches were thrown and pepper spray was used by anti-trump protestors. the nypd tried to separate the groups and at least two officers suffered minor injuries. remember now, election day is just over one week away. the nypd says it is preparing for more protests. >> sandra: david lee miller, thank you. >> trace: president trump set to arrive in pennsylvania any moment now. the president will speak to supporters at a rally in allentown, probably the top of the hour. it's one of three stops in that state today. sandra takes us on a spin on the touch screen next. >> president trump: i love pennsylvania. i won it the last time against crooked hillary, right? pennsylvania, a major state.

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fda approved for 10 years. >> sandra: let's take a look at the touch screen. first of all i want to show you what is happening as far as pennsylvania is concerned with the president making three stops in the state today. the real clear politics average does show that joe biden is leading in the state. this is the latest. now he is polling 49.8%. the average of polls. so he is leading by more than 5 percentage points in that state. as we look at the key concerns for voters on the ground in pennsylvania, the economy and the coronavirus. so far joe biden is polling ahead of the president when it comes to handling of the coronavirus. president trump still leads with the cone me. let's bring in a consultant.

why is the president spending so much time, eight days out from election day in pennsylvania? he has three stops today there alone. >> because pennsylvania is essential to the president. if he can hold basically all the states that traditional republican states that he held in 2016, that he won in 2016 and only hold onto pennsylvania, what is traditionally called the blue wall, in other words, lose wisconsin and michigan, he is the next president of the united states. pennsylvania is essential to his success. it is essential to his campaign and i think when i looked at where he traveled this weekend, you saw him basically drawing the 2016 map again. i think it's very shrewd and important for him to focus on pennsylvania. >> sandra: i brought pennsylvania up on the touch screen as you can see. president trump as a reminder won by a very narrow margin. less than a point back in 2016. president trump we should see

him on the ground a short time from now in allentown. lehigh county, tell us about this. hillary clinton secured victory there 52% of the vote in 2016 to president trump's 47.7%. what does he need to tell his audience there? what does he need to tell the undecided voter on the ground in pennsylvania and specifically in some of these counties? >> i think he needs to speak to both the undecided voter as well as his own traditional base. lehigh and the center part of pennsylvania, that's home to the traditional trump voter. he needs to make sure he is getting every single one of them out to vote. and frankly, even with the polls today, if he is able to do that, he could wind up getting another winning pennsylvania once again. if he is able to get the traditional base out, which is what i think you are hearing him say. there are also some undecided voters out there. he should be trying to speak to

them because joe biden is trying to communicate with them right now, too. >> sandra: lancaster county is the second stop. 1:30 eastern time today as we heads into the southeast corner of the state. we talk about these eastern counties in pennsylvania that are so key for the president. why lancaster county and throw in there the surge in early voting that we have seen so far and what that means for this state? >> i think that's what makes this election much more interesting than other elections. and much more significant in terms of strategy. if we open the ballot box in pennsylvania today, joe biden would win. he is currently ahead in the polls and because democrats according to all the polling want to vote early, they want the make vote by mail. they've cast their ballots. president trump is playing the game of catch-up and that catch-up ends on tuesday. he has to figure out how to get and keep all his people

motivated, to get them out to the polls, and at a time when he sort of knows that right now the other side is in the lead. and that's i think true nationally and it is different than historical voting patterns are where the early vote tends to be slightly more republican nationally. >> sandra: as we finish up here i have left pennsylvania and gone to georgia because joe biden will be traveling to this state tomorrow. kamala harris is going to be traveling later in the week. but for georgia to be in play in this election, what does that tell you and now especially the biden campaign in its final days will be spending time on the ground there? >> for georgia to be in play is challenging news to the president. if joe biden manages to win georgia, i don't see how we can get trump over 270 electoral

votes and get him to the presidency. georgia has not gone for a democrat since 1992 with bill clinton. and i think it was one of the states that actually played a big role in making sure clinton won in 1992. it's a must-win for the president and so when i see that joe biden is traveling to georgia and i think kamala harris is traveling to texas, there are two questions. what -- they all boil down to what does their polling really show? presidential campaigns invest a lot more in polling than media outlets. you see what their polling shows based on where they travel. so their polling must be showing they have a chance there. but their polling could be wrong. it might be a waste of time. >> sandra: we all learned that back in 2016. it was so great to have you take us through this. i pulled up texas as you were talking to look at president trump's victory back in 2016 there. as you said to have this in play really says a lot eight

days out. thank you for your time this morning. really appreciate it. trace. >> trace: back to pennsylvania now. a live look at allentown. the president expected to speak there any moment. the first of three campaign stops for the president today. when he comes out we'll be there live next.

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pandemic is the greatest crisis of our age. take a listen. we don't have that sound. in other news vice president mike pence plans a campaign schedule this week. >> trace: we have to go to the president. he is in allentown, pennsylvania, speaking. let's watch. >> president trump: i don't understand you. i'm not -- go ahead. [inaudible question] >> no, he has waved the white flag on life. he doesn't leave his basement. this guy doesn't leave his basement. he is a pathetic candidate, i will tell you that. [inaudible question] >> president trump: not at all. absolutely the opposite. we have done an incredible job. look at what is happening in europe. what is happening to europe is -- nobody has seen anything like it.

you used to tell me all about europe. we're doing a great job. we are absolutely rounding the corner. other than the fake news wants to scare everybody we're rounding the corner. go ahead. [inaudible question] >> president trump: we'll see probably at the white house later on this evening. see how it all works out. the vote is taking place. we'll see how that works out. [inaudible question] >> president trump: it's holding, the cease-fire is holding. okay? we'll see you over at the event. [inaudible question] >> president trump: was i offered? no. we'll have the vaccines very soon. they're in full development and we'll have them very soon. [inaudible question] >> president trump: we don't have them yet. they haven't been approved yet.

they are going to be approved very soon. thank you. [inaudible question]. >> trace: the president there speaking on the tarmac. he is in allentown, pennsylvania. he will speak at a rally minutes from now. we'll take you back there live. he was asked about the coronavirus. he is not giving up. joe biden is the one giving up on the pandemic and giving up on life. called him a pathetic candidate. the president touched briefly on a couple of other topics there. you can see the podium right there where the president will be brought into. this by the way, sandra, the third or the first of three campaign stops for the president today as he goes across pennsylvania. pennsylvania is narrowing and a lot of people have said look, the road back to the presidency goes through florida and it goes through pennsylvania. you win those two, there is a path to 270. the president is spending significant time in pennsylvania today trying to wooh some of those undecided

voters. >> sandra: the stark contrast in the campaigns with the president three campaign stops in pennsylvania alone today. joe biden no planned events on the campaign trail today before eventually heads to georgia tomorrow. kamala harris will head to texas on friday. the president is going to be all through the state, lehigh county first stop as pictured allentown, to lancaster county next and on to blair county, all maga rallies that we'll see from the president as he tries to secure a victory in that state. he is spending a lot of time there, trace. >> trace: he will spend a lot of time talking about the economy. you touched on this earlier. the economy and coronavirus according to the administration are topics one and two. the economy is v-shaped and coming back. larry kudlow saying half the jobs they lost have come back and a very robust third and fourth quarter. the president will pick up on that message say his people in

these rallies about how the economy. energy is a big topic in pennsylvania as we touched on earlier because of joe biden saying that he might be willing to phase out of fossil fuels. a lot of people who work in the oil and energy sector very concerned about their prospects for the future. >> sandra: as far as the economy and the coronavirus, the two biggest issues for these candidates as they make their way on the campaign trail this week on to election day next week. look at the dow down 600 points. often a barometer that the president looks at. the darkest days of the pandemic. taken a significant hit today. what you just heard from the president talking to reporters, i hit on joe biden for not leaving his basement and then on the coronavirus, trace, he doubled down on saying that we have absolutely rounded the corner talking about a vaccine. we'll have very soon, said the

president. we should see the president very soon on the ground there in allentown as we await the president we begin a brand-new hour. watching the dow and watching the campaign trail. this is a fox news alert on this monday morning live to the battleground state of pennsylvania where president trump is about to begin speaking to supporters in allentown less than eight days out from election day. early voting is underway in this key swing state with almost 1 1/2 million ballots cast so far. welcome back to "america's newsroom," i'm sandra smith, hi, trace. >> trace: i'm trace gallagher. he is making three stops in pennsylvania today and you can bet he will bring up his rival's fracking flip-flop where the emergency industry is huge. joe biden is off the campaign trail today.

>> sandra: to chief white house correspondent john roberts live on the ground in pennsylvania where the president has a few campaign stops, one of them there today. good morning, john. >> sandra, trace, good morning to you. it has been raining all morning here. the hardy people in martinsburg, pennsylvania are certainly not afraid of a little bit of rain. they are coming out in droves to see the president. he has three stops. we should point out today starts in allentown, then he finishes up in altoona area. president down by five points to joe biden in pennsylvania but the president thinks he can pull it out. when you really look at what he is doing, he is barnstorming the nation on offense in more than 10 states. looking more like a challenger than an incumbent. that's the way the president was in 2016 and managed to win the election back in november of 2016. the president last night in new hampshire saying he thinks he can win there as well. listen here. >> president trump: this is a

more important election because we're fighting people that we've got to end it. we have to end the fight. we have to put them down and end the fight. our country will never be a socialist country. we have to end it now. >> the president with what he believes is a powerful issue here in pennsylvania. a statement that joe biden made at the debate that he wants to ultimately end the oil industry. at his allentown rally this morning is president is expected to say on live television joe biden said no fracking, no jobs and no energy for pennsylvania families. at rallies the president playing a video of joe biden's own words about fracking in new hampshire criticizing biden's stance and oil and cuomo not allowing the pipeline to be built to bring natural gas to pennsylvania. >> president trump: are you

listening texas and pennsylvania? actually, are you listening? you know why? you have -- because of new york, you have the highest energy bills in the country, new hampshire. all of new england because they won't allow -- we'll do it anyway, but they won't allow a pipeline to go through new york up to new england. >> with just a number of days left in the election it's difficult to know where president trump stands. polls back in 2016 didn't accurately represent the depth of his support. those polls are showing similar things that they did in 2016. again we know he pulled out a win then and there certainly is a tremendous amount of enthusiasm at all these rallies we'll see in pennsylvania today and across the nation as he continues all the way into november 3. we'll be here for you in the altoona area later on today. >> sandra: excellent. thank you. >> trace: vice president joe biden heading to georgia tomorrow. the once reliably red state is

a toss-up with the president and biden neck-and-neck in the polls. biden says he feels more confident making a play for georgia's 16 electoral votes. peter doocy live in wilmington, delaware. how is biden framing his message to voters in those states? >> trace, biden and his top surrogates are trying to convince red state voters that a vote for biden is a vote to put hyper partisan times behind us. >> we're focused on maintaining as many paths to 270 electoral votes as we possibly can. we believe we're seeing energy across the country for joe biden. and against donald trump. the v.p. is going to be -- v.p. biden will be in georgia on tuesday, that's right. he will be making a significant message speech there. he will be delivering closing argument. >> biden has spent most of his time lately in more traditional

battlegrounds that trump won especially pennsylvania. but also michigan, wisconsin, and florida. and now the democratic ticket is trying to expand the map visiting new states for the first time since the primaries fielding questions about trips now to georgia or another red one that kamala harris is hitting this week, texas. >> the bottom line is we're focusing on every state and we are working to earn the vote of every american regardless of where they live. >> an added bonus for democrats of a biden or harris visit to texas or georgia elevates the competitive senate races in those places as well. he went to church close to home yesterday and that's where he remains at home here in wilmington. no public events on the schedule, although it is possible that they could add something in person at the last minute because the campaign has not yet advised that there is a lid for the day yet.

trace. >> trace: peter doocy live in wilmington. thanks. >> i will always share with him my lived experience as it relates to any issue. i promised joe i will give him that perspective and always be honest with him. >> is that a socialist or progressive perspective? >> no. no, it is the perspective of a woman who grew up a black child in america. >> sandra: that is how kamala harris reacted when she was asked if she was a socialist. joining us now katie pavlich and fox news contributor. the question was is that a socialist perspective? she answered with a lot of laughing and that answer did go on longer than that, katie. but what did you take away from that moment? >> well, senator harris tends to think that she can laugh her way through serious questions in the very limited number of

interviews that she or the vice president -- former vice president give to the american people. there is a very serious question in america about the way forward in terms of each of these campaigns presenting different paths of capitalism, free markets, versus a socialist bent in the left wing of the democratic party which joe biden had to address by finding a vice president who could, you know, make sure that the left wing of the party felt comfortable that they would have a voice in a biden administration. senator harris as was pointed out in the interview is the most far-left democrat in washington, d.c. in the senate. instead of explaining why her policies positions may be better for the country and different than joe bidens, she just laughed about it and didn't give any details. the fact is she has a long voting record in the senate that is very far left and the democratic party has had a hard time this year and going back

to 2016 in keeping the party together because there are these factions. when she says she has a deal with the former vice president joe biden if they were to win the white house, she is talking about presenting policy potion, not just talking about presenting her personal preferences based on her own personal history of growing up in america. this is about policy, not about necessarily what she claims in that interview. >> sandra: president trump saw an opportunity there. here he is on kamala harris in his speech in florida last week. listen. >> president trump: we won't be a socialist nation. we won't have a socialist president, especially a female socialist president. we're not going to put up with it. >> sandra: we'll move on to the fight for the suburbs. obviously eight days out this is a huge focus on the campaign trail. here is joe biden that 60 minutes interview taking on president trump and how he is doing in the suburbs. listen. >> he wouldn't know a suburb

unless he took a wrong turn. it is not 1950. there are black and white families living next door to one another and drive each other's kids to soccer practice. a different world that he lives in. >> sandra: the 2016 suburban vote, president trump did win versus hillary clinton. narrow margin there. 49% of it. just over 48% of the suburban vote. that was fox news exit poll data. as you look at the focus in the suburbs is the president struggling there and can he make up ground in these final days? >> if you look at the polling, the polling indicates he is struggling there. if you look at the polling and compare it to 2016, president trump was well within the same gap of joe biden now that he was with hillary clinton in a number of states he was behind in and won. of course the president is fighting for suburban voters. he is in pennsylvania today, as we've been talking about throughout your show, sandra,

he is in a number of states throughout the country campaigning for exactly suburban voters but also all voters. you have to remember looking at the data from the rally that he is giving, the rnc has provided, a third of the people who go to the rallies are democrats and there is a significant number of people who go to them who aren't affiliated. he is targeting the suburbs just as joe biden is doing it off the campaign trail. president trump is gaining voters from other sectors that maybe didn't vote for him in 2016 and aren't necessarily republican voters. that's how he beat hillary clinton in 2016 by flipping the counties that president obama had won to trump counties and his goal is to hold onto those voters. >> sandra: we show you the suburbs. let's show you what is happening. look back at the 2016 pennsylvania results. 48% of the vote for president trump to hillary clinton -- you remember how close it was, katie. you look now at the real clear politics average for pennsylvania. that now as of this morning

does show joe biden maintaining that 5-point lead over the president. you can pop it back up on the screen. the rally that is about to be underway allentown, pennsylvania, the first of three stops as you mentioned for the president there today. what is he trying to do, katie, in these final days before election day? >> well, first of all trying to win as many votes as he can. to prove the polls wrong. he was behind in 2016 against hillary clinton and won that state. you will hear a lot about joe biden's policies on fracking today. he has said repeatedly during the primary and asked the president to put the video up on his website him saying he wants to ban fracking. he transitioned into the argument i don't want to ban fracking but i want to phase it out. there will be a lot more government regulation like they saw during the obama administration that was pulled off during the trump administration. so i guarantee the president

will talk a lot about energy policy targeting the industries in pennsylvania and again drawing the contrast between his policy positions in that state and those of the former vice president. >> sandra: we have been told the motorcade arrived for the rally in allentown, pennsylvania, lehigh county. as we await the president talk about the strategy on the part of the biden campaign? we had the report from peter doocy talking about biden's off the campaign trail today while president trump is making three stops in pennsylvania alone. they haven't quite called a lid on the day yet. that might happen or might not. maybe we'll have an unexpected event. what is the strategy there to right now i think only georgia is on the schedule for biden tomorrow and kamala harris heads to texas on friday. >> when i talk to my democratic strategist friends that you should always run as if you're 10 points behind. the biden campaign hasn't taken

that approach since biden won the primary earlier this year and was the designated democratic candidate to go up against president trump. and the strategy seems to be that they are going to somewhat quit while they're ahead. they feel comfortable they're ahead in the polls despite them being similar to 2016. that seems to be the strategy of we're ahead. we don't want to send the vice president out on the campaign trail for him to make gaffes as he did over the weekend by referring to president trump as george w. bush. keeping him off the campaign trail to avoid making mistakes in the final days leading up to the election while they feel comfortable they're ahead seems to be the strategy for them. >> sandra: unbelievable. eight days out and while we're looking live at allentown, pa. we have the dow watch. markets are trying to figure out what happens next tuesday. the dow is down 626 points today. a lot of other things going into play there. has rebounded a lot from the lows of the coronavirus pandemic. when the president was on his

way a moment ago and he did stop and take questions from reporters for a couple of minutes, one of the things that we heard from the president was we have absolutely rounded the corner when he was asked about coronavirus. obviously critics, the media, have hammered him hard on this saying we're not turning a corner, we're still seeing a rise in cases in this country. he didn't just double down saying we're rounding it, we're rounding a corner. the economy and coronavirus are key for both these candidates in this election. so do comments like that help the president? >> i think it depends on what your definition of rounding the corner is. some people define rounding the corner as not rounding the corner as not having as many coronavirus cases. we're seeing cases going up. the administration has always defined fighting this virus with a balanced approach. so what that means is as we see cases going up we see fewer deaths from the virus and the capability of opening up the

economy while we continue to fight this disease. the president during the debate was very clear about the fact that he does not believe that the cure can be worse than the disease. shutdowns have very serious economic and mental consequences for the country not to mention school children. a number of reports coming out now as we've seen the distance learning, a number of case into the lower socio-economic groups are the ones suffering the most when it comes to kids being out of school. i think the president defining it differently than maybe the media would or democratic critics is not clear but i think it depends on what your definition is. if your definition is no more cases, total shutdown, when you look at all the polling on this, the majority of americans don't want another complete shutdown. they want a balanced approach to fighting this disease. >> sandra: what we may hear from the president in a few moments about biden on his purported flip-flopping on the issue of fracking, he is

expected to hit this hard on some of these key stops that he is making in pennsylvania today. he says his party and joe will stop fracking immediately, the case that the president makes. millions of jobs lost as energy prices soar. you expect to hear more in a few moments as he speaks to people in lehigh county. >> joe is still saying he wants to phase out fracking. get rid of it. he changed the way he wants to do it. they've also said they don't want to do frank on federal land. that will affect a number of people in the industry and national security issue which the president has talked about in the past about how we're now the number one oil producer in the world. we used to have to rely on enemy countries for energy. we no longer have to do that. when it comes to moving the needle here in terms of pennsylvania voters which is why he is there today, we always talk about how there are

so many people who voted, the number and the slice of undecided voters is small. that's the point. these swing states are always decided by a very, very slim margin. we saw that in 2016. he is speaking to that really small sliver of undecided voters. when it comes to the economy being a top issue for them he is certainly going to hit that in a state that relies on the fracking industry when joe biden says he will ban it and then he might not ban it right now but we'll put in regulation to phase it out which also means the industry will go away. >> sandra: "wall street journal" editorial board took on the issue of transitioning away from oil which became a big moment on the debate stage for the two candidates last week titled mr. biden will transition you now said the editorial board. he won't ban fracking he will strangle it with regulation said the editorial board. they rehashed that back and forth between biden and trump on the debate stage. would you close down the oil industry president trump asked

biden? biden responded i would transition from the oil industry, yes. you remember president trump threw his head back and said oh, that's a big statement. how hard do you expect that to hit joe biden in these final days? final thoughts. >> well, like i said when it comes to the very small number of voters looking at each of these candidates' plans of what it means for their family and their economic situation, when it comes to what joe biden said not just about fracking in places like pennsylvania but the oil industry as a whole he said he wanted to get rid of using fossil fuels in 2025. that's five years from now. people can look at that and say well, that means that entire industry is going to be stifled and regulated and transitioning to other power that he didn't necessarily define or we're going to see that was a false promise given bay politician that can't necessarily be kept. president trump i'm sure will be talking about that today. as you mentioned during the

debate when he heard biden say those statements he said whoa, that's a big statement and he is trying to hone in on the blue collar workers that typically would be democrat union voters who may have previously endorsed someone like joe biden but as we saw in 2016, they were interested in president trump's economic message and he is going to have to remind them he has delivered on these issues for them. >> sandra: all right. you can hear the crowd getting ready for the president as he has arrived. allentown, pennsylvania, eight days out from election day. we're all watching this together, trace. the president stopped to talk to reporters a little bit. it is raining there we're told. as he takes the stage for so many who have arrived to support him. >> trace: you watch the president come up here. they have been playing the song. an indication the president was about to walk in. secret service was sweeping the stage. as soon as that sweep is concluded and that song starts, that is a very good indication that the president is about to

come out and make his comments. the first of three stops today for the president in pennsylvania. we've shown you the real clear politics polls. the president down by 5 in pennsylvania. you talked about it earlier, sandra. this whole issue of energy and fracking and, you know, and starting to phase out fossil fuels has hit a nerve in pennsylvania. byron york was talking about it earlier and there are voters who are very concerned about the fact a lot of energy jobs in pennsylvania could go by the wayside if, in fact, those promises are kept. as the president is about to take to the podium you can imagine he will talk a lot about energy, talk a lot about the economy and he will talk a bit about coronavirus and what he believes the administration is doing right in trying to control this thing. >> sandra: he will address american workers as he takes the podium there, allentown, pennsylvania, lehigh county on to lancaster and blair county

after this. the president taking it all in as he enters the final stretch to election day 2020. let's listen together. ♪ and i won't to get the men who died who gave that right to me and i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today ♪ ♪ there ain't no doubt i love this land, god bless the u.s.a. ♪ [cheering and applause] [crowd chanting]

>> president trump: thank you very much, allentown, thank you, very much, allentown. [cheering and applause] >> president trump: eight days, do you believe that? eight days from now we'll win the commonwealth of pennsylvania and we are going to win four more great years in the white house. [cheering and applause] i want to begin today by discussing an issue of existential importance to pennsylvania, very, very important. last week sleepy joe biden made perhaps the most shocking admission ever uttered in the history of presidential debates. in other words, he blew it. on live television 91-9 did you see that? do you know what that means? 91-9. we won't talk about that in

front of the fake news. joe biden confirmed his plan to abolish the entire u.s. oil industry. that means no fracking, no jobs, no energy for pennsylvania families, texas, all the others. he wants to go wind. let's go wind. let's go have black-outs all over the country and pennsylvania. he wants to go with windmills that are made in germany and china. and send big, big carbon into the air when they are making them, you know that, right? it's a different continent that's okay. biden's plan is an economic death sentence for pennsylvania's energy sector. i think you all know that. did you see it, though? do you believe it? and even the anchor who i thought did a very good job, by the way, kristen, i thought she did a good job. she said why do you say that? why are you saying that? he will eradicate your energy

and send pennsylvania into a crippling depression. somehow that doesn't sound good, mr. congressman. the biden energy shutdown. he wants to shut down the whole country and we're rounding the turn. all they want to talk about is covid. on november 4th you won't be hearing so much about it. covid, covid, covid, covid. [cheering and applause] today let's talk about covid. all over europe. they don't talk about that. now we're rounding the turn and we have the vaccines coming out soon years ahead of schedule. if he would have done it like he did the h1n1 swine flu. it was an epidemic, disaster. he had no idea what the hell he was doing. you know that. the biden energy shutdown would inflict deep pain and misery on pennsylvania, mass layoffs, constant black-outs and brown-outs, soaring gas prices. nice to have that $2 gasoline,

isn't it? surging energy bills, no air conditioning in the summer, no heat during the winter, and no electricity peak hours. let's watch president trump on television. i'm sorry, we won't be able to do it. the wind isn't blowing today, darling. we won't be able to. no, it doesn't power those big factories that we're opening up all over the country. biden's running mate, kamala harris, oh. did you see her last night on television with the laugh? she was laughing at a horrible question about her. she just laughed and found it so funny. most liberal senator. she is the most liberal senator by far. more liberal than crazy bernie. even sponsored the $100 trillion green new deal. the green new deal.

i don't think so. the green new deal would be an economic disaster for our nation. certainly for this state. biden and harris have a pledge to join and rejoin the paris -- you know about paris? the paris climate accord. one of the great disasters of all time. call up france. how is paris doing. shipping your energy jobs to foreign polluters all over china and the rest of the world. it was hard bringing them back. we brought a lot of our jobs are coming back now. [cheering and applause] they're coming back. speaking about jobs, i want to thank the people that own this plant. you know, you have a governor named tom wolf, i guess. this thing was set up just a few hours ago. that's why it's so incredible that people across the street trying to get in. this was set up because your governor made it almost impossible for us to find any

site. normally we would have had an airport. we would have gotten in and had -- this is really a nice place. i want to thank the trucking company they're great. they're supporters. [cheering and applause] but we just found it a little while ago because they were shut out. we had a deal. it was a deal and they broke the deal. headed by governor tom wolf who has your whole commonwealth shut down. the whole commonwealth is shut down. probably on november 4th it will open. they'll announce november 4th. did you see the one governor said, no i think we should be open by around november 4th. oh, thank you. they think they will inflict harm in bad numbers. our numbers are so good. our comeback numbers are the best anywhere in the world. but you know what it does inflict tremendous harm on the people shut out of their jobs, that will lose their jobs with

suicides and drugs and alcohol and all the problems. so tom wolf next time give us a little notice, governor. and i'll remember it, tom. i'm going to remember it, tom. hello, mr. president, this is governor wolf, i need help. i need help. you know what? these people are bad. we go out of our way regardless republican, democrat, when they have a problem. but he shut us out and he tried shutting us out of two other venues. we have three of these today in pennsylvania. [cheering and applause] three of these. these just came out. i have to say because i watch the fake news. there has never been anything like what is happening now. but these just came out. rasmussen just came out. trump is leading. that's been one of the most accurate polls. you don't read it. [cheering and applause]

a pollster called us yesterday and said you have really good numbers but they won't accept them. when we put them out. unless they're negative the press doesn't put them out. how about big tech? how about the biden scandal and they aren't even covering it. they don't want to talk about it. and by the way, that's a real scandal. and the press doesn't want to write about it except for the "new york post." the press won't write about it. big tech won't take it. [crowd chanting lock him up, lock him up, lock him up ♪ ] people have no idea what will happen in pennsylvania. i know pennsylvania. don't forget, i went to school in pennsylvania. i went to school in pennsylvania. college. and i know it much better than

he does. he is always talking about i grew up, right? i grew up in pennsylvania. he grew up nowhere. he didn't grow up. did you watch him on 60 minutes last yesterday and when he called me george? no, no, not george. what a mess. what a mess. he called me george. i don't know if i should be insulted or happy about it. sort of insulted. the first time that's happened to me in a long time. the polls just came out. just came out. let me tell you the real polls, okay? we feel we're winning almost easily. you don't hear that. i watched television purposely to see what was going on today. it started on cnn is the worst. i hear at&t is finally getting smart and they will fire the head of cnn.

that's what i hear. [cheering and applause] zucker. but you know what? look at this. rasmussen was very accurate last time. one of the top two or three. rasmussen, trump approval rating 53 and 52. 53%. [cheering and applause] so in another poll we're leading in nevada, that's nice. we're one up in nevada. way up in texas despite what you keep hearing. [cheering and applause] five up in texas. i think we're much more than that if you listen to the governor of texas. in ohio we're way up. by 4 or 5 points. 5 points. in florida we have it down as 4 up in florida. that's a lot for florida. so in florida rasmussen poll. these are all different. that's the rasmussen.

50 to 46. you don't hear these numbers, right? you hear these guys get on television florida is going to be very tough. we're winning in florida. we're winning the florida. you don't hear it. we're nicely up, five up in georgia. landmark. it is called landmark. five up in georgia. you don't hear that. i heard today he is losing in georgia. we're not losing in georgia. we'll win by much more than five. in arizona we're nicely up, really nicely up. very good. we're winning big in iowa but we should be with what i do for the farmers. got them $28 billion from china. in montana we're so far up they don't -- shouldn't even have the election. likewise in utah, so far up, we're plus 12, plus 15. and in west virginia we're 20

up, 20 points up. [cheering and applause] these are just -- they came out today. and then in a head-to-head with sleepy joe biden on the national basis. i am really into the states. hillary used to complain. i never did a national. i think winning the vote, -- overall vote is almost easier than the electoral college. last year she would complain. she used to campaign in the wrong states. but they probably learned. but in the national poll we're leading against sleepy joe biden. we're leading. that's the rasmussen poll head-to-head. so we're leading head-to-head against sleepy joe. i just thought i would do that. remember in the old days four years ago you used to read the polls. i would drive them crazy. that's not right. i turned out to be right. so i want you to hear it. i saw on television now the only way we get it on. they don't put it on. they are fake and corrupt

people. they are fake. they're corrupt. i watched -- i never watch cnn but i had to see it this morning to see. so i watched them for a little while. i watched msnbc owned by commas, msdnc. you watch these polls and say it's terrible. they're fake polls, they're fake. they are total fake. these are real polls. we will win in florida, we are going to win in pennsylvania, i think. [cheering and applause] look at this venue. you have thousands of people across the street that couldn't get in because honestly secret service wasn't that well equipped. we just set this place up. we just set it up. and think of it. we have a venue and the governor that counts the ballots, right? the governor counts the ballots.

we are watching you, governor, very closely in philadelphia. we're watching you. a lot of bad things happen there with the counting of the votes. we're watching you, governor wolf, very closely. we're watching you. but the same guy that makes it impossible for us to get a venue, we just got this thing literally hours ago and to have people across the street trying to get in is amazing. it is amazing. [cheering and applause] which tells you -- i don't know if you saw the ohio rally. we had 35,000, 40,000 people. thank you very much. [crowd chanting] thank you. one of them had a guest this morning. i watched it for this reason.

i had to get -- it started off covid, covid, covid. don't go and vote. don't go and vote. you know who is not voting? the democrats. they're not voting. if you look at some of these early polls, we're supposed to be way down in the initial week because it's the fake ballots right, the phony ballots are tha* are crooked as hell. then we catch up but we have states where we're leading in early voting. that's trouble because we win everything from here on in. we win everything. just get out there and vote or if you have an absentee send it in. there is nothing like getting out and voting. i did it two days ago. [cheering and applause] it was so good. i went in florida palm beach i said okay, i'm here to vote. and the woman was fantastic. sir, do you have identification? i said just happen to have my passport. sir, do you have any additional

identification? i do. she said thank you. she was good. she was doing what you have to do. she was good. she was totally good. [cheering and applause] i hear this guy back there. so she did a great job. you know what? it was a beautiful thing because there was no way you can cheat. then here do this, here, sir, they give you a booth, you sit down and do what you have to do. you get up and they fold it and put it in. you put it in the machine yourself. it was so professional. there is no way you can cheat. with these ballots, who is sendsing them? who is receiving them? who is bringing them back? who is signing them? he it's ridiculous. it's the only way we can lose in my opinion is massive fraud and that's what is happening because all over the country you are seeing it. thousands and thousands of ballots, how about the military

ballots that were thrown into a garbage can? with the name e name trump on i. so all we can say is law enforcement is watching nevada. it is watching philadelphia and pennsylvania by the way. philadelphia in particular. they had a lot of strange things happen over the years in philadelphia. and we're watching you, philadelphia and we're watching at the highest level. [cheering and applause] and we're watching the democrat governor who has his state shut down, a great state, north carolina. he has it shut down. we're watching north carolina. we're watching michigan. we're leading by two points in michigan, right? [cheering and applause] hadn't been won in decades. i brought a lot car plants in. they hadn't had a plant built in 42 years or something and we brought a lot of plants in.

you hear that? that's a brand-new beautiful f-35 jets. [cheering and applause] stealth. that's why you can't see it. that's a super cell. joe biden is a diehard globalist who wiped out your steel mills. you know it better than almost any place in this country. closed down your factories, killed your coal jobs, outsoursed your industries and supported every terrible and disastrous trade deal for the whole -- for 47 years this guy has been there. you saw in the debate. did anybody watch the debate? [cheering and applause] did you see his -- my standard answer joe, you've been there for 47 years, why didn't you do it? right? and you left 3 1/2 years ago. it's not like it was 25 years ago. why didn't you do it, joe? i would have done this for the

pandemic. his chief of staff said that he and himself the chief were grossly incompetent. they had no idea what to do. now they're telling us how to handle a much more lethal problem. it's amazing. i wonder if that chief of staff is still around. he probably said it when he assumed joe couldn't win, right? when joe ran. he was always 1% joe. we used to call him 1% joe. then he ran and now he is at 50%. up there he is at 50%. he ends up winning. tell me is politics a strange game? he was a cheerleader for nafta, which was a disaster for your state. and he enthusiastically voted for china's entry into the world trade organization. decimating your manufacturing and enriching china. it's what made china. he voted for it. pennsylvania lost almost 50% of

its manufacturing jobs after biden. it wasn't only him but it was the thinking. that's what the thinking. decade after decade. vote after vote. joe biden, sleepy joe has betrayed pennsylvania. how the hell can you vote for him? how can you vote for this guy? congressman, how do you vote for this guy? look, he almost got through the debate. i wouldn't say he was winston churchill but it was okay. then we got him on the last question. i said do you mean you are against oil? yes, i weeded it out. i said pennsylvania, texas, are you watching? you have no choice, okay? if you stop fracking, if you stop fracking, which he is against, you remember he said i'm against fracking. i will ban fracking. he did this for over a year.

we only have about 100 clips. we'll play some of them for you in a second. i don't want to play them all. we don't have enough time in the day. but you don't have to take my word for it. because you know what? because it's pennsylvania. i did a special television like -- i did a special treat for you. the late, great, cecil b. demille. here is joe on two things. security and fracking. where is your screen? the screen cost us a fortune. i hope you enjoy it. >> i'm supporting nafta because i think it is a positive thing to do. i do not pretend to be an expert on international trade matters. >> when you ran for president and when barack obama ran for president you both said you would reneejiate nafta. you didn't. >> trade agreements like nafta and trade relations with china

that forced american workers to compete against people making pennies and hour. >> sandra: the president has taken a break for his rally to play some clips going back over several years. part of his campaign. they have a screen to show them to supporters on the ground. some of what we've heard from the president so far. we'll win in florida. we're going to win in pennsylvania. as he has been talking i will point out on the screen a sell-off in the u.s. stock market that we're watching on extended coronavirus fears, lack of stimulus hopes. something that we're watching as the president continues his rally on the ground. trace, first of three stops on the ground in pennsylvania putting off a very optimistic tone to his supporters. you have heard the supporters as they've been very vocal. many masked at a venue that president said they were able to just put together. he had overflow crowd he said. >> trace: there are maga masks

too boot. we were talking about this earlier before the president stepped on stage that he would go after the whole idea of joe biden and energy policies and he started the entire rally with let's begin by saying that joe biden is against fracking going into the other stuff. he wants to limit fossil fuels in the future. that was his first hit. we knew it was coming and it will be the first thing he does in his other two rallies as well. because that is the topic of the day. the president believes it's resonating and we talked to some people, some writers earlier in the show who also believe from the people that they have spoken with in pennsylvania, that this issue is resonating. they are concerned about it and those who are on the bubble might be leaning away from joe biden's policies and toward the president. he is down by five the real clear politics average of polling. so he has some room to make up if you believe the polls. he believes this is the key thing, the energy sector, the jobs in the energy division and

fossil fuel in pennsylvania that can narrow that gap significantly. that's the bet. he has seven days to make it up and a lot of people have already cast their ballots, sandra. it will be fascinating to watch. >> sandra: the president talking on joe biden as he served as u.s. senator for many decades. he led off with a clip when the president resumes the rally we'll get back to it. one of the points he did make was joe biden supported nafta and let china into the world trade organization. this is president trump with his final moments in the final days of his campaign spending time in a key state to his victory in 2016 seeing if he can again secure victory on the ground there in pennsylvania and trace, no more announcements for the day whether or not we'll see joe biden on the campaign trail. he is not expected to be seen until he hits georgia tomorrow and running mate kamala harris in texas on friday. when the president gets back. he will go on for some time. seems like he is just getting

warmed up. >> trace: you were talking to katie pavlich earlier and said something that has been really one of these main stays of politics forever and ever and ever. you always run even to the last day like you are 10 points down. it is a fascinating change when you see joe biden the polls have him leading and you would think in states that maybe, you know, he can push over to his column they're up for grabs at this point in time. arizona and some of these other states you would think there would be this full-court press by biden especially in florida where big stakes, north carolina and michigan where you know that these things are going to come down to the wire and you would think a lot of analysts say that joe biden and his team would be out there doing ex -- exactly what the president is doing two to three rallies day. joe biden is up by more than five points. 5.3%. you would think -- the video is over. we're going back to the president.

let's listen again. [crowd chanting] >> president trump: so will you remember that, pennsylvania, please? [cheering and applause] by the way, who has voted here so far? that's good. because you know pennsylvania is a very late voting state, which i like actually. for obvious reasons i like that. so that's also -- who has not voted yet? who doesn't intend to vote? who is not going to vote? you better say that. you would be in big trouble in this crowd. so who is going to vote for trump? [cheering and applause] you see, that's why i brought all that expensive equipment. it is easier than me saying it, right?

it's great. that's something brand-new just a couple of days and we only bring it to certain locations, okay? even though we got shut out of our main one by your governor, we brought it here. isn't that very descriptive? isn't that better than me telling you he said this and that? there it is. he also said by the way he will cut your social security. you saw that yesterday, right? in 2016 pennsylvania voted to fire this corrupt political establishment and you elected an outsider as your president who is finally putting america first, america first. [cheering and applause] with your vote we will continue to fight the -- we're going to fight. we're going to fight for the american workers and we are going to lower drug prices, support your police. we will support your police. [cheering and applause] we are going to protect your second amendment, which is totally under siege. don't worry about it.

[cheering and applause] as long as i'm your president you don't have to worry about your second amendment. look at what i've done so far. it has been under siege, i can tell you that. we are going to defend our borders. they want open borders. the wall is almost complete, right? they want to have -- we have the strongest border we've ever had right now. they want to have open borders and if you have open borders, you don't have a country. you don't have voters, you don't have a country. [crowd chanting build that wall] almost finished. very shortly it will be finished. we just hit 400 miles of wall. that's a lot. [cheering and applause] and this is a wall that is exactly what border patrol and all of the law enforcement people wanted. we built them. i said could you take it easy? this is getting a little expensive. it's loaded up with equipment

and wires and everything else in addition to the wall. because as you know, the democrats say walls are obsolete, right? i said no, walls and wheels will never be obsolete. walls and wheels. everything else will be obsolete. we want to insure that more products are proudly stamped with the phrase, that beautiful phrase, made in the usa, right? made in the usa. [cheering and applause] we are going to deliver record prosperity, epic job growth. we're doing it already. 11.4 million jobs over the last few months. there has never been a time in our history where we put that many people to work that quickly. groundbreaking therapies and safe vaccines that quickly end the pandemic. it is ending anyway, we're rounding the turn. the vaccines will be incredible. if somebody else were president you would get a vaccine four years from now. normal life, that's what we want, normal life.

we want normal life, we just want normal life. it's happening very quickly. next year will be the greatest economic year in the history of our country. [cheering and applause] i gave working families record-setting tax cuts. biggest tax cut in the history of this country. and this guy is running on tax increases. i never saw it. i said it yesterday i was with a great group in new hampshire. we should do very well there unless you watch television. he will not win. the polls, you are leading? i say why do they keep saying that. they are suppression polls. they make you depressed and by being depressed you say darling, we really like our president a lot but let's just go have dinner and we'll come home and we'll come home early and watch the results. and that didn't happen four years ago. you said darling, he may not win based on television but let's go vote anyway. and then they had in probably

the most exciting evening maybe in the history of television, right? it sure beats any sporting contest, even espn admitted that. never anything like this. then you went, donald trump has won the state of florida, right? remember? and then they said donald trump has just won the state of ohio. so you know with ohio, we went -- i mean, we went for a year. you have to win in ohio, you cannot win unless you win ohio. they go donald trump has just won the state of ohio. here was the problem. one by eight points. that was like the biggest victory. they couldn't believe it. there is something going on here. i'm sure this is just -- remember with the hand, john king, the handshakeing. hand started getting a little shaky. then we won north carolina, we won excuse me, a place called pennsylvania. [cheering and applause]

remember? there is no way, the beginning of the evening, there is no way for donald trump to get to 270, right? and they were right. i got to 306 [cheering and applause] 306 to 223. 306 to 223. it was a -- it was -- that was some evening. you know what? i'll tell you what. i hate to say it and i never thought i would say it because what happened there was legendary. this is a more important -- this is going to be the most important election in our country's history. so get out and vote. my second term i will cut middle class taxes even more. we have a big tax cut. [cheering and applause] and sleepy joe biden has

pledged the biggest tax hike in history. did anybody see 60 minutes last night? did anybody see it? it was a total joke of a show. i released the thing early. did you see his performance on that show? the only thing almost as bad was kamala with the laugh, oh, that's so funny. she kept laughing. i said is there something wrong with her, too? she will not be the first woman president. you can't let that happen. you can't let that happen. i said is there something wrong with her? she kept laughing at very serious questions. but how about this? mike was great. how about this. they asked me are you ready for tough questions? i thought she was kidding because how do you say -- i said just -- no, no, no. this is tough questions.

and i said -- let's see what you have and it was just question, question, kill, always going for the kill. she is a zippo. always going for the kill. did you see the interview with him? oh, it was so soft. they are trying to protect. they try so hard. you saw the other day walking out with ice cream. mr. vice president, what flavor is it? i think it's vanilla and chocolate. i said i don't get questions like that, right? pennsylvania gets it. by the way, we win pennsylvania, we win the whole thing. you have to get out there. [cheering and applause] it's a big deal, right? congressman, this election is a choice between a trump super recovery. we're having a super v-it is called.

nobody thought. we're doing numbers. wait until you see the number on gdp. i don't know what it is. the feds said it may be a 35% increase in gdp. the atlanta fed. they came out last week. you saw that? i'll take 25% right now. i'll take 15 right now. i think the record was -- but they said could be 35%. you see car sales through the roof, housing starts through the roof, there are great things going on. but a tax increase by biden, all the things he wants to do, regulations. he wants to put back all the regulations which were terrible. it would take 20 years to get a highway approved. 20 years, a job killer is right. it's a job killer. so you would have that against a biden depression. let me tell you, if he gets in with what he wants to do, you will have a depression the likes of which we've never seen in this country outside of perhaps 1929. it is a choice between a trump boom or a biden lockdown.

he wants to lock down the country again. you guys -- you are already locked down. are you ever going to open up? congressman, will you get this clown to open it up, wolf? make sure he can't get a site. make sure when the president comes into pennsylvania, make sure he can't get a site. he cannot get a site. i don't want him here. we had one, shut us down. i like this place. this is quite intimate. [cheering and applause] my guys did a good job with four hours' notice. now think of it though. i said it before. so he doesn't want us to have a site. free -- freedom of speech, right? this guy is counting our ballots? be very vigilant and watch. be poll watchers, watch.

they didn't want poll watchers. they took us to court. we had a bad decision. we had a judge, this judge. we'll appeal it. but this judge, this judge obviously i won't get too into that. but he said no, you can't have poll watchers. he is saying we can't watch as they count the ballots. we'll appeal it and end up winning. can you believe it? we can't have poll watchers, the judge said. they fought us on that. they didn't watching people count. whoever heard of things like this? before i came along nobody would have sued. romney got almost zero. he got almost zero votes in philadelphia. how do you get zero votes in a city? but we watch and we'll sue and we'll keep doing it and keep having law enforcement right alongside of us. joe biden and his democrats socialists are elected they will delay the vaccine, delay

therapies, prolong the pandemic. close your schools and shut down our country. our schools have to open. the guy doesn't have a clue. he doesn't have a clue. have you seen what this -- you can't play with the country. the only thing i can tell you for sure, president xi from china, president putin from russia, kim jong-un, north korea they don't want to deal with sleepy joe. i hope you win because we don't want to deal with somebody that sleeps all the time. you believe that? no, he just announced the lead. somebody can say this is brilliant. first of all, did you ever see that? it always loses. the team shuts down the other team. for three and a half quarters.

they are leading by six. then they go three-man defense. they lose. all the time. two touchdowns scored. they shut them down the whole game, and then -- well, i don't know if he's doing that. i don't think so. i think he's doing it because he can't answer questions. really. these clowns back here. corrupt people. when they ask him questions, he cannot answer the simplest question. how about when they gave him questions on the teleprompter. they said here are the questions. they read out the answers to him, and he is responding. can you imagine? sir, what about this? what about that? i won't tell you some of the tough ones. there are some questions that never worked out well, no matter how well you answer. they can take the answer that could be perfect and it -- so they will ask you questions. they say that means they gave them the questions. wh