>> download the fox news app. i watch it every morning. brian will awkwardly point to the qr code. >> sandra: three people killed in a knife attack inside a catholic church in nice, france this morning. it is being investigated as a terror attack. one of the women was decapitated. police shot and captured the suspect. the attack coming just weeks after the beheading of a teacher near paris. less than a half mile from the site where a man plowed a truck into a crowd back in 2016 killing more than 80 people and injuring hundreds. more on this developing story coming up. another fox news alert. the u.s. economy growing by more than 33% in the third quarter according to a new

government report this morning. that number beating expectations and potentially putting a stop to a steep drop on wall street we've seen in the past few days. we'll hear directly from the president's chief economic advisor larry kudlow, he will be our guest coming up at 9:40 a.m. eastern. >> president trump: my plan will crush the virus and make our -- we'll be stronger, stronger than ever before. our country will be stronger than ever before. biden is the candidate of layoffs, lockdowns and misery. i am the candidate of jobs, vaccines, and prosperity. >> this administration has given up. over the weekend the white house chief of staff mark meadows went on television and admitted that they've waved the white flag and declared surrender he said, quote, we're not going to control the pandemic, end quote.

the american people deserve so much better than this. >> sandra: the pandemic front and center five days before the election with cases rising across the country. as early voting totals continue to smash records. more than 73 million ballots cast already including nearly 7 million in battleground state florida alone where both candidates are campaigning today. good morning, everyone. ifm i'm sandra smith. >> i'm trace gallagher. biden and trump going to tampa today. last ditch effort to win florida's 29 electoral votes where the race is pretty much tied. joe biden's brother, jim refusing to answer questions about the family's overseas business dealings outside a home in maryland yesterday. >> why did you want joe biden to meet with tony b? >> what are you talking about? would you please stop bothering

me? >> trace: marc thiessen standing by with analysis. we begin with kristin fisher live at the white house. how is the trump campaign feeling about their chances in florida? >> good morning. of all the battlegrounds probably the one the trump campaign feels the best about. they need to. it is truly a must-win state for the trump campaign. president trump passed the 270 evaporates without it. that's why we're seeing the president pour so much time, money and manpower into the state of florida in these final days before election day. you know right now the race in florida is incredibly tight. real clear politics average of polls has been dead even. 48 to 48. yesterday while speaking in arizona the president said that he feels very confident about where he stands and that he believes he will be able to pull out a victory in his newly adopted home state. >> president trump: we have some great polls and we're getting great polls.

we're doing great in florida, in north carolina, and i think great in pennsylvania. >> we'll see dueling events in florida today. president trump will be rallying this morning in tampa. a few hours later joe biden will be there. the president is continuing to make the case that this election is a choice between a trump super recovery and the biden depression. joe biden says the coronavirus doesn't care who wins on november 3. that the u.s. is not rounding the turn as the president claims. >> even if i win, it is going to take a lot of hard work to end this pandemic. i'm not running on the false promise of taking care of the pandemic by flipping a switch. >> yesterday jim biden declined to answer questions about it. >> why did you and hunter biden

want joe biden to meet with tony b? >> what are you talking about? >> have you mr. jim biden? i wanted to ask you about the china deal. >> would you please stop bothering me? >> you don't want to comment, sir? >> i don't want to comment about anything to you. >> no answer there. so today the big focus is going to be on florida. then the president is going to be moving to north carolina. he has a rally there tonight and trace, expect the pace of these rallies to accelerate exponentially. we're talking about as many as 11 rallies in the final 48 hours before election day. trace. >> trace: crunch time. thank you. >> sandra: for more on this let's bring in marc thiessen a former speech writer for george w. bush and good morning to you. we saw joe biden's brother there not wanting to answer any questions. where does this story go

considering the coverage of it five days out from election day? does it have an impact? >> i think it does in terms of energizing trump's base. i don't think it moves any undecided voters and why the news today that we have a record 33.1% gdp growth, the largest in american history, reframes the election perfectly for president trump going into the final days. his closing message is not hunter and joe biden's corruption. his closing message is i'm restoring the pre-covid economy you loved and joe biden this will destroy it will higher taxes, socialist spending, new lockdowns and energy policies that will destroy our economy. that's what donald trump needs to be pressing every single day between now and election day. >> sandra: with the coverage of covid and the coverage of the hunter biden story, dan henninger points out in the "wall street journal" hey, wait, look, don't forget about the lurch to the left that we're seeing on the part of joe biden and the direction he has

been pushing. here is his piece. vote for joe biden? seriously? biden is bernie in sheep's clothing. his promise to america's voters is that he will heal the country's divisions. he won't. the democratic party despot liberal traditions has allowed itself to have a deeply pessimistic view of america. does he have a point, marc? >> 100%. his usual brilliant self in that column. the fact is joe biden is, as president trump called him, a trojan horse for socialism. exterior is the genial, nice, moderate, bipartisan exterior. hiding inside is an army of socialists. they'll come rushing out and impose socialist policies that

are going to absolutely decimate this country. it is not that it's simply the policies. what they will do. if joe biden wins and they retake the senate, the only check on their power will be the republican minority in the senate. they will get rid of the filibuster. they have no check on their power and they can pass anything they want on climate, healthcare, on immigration, on taxes. and not only that, they are going to use that unchecked power to pack the courts and undo all of trump's judicial appointments that people love including the supreme court and pack the senate because they'll add the district of columbia and washington, d.c. with four more safe senate seats and make it impossible for the backlash against socialism that will surely come to sweep the senate back into republican control. they'll change this country fundamentally in a few years in ways we can't imagine that will be irreversible. >> sandra: important questions that should be put to the candidate joe biden himself. when he says he will take

questions like yesterday he took two. none were on that. finally as far as the central issue for biden being the covid pandemic, here is more from biden on that yesterday. listen. okay. i don't have that sound. he said quote even if i win, it is going to take a lot of hard work to end this pandemic. i'm not running on the false promise of being able to end the pandemic by flipping a switch. i can promise we'll start day one doing the right thing. so marc, what does that tell you we would see from a president biden if he is elected, how he would potentially handle this situation differently than donald trump? >> i don't think it's a strong message going into the final days of the election. he said during the debate he promised a dark winter. donald trump is saying we're rounding the corner and he is right. we are rounding the corner. where the economy is coming back. people going back to work. more than 11 million jobs

created. 33% economic growth. people want hope and optimism and promising a dark winter is not a very appealing economic message. >> sandra: marc thiessen, great to catch up with you. thanks for doing this this morning. thank you, marc. we're five days out from election night. bret baier and martha maccallum will anchor special coverage beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern time tuesday right here on the fox news channel. >> trace: three people are dead following a knife attack at a church in nice, france. suspect was shot and captured by police. the mayor calling it a terrorist attack. benjamin hall is live in london. what do we know about the victims of this attack? >> good morning. we know among the three people brutally killed was an elderly woman. that woman was tragically beheaded inside the church by the assailant as he shouted ala akbar.

it took place at 9:00 a.m. this morning just before mass started. among the other victims were the church warden as well as an identified person and other injuries. the suspect hasn't been named. he was shot and arrested. the mayor of nice called it a terrorist attack and called on france to finally, definitively white out islamic fascism in the nation. it was in nice in 2016 a terrorist killed 86 people with a truck and france today has now raised its terror level to the highest level. this attack follows the beheading a few weeks ago of a teacher outside his school near paris. it shocked the nation. that teacher had shown his students a cartoon of the prophet mohammed during a class on freedom of speech. there was a crackdown on islamic -- he defended people's right to show the cartoons and that's what led to this widespread anger across the muslim world.

his effigy has been burned and also geopolitical implications at the president of turkey called for a total boycott of all french products. a couple hours after this attack in nice another man was shot and killed in southeast france for threatening passersby. the security guard at the embassy in saudi arabia was attacked today. the fact is france is bracing for more attacks and the authorities there say it is a matter of when, not if they come. trace. >> trace: astounding. benjamin hall live in the u.k. thank you. >> sandra: new orleans there, zeta a tropical storm after pounding the gulf coast and killing two people when it made landfall as a category 2 storm. powerful winds tossed trailers and knocked down power lines leaving nearly 2 million people in the dark this morning. high storm surge flooding.

casino parking garage. what a sight that is in mississippi leaving several cars submerged under water. zeta has weakened to a tropical storm as it travels northeast. more on that situation coming up. >> trace: we're getting our first look at third quarter gdp numbers showing the u.s. economy grew at a record 33% from july through september. we're also getting new weekly jobless numbers. how will the data impact the election? we'll ask white house economic advisor larry kudlow on that plus this. >> so you are testifying to this committee right now that twitter, when it silences people and cen sores people and blocks political speech that has no impact on elections? >> people have choice of other communication channels. >> did you see it? a hearing on capitol hill as senators grilled the heads of facebook, twitter and google on political censorship.

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let's bring in joe concha, media reporter for the hill. ted cruz and his clash with jack dorsey got a lot of attention. what stood out to me was the fact that twitter was standing firm holding their ground not willing to open up the "new york post" account despite acknowledging they had no evidence that the story was incorrect. what stood out to you in that hearing, joe? >> two things. one, jack dorsey getting the part of tom hanks in castaway too is very interesting. shave once in a while if you're on national tv. two, you bring up the "new york post." we're at 15 days since that account was locked out because of russian disinformation or disinformation and senator ron johnson i believe it was asked jack dorsey well, what evidence do you have of disinformation? he said i don't. "the new york times" concluded the same thing last week as did the director of national intelligence john ratcliffe. no longer can you say the hunter biden story first report evidence by the "new york post"

is based on disinformation or anything nefarious. it's a story. tucker carlson had on tony bobulinski. over 7 million people watched. never seen a number like that before. the battle on b. demon advertised by facebook, the federalist molly hemingway a contributor at your network, they run a good publication and they're being threatened that they will be demon too*ized because their comment section is bad. it's a swamp there. there is a lot that came out of this hearing yesterday. unfortunately democrats call it political. republicans get the flesh and meat and nothing changes. >> trace: i had a friend yesterday saying the hunter biden story fell apart. i'm thinking, what? and here is the perception. because twitter shuts it down, because facebook shuts it down and because the media is

ignoring it there is this perception out there that the story has been debunked. that it is false or it would be out there. it is hard to battle that. >> it is hard to battle that, right. water always flows downhill. by suppressing the story other outlets including fox to a certain extent and other conservative publications are reporting the story but not getting the traction it would because "the new york times," cnn or "washington post" declared they won't report on it but never give a reason why. the biden camp hasn't denied any part of it. what are we talking about here? bottom line is social media has a huge influence on the american public. 64% of adults get their news from social media. more than 200 million people, trace. it will have a big impact on this election but we can't trust the people running it. >> trace: the "wall street journal" quotes does twitter ceo have control over the policy or does the company want to blunt the political heat for

suppression of newsworthy information about the possible future first family even as it signals to the conformity caucus in the mainstream media that it's on their side. what do you think about that, joe? >> i don't think the heads of any of these social media companies, whether it's twitter, facebook that has more than 223 million users right now. it is an incredible number. they don't have control over this stuff. let me fast forward to five days from now and the election. nearly half of the american public doesn't trust that the votes will be counted properly, right? or correctly according to the nbc "wall street journal" poll. election night the most heavily trafficked night in internet history. bad actors, domestic and international and otherwise putting out stories around voter fraud. the people policing the stuff won't have the ability to keep that information from spreading like taking a flame thrower to dry grass. thinking they suppress most likely would be against

conservatives. that's the precedent we see to this point, trace. >> trace: you were talking about the federalist early. they are now reporting the customs and border protection chief has had his twitter account shut down because he tweeted something about the border wall keeping criminal aliens out of the united states. it has been flagged, which is amazing. give you the last word on this, joe. >> okay. the ayatollah just yesterday asked if it's a crime to raise doubts about the holocaust? that tweet stays up. the former prime minister of malaysia said -- those tweets get to stay up but the border patrol guy has to have his tweet flag taken down or locked out. pathetic, trace. >> trace: always good to see you. >> sandra: the gulf coast reeling from hurricane zeta after it came ashore as a category two storm. a look on the ground at the

scene this morning next. plus new jobless claims and gdp numbers just out. larry kudlow will talk to us about the economic recovery with less than a week to go until election day. >> president trump: could pass $3 trillion in economic relief and saved over 50 million jobs. the fastest recovery economically by far of any major nation in the world. that's a big thing. another bundle in the books. got to hand it to you, jamie. your knowledge of victorian architecture really paid off this time. nah, just got lucky. so did the thompsons. that faulty wiring could've cost them a lot more than the mudroom. thankfully they bundled their motorcycle with their home and auto. they're protected 24/7. mm. what do you say? one more game of backgammon? [ chuckles ] not on your life. [ laughs ] ♪ when the lights go down

>> sandra: the bottom of the hour. time for top stories. the trump and biden campaigns in the final stretch before election day. both candidates hitting florida today where the race is in a virtual tie. president trump also traveling to north carolina. >> trace: police found multiple explosive devices in a van in philadelphia last night. there is a curfew after the police shooting of walter wallace juniors. investigators trying to figure out who put it in there. >> sandra: 11 players of the badger football team. they canceled games. no plans to reschedule the game this weekend for now. take a picture of the qr code at the bottom of your screen to get started on the fox news app. >> trace: hurricane zeta

hammering the gulf coast bringing heavy rain, winds and destruction to louisiana and mississippi. it killed two people and left 2 million homes and businesses without power. charles watson live in new orleans. good morning to you. what's the scene like down there where you are? >> good morning, trace, as you mentioned two people between louisiana and mississippi are dead in the aftermath of hurricane zeta. despite that folks are relieved the storm didn't get much worse. but it left behind damage. i want you to take a look at this apartment building behind me. the window blown out. as we pan up you can see the roof partially collapsed. first responders having to get out here overnight and rescue at least one person from this building. no word on their condition at this hour. zeta moved through this area quickly and packed a major punch. the storm bringing sometimes heavy rain and winds of at

least 100 miles an hour here in new orleans and parts of the region. people's roofs were ripped off. trailers tossed around the street. more than 700,000 people in louisiana and mississippi who are in the dark after zeta shredded through power lines. the storm surge caused 50 foot waves in parts of the mississippi gulf and flooding that submerged cars and homes leading to rescue operations. >> we woke up and the house was flooding. we were all scared because the water was coming in really fast and we didn't know what to do. we all gathered around and prayed and hoped everything was okay. >> governor bell edwards office will tour area in louisiana later today. after being in the path of seven storms there are a lot of people along the gulf coast who are hoping that zeta is the last storm they will have to deal with this year.

>> trace: on that point, charles. people down there have to have whiplash. you talk about seven storms. the third hurricane to hit louisiana this summer. are people down there just stunned at the fact they've been hit so many times? >> for sure, trace. people definitely have fatigue down here. they are tired and you have to imagine that -- you have to imagine there are thousands of people who are still here in new orleans who had to be moved here after the hurricane hit in lake charles. people are definitely fatigued. but officials here are asking folks to stay, do not became complacent. they want you to be prepared in case anything hits. >> trace: our hearts go out to people down there. charles watson, thank you, sir. >> sandra: this just in. commerce department announcing

the u.s. economy grew at a record pace, 33.1% in the third quarter. wall street reacting to that this morning as it tries to rebound from a recent sell-off. the worst yesterday since june. here to talk about it national economic council director larry kudlow. what a number this morning. did yoyou expect this 33.1% growth? >> i think it exceeded all expectations. it is a record high, sandra, since the data going back to 1947. we've never had anything remotely close to this. and let me add this thing was kicking on all cylinders. automobile production, for example, up over 1100% in the third quarter. big numbers on consumer spending. big numbers on housing. big numbers on capital equipment, machinery and manufacturing and so forth. and here is a key point, i think. inventories are depleted. there is not much on the shelves. a lot of demandinging out there for autos and consumers and so

forth. so inventories will be rebuilt. this quarter the momentum is going into the fourth quarter and into 2021 assuming policies are good. this is not a one-time impact. this will go on. it is a strong, strong recovery. the v-shaped concept that i coined a while back looking pretty good right now. >> sandra: there is a lot who are looking deeper into this figure and we can take it at face value. a great thing the economy is bouncing back by this much, larry. we'll look at what happens in the fourth quarter. one economist this morning is saying this is akin to a bounceback a bit like a compressed spring. things were so bad and so shut down that even just opening some parts of the u.s. economy is resulting in what we are seeing. so is it that or was this thoughtful stewardship coming out of this crisis? >> i think it's a combination of both to be fair and accurate. i think, look, as we reopen the

economy last spring and we had a good rescue package last spring, particularly the small business ppp and the direct cash assistance program and so forth. those were very, very helpful. remember, too, as these businesses open, the policies here are still president trump's low tax rates, his deregulation, independent energy, and good trade deals. that all begins to slowly kick back in as the economy recoils and springs back. that's why i think the momentum will be very, very strong. again, the inventory point. i don't mean to go into the weeds, you can't make a sale without inventories on your shelf. that will all be rebuilt in the next couple of quarters. i think, sandra, by late next winter or early spring of 2021 policies permitting we will regain all of the lost output that we suffered during the terrible pandemic contraction

this past winter and the first half of the year. so it's an optimistic view. >> sandra: larry, you can't serve a meal in ice cold chicago in december if you are closed for indoor dining. you are seeing what's happening in the city of chicago and there is obvious concerns across the country that if we continue to see these spikes in cases we'll have to further shut down. you know these restaurants, these small businesses can't survive if they don't get some sort of help if they continue to be shut down in the capacity that many still are. what guarantees are you making that some sort of deal will get done? if the president is reelected, that it will get done in a timely fashion? the help is badly needed. >> two points on that. number one, the administration's guidance and its policies will emphasize again and again and let me begin here. this is what the president wants. no shutdowns. we don't think shutdowns are helpful and we don't think

shutdowns are necessary. now, there is a spike in the numbers, i get that. not the fatalities so far but yes, the positive cases. as we're seeing frankly all over the world. we've come a long way from last winter and spring. we've learned to do things on a targeted basis with teams of experts going in to use the massive amounts of ppe equipment, various face covers and gowns and gloves and all the things the front line people need and patients need. we have also learned to target the areas with respect to testing. let me go back to this key point. the guidelines from the cdc and our task force, which i sit on, continue. masking, distancing, testing where appropriate, hygiene, washing your hands. and there is also a warning out that we should be careful of

in-home family events. that's kind of a new one. people will have to use their discretion. we hope the states will not go through a shutdown. we do not think it is necessary. fatalities are down 80 to 85% from the peak last winter. that's our best advice. frankly experts are telling us that a shutdown or shut-in across the board at this point would frankly do more harm than good. >> sandra: you saw this -- i'm running out of time and i hear the rain behind you. thank you for hanging in there. a final question on the stock market. it sold off 3.4% yesterday. we're at pace for the worst week since march. longest losing streak in eight months. nancy pelosi used that as an opportunity to say the president cares a lot about that. maybe it will push him closer to getting some sort of deal done and compromising with her and democrats on getting help to the american people. does the sell-off in the stock

market push the president closer to a deal, larry? >> not at the present time. not at the present time. look, this morning secretary mnuchin was sent a letter from speaker pelosi, like he needs a letter. they've been talking every day for three months. somehow i guess it's a mystery that letter got to "politico" before it got to the secretary. our team now believes that the speaker has no intention of compromising on key issues. she is going to hold up key assistance like the ppp small business assistance and unemployment assistance. she is stringing us along and basically we think there is virtually no hope for these tests. we have doubted her seriousness in the recent weeks and continued to neejiate in good faith. the letter that got public before it got to the secretary is wrong, bad form. most importantly they show no evidence of compromising on the very key issues. so we'll perhaps have to wait.

i don't think this recovery depends on the assistance package per se but i do think, sandra, i do think unemployment assistance, ppp, small business assistance, helping the schools. that could have helped a lot and it is not going to happen. the democrats have been completely intrance gent. >> sandra: 33.1% growth an hour ago and have the stock market down. a lot more at play and things that wall street is pricing in. larry, appreciate your time this morning and hope to have you back soon. >> thanks. >> trace: the girl scouts getting political. while the organization deleted a tweet on justice amy coney barrett's confirmation to the supreme court next. plus battleground florida getting visits from both president trump and joe biden today with 29 electoral votes at stake and election day just days away coming up.

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>> trace: president trump and former president biden are campaigning in florida. the race is just about dead even according to polling. brad blakeman is here and mo elleithee. both fox news contributors. welcome to you both. i want to put the poll from this morning on rcp on the screen. it gives you an idea shows joe biden up by a half point. at this time last night the poll dead even. this time yesterday afternoon the president was up by about a half point. brad, gives you an idea how close the race is. the trump campaign is pulling advertising dollars out of florida, diverting them elsewhere. do you think that you see optimism from the campaign in florida? >> absolutely. there are good signs in florida. we're seeing things on the ground. the key to florida, of course, is the turnout. and for republicans the i-4

corridor between orlando and tampa and daytona as well as the northern panhandle. of the 67 counties in florida there are probably 20 that republicans really have to concentrate on and they are basically lake county x sanford county and pinellas county. >> trace: that's very heavy in senior citizens. sumter county where the villages are. i want to put up the 2016 poll. at this time in 2016 hillary clinton was up by about .8%, right, over the president. that clearly eroded over time. do you think with biden's lead even slimmer the campaign regrets not doing a bit more barnstorming in florida, mo? >> no, it's a very different race and there are very different underlying dynamics below that. florida is always going to be close. in the last decade there have

been seven statewide elections in florida decided by 1.2% or less. it's just the nature of the state. when you scratch below the surface, though, there are some good signs for both campaigns but if i'm in the biden headquarters i'm feeling very encouraged by the early vote. democrats have a 300,000 plus early vote lead at this point. i'm looking at his strength with the early vote in some of those rural counties that brad was talking about. the president crushed hillary clinton in those but biden's margin right now, the democrats' margin now in the early vote now a very encouraging for democrats. the polling numbers with seniors and with white voters right now show a much more competitive race. shows joe biden leading with

those constituents. >> trace: there is a lot of talk. pinellas and sumter counties go primarily for the gop. the lead is shrinking, the data tells us now. a florida pollster says what do you do if you've lost a good friend or spouse to covid or locked in your house for six months? biden doesn't need them all to go one way, you just need 10% to switch and that's the election. meaning 10% of the seniors they switch and it will be very tough for the president to come back. >> that's why turnout in the key. microtargeting to the block where the people are. motivating and assisting voters to get to the polls. understanding where the polling is. and then monitoring the polling. making sure there are enough machines, that people are showing up. republicans want people to show up in person, not respond to

unsolicited mail ballots. if they haven't asked for a ballot they need to go and go early and vote in person. >> trace: 10 seconds to end this up for us, mo. >> i think that's right. look, nearly half of registered voters in the state have already voted and right now there are more democratic ballots in than republican ballots. it will make it easier for the biden campaign to microtarget. they can be more focused. the trump campaign has a bigger pool they have to turn out now. >> trace: we'll find out in a few days. >> sandra: france on its highest terror alert level after a man killed three people inside a church. the murders are being investigated as a terror attack. the latest on what we know about that developing story just ahead. the lack of control over my business made me a little intense. but now i practice a different philosophy.

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>> sandra: fox news alert. a live look at the dow about 23 minutes into trading. it is down 31 points this after an incredibly strong economic report out at 8:30 a.m. eastern time this morning. one that larry kudlow at the white house moments ago said reflected a strong, strong economic recovery referencing the record high since 1947. growth 33.1% for the third quarter, trace. you never thought you would see the day. of course, a lot of this is the sharp snapback from a shutdown economy due to the pandemic. he really said, larry, this bounceback is the result of two things. leadership out of the crisis, referencing the president's policies, but also just the compression that we were in and sort of that spring bounceback that we're now seeing. >> trace: you made a great

point it's wild the dow is down considering the economic numbers are so good. we've been saying for months and political analysts agreed if come late october if the coronavirus was down and economy is up it bodes well for the president. we're in a position that both of them are up and it is anybody's guess how that will bode for the president now. he is getting hammered on coronavirus. the economy is a good thing. look at the polls in florida and even those voting for joe biden believe the president is doing the work for the economy and he is the one to do that. that will be kind of a notch in his corner for sure. >> sandra: this is a continued sell-off we're seeing this morning despite the strong economic report. yesterday the dow fell 3.4%. right now all three averages, the dow, s&p and nasdaq are on pace for their worst week since march. since the beginning of the pandemic and the longest losing streak in eight months. as you saw overnight, the news in chicago that they are going

to be closed for indoor dining. you know how cold it gets there. there is concern about the future of those restaurants. those that have been able to hang on. it's a huge story, trace, as we try to work our way out of this. as far as stimulus happening. you heard kudlow say he doesn't believe that nancy pelosi will come to a compromise with the president on that. >> trace: the president is billing himself is the president of the vaccine and openness and billing joe biden as the president of closing things down. we're about to find out. fox news alert now president trump and joe biden both holding events in tampa, florida. why they're pouring resources into the sunshine state with the election now just five days away. your journey requires liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. wow. that will save me lots of money. this game's boring. only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.

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>> sandra: a brand-new hour. what's happening inside "america's newsroom." >> florida is a must-win for both candidates. 29 electoral votes. both candidates are coming to the sunshine state to fight it out. >> president trump: we'll keep on fighting and we're going to keep on winning, winning, winning. >> in these final days, stay empowered, stay optimistic, stay united because you, too, have a sacred duty. the duty to vote. >> disturbing discovery in philadelphia. bomb squad investigating a van packed with explosives after more than 50 officers are hurt. dozens arrested during days' long unrest.

>> overnight tropical storm zeta racing north after slamming louisiana as a category 2 hurricane. at least two people were killed. >> sandra: more on those stories coming up. first back to our top story. the fight is on for florida. president trump and joe biden both head there today. the candidates trying to win over voters in the battleground state for 29 electoral votes are up for grabs. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm sandra smith. >> trace: good morning everyone. i'm trace gallagher. president trump continues his campaign blitz with visits planned to north carolina, iowa, nevada as well as florida. joe biden stumping only in the sunshine state where he will hold two drive-in events in a rare crossing of paths, the candidates will campaign in tampa at different times today. both sides on the attack as they make last-minute pitches to voters. >> president trump: if you vote for biden it means no kids in

school, no graduations, no weddings, no thanksgiving, no christmas. and no fourth of july together. >> we can't afford four more years of a president attacks doctors. we can't afford four more years of a president who wants to spend his time trying to sprip people of their healthcare than even once bother to put forward a healthcare plan on his own. we can't afford four more years of donald trump. >> sandra: the race for the white house in the homestretch with five days to go until election day. jonathan serrie is in georgia where democrats are working hard to flip that state blue. we begin with griff jenkins live in fort lauderdale, florida. looks like florida is going down to the wire again. good morning. >> hey, sandra, good morning to you. florida never disappoints and it looks like it may yet again by a razor thin nail biter. let me show you the latest real clear politics average has got

it in a near dead even tie. 48.4 for biden, 47.9 for trump as trump closes the gap here just 19 days ago he trailed from about four points behind. part of his gains is coming from reaching out to latino voters, which is what he was doing yesterday out in arizona. watch. >> president trump: we love our incredible hispanic american members of law enforcement. we have a lot of them here today. [cheering and applause] we achieved the lowest hispanic american unemployment ever recorded. not even close. >> now in just hours biden will be here where i am in broward county before the two have the dueling rallies in the i-4 corridor in tampa. trump one here in 2016. now they believe they have the

superior ground game. however, in this final stretch, sandra, biden's campaign is outspending trump's 3-1. it will be one to watch. >> sandra: the beach umbrellas are flying behind you. what do we hear from the candidates spending their time in that state in their closing arguments? >> without a doubt from president trump he will hammer on the gdp third quarter news. regaining some 33%. with biden i think we're likely to hear the signature attack he has been leveling almost every day on the president's handling of the pandemic. what we won't hear about is perhaps fallout from the former veep's chinese business deals. yesterday joe biden did not want to talk about it with any reporters and neither would his brother, jim biden, who was approached by fox news at his home in maryland. watch. >> why did you and hunter biden

and joe biden to meet with tony b? are you mr. jim biden? i wanted to ask you about the china deal. >> would you please stop bothering me? >> you don't want to comment, sir? >> i don't want to comment about anything to you. >> now with just five days to go we won't know until it's all over what matters most to the voters. will it be economic recovery? will it be the coronavirus cases rising here in florida as they take precautions or will it be the hunter biden, tony bobulinski story? nearly 7 million voters have already voted in the sunshine state. >> sandra: it is amazing. we'll cover every minute of it. griff, thank you. >> trace: as the candidates duke it out in florida new battleground showing up on the electoral map. georgia was once a reliably red state. now democrats see a chance to

flip it blue for the first time in decades. the latest average of polls showing president trump and joe biden in a dead heat. jonathan serrie live for us in dunwoody, georgia, with a look how the speech state is changing. good morning. >> good morning, trace. tropical storm zeta came through metro atlanta during the pre-dawn hours knocking out power to this polling site but people are still voting in the dark on machines operating off of emergency battery power. with polls razor thin republicans cannot take this traditionally red state for granted. president trump has actively campaigned in georgia during the final days before the election but so has former vice president joe biden. changing demographics are giving democrats their first real shot in nearly three decades at turning georgia blue. >> there is a portion of african-american voters have stayed steady in the state. we have seen this increase in the number of asian american

and hispanic voters. >> georgia senator david perdue is defending his seat against a democrat. he is campaigning with a reverend running for georgia's other u.s. senate seat in a 20-way special primary to fill the unexpired term of retired senator johnny isaacson. last year brian kemp appointed kelly leffler to fill the seat. doug collins is also among the leading contenders in this 20-way race that will likely head to a january runoff. >> these two republicans have been bashing each other, pummeling each other relentlessly and not foixing on the democrat at all or barely at all. so what is happening now is they are both trying to court president trump and he is loving it. >> loving it because it ends up rallying more of his supporters to the polls. trace, back to you.

>> trace: jonathan serrie live. >> sandra: the couple who made national headlines for waving guns at protestors outside their home are asking the judge to remove the prosecutor from the case saying she is politically biased. they were charged earlier this month with unlawful use of a weapon and tampering with evidence. the couple claims that kim gardner mentioned their case in emails to raise money from political donors. gardner's office said she was only defending herself against attacks on her authority. >> trace: the f.b.i. and department of justice announcing the indictment of eight chinese operatives. they accuse them of being part of an alleged plot to har ace and intimidate political opponents of critics in beijing. they were indicted on a charge of conspiracy to act as an agent of the chinese government. here is f.b.i. director christopher wray. >> today's charges reflect yet another example of china's

ongoing and widespread lawless behavior and our refusal to tolerate it. >> five defendants are in custody in america. prosecutors believe the other three are currently in china. >> sandra: growing calls now from some liberal democrats who say they're ready to pack the supreme court if they win the white house and the senate. the pre-election chatter motivates the bases of both parties that adding justices may be hard to pull off. chad pergram is live in washington for us. good morning. >> good morning. you're right. it will be hard to do but democrats are using this as a wedge issue. trying to promise something to their base to stoke the base to get to the polls come tuesday. meantime republicans are using this as a wedge to warn voters about what democrats might do. here is dan crenshaw a republican representative from texas. >> they're saying if we get the senates and presidency and the house not enough power for us. we need more power. we need more court packing. that is an insane thing to say.

>> changing the size of the court isn't easy. democrats would first have to pass a bill to increase the size of the court and that measure would be subject to a senate filibuster. you need 60 votes to overcome a filibuster. it is hard to see how democrats could pass a bill without terminating the senate filibuster. that's a struggle. still liberal democrats like alexandria ocasio-cortez of new york will push senate democrats to do something drastic. >> i don't think you are going to have the democratic equivalent of the freedom caucus. the idea being hectored by junior house members is something that even the most progressive democratic senators don't necessarily take kindly to. >> this is emblematic of the divide inside the democratic party. moderate and liberal democrats. there will be a lot of pressure on joe biden if he wins to do something. sandra. >> sandra: chad pergram live in washington thanks. >> trace: zeta downgraded to a

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>> trace: a former postal worker in kentucky is facing federal charges for throwing away mail containing absentee ballots. more than 100 ballots were found and hundreds of pieces of other mail. the items were trashed between october 5 and 15. postal service special agents say the man confessed to the crime and faces up to five years in prison and $250,000 fine in convicted. >> sandra: the u.s. gdp just came out a short time ago this morning. it grew by 33.1% in july. between july and september for the third quarter. that marks the fastest growth this country has seen since the government started tracking quarterly gdp back in 1947.

bouncing back from the massive plunge we saw in the second quarter. the u.s. economic recovery from the pandemic is still far from complete, austan goolsbee is from the economic advisor of president obama and now a professor. rather than start off by i would assume you'll tell me why the president's policies are bad. what would joe biden do as president that would continue the economic growth that just posted this morning? what policies will we see? would we see from a president biden? >> well, i think president biden's build back better plan is the blueprint for what he would want to do, that's money to infrastructure and investment in manufacturing. that's money to childcare so people can go back to work. and the care economy getting healthcare to more people. and that's money for climate

change, for racial equity and addressing some of the energy needs. and i think in that space those are the policies that he wants to pursue that the focus should be on getting money and relief to working people and ordinary americans and let's be less concerned with figuring out how to cut taxes for the highest income people. >> sandra: a lot of hear that and they hear a lot of spending you are talking about and wonder while we're still struggling economically because of this pandemic if that's the best solution economically. we spoke to larry kudlow about this strong economic growth, the number that just came out this morning and he attributed it to this. listen. >> as these businesses open, the policies here are still president trump's low tax rates, his deregulation, independent energy, and good trade deals. that all begins to slowly kick back in as the economy recoils

and springs back. that's why i think the momentum is going to be very, very strong. >> sandra: so austan, make this easy to understand for the american people. you've got a stark contrast there between the two candidates. larry kudlow is talking about the president's economic growth model and that is reopening the country, lowering taxes, rolling back regulations, creating a business-friendly environment. at the same time you have joe biden saying i'll shut things down if i have to. we'll listen to the science. talking about raising taxes, raising the corporate tax rate. so when we hear the biden plan, how do we expect to continue the growth that we just saw? >> well, larry kudlow is an old friend of mine and we tease each other a lot. i think on this matter larry is dangerously out of touch to view that we are in a good economy. we're not in a good economy. we're down. this is going to be the

12-month period that's the worst in 70 years, and the tax cut that larry kudlow and the president are bragging about that they passed at the end of 2017, that's the most unpopular tax cut in the history of american polling. it is supported and viewed approvingly by 32% of america. because they know it didn't work. it was two trillion dollars almost all of which was hand-out giveaway. we have had a collapse of business investment. it did not raise the wages of ordinary workers as it was promised. it didn't pay for itself. >> sandra: hold on. there are a lot of aspects we can easily take on. the biden tax plan, the proposals that you mentioned right at the top including raising the top tax rate,

expanding payroll tax to income over $400,000. as you've heard him many times before. he will not raise taxes for anybody making less than $400,000, got it. he is also talk about expanding the child tax credits for families. you are hearing a lot of this. at the same time the tax foundation looked into all this and said that the biden tax plan would reduce gdp ultimately by 1.62% over the long term. by 2030 it would lead to a 7 1/2% less tax income for the top 1% taxpayers, seems opposite of the goal, austan. and nearly a 2% drop in after-tax income for all taxpayers. i'm sure you saw this. >> no, and i'm sure you saw the other analyses that showed from moody's that the biden plan would add 7 1/2 million more jobs than the trump plan would. don't just cherry pick one study to get an outcome.

>> sandra: i hear you talking about popularity of raising taxes. we're talking about mathematics and numbers. you're an economist. what does that do if you raise corporate tax rates? >> the corporate tax rate was cut more than has ever been cut. it did not generate the increase in investment on a sustained basis. it led to a massive pay-out of dividends and share repurchases. so the groups that you are talking about here with the trump plan, high-income people and big corporations, they haven't had a recession. the billionaires have seen their wealth this year go up $300 billion >> sandra: this is tax p foundation the result on all taxpayers. all taxpayers on average. this is a piece in the hill this morning.

biden's foolish capital gains tax increase. capital gains tax increase would harm investment in startup and growth companies. raising capital gains taxes would shift -- starving the economy of fuel for dynamic industries such as technology. that's such an important point, austan. just looking at sheer incentive. when you look at the plan that joe biden has laid out, what that does to the business-friendly environment that i'm sure you can't deny we were in pre-pandemic. >> cutting the capital gains tax with 83% of the capital gains in the country go to the top 1%, that is not the recipe for broad-based expansion in the country. and when we have cut capital gains tax rates in the past, it has not generated magic bean stalk beans growth. that's nonsense. what we need are investments for ordinary americans. we need to cut taxes for lower

income working people, not a $30 billion tax cut for billionaires on top of the $2 trillion we already cut taxes for billionaires in big corporations. >> sandra: i have to wrap it up. based on biden's plan what kind of growth you think we would see if those policies that he has laid out, if he implements them and puts them in place, what kind of economic growth are you forecasting? >> the growth i'm forecasting and that the other experts are forecasting is substantially more jobs and -- >> sandra: give me a number of gdp growth biden presidency. >> over four years i would say aiming in the 2 1/2 to 3% range would be outstanding. >> sandra: first year. >> first year of what. >> sandra: biden presidency. >> well, you've got to get control of the virus before you can have any economic growth. we'll see that.

>> sandra: talking about shutting things down more than they are, right? >> over the last year we're having the worst decline of gdp in 70 years because we've bungled our response to the virus and the president needs to get off his chair and get to work to stop the virus from spreading. >> sandra: we'll continue the conversation when you are able. good to have you, austan, you are always welcome. trace. >> trace: the battle over absentee ballots playing out in the supreme court after rulings on two key battleground states. what the rulings mean and the potential impact on both campaigns is ahead. a new poll could spell trouble for president trump. can he make up ground with election day five days away? >> president trump: we'll win an historic share of women. women are very smart. they want security, they want safety. as president, the first step i will take

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stories. tropical storm zeta killed at least three people and mississippi. knocked out power to nearly 2 million people across the south. >> trace: president trump says the former chief of staff to dhs secretary kristin nielsen should be prosecuted. miles taylor admitted writing an op-ed declaring anonymously he was part of the resistance inside the trump administration. >> sandra: dueling rallies in florida. president trump and joe biden are campaigning in the sunshine state today. for more on these and other developing stories download the fox news app. take a picture of the qr code at the bottom of your screen to get started. >> trace: with the election five days away president trump and joe biden are hitting the campaign trail in tampa as the fight for florida intensifies. the president is trying to close the gender gap but a new cnn poll shows him trailing joe biden among white women voters by 9 points. a voting block that he won in

his upset victory back in 2016. matt bennett is co-founder of third way. former clinton white house deputy assistance. laura tomlinson is former assistant secretary for communications and public affairs at dhs. we appreciate you coming on. you can see by the cnn poll the president seems to be struggling with white women. they write the following. joe biden up by nine points. they write the following. in yet another unforced error at a time when former vice president joe biden is crushing trump among female voters the president told the women of lansing michigan because we're getting your husband's back to work. lauren, this is a very important voting block for the president. >> it has been a very important voting block for republicans for the past 70 years. republicans have generally done really well with white women. what we see with president trump is trump still does

really well with white women without college degrees which is very similar to what we see with male voters without college degrees. where he is losing gain is some of the suburban women and women with college degrees. i think he really is going to have to step up his messaging here because appealing to women and saying that we will put their husbands back to work is probably not the right message when you have an administration who put out paid family leave for the federal government. they went out and have explored or given block grants to the states for childcare for low income. so they've made some gains that really would impact women's lives but they aren't communicating it. >> trace: she talks about messaging, matt. the president says he thinks he will do very well with women. he believes they are for safety, security and law and order. your thoughts. >> yeah, this has been the central theme of the campaign since the summer. we saw that at the republican

convention when you had the gun wielding couple from st. louis trying to communicate to the women of the suburbs that cory booker was coming to kill them. a ridiculous idea. the biggest problem he has is not just his sexism as was on display in lansing but his response to covid. what women are responding to is the fact that we have 80,000 cases a day. 1,000 people a day dying of covid and he is still denying that it is a problem and saying we've rounded the corner. we have got it under control. that isn't true. and they can tell in every possible way they may have lost somebody. gotten sick themselves or family member or kids home from school trying to learn remotely or they're out of a job. every possible family in america is impacted by this and why he is hurting so bad. >> trace: i don't think he is declaring it is a problem. he isn't saying covid isn't a problem. he is saying that he believes

that we're going to get the upper hand and round the corner. i want to move on if i can here, lauren. switching up the "wall street journal" op-ed karl rove says biden talks a lot about unity, talking a lot about unity but not about policy. it is removing mr. trump from office. it may be enough to get the vice president into the oval office but unlikely to make his time there successful. they have their place in campaigns but presidents pay the price. what do you think? >> i agree with karl rove. joe biden's strategy the entire time has been just to be the opposite of trump. to not be trump. it is a referendum on trump. so he really hasn't been out there touting some of the very detailed policy plans that he put out there, for example his tax plan. his support for the green new deal and his climate change plan. a lot of things that he has walked back or given very vague

answers including the court packing answer. so if he is elected all of a signed he will have to answer to not only his democratic base demanding radical change but also to the republicans that he has been trying to wooh by not giving them specific policy initiatives and what he will do as president. i think it will a really big problem for him. at some point he can't just not be trump. he has to be joe biden. >> trace: a fair assessment. you hear political analysts saying democrats are voting against donald trump, not for joe biden. your final thoughts. >> this is a referendum election without question. people are voting whether or not they think donald trump is a good president. i will say this. only one candidate in the race has a plan for healthcare and it is joe biden. only one candidate in the race has a plan to deal with climate change or to build the economy back. when asked about it by friendly interviewers including on fox the president has declined to say what he would do in a

second term. biden has a detailed set of plans. >> trace: i haven't seen that detailed set of plans talked about very much. lauren and matt. great to see you both. great conversation, thank you. >> thank you. >> sandra: supreme court now allowing extended deadlines in pennsylvania and north carolina. a setback for president trump and a victory to joe biden. bryan ennis is live in beaver, pennsylvania and how it is playing out in the keystone state. good morning. >> a little context here. back in september the pennsylvania supreme court decided to allow absentee mail-in ballots to be received and counted three days up to three days after election day. that affects some 3 million pennsylvania voters who have chosen and sent those mail-in ballots. republicans in the state challenged that saying that look, the court doesn't have the power to make that decision.

that lies with the state legislature. the u.s. supreme court took up the case and it was a 4-4 split tie. the decision was upheld. republicans tried one last time to get the u.s. supreme court to hear this case before election day. in a decision that was released the u.s. supreme court said look, simply we do not have enough time to take up this case so therefore the three-day extension stays in place in pennsylvania. look at the statement released by justices alito, gorsuch and thomas who say they're aware by not taking up this case it will probably lead to some big problems after the election, quote. the court's handling of the important constitutional issue raised by this matter has needlessly created conditions that could lead to serious post election problems. reluctantly conclude there is not enough time that the late date to decide the question before the election and in the actual supreme court decision that was written by alito and

co-signed by gorsuch and thomas they allude they will likely overturn the three-day extension after the election. quote, it would be highly desirable to issue a ruling on the constitutionality of the state supreme court's decision before the election. that question has national importance and there is a strong likelihood that the state supreme court decision violates the federal constitution. now pennsylvania republicans tried to fast track this case because they knew that -- they were hoping that justice amy coney barrett could be the deciding vote but according to a spokeswoman from the u.s. supreme court, justice barrett said that she didn't have enough time to fully review the case and therefore they needed to wait to at least after the election. the supreme court, sandra, did say that they are allowing for the mail-in ballots that are received after election day to be segregated. they will be segregated so if this case and when it goes up before the supreme court

they'll know which mail-in ballots should or should not be counted. >> sandra: important story. while i have you there, what are democrats saying about that? >> yeah, it's an important -- democrats have been arguing they need the three-day extension because of the pandemic and cited the postal service delays. we spoke to lieutenant governor, a democrat, who said frankly he was -- frankly he said that look, at this point voters need to drop their mail-in ballots off in person. they do not need to go to the postal s.s he does not trust they'll get there in time at this point. >> sandra: bryan. thank you. >> trace: both campaigns setting their sights on florida where 29 electoral votes are up for grabs. what the polls are saying in the sunshine state. could georgia flip from red to blue with only five days until the election?

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>> sandra: the race for the white house. both candidates heading to florida. they will appear in tampa just hours apart as new polling for florida shows them in a virtual tie. chris stirewalt joins us now. chris, some really important changes that we should discuss first before we dive into florida. what can you tell us about minnesota, georgia, and wisconsin? good morning, sir. >> good morning to you, my friend. yes, we're doing a little -- rearranging the furniture a little bit before we go into the final days of the election and we'll move for our battleground states. we'll take wisconsin and we'll move it to a lean democrat from a straight toss-up state. the polling has been so consistent in joe biden's favor and by margins outside of the margin of error sometimes.

and given everything that we know and early votes and all, wisconsin looks like it is going toward the democrats. we go down south and look at georgia, a state that i was very skeptical about democrats' chances in based on history and remember electorate looks different in a presidential year than it does in a mid-term election. skeptical about democrats' claims. at the end there is no way to look at it except for this. georgia is a toss-up and i can't tell you today who will win that state. hyper competitive just as much as florida. and then minnesota was a state the republicans had once upon a time said they would be competitive in. they aren't and that's just a little housekeeping. >> sandra: wisconsin goes from toss-up to lean democrat. georgia to toss-up. minnesota from lean to likely democrat. that being said, you can't tell us who wins florida. kayleigh mcenany was on earlier and she said this.

listen. >> as of yesterday we're 6 percentage points ahead of democrats in the early vote. that's historic. that is historic turnout for republicans. statewide we have won 10 days straight of early voting. on election day when the trump coalition turns out, we'll win the great state of florida and win this election. >> sandra: on they go to hillsborough county, florida. both candidates traveling there today. how much in play is florida this time around, chris? >> florida is the swingingest swing state. the biggest state-it has so many electoral votes and so evenly divided. when you think about florida. the northern half of the state is alabama and the southern is new jersey and you've owe in the middle. every years they do battle. they're pinellas county and orange county and orlando. that stretch in the middle of

florida is every four years they get to pick the president pretty much because the republican canned really win the presidency without florida. >> sandra: you have to look at the numbers on the votes cast. this goes back to 2016. it was 4.8 million early votes were cast in florida five days from the election. here we are five days out. as of this morning nearly 7 million early votes have been cast. what can we take away from that, chris? >> nothing. everything and nothing. i don't pay any attention to what kayleigh mcenany says who will win florida because of the early vote and don't pay attention to democrats. i discount it all. here is why. we'll see a 50% increase in early voting this year because of the pandemic. so that blows the doors off of all assumptions, right? whatever numbers will come in, that's why we'll count and why we have a decision desk and look through all this stuff.

i'm not listening to partisans when they claim big advantages in a year where we'll scramble everybody's eggs. >> sandra: give me a what if scenario to practice for my next touch screen. you are looking at the northern what if, the southern what if, the tie. what is a really important what if scenario to look at this morning? >> well, flip pennsylvania and georgia from the last time. let's say that biden wins both of those. can you get donald trump home from there? what needs to happen? what about arizona? can he really close the deal in arizona? we're at the point now where there are lot of what ifs because we have so many states are close within the margin of error and who knows? it is totally fun. >> sandra: chris stirewalt, this is a moment five days out. appreciate it, chris, thank you. we'll see you on election night. a lot of you. thank you.

>> trace: amy coney barrett now sworn in on the supreme court and one group is facing backlash on social media for congratulating the newest justice. how the girl scouts of america are responding to the criticism next. select your doneness, and let the grill monitor your food. it also turns into an air fryer. bring outdoor grilling flavors indoors with the grill that grills for you. new projects means you need to hire.gers. i need indeed. indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a short list of quality candidates from our resume database. claim your seventy five dollar credit, when you post your first job at indeed.com/home.

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>> trace: the girl scouts of america getting slammed on social barrett congratulating amy coney barrett. the backlash was so severe the girl scouts took down their tweet. carley shimkus joins us now. left, right and middle. the congresswoman from massachusetts says this. what kind of patch does one learn for uplifting a woman who is the antithesis of justice?

huff post says there is no requirement we celebrate someone as a hero to women because she identifies as a woman when the things she did was actually done for her by a gang of disgraceful goons and when she is poised to destroy the lives of so many. the left got ugly. >> yeah, oh, certainly did. and i am at risk of stating the obvious, trace, this post was intended to celebrate all women because it included pictures of liberal justices as well. but because amy coney barrett is a trump nominee, you cannot celebrate her on social media without facing backlash. she is also deeply religious and pro-life in her personal life. we don't know how she would rule on everyturning roe v. wade. in her personal life she would like to see unborn baby girls saved. an anti-feminist position in liberal circles. the backlash was swift and girl scouts deleted the post and

apologized. it is being trashed by the so-called tolerant left for uplifting a female to the supreme court. those of you trashing the organization please remember there are conservatives that support girl scouts, too. i was grateful to see the post in support of women regardless of who they are. fair point. these are not just democrats' kids in the girl scouts. >> of course not. i'm sure the person who runs the girl scouts account was glad to see that. you can't blame the girl scouts for apologizing. imagine posting that and getting inundated with hate tweets from celebrities. one man said he would google how to make thin mints. punishing 7-year-old girls by not big cookies isn't the best way to teach inclusion and respect. i was never a girl scout so i

don't know. >> trace: the girl scouts says we're nonpartisan just here to uplift all women. they took down the post. >> yeah, absolutely. they are a nonpartisan organization as stated in the picture that included photos of ruth bader ginsburg, sotomayor, kagan as well. if this was a post celebrating a liberal justice you wouldn't be seeing the backlash. >> trace: carley, good to see you. thank you. >> sandra: fox news alert on the fight for florida. president trump visiting the key battleground today. a state crucial to his bid for a second term. how are things looking there? we'll hear from rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniel at the top of the hour. ear every year. with their va streamline refi, there is no income verification no appraisal, no out of pocket costs and no va paperwork for you. you can start the process right over the phone. refi now and cut $3000 a year off your mortgage payments.

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>> sandra: fox news alert. the wisconsin republican party say hackers chose more than $2 million from the bank account to help president trump carry the key battleground state through the final days. two weeks before election day it was discovered at president trump and joe biden made their final push to win wisconsin and 10 electoral votes. the party chairman says the f.b.i. is investigating. real clear politics average shows biden 7 points ahead in wisconsin which president trump won in 2016 by less than 23,000 votes. we'll be speaking to andrew hicks, the wisconsin republican chair. the stakes are high in the

sunshine state five days out from election day. president trump and democratic rival foixing on florida in the race for the white house. the battleground of battlegrounds florida is. record 73 million plus americans have already cast their ballots. 7 million of them in florida. welcome back to "america's newsroom," i'm sandra smith. hi, trace. >> trace: hello, i'm trace gallagher. the fight for florida kicking into high gear as the president gets ready to head for tampa. joe biden with an event in the same city as real clear politics average puts the race in the sunshine state at just about a tie. but kayleigh mcenany is optimistic the president will win florida's crucial 29 electoral votes. >> we know democrats typically have an absentee advantage. we've been eating away at their advantage by 2/3. on election day when the trump coalition turns out we'll win the great state of florida. >> sandra: ronna mcdaniel is standing by and we'll talk with

her in moments. peter doocy is live in miami and we'll kick things out with john roberts live in tampa this morning. good morning. >> good morning to you, sandra, and trace. president trump has a brand-new talking point this morning. he promised over the course of the campaign in the last few weeks it was going to happen. the numbers came out today and it looks like it has happened. 33.1% gdp growth. that is an american record. the campaign saying a short time ago in a statement the record economic growth is absolute validation of president trump's policies which create jobs and opportunities for americans in every corner of the country. the president built the world's greatest economy once and rapidly doing it again. where the president is today is at the western edge of the so-called i-4 corridor. that's really the area between tampa on the west and titusville and cape canaveral on the east where florida is

won or lost. the president lost hillsborough county in 2016 by 7 points but hoping to build up the voter turnout to turn the state in his direction. president trump is making a new outreach to hispanic voters. they have been increasingly in some communities trending his way. the president tried to increase that support by announcing his american dream plan. increase school choice and raise capital flow to hispanic-owned businesses. listen here. >> president trump: over the next four years the american dream plan will bring more than 2 million new jobs to hispanic communities, create over half a million new hispanic-owned small businesses, which will end up being large businesses. >> as part of that plan the president is also promising a permanent resolution to the issue of the deferred access for childhood applicants. that is the so-called daca

program that the president stopped but now wants to find some sort of way of allowing daca recipients to stay in this country. maybe even achieve a path to citizenship. last night in good year, arizona the president pushing back against charges by joe biden that his response to the covid pandemic has been anemic at best. the president unveiling a new video of governors, including democratic governors, praising the white house response. listen here. >> we had a very long conversation and every single thing he said they followed through on. >> we have to have double the number of ventilators that we requested for that area of the state. >> the president also ripping the reveal of anonymous yesterday. former dhs official miles taylor who has been on television criticizing president trump in person ever since he left dhs coming forward to say he is anonymous. listen to what the president said about it. >> president trump: everybody was looking for anonymous.

turned out to be a low-level staffer, a sleaze bag who has never worked in the white house. anonymous was a nobody, disgruntled employee who was quickly removed from his job a long time ago for they tell me incompetence. >> there is a big crowd that is expected just outside of the buccaneer raymond james stadium today. it is 91 degrees, which is a far cry from where the president was a couple of days ago. will be tomorrow when he is in green bay. sandra, we'll try to get our blood as warmed up as possible before we head to green bay later on today. should be a good rally today, though. >> sandra: all right. john roberts live there for us. ahead of the president's visit. john, thank you. >> trace: joe biden heading to 91 degree florida today holding a pair of drive-in rallies. peter doocy has more from coconut creek, florida.

peter. >> trace, good morning. you can see the cars lining up behind us for that first drive-in here in coconut creek. a beautiful day here. joe biden's flight was delayed by bad weather but he is on the way. the campaign tells us that he tested negative for covid-19 early year. he did not take any questions on his way down so hopefully there is an opportunity for that a little bit later on today. the democratic nominee is coming down to encourage people to vote. he already did that himself. that was yesterday in wilmington. he sat beside his wife inside a state office building and filled out his ballot between events that did not take him far away from home yesterday. but for the next few days the democratic ticket claims they're trying to expand the electoral map. in addition to trips to florida, iowa, wisconsin and michigan where he will be with barack obama, biden did not rule out a stop in texas when asked by reporters last night how he thinks he will do there and whether or not he will go there and that's consistent with what he told a lawyer who hosted him at a virtual

fundraiser this, quote. you are bringing texas into reach old buddy. you told me that but i wouldn't have believed it. a big part of biden's closing argument he has a written-down healthcare proposal that he says is ready to release as soon as he is elected if that happens. >> yes, yes, on both counts. yes, i have a bill ready, number one. number two, yes, i will work with republicans. and yes, i do have a proposal that relates to how we can improve the affordable care act beyond what it was before. barack obama and i wanted to do it at the time to add a public option allowing people to keep their private insurance. >> and something very interesting, if you've noticed recently that joe biden when he travels sometimes wears two masks, he explained why that is. he says he doesn't like the way that the n-95 fits around his

ears so he uses another mask to hold it in place, trace. >> trace: doubling up. peter doocy live for us in south florida. >> sandra: biden family still saying very little about the hunter biden controversy as questions grow about their foreign business dealings. the former vice president's brother had to say when cameras caught up with him. >> are you mr. jim biden? i wanted to ask you about the china deal. >> would you please stop bothering me? >> you don't want to comment, sir? >> i don't want to comment on anything to you. >> sandra: that was in maryland yesterday. joining us now ronna mcdaniel rnc chair. he didn't answer any questions, neither has joe biden specifically on his brother having anything to do with these foreign business dealings. but to the bigger picture with this story, is it a message that the president should keep hitting on five days from

election day, or is it better to use his energy focusing in other areas? >> i do think the american public are concerned about biden, inc., about the family potentially profiting off the vice president joe biden, negotiating deals to enrich the family. we have to figure that out. what's even more concerning, though, is the media silence around this. cnn has a contributor who lied on air, who was given all types of media around this anonymous book without it being verified with no access to the president and they shut down a story about joe biden with verified -- a person verified to be in these dealings with them. the biden campaign hasn't said these emails are not authentic. there has been no disputing the fact the laptop is real. and the media closes down and says we aren't going to report this story. it is so hypocritical. the public is saying this is

scary. this is a step to socialism. are we losing a free and fair press? why won't they share these details about one presidential candidate and then they absolutely attack another candidate with anonymous sources? it is a total discrepancy and hypocrisy and we're worried about the state of our media in this country right now and it is resonating with the voters. >> sandra: kayleigh mcenany was on fox earlier and she echoed that sentiment. >> joe biden still has not denied the substance of this allegation. we have emails, we have text messages, we have a first-hand witness in tonny bobulinski that says joe biden is compromised by china. i profited off china during his time in government. this is the great journalistic malpractice of our time that they refuse to ask questions. >> sandra: do you expect the media coverage of that story to change in the coming days considering we're five days out? >> i don't. i think the fact this has been

censored on twitter. you've seen twitter censoring news outlets. it is frightening. a candidate for president who hides in his basement a and refuses the answer question. we talk about how joe biden wants to lead us toward socialism with socialized medicine, getting rid of our energy independence, all these things. the free and fair press is gone right now in this country. if they are refusing to report or investigate or even ask tough questions of a presidential candidate. the other thing is he is sayings he wants to stack the supreme court. that is frightening. so this is a candidate you just said with peter doocy i'll tell you my plans after i get elected. that's not acceptable. this is resonating with voters. >> sandra: we'll see if he takes more questions today. he will head to florida today. real clear politics average joe biden is leading the president by 3 1/2 points in pennsylvania. pete buttigieg went on store tore -- "the story" and

talking about why joe biden is winning. >> his strategy is working given the biden-harris campaign is pulling ahead. we're not taking anything for granted which is why you'll continue to see not just joe biden and kamala harris but folks like me pounding the ground. we want to get out every vote. >> sandra: we had chris stirewalt on with us and he now says that wisconsin has moved from toss-up to lean democrat. georgia was lean republican, now a toss-up. minnesota which was leaning democrat now likely democrat. so what can you tell us about state of the campaign, state of the race for your candidate five days out? >> i'm looking at the early voting and looking at the energy on the ground. what we're seeing with early voting is president trump is winning day after day after day. momentum is on his side especially as voters are dialing into the fact that joe biden will raise your taxes day one.

he will fundamentally upend our healthcare system and change the third branch of government and get rid of checks and balances and we see voters coming out in droves for the president. the democrats, their absentee voters were election day voters. the energy we're seeing a very positive and everything from a trend standpoint is moving our way. >> sandra: i'll put this on the screen and finish with joe biden tweeting moments ago. five days, let's bring this home. this is the battle that the two candidates are facing as we are just days away now. ronna mcdaniel, appreciate your time this morning. thank you. >> thank you. >> trace: fox news alert. massive hacking attack hitting the wisconsin republican parties. millions of dollars stolen in the final weeks before the election. the state republican party chair joins us next. plus how a key endorsement by congressman jim clyburn changed the game for joe biden lifting him ahead of bernie sanders in the primaries. could sanders end up being the real winner if biden is elected?

dan henninger from the "wall street journal" weighs in next. >> the american people have it in their hands to put this country in a vastly different path.

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>> i want the public to know that i'm voting for joe biden. south carolina should be voting for joe biden. i know joe. we know joe. but most importantly, joe knows us. >> trace: south carolina congressman jim clay burn endorsing joe biden giving biden a major boost facing strong competition from bernie sanders. with us now to make the case that sanders will likely get his policy wishes after all is dan henninger. deputy editor of the "wall street journal" editorial page and fox news contributor. dan, always good to see you. you argue without congressman clyburn joe biden's campaign doesn't get off the ground. writing in the "wall street journal" clyburn's decision to go with joe biden looks like

genius in retrospect: theme being you vote for joe you get a little bernie in there as well. >> yeah, that's right. a lot of bernie in there, trace. that representative clyburn endorsement of joe biden now forgotten. it was a pivotal event. that was back february 26th to be specific. at that point joe biden had lost iowa and lost new hampshire and on his way to losing his third attempt at gaining the presidency and looked like bernie sanders was on a path to getting the nomination. what jim clyburn said publicly putting a democratic socialist on the ticket would be a debacle for democratic prospects. he endorsed joe biden. the moderates came together and they nominated the moderate joe biden to be their standard

bearer. but very quickly after biden got the nomination, he moved to the left and embraced bernie sanders and incorporated much of his agenda into his platform and i think bernie just kept his counsel and saw that biden's nomination was largely symbolic. that bernie sanders and the progressives, in fact, controlled the democratic party and he would end up getting much of what he wanted without winning the nomination. >> trace: interesting you say that joe biden is really a lot of talk about unity, not much talk about policy and quoting here mr. biden's promise to america's voters is that he will heal the country's divisions. he won't. what has come to plain view is that the democratic party despite its liberal position has allowed itself to descend into a deeply pessimistic view of america for as his flailing about donald trump looks like the optimist. those on that.

>> the other big event this past year was may 25th. after george floyd's kill we had weeks of riots in many cities. not only protests but looting, violence, the destruction of monuments. most of it instituted with the left wing of the democratic party. what it revealed was a much darker, pessimistic vision of the future of the united states than people had realized existed inside the democratic party. and that was going to create problems for them. i think jim clyburn's core nation of biden was genius. joe biden simply floats past all of this with his smiling face. if none of the violence happened was explainable and bernie sanders is somewhere way in the background. the question is whether american voters are going to ultimately believe all that or whether they are going to suspect that joe biden is

basically bernie sanders in cheap's clothing. >> trace: i have to go, dan. one line yesterday's big tech hearing with the big tech executives yesterday, what did you think? >> it showed that big tech does not have sufficient trust in the american people to sort out what's online whether it's true or whether it isn't true and that the big tech people like dorsey of twitter ought to have more faith in the american people. that kind of open speech is what allowed silicon valley to succeed in the first place. >> trace: thank you, sir. we appreciate it. >> sure thing. >> sandra: online hackers doing major election damage in wisconsin. cyber criminals stealing money set aside for the last days of the trump campaign. the hackers reportedly draining $2.3 million from an account belonging to the state gop. joining us now is wisconsin

republican party chairman. when did you first notice this suspicious activity? >> last thursday we first noticed some suspicious activities going on with our i.t. accounts and our email accounts. we immediately start evidence to work with our i.t. firm and rnci.t. team. by thursday night we discovered we were the victim of a cyberattack. by friday morning we understood the full effect of that attack being $2.3 million going to hackers instead of the vendors. who are going to be paid that money. we immediately went to the f.b.i. and began working with them. >> sandra: the f.b.i. is now investigating this. what can you give us as far as an update, what you are learning from that investigation. >> i know they are actively working on it. we've had regular correspondence with them providing them information. our i.t. firm has been working with them as well. i know they're actively working on it. it is really important to note,

though, that the president's campaign, the rnc, the plans that we have in place for wisconsin are full steam ahead, full -- we are moving forward with all of those. this money obviously was for services rendered so we need to make sure we pay those vendors but the president, the chairwoman believe in wisconsin and we'll deliver wisconsin on november 3. >> sandra: being out $2.3 million in a key state that the president won by fewer than 23,000 votes in 2016 could have a big impact. can you give us some sense of what sort of damage this could do to the campaign with days to go to election day? >> well, like i said we have had our plans in place with the president's campaign and with the rnc and they continue to move forward with those. they have been in place for some time now. so we're very confident in being able to deliver what we

intended to deliver. i can say that since thursday i have continued our plans moving forward, making sure we're targeting the right voters and getting them out. no doubt we have to pay that $2.3 million to the vendors who have already delivered those services. so, you know, if there are viewers out there that want to support us go to wisgop.org so we can get the vendors paid for the services they've provided for president trump. >> sandra: chris stirewalt joined us a few moments ago with the news we've moved wisconsin from toss-up to lean democrat based on reporting, polling, voting as far as what we're seeing in that state days from election day. what happens with just days to go? how optimistic are you the president can turn things around and secure a victory? >> we're going to win wisconsin. this race is very close. when you have a close race like

we have, it comes down to ground game especially. we have a ground game. we have the biggest ground game we've ever had in the history of the republican party here thanks to the president and chairwoman and all their efforts. the democrats have been up in the clouds. we've been down here on the ground knocking on doors. we've had over 12 million voter contacts. 10 million phone calls made by volunteers here in wisconsin. over 2 million doors knocked by volunteers that are here in wisconsin. democrats aren't doing any of that. they're virtual. we got campaigning on the ground in june. we have a strong team and closing strong and very confident that we're going to deliver wisconsin with the president on november 3. >> sandra: i have to leave it there. the covid situation, the spikes your state is seeing. obvious situation that you have to deal with. from a medical standpoint. from a political standpoint how much is that spike in

positivity -- positive cases in your state, how much could that hurt the president come election day? >> look, we are seeing with undecided voters here in wisconsin that they are focused on kitchen table issues. focused on taxes, education, the economy, jobs, who will insure that they have a good life to come. that all cuts towards the president with all of his accomplishments. everything that he has done the past four years and his vision for the future. so it is a significant issue that we have to work through but i am confident that in terms of the president he has delivered for wisconsin and the wisconsin people are going to deliver for him. >> sandra: appreciate your time this morning and an update on the situation with the 2.3 million that was hacked from the campaign. thank you. >> trace: polls show an extremely tight race in iowa with biding leading trump by less than a point and a half in the swing state. what both campaigns are doing to try to tip the scales. the commerce department

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♪ i started this campaign saying we were in the battle for the soul of the nation. i believe that even more deeply today. who we are, what we stand for, and maybe most importantly, who we are going to be, it's all at stake. character is on the ballot, the character of the country, and this is our opportunity to leave the dark, angry politics of the past four years behind us, to choose hope over fear, unity over division, science over fiction. i believe it's time to unite the country, to come together as a nation, but i can't do it without you.

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>> sandra: top stories making news at the bottom of the hour. the final days of the campaign with president trump and joe biden focusing on florida. the race for the sunshine state will come down to the wire there as the rcp average right now has one half percentage point between the candidates. >> trace: a wedding in new york was a super spreader event on long island two weeks ago. more than 50 people are infected with covid-19 and hundreds in quarantine. the country club that hosted the venue is being hit with a $17,000 fine. >> sandra: as coronavirus cases

increase food suppliers are ramping it up. they have increased productivity just to be ready. more on those stories and the day's top headlines. take a picture of the qr code at the bottom of the screen to get started with the fox news app. >> trace: joe biden has a razor thin lead in iowa. less than a week to go, how do things look for the candidates in iowa? >> trace, good morning to you. the fact that this race is so tight gives democrats a bit of confidence going into election day. remember, president trump won iowa by 9 points in 2016. but in the current real clear politics average of polls joe biden is leading by a narrow 1 point margin. nationwide if the presidential race ends up being tight iowa's six electoral votes could be a difference maker but the state's senate race that could have a bigger impact on the

balance of power in washington for months republican senator joni ernst has been locked in a tie with theresa greenfield. it could decide which party controls the senate. whichever way the presidential race goes in iowa the senate race will likely follow. vice president mike pence will be here in des moines this afternoon for a rally with senator joni ernst. tomorrow joe biden will be here with an event with theresa greenfield. >> trace: garrett. thank you. >> the momentum is going into the fourth quarter and will go into 2021 assuming policies are good. this is not a one-time impact. it will go on. it's a strong, strong recovery. the v-shaped concept that i coined a while back looking pretty good right now. >> sandra: that was white house economic advisor larry kudlow. the new gdp number shows the

economy grew more than 33% from july to september. here to talk about it is charles payne host of making money. you just can't slice it any other way, charles. that number is huge. >> it is really an amazing number, sandra. when you get to the details of it it is even more impressive and encouraging. when you look at things like personal consumption. the consumer is 2/3 of the economy. the quarter before down 33%. think about that how quickly and swiftly we were able to snap back and turn it around. spending on equipment up 70%. private domestic investment up. what held us back? government spending for the most part. federal government spending down 6%. state and local down 3%. other than that these other areas were just -- they were so phenomenal. we know this established new

records but encouraging to larry kudlow's point. i think we have a lot of momentum. i would have liked to have seen another round of stimulus to help us even more. but these numbers are just absolutely amazing. >> sandra: the president calling it the biggest and best in our country. next year will be fantastic he said in a few tweet. he went on in that tweet to say so glad this came out before november 3rd, charles. does this change any minds about their vote on next tuesday based on this economic performance? >> i think it can. obviously it won't be reported the way i'm talking about it. some people will say the whisper number was higher. i think people feel it. sometimes you don't need -- this is stamp that makes it official. the people that made the residential investments and spent money on equipment and started to buy things that they weren't buying before.

they can feel it. they feel like i survived it. kept my job. my wages are still going up and i have more money in the bank. they are feeling pretty good. >> sandra: finally austan goolsbee was on earlier former obama economic advisor. i pressed him on what a biden presidency would lead to as far as growth and here is what he said. >> the growth i'm forecasting and that the other experts are forecasting is substantially more jobs >> sandra: give me a number. biden presidency gdp growth. >> over four years aiming in the 2 1/2 to 3% range would be outstanding. >> sandra: i'm out of time charles but wanted to get your reaction to that. >> i think 2021 we could be 3 1/2 to 5% growth considering how much money consumers have and businesses are sitting on. they just need the confidence to spend it and invest it. >> sandra: i had confidence in

you. good to see you. >> trace: fox news alert. french president macron says france is under attack announcing he will double the number of soldiers protecting churches and schools after a deadly terror attack in nice. authorities say a man armed with a knife killed three people inside a church. this comes amid growing outrage in muslim countries over cartoons of the prophet mohammed that were published in a french newspaper. more coming up. at today's record low mortgage rates. with newday's va streamline refi, there's no appraisal, no income verification and no out of pocket costs. let newday help you use your va benefits to save $250 a month, that's $3000 a year. one call is all it takes.

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>> with all due respect, twitter, you your locking my account doesn't pass the b.s. test. >> trace: mark morgan earlier this morning saying his twitter account has been suspended. fox news hasn't confirmed why but reports twitter flagged his account for violating twitter's rules regarding hateful content. >> sandra: poll positions now in some key battleground states

with new numbers from georgia showing former vice president joe biden with a five-point lead in a once reliably red state as the real clear politics average of polls shows 1/2 percentage point between the candidates. fox news decision desk daron shaw. thank you for doing this. what are you seeing as far as momentum behind either of the candidates with days to go? >> i'm not seeing much momentum either way. nationally joe biden seems to have a 5 to 10 point lead but we've shown in the fox polls remarkable stability for a race that's been marked by pandemics, economic collapses and all sorts of events just cropping up on a 24-hour basis. but biden's lead has been remarkably stable. i would say, though, that just because it's been stable doesn't mean it is not going to break one way or the other. we're really trying to pay attention to clues that it might break for biden or trump. i haven't seen any evidence it

is going one way or the other. >> sandra: florida critical for president trump's winning the race. in hillsborough county, florida. both candidates will be there today. a key visit in the battleground state. what will we see happen ultimately in florida, daron >> the race is almost a dead heat. a little lead for biden at this point. in 2016 the polls showed that hillary clinton had a more substantial lead in florida. not a big lead but more substantial lead than biden is showing. in 2018 the republicans in the governor senate elections were underestimated in florida. it is really tight. not breaking news in florida. but i wouldn't be surprised. trump has to have that state. not coincidental both are there.

it might have a slight trump lean at this point. >> sandra: biden visits broward county in florida as well. 80 million early votes cast. talk about the mail-in vote versus the in-person vote what we've seen so far and what can be taken away from that? >> well, i think the democrats are euphoric right now. out of the 80 million. 51 million mail-in ballots have been returned. a substantial democratic lead. everybody has been predicting this. one thing to predict it and another thing to see it come to fruition. you go broke betting on what will happen based on the early vote. we knew it would be sizeable. we knew the democrats would have an edge. both of those are still in question. how big will it be versus the election day vote where we expect trump and republicans to dominate? my colleague michael mcdonald at the u.s. elections product had a great line. democratic euphoria will turn to angst over the unreturned

mail-in ballots. a lot of those are young people the democrats are counting on to get their ballots to put biden over the top. again it is still in flux and we're just along for the ride. >> sandra: what will you be watching election night? so many different scenarios can play out. what are you planning for? you look at the battleground states. florida, a lot of pennsylvania. talk about energy on the debate stage. final thoughts this morning. >> we'll look at those early states to come in. indiana and kentucky. we're looking for clues. are the election data matching the polling data that gives us confidence or coming in decidedly more for one candidate or the other, which means maybe our pre-election forecasts are off and recalibrate and get ready for a long night? the early states might be a clue what we'll look for later on. >> sandra: daron shaw from the fox news decision desk.

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>> major league baseball is looking into justin turner. he tested positive for covid. he was then seen on the field celebrating. why a desire to celebrate is understand able. his decision to enter the field was wrong and put everyone he came in contact with at risk. when they raised the matter of being on the field with turner he refused to comply.

jim gray is the author of the new book talking to greats of all time. great to see you my friend. what do you think of the controversy involving justin turner? >> i think it's a shame for dodger fans. they've waited 32 years and now they're mired in this. totally irresponsible. we look now for athletes to have social responsibility. this is the height of arrogance. certainly understandable being told in the eighth inning. he wants to celebrate. a life long dream but puts everybody else in peril. we look for role models and responsibility and personal accountability and he is irresponsible and wrong and selfish. it is a shame. >> trace: justin turner tweeted this yesterday. no symptoms at all. experienced every emotion. i can't believe i couldn't be out to celebrate with my guys. he was. so proud of his team and happy for the city of l.a. what critics are saying, jim. look, it is not like he

suddenly became positive in the eighth inning. he was positive all day. warmed up with his team. giving high fives, out there the whole time. isn't this a little bit of closing the barn door after the horse is gone? >> yes, it is. where was major league baseball? where were the guidelines and protocols? how come we find out about it in the eighth inning? this skirts on the edge of being wrong. who is running the store? baseball commissioner barely alludes to it. dodgers management is hiding under a desk because they want to win and he is out there and gets pulled and then he does this. can you imagine if somebody would have penetrated that bubble down there before the game? one of the waiters, one of the people at the ballpark and infected possibly or been positive and one of the players got sick? that would have jeopardized the world series. why is it different for one of the players? it is bad management and wrong on all levels. it is a shame for the fans and

a shame for baseball. and i blame the player. >> trace: it raises a lot of questions. he got tested monday, inconclusive. got tested on tuesday and the results came back apparently in the eighth inning. i want to play this. the dodgers baseball operations andrew freeman. listen. >> i think justin wanted to come out and take a picture with the trophy with or without that a lot of the people who he interacted with would be in the contact tracing web. >> trace: there is a lot of questions. final answer on this, jim, from all sides. what in the world went wrong up to the positive test? >> that's a great question and we have to find out who knew what and when and why this came to light. the "l. a. times" wrote a brilliant article. he had covid-19 and knows the dangers. i suggest they read that column. let me just say this. these bubble situations when

they get penetrated that means there will be more positive tests. we're just hearing the beginning of this. fortunately the baseball season is over. >> trace: jim gray, best of luck on the book, my friend. >> great to be with you. >> sandra: all eyes on florida today as president trump and joe biden hold dueling rallies in that pivotal battleground state. live updates from the campaign trail next. you could start saving, beginning with your next mortgage payment. refi now at these historic low rates.

>> the days ticking away. we're down to five and i think oh my goodness gracious. we are oef about to find out a lot of interesting information. >> can't wait. great to be with you, trace, "outnumbered" starts right now. >> harris: here we are counting five days down until election day as both president trump and joe biden are making campaign stops in the battleground state of florida. on the left side of your screen a live look at president trump's rally in tampa. both candidates set to hold dueling rallies there today with the former vice president also in coconut creek, florida first. all of this as the latest real clear politics average of florida polling shows trump and biden in a dead heat in florida. chief white house correspondent john roberts is live for us.