>> 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.

>> good afternoon. big, enthusiast take crowd outside of raymond james stadium. the polling averages have been see-sawing back and forth. one day donald trump is up. next day joe biden is up. well within the margin of error. what we're seeing in this average isn't particularly relevant what will happen next tuesday. the president is at the western edge of what's called the i-4 corridor. that's that strip that runs between tampa and daytona beach where elections are won or lost in florida. the president lost hillsborough county in 2016 by seven point but trying to build up vote totals in the sunshine state. a big outreach to hispanic voters. a permanent solution to the daca issue. here is the president yesterday. >> president trump: more hispanic americans will be able to buy a home, to afford

quality health insurance and to raise their families in a beautiful, safe neighborhood. joe biden would obliterate everything hispanic americans have worked for wiping out small businesses with lockdowns and regulations, gutting your police departments and devastating your families with massive tax hikes. >> that was the president in good year, arizona with a big hispanic population. he has a new talking point today. the cone me growing at 33.1% in the third quarter. the president claims joe biden would shut down that growth. biden will be in broward county today. yesterday in georgia. insisting that his plan would shut down the coronavirus and not the economy. listen here. >> he has done nothing -- nothing. i will bring democrats and republicans together to deliver the economic relief for families, schools and

businesses. i said before i'm not going to shut down the economy, i won't shut down the country, i'll shut down the virus. >> florida is always a big battle. remember in the year 2000 it was 537 votes that separated george bush from al gore. the president won it last time by a little more than 100,000 votes. harris, if ever it were true to say every vote counts, this is a state in which that adage really applies. >> harris: all right. john, thank you very much. you are watching "outnumbered." i'm harris faulkner. dagen mcdowell, co-host of fox and friends weekend jedediah bila and fox news contributor leslie marshall and former wisconsin congressman, fox news contributor sean duffy. great to see you, sean. all right. let's start with you and let's start with the economy and this new what john roberts says we

expect to be a topic that the president will roll out on the stump today. >> absolutely. first of all great to be with you on the virtual kirby couch. great to be a fox news contributor. i think you look at this 33% gdp growth and donald trump will hammer that the last five days of the campaign. florida, it will be interesting to see the side-by-side pictures of the donald trump rally versus the joe biden rally. we'll have throngs on the trump side with great energy and probably a few people on the biden side. the visual in florida will be fantastic. he will talk to hispanic voters who care about economic growth and care about opening up. many are small business owners who need a thriving economy to be successful to support their families. i have to tell you looking at florida i think it will be interesting. the democrats have a 2-1 spending advantage over the trump campaign. they also have michael

bloomberg's money spending $100 million. huge cash flowing to the battleground states. the trump campaign is relying on a ground game. they invested in door knockers, touching potential voters, undecided voters, it will be interesting does the money win the day or does the ground game win the day when the joe biden campaign they haven't done any door knocking or touching of voters. it will be interesting to see who has the better strategy on election day. >> harris: that will always be a question during a pandemic. which side will continue with the ground game? perhaps, leslie, the huge advantage that republicans have is that their ground game was so strong to begin with and democrats were telling me they capitulateed to the idea they were just better at that, not just this time around but even with all of hillary clinton's money last time around presidential, it was an advantage for republicans.

they just simply were everywhere. so what do democrats do down the stretch? >> well, in the state of florida, harris, i think it's very interesting. yesterday on the couch ari fleischer says come down to arizona. i think it might come down to florida and this is why. florida is almost like a snapshot of the rest of the nation. very divided. areas where the president is losing ground and joe biden has gained ground and more specifically is among seniors and sean, if you saw those lines at the villages. those were incredible enthusiastic crowds. on the other side joe biden is not doing as well with hispanics as hillary clinton was in the state of florida in 2016. so florida may be the state to watch. it may come down to florida. it really is a reflection of the nation how divided we are. there are two different campaign strategies. the fact they're tied shows both are working.

>> harris: you know, dagen, it would be helpful, i think, for people to understand what the 33.1% of gdp means for them. how it translates at a main street level. you see a lot of pundits talking about it and so on and so forth it's a big deal. do they also maybe need to separate that out from wall street so people don't think it's just the rich getting richer. what does it mean for everybody else when you see a number like that today? >> the american people already know the economy is recovering. they've seen it opening up. this number is in the third quarter so that ended in september. the american people already know that the united states is rebounding significantly. this is literally wall street economists telling the american people what they already know. i will point out that the economy is still 3 1/2% smaller than it was at the end of 2019.

so this goes to sean's point about president trump. he has always polled better on the economy than joe biden. president trump has to look ahead and say my policies of lower taxes and getting out of the way of business, less regulation, it took the unemployment rate down to a 50-year low last year. household incomes growing at the fastest pace on record. even faster for latino households last year in this country and black households. faster than white house holds in the nation. so you want to hammer home we'll keep these policies in place and jux to pose that with joe biden ignoring the income tax plans he has for raising taxes on folks, he wants to raise corporate taxes. so what does that do? it takes money away from businesses that they would otherwise use coming out of a pandemic to rehire employees, hire new workers, and give people raises. that's what president trump needs to mention over and over again in the closing days.

>> harris: jedediah, how much does it matter that when you look at places like wisconsin, the numbers for hospitalizations because of coronavirus are popping right about the time that the president is also seeing success in the economy? he made the argument for reopening and it appears economically to be working. does he need to put out a balanced message on those two things in his closing message these days? or do people just know it to be true as dagen says, they feel better in the pocketbook and it's enough for them? what do we think we know about voters? >> i think it's really challenging to balance those two topics. covid-19 and the economy. you saw that in florida when you looked at a lot of the polling that came in with respect to governor desantis. it was fascinating to watch. he was one of the leaders in reopening the country and talking about reopening restaurants and bars at full

capacity and opposed a national mask mandate. when you look at his polling over the summer it dropped. many of those same people were saying we want to see a return in the economy. we want to see the businesses to be able to be open but they felt he went overboard and wasn't taking safety precautions seriously enough. so you need to be able to balance the language with yes, reopening the economy but also reminding people that you understand the severity of the virus. you have a high senior population. i believe it goes for everywhere. everyone knows someone who lost a loved one and knows someone who got sick. look at the numbers and know it's a topic that is near and dear to the hearts of many. many people are concerned when they see the numbers rising. so you have to balance those two arguments. i think there is a big distinction. when you look at the trump supporter and the biden supporter, they are voting very differently right now. you can see the trump supporter in those rallies. you can see the enthusiasm.

it is visual, it is tangible in large part because of the way donald trump has chosen to orchestrate his campaign. he is out there front and center and see the supporters. on the biden side you don't see that in the same way. it doesn't mean they aren't going to show up at the polls. remember, those people are not necessarily voting for joe biden but they are voting against president trump. that enthusiasm may be a little quieter but i do believe in places like wisconsin and florida in the battlegrounds enthusiasm exists on both sides. i think when it comes to the economy and other key issues a lot of people's minds are already made up. in these closing arguments, i would make sure that balance what you are saying so people know that yes, you prioritize the economy and yes, you prioritize law and order the leading strength for the president but you also understand and have an empathetic tone with respect to covid-19. that would be my advice. >> harris: sean, as i come back to you i had mentioned with jedediah and i have been talking a little bit about wisconsin because of what is going on there with covid-19.

also because it's holding pretty steady in the real clear politics and there are some outliers in other direction. pretty steady joe biden has been leading in that state. what historically has wisconsin meant getting to the white house? it is your home state and you know a lot about wisconsin. what role do you think it plays this time as well? >> right, so as i think leslie mentioned florida is a must-win state. if the president gets through florida and north carolina you look to the rust belt of michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin. the president has to win one of those three plus a maine or nebraska with wisconsin. so as we look to our state as one of those must-wins covid has played a big deal. we have a lot of older people, harris, older people usually vote republican. the president's insensitivity around our serious it is and older people have been at risk passing away has been a liability.

the bigger liability right now is as we've seen the early vote you have a majority of democrats who are engaging in that early vote or absentee vote. i'm concerned that as covid rises in places like wisconsin what democrats will do is say these elections can be super spreaders. you can't come out to the polls because if you do you could get covid and you could die. don't come and vote. it could be a vote suppression tactic the media or democrats use to keep what would be a republican voter to come out and vote on this coming tuesday. i think that would be sad. i think wisconsin again you see the public polls. wisconsin is down by five publicly. i think we're within 1 to 1 1/2 points behind biden right now. and you are seeing the rural part, the more conservative part. people haven't voted before are driven to come and support president trump. we have schools, colleges in wisconsin which are big democrat voters, democrats aren't organizing the colleges. the professors because they're

on zoom feel less secure talking to politics to kids. i think when you look to milwaukee. more from african-american. i think trump will do well. how motivated are they to vote on election day? >> i don't know the democrats of people of color in your state. i do know them better in my former state of minnesota. so i can't speak to that but i can tell you that in terms of early voting it used to be a republican thing and what this president has helped undo for the party. people may be afraid to go to the polls. great to mail-in now. you are caught between dropping off at a box and going to the polls. it's a weird conundrum that got

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>> harris: more than 73 million people have already voted in the 2020 election either in person or by mail. however, a nonpartisan site which tracks early voting reports nearly 40 million mail-in ballots remain outstanding. election officials in several states are urging voters not to rely on the u.s. postal service to get those ballots submitted on time. it's too late. in more than two dozen states including arizona, georgia, florida, michigan and wisconsin ballots must be received by election day or they won't be counted. yesterday the supreme court ruled to let pennsylvania and north carolina count mailed ballots received several days after the election. but president trump says he hopes other states won't follow that suit. >> president trump: hopefully the few states remaining that want to take a lot of time after november 3 to count ballots that won't be allowed

by the various courts because as you know we are in courts on that. we had a big victory yesterday in wisconsin on that matter. hopefully that won't be happening. >> harris: bipartisan used to be nonpartisan now they are separately in my copy. leslie, i come to you on this because this ruly shouldn't be a partisan issue. we should want every vote to count and know what the outcome in as soon as possible. >> when you look at the 2016 election, harris, when you look at more people didn't vote than did and you break down why don't people vote, they don't feel that their vote counts with our current system of the electoral college. i agree with what you said and bernie sanders is constantly saying every vote has to count. it does. if i were wisconsin, sean, you poor guys in wisconsin must be angry with pennsylvania and north carolina. why did the court rule in their favor and not in wisconsin? look. even with taxes if you have it postmarked by the 15th you're

under the wire. why can't it be the same for the votes? most of us want especially those of us working in the media and politics, we want to wake up after next tuesday knowing who the president of the united states is. but that may not happen this time. it is a different election. we're in a pandemic. it's a different time. every person's vote should count and we need to take the time to count them because people are voting differently whether by mail. mailing it in as they should now drop it off at the box or going in person. different times perhaps different outcome and different expectations. >> harris: one of the things that makes me scratch my head. there was such a low number, 50% fewer this time than 2016 of undecided voters. i'm a little surprised those people who intended to vote early haven't done it already. >> that's a good point. it might be higher. i talked to lee carter about this. she expects it could be 10% or

higher. the number is 6% right now. i will point out one thing, though. this is a state by state issue. the democrats always want to blame trump -- president trump for everything. these are state by state laws. these are state by state cases that the supreme court is looking at. so with wisconsin, the "wall street journal" wrote about this. it isn't partisan to rule a state's voting deadline should stand. one thing about the pennsylvania case, the supreme court declined to disturb the ballot deadline in pennsylvania as well but it does look like they might be compelled to pick up this case after election day. there were several supreme court justices that seemed to suggest -- they were skeptical the state courts can alter election rules adopted by

legislature for elections. a targeted remedy such as invalidating late delivered votes in pennsylvania should the court take the case up after election day. the attorney general of pennsylvania did decide to segregate ballots received after the election day deadline. so that was a compromise between democrats and republicans. so this has a ways to go in terms of being settled. >> harris: speaking, jedediah, of the high court getting involved. we didn't see the brand-new justice amy coney barrett step in yet. she said some of these things and it was looked upon they needed an expeditious answer where they could and she wasn't at the level she wanted to be. pennsylvania is something they can take another bite at and look at that. as dagen point you -- pointed out it hasn't been firmly decided. >> when you say some can go nine days after election day.

leslie raises a good point. we're in different times right now. when you deal with covid, pandemic, you have to make extenuating circumstances and measures to accommodate them. the challenge is with the delays you don't want any fraud or abuse to enter as days pass. you also want a prompt resolution in a country that is extremely divided right now. you don't want to add fuel to that fire in those days after an election. everyone on both sides of the aisle wants the revolution to come swiftly and quickly. we know the answer and move on. it's interesting who are holding those ballots that remain? those outstanding ballots? because i have a feeling that a lot of those people are individuals who decided that they will go vote in person on election day. listened to a lot of what has gone on with the post office and worried about delays. i will mail in my ballot and it will be fine and they sat back and said i don't want to risk it. i want to make sure my vote

counts. i've heard the concerns. conspiracy theories were thrown out there as well and legitimate concerns. know the post office will get flooded. they will say i make a difference decision and show up on election day. i think you will see a lot of that as well. >> harris: sean, tell me if i'm a pollyanna on this. maybe we'll learn lessons this time and something dire going on in the country maybe congress can get its act together months ahead of election day that they know is coming years from now. we already know the date of the next one and they can start to maybe put something in place. i come to you because you know those people. why weren't they talking about this in like march? they could have had some plans. >> but i think, harris, this is in the purview of the state. i don't want congress to set rules on how states conduct their elections. >> harris: how about a suggestion? >> but i think what we've done here is -- makes a lot of sense. it is not like those who set

the rules have given only people one week to send in their mail-in ballots. in wisconsin we've had over a month for people to get a ballot and send it back in and now we're five days away from an election and like why don't people need more time to get their ballots in? of course they don't need more time. you could have got the ballot and sent it in three weeks ago. the postal service is awesome but three weeks is enough time to get your ballot to your polling location. harris, what will be interesting, democrats have been doing more the mail-in balloting. if you look at the different rules in different states you have to follow the rules whether you have to sign your ballot or one envelope inside of a bigger envelope, you have someone authenticate your signature. if you don't follow the rules exactly your ballot can get kicked out. .2% to .6% of democrats ballots getting kicked out in the battleground states. it can decide the difference between trump or biden.

it will send us into the courts which could cause us not to have a decision for weeks. >> harris: i remember after hurricane sandy that in states on the east coast we were told send in for an absentee so you can mail in. there was no electricity and flooding everywhere and we were out of our homes. >> i want to point out i always hammer sean but i will not hammer the state of wisconsin. wisconsin got on this and sent absentee ballot applications to everybody in the summer. so they were ahead of it. go wisconsin. >> thank you, dagen. >> harris: i like wisconsin for a lot of reasons. anonymous no more. the former dhs staffer who wrote an infamous anonymous piece in the "new york times" outed himself just days from the election. why the president says he believes the former staffer

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>> harris: the commissioner of u.s. customs and border patrol says twitter suspended his account after trying to post a story about a wall on the u.s./mexico border. commissioner morgan said the post celebrated the success of that wall keeping violent criminals from reaching

american communities. morgan said this at an event a short time ago. >> with all due respect, twitter, your locking my account doesn't test the b.s. test. >> harris: i want to read the tweet to you now. it says we continue to build new wall every day, every mile helps us to stop gang members, murderers, sexual predators and drugs from entering our country. it is a fact, walls work. i just want to point out with my reading glasses and choking up right now on my phone meaning bringing it as close as i can. it has been blocked. when you take an image of it it's like a cloud over it. dagen, you have look at the tech companies so much. they were just on the hill. did i miss something from twitter and its ceo when it

comes to the commissioner of customs and border patrol talking about what they are doing at the border but yet twitter blocks him? >> this is their policy. it is a policy of censorship. that's what we heard from jack dorsey yesterday. welcome on twitter, holocaust deniers, welcome on twitter the leader of iran threatening to wipe israel off the face of this earth. who gets censored and flag? the president of the united states, you have the head of customs and border patrol, and conservatives. you've seen twitter go to great lengths to censor free press as if it harms their preferred presidential candidate. and that is joe biden. and i do think that these tech companies are up to something even bigger. i think that they're trying to play to the left, play to democrats as a way of like oh, don't come after us if joe

biden wins. if the democrats take the senate, don't come after us. we're on your side. i think it's a wink, wink and nod, nod but damages our democracy period. >> harris: that's an interesting theory of yours because democrats don't like this either, leslie. >> true. dagen, love you, not that nefarious i can assure you. >> it's my theory. >> i think it is stub i had tee. i agree with you as somebody of jewish lineage i don't want to see holocaust denials because it was real on twitter. i don't want to see some of the disgusting sexist pornographic, vulgar, profane, the list goes on. look, even if this twit had been up the american people have decided if they're in biden's camp or trump. so many millions of americans have already voted. so having this tweet up or not

won't change anybody's mind out there. it is not going to help joe biden. it is not going to hurt donald trump. but it does just in a sense help to fan the flames of the belief that there is censorship specifically among conservatives. i didn't find violence in that. i didn't find profanity. obviously any statistic, it is not two thrust two equals four but politically we know things can be spun and certainly glasses can be looked at as half full or half empty and both people be accurate. >> harris: i have to tell you, i don't know that this raises a nation of strong people if we don't have actual journalists doing the editorializing on these platforms and people who we don't know who their background is who is reading what and who gets to have and account and who doesn't. it's very fair questions. it isn't because we're more familiar with section 230 now.

i hadn't read as many times as i had this week on the protection these tech giants get when they take news like this. >> these tech giants have single handedly done an enormous favor for president trump. they have rallied this base. so many people are passionate about the issue. even people not necessarily loyalists of the president are seeing this bias, this nonsense. it is not stupidity. it is agenda driven. the only thing that is stupid they don't realize they're achieving the opposite of what they intend. they intend to suppress information. instead of suppressing information is creating a bunch of people on twitter who care about freedom of speech and saying to themselves wait a second. this is a bunch of people who feel like they are entitled to manipulate me and tell me what i'm entitled the read or not. it changed people's perception of twitter. the idea it was a place you went and went to receive your news and this impartial hub of

information is utterly absurd. it has taken the blanket off that and rallied people to say wait a second. this language is distrusting the media. now you can't distrust social mead. what can you trust? it has created a nation of citizen journalists and people who feel they are conservative and feel their voices and their right to their opinion have been suppressed in a zone that is constantly telling them and preaching to them that they're impartial. so i think it has rallied the base better than anyone i've seen in a long time. we'll see what that does on election day. it's an issue that's front and center. >> harris: sean, says i come to you from the federalist now. twitter wrote an email explaining the suspension. here it is. you may not promote violence against, threaten or harass other people of the basis of national origin and other

things. i've asked our team to put that tweet back up if they can put the tweet up from the commissioner. if there is time to do that. we know he was talking about the wall and what he says his department has accomplished down there. do you see a cross section between what twitter is saying for the reason they took it down and what the commissioner was tweeting? >> not at all. i think we see twitter massaging their rules in whatever way possible to censor conservative or trump speech. i thought yesterday when we heard from jack dorsey from twitter, i thought this we'll suppress hacked material or russian disinformation. here you have a tweet from the border patrol about the border wall being taken down? it doesn't make any sense. as conservatives let's go to section 230 and limit the exclusions for social media. but as conservatives do you believe in government or do you

believe in the marketplace? twitter and facebook are not democrat leaning. these are left leaning organizations. they are from san francisco. they hate republicans and conservatives. if you want to beat them, challenge them. go the places like parlor. you have to innovate a platform that believes in free speech instead of trying to change the left wingers running these platforms. i think the administration knew it would happen a year ago and the president and others could have moved to a different platform and driven their supporters there where they could have had free speech. they didn't do that. stuck on twitter and facebook. now we're relegated to the censorship of jack dorsey and zuckerberg which i think is sad. >> harris: it's a lot. like a big old piece of duct tape across certain people's mouths so you can't hear their point of view. we'll move on. the anonymous author of a 2018 op-ed critical of president trump has come forward. how the president is speaking out and calling for some

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>> anonymous was a nobody, disgruntled employee who was removed for telling me incompetence. the whole thing was just one more giant hoax from the washington swamp and to corrupt special interest group. i will tell you what, this guy, in my opinion, he should be prosecuted. he should be prosecuted. >> harris: president trump says the staffer should be prosecuted. miles taylor has admitted he is the anonymous author of a 2018 "new york times" op-ed and subsequent book declaring that he was part of the resistance inside the trump administration. taylor has been a frequent critic of the president with homeland security and since

september he has been a contributor for cnn. john duffy, what do you make of the president saying that this person, now no longer anonymous, should face legal? >> of course he's angry. he's frustrated this was blown up. it wasn't senior management. he was a middle management kid. i look at this and say, did this young man, did he break the law and disclose information? it doesn't look that way. yet a book deal and it seems like he did that while he was with homeland security. did he sign a contract while employed and if so did he disclose that? those are the only two angles you can look out for prosecutions. i think this is hot rhetoric on the campaign trail. >> harris: jedediah?

>> i think it would be really challenging to prosecute someone. you know, the precedent it would set then, you would have a whole bunch of laws that would apply to whistle-blowers. it is terrifying and a way that you can have someone who could be disgruntled, who could go to a mainstream media source, publish this stuff and be an opportunist. let's be honest. he has launched a whole career office, he has a contributor ship. he said, i went back in and i stayed there because i had to do the due diligence. no, that's not what someone who is noble does in a situation does. they witness something they don't like and they resign, they don't want to be part of that and they come out and they speak out and they put their name on it initially to let people know, i was there. i left and you will learn. that is now at this person did. i think it really sits, think about what could happen here.

you can have someone come out and disclose national security secrets. it sets a bizarre precedent and i think it makes people really uncomfortable and nervous. prosecution would be way too challenging. there are way too many cases like this that would emerge. i don't know that the president, i don't know. >> harris: he did come out. there was proof of this that he said he wasn't the one. he said that more than once. it's interesting how much she denied it. okay. leslie, get ready for this. should "the new york times," same topic, different lane, have labeled that former dhs employee as senior administration official? he wasn't that. we will talk about it. stay close. ♪ keeping your oysters business growing

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♪ >> harris: there is a new controversy over "the new york times" calling an anonymous former official who wrote a scathing op-ed, "a senior administration official." that was in his title. while standinmiles taylor did nt until six months later. a former bill clinton press secretary told "the washington post," he

wouldn't have described taylor as a senior administration official. well, i will come to you first. >> a sneaky little marketing campaign by "the new york times." they did this to get people to read an article because if it was like, some a low level staffer writes this anonymous op-ed, no one would have given a flying flip. "the new york times" magically with the couple of course words turns a nobody and to a somebody. you had the chatter, is it kellyanne conway? i would call this despicable, but you come to expect it from "the new york times." miles taylor went to work at google after this. is that not shocking. >> harris: leslie? >> that lovely accent of yours. you might say i have the accent.

listen, this was wrong. this is wrong. are you the ceo of the company or are you a middle level manager? he was not the high-ranking official in the sense that "the new york times" is putting him out to be. i really don't think people are reading it or will be influenced by that entitlement because somebody who loves the president will say it's a hoax, they have it in for the president. and those who don't like the president are like, do you see, they are more people in their camp. this individual is one of many disgruntled employees like john bolton who have spoken negatively about the president. the president says he wasn't prosecuted. what bothers me, this guy has the separation of children from their parents policy and didn't seem to care about that

whistle-blower that. >> harris: we have to wrap it up. it is interesting. it was the equivalent to what dagen was alluding to, clickbait. ind will see you back. thank you for watching. ♪ e at newday. record low rates have dropped to new all time lows. with the va streamline refi there's no appraisal, no income verification, and no money out of pocket. one call can save you $3000 a year.

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