september. those numbers are expected to be huge. in the meantime the activity down here is non-stop. look at this video our team shot early this morning with our new fox drone that has thermal imaging capability. it was a group of several hundred migrants who crossed illegally into private property all at the same time. almost every single one of them was a single adult man. this area has been hammered with single adults in recent weeks. we're starting to see much viewer venezuelans crossing here as a result of the new policy expelling them. we still get huge groups from other countries including cuba, nicaragua, and columbia. we'll talk about that mom. look at this wild video in the rio grande valley, texas troopers pulled over this mom with a 10-month-old infant in the back seat as well as the other 14-year-old child and smuggling three illegal immigrants in the vehicle. they ask if there is anybody else in the car. she said no.

they opened the trunk. underneath the stroller in a compartment they pull out a man. the mom told troopers she was trying to smuggle them to the san antonio area. she was arrested for human smuggling. a couple of major fentanyl busts to shoi. look at this photo at the cbp port of entry in arizona. cbp officers seized 242,000 fentanyl pills smuggled in the spare tire of a vehicle and others strapped to the body of a pedestrian. take a look at this. cbp agents in arizona finding 2100 fentanyl pills hidden in tamales with an ice chest. the democrat-led city of el paso just announced they are no longer going to bus migrants to new york city or chicago. the final numbers, though, wild. they sent more than 290 buses

to the cities with more than 14,000 migrants. they say they are stopping because the new dhs policy has reduced the number of illegal crossings there. send it back to you. >> bill: no more busing to new york city, is that the word? >> that's correct, as of yesterday the final two buses left yesterday. el paso is done busing migrants to new york city and chicago. they sent more than 14,000 migrants in the previous months. that's a lot more than governor abbott was sending. >> bill: that's el paso, not the rest of the border, do i have that right? >> that's correct. that is just the city of el paso. >> bill: thank you, bill. great work, bill melugin back on the border. >> julie: georgia is breaking early voting records. this despite past claims from president biden and democratic gubernatorial stacey abrams that the state's new voting laws are jim crow 2.0. mark meredith is live in

washington to explain. hey, mark. >> good morning. good to see you. this year the peach state is seeing record early voting turnout even though some politicians including president biden accused georgia republicans of enacting new laws that they were dubbing jim crow 2.0. among new measures a ban on food and drinks handed out at the polls. proof of i.d. to vote by mail and new limits on the number of ballot drop boxes in the state. so far the changes don't appear to be hurting turnout. the latest data from georgia's secretary of state shows as of thursday morning just under 400,000 voters had cast their ballot. for democratic candidate stacey abrams it may create a messaging problems because she campaigned that the state was trying to suppress voters' rights. >> the restrictions on voters is barriers to access. when voters are determined enough, they can overcome those barriers. the issue i take is we shouldn't have to work this hard to cast a ballot. you shouldn't have to work this hard to navigate a system

designed for your use. >> for governor kemp is fight over voting rights dominated his first term and accused abrams of scaring off businesses over claims the new laws were racist. this week he is firing right back. >> joe biden and vice president harris were right there in the mix criticizing our state. it's absolutely not true and why people can't trust stacey abrams. what we're telling our folks is go vote early, let's show early momentum. >> polling shows it is kemp who has some of the momentum right now. a poll showing governor kemp with a slight lead over abrams. he has maintained a lead for several months. next week abrams is hoping for last-minute support for her campaign and holding an event with former president obama in atlanta trying to change the polls. julie, that election is getting closer every day and voting underway. >> julie: coming very quickly. thank you very much. >> bill: drafting off mark's

report bring in kimberly strassel from the "wall street journal." you write an article today about that topic. georgia exposes the jim crow 2.0 lie. this is what you write. what's real to voters is soaring inflation and energy prices, unsettling levels of crime and unchecked border. democrats don't have any answer for those problems and if the early voting numbers suggest anything, a lot of voters may be coming out to register their disapproval. make your point. what do you see in the numbers in georgia? half a million in the first 48 hours if i have that number right. >> that's right. more coming in every day. good morning, bill. obviously what this shows is that when the president and the vice president and all those democrats made the claim about jim crow 2.0. it was over the top by the way. it was nonsense. i think one thing you have to ask yourself is why did they do it? one of the reasons is they were trying to pass their own federal takeover of voting legislation. so they were beating on the

state reforms as a way to make their case. but also and i think this is the point of the column. for the past couple of years they have decided their mid-term strategy was going to be to present republicans as extremists on voengt, abortion and the problem is that's not the issue that's on most voters' minds now and also it was never true as the evidence is coming out in places like georgia especially on the voting front. >> bill: georgia is saying they are up 75% over the same moment four years ago. can't really compare mid-terms to presidential years but you can compare apples to apples. 75% is extraordinary, kimberly. >> yeah. actually even more interesting, bill, you can at least look -- they say they are slightly up about 3% over the numbers that were coming out at a similar time two years ago in the presidential, which is remarkable. normally mid-terms do not generate the same level of enthusiasm. if you look at the u.s.

elections project which comes out of the university of florida they are doing a breakdown by who is turning out. interesting showing that about 35% of those who have voted early in georgia are african-americans, which is about slightly higher than their percentage makeup in the state. you are seeing it across the board, too. >> bill: what are we to think about major league baseball and its decision to pull the all-star game out of georgia and delta airlines and coca-cola that put out the corporate statements without specifics about the very law that was being considered at the time? >> yeah, they didn't know what they were talking about. it is also perilous to go wandering into political debase if you get on one side and especially if your data is wrong. those companies for months now have dealt with the backlash of that. there are still a lot of bruised feelings. they wanted to look like they were woke. they didn't have all the facts. should be a real warning

message to other companies and corporate heads thinking of doing the same. >> bill: so in florida they are talking about turnout being higher and i'm trying to find ohio here. they are reporting a sharp increase as well. in florida charlie crist wants to be the governor and called the law pathetic. in ohio axios said it is one of the hardest states to cast a ballot. there is no evidence, kimberly that proves any of these statements they're reporting is correct. >> no, that's right. you really saw the left bear down on georgia, florida, ohio, texas. now texas isn't really into the early voting moment yet. but what we're seeing in the other three states what is being reported by their secretary of states is that we're having huge amounts of enthusiasm for this election. there are no barriers to turnout. in fact, one thing that's interesting, bill, if you look across the country, this argument that we just make it easier to vote and more people will come out, that's not true by the facts. california has some of the

easiest voting laws in the country. it has some of the lowest turnout. new hampshire has tough laws and has some of the best turnout. it is always a balance between access and security. that's what these states were attempting to do with these laws over the past year. and we're seeing it has worked. people are highly engaged and going to the polls. that's great. we should all be happy about that. >> bill: 1,000%. good piece, kimberly strassel. have a good weekend and thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> bill: we'll see what the final numbers are. we can track this in a lot of the big states. we'll keep you posted. >> julie: i love the fact she mentioned woke cities. that's another thing that's getting on a lot of people's nerves. it is getting over the top. >> bill: make your voice heard if you want. >> julie: yeah. philadelphia is -- >> anybody can be a victim. it isn't about party, it isn't about race or gender. anyone at any given moment can be a victim and we're living in

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hampshire gas station cut its prices by a dollar per gallon for one hour. the owner's message to president biden on "fox & friends" first this morning. >> president biden hasn't run a business in his life. we would like to invite him to come to our small businesses to see the struggles we're in. we're up against a shortage of labor, we're up against high prices in the supply chain, and at the same time consumers have to face high prices. >> julie: the average price for a gallon of gas in new hampshire is $1.13 higher compared to when president biden took office. >> bill: we wonder how it will play in the mid-terms, right? the gas prices since joe biden has been in office. this is around january of 2021 we're around $2.39 national average. you come forward 20, 22 months later and here we are today 3.82 across the country.

peaked just below $5 a gallon around july or august. that's where we are in october of 2022. how will it play, you wonder? you have key elections across the country. might be a little difficult to see at home. this is what we're trying to do here. the deeper the yellow the higher the price increase for a gallon of gasoline. show you here the deepest yellow is up 100%. what i see on this board, i see oregon up 100%, nevada, really critical races that could go either way in both states. i see alaska, a good election there as well. i see here in the upper midwest, michigan also. on the second here this is the number that's up 90%. that category seems to fit california, seems to fit arizona. i see minnesota, wisconsin. maybe indiana here to the midwest here and missouri. watch these races now come election night and see whether or not the impact on people's wallet because of the price of gasoline over the past 20, 22

months affects their vote. we shall see soon enough. that's the gas station. we got this now. >> we're looking at philly right now. superheated election cycle. part of the republican playbook is point a finger at large diverse cities and say they're lawless. >> julie: they're pointing the finger at crime. philadelphia d.a. larry krasner denouncing a republican effort to impeach him over the city's soaring crime rate. a common theme in democrat-run cities aa cross the country. lawrence jones is talking to people who live in those communities. people are so fed up between the economy and crime. i'm not sure which takes precedence. crime is a real big deciding factor for voters. >> that's right, julie. crime is number two when you look at the national polling. today i was talking with some

voters. when i was landing yesterday there was a 30-minute delay because the airspace was restricted because the president of the united states was at the airport. when i got down on the ground there were swat teams and they were securing the area because they called it the presidential bubble. they are trying to get as much crime away from that area. the people that i spoke with today that are the victims of the crime, they don't live in the bubble. that bubble that they live in is with people that feel like they can shoot anything up. we have a woman shot in the face. her boyfriend was shot and killed months after she was shot. you had a mom that son was lost. law enforcement family members shot. a growing consensus not just in philly but all the major cities run by democrats are just full of lawless criminals. >> julie: philadelphia crime stats up on the screen.

robbery up 48%. violent crime up 4 1/2%. shooting victims 2.73%. i want to play video of you talking to voters about crime ahead of the mid-terms and this is how they digest these statistics. watch. >> how many people on this panel experience that fear in their gut that they don't want to go out when the sun is out -- down that when they pull up to the gas station, when they go into a convenience store, you wonder if this is the time? how many people experience that type of fear? everyone almost feels that. >> julie: everybody living in phil and why people are getting out of cities. cities will hurt more so economically. >> the sad thing about that, julie, is that the people fear but the criminals don't fear. they believe they can do whatever they want. such an utter disrespect of not only law enforcement but their own communities. you saw the woman yesterday that we aired on the channel of

just telling the kids to stop cussing around other small children and they beat her. this is what we're dealing with on the streets across the country. >> julie: i can relate. i've seen it and walked down these streets with my children and hearing people cuss and i'm afraid to say anything. >> bill: you went through a lot of topics and you talked to hispanic voters about immigration. it is very interesting to get the reaction. it runs the gambit. a sample of that today. >> as someone voted for both political parties, how do you feel about the democratic party how they are handling immigration right now? >> oh, yeah, they are dropping the ball. every country has a border. every country enforces it. we for some reason don't want to do it. i don't understand. trump at least put the border there like we can at least vet you. >> bill: do you know if he is republican or democrat, carlos?

lawrence, have you still got us? >> i got you, brother. those were hispanic voters in florida. what they were saying as much as what i hear from the hispanics along the border in my home state of texas. it seems like the democrats thought they could pander to hispanic voters by being for illegal immigration. when you have most of the folks that are here for legal immigration. so you can see the full version of that on my show at 10:00 p.m. eastern time on saturday. a lot of interesting stuff from those hispanic voters. >> julie: i want to know the answer to what bill asked and you didn't hear. do you know if they were democrats or republicans >> bill: the gentleman, carlos. >> i could not make out what you guys were saying, i'm sorry about that. >> bill: we didn't know if they knew who they were voting for yet. were you able to get an answer out of them? >> they all voted for

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. >> julie: d.o.j. is prosecuting demonstrators for planned parenthood but overlooking attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers across the u.s. david spunt is live at the justice department on this double standard. >> the department of justice is using something called the freedom of access to clinic entrances or face act. 1994 law passed and signed into law by president bill clinton punishing people who use or threaten the use of force to quote injure, intimidate or interfere with anyone seeking abortion services or pro-life pregnancy counseling services. pro-life groups are calling foul. while the department of justice has plenty of cases against those attacking abortion clinics we can't find one instance in 2022 where d.o.j. in the last few months has charged someone for attacking the pro-life pregnancy center.

we know the f.b.i. is seeing an unusual uptick in attacks on pro-life centers following the overturning of roe in june. we know that specifically because christopher wray told me so this summer. watch. >> there is a right way under our first amendment to express yourself and violence and destruction of property is not it. and that's what the rule of law is all about. and we have seen a number of attacks against -- >> 26 people have been indicted under the face act this year. all of them attacked pro-life choice related businesses or abortion clinics. zero indictments for attacks on the pro-life centers. pro-lifers have a message for merrick garland. >> i would say that he should do his job and apply the law fairly and equally and look into these many dozens of attacks and see that, you know, groups are saying they're

coordinated. there is something to dig into here to prevent it from happening. >> bottom line there seems to be a disconnect. the f.b.i. is investigating these passing them off to d.o.j. and d.o.j. has yet to prosecute. see what happens. >> bill: there is a republican running for statewide office in california. it is rare to win in california. it has been a number of years since it happened for republicans on the statewide level. what will it take for a republican to get elected. the next guest to invigorate the slightly alive g.o.p. chen is running for california controller. good morning to you. >> thank you. >> bill: appreciate you coming back. republicans don't win statewide offices. arnold schwarzenegger would be considered a moderate was a last one to do it in 2006. why do you think you can now? >> i think californians are fed

up with the lack of accountability, the lack of transparency in finances. look at the challenges we face as a state whether homelessness, issues with our public schools, or the water crisis we continue to have in california. the list goes on and on. what they see is sacramento spending more and more money every year. homelessness a great example. tens of billions in spending and the problems get worse. stories about a 1.7 million dollar public toilet in san francisco. this is the kind of things californians look at. i want to bring accountability and transparency to our finances and hold sacramento politicians. it is resonating across the state. >> bill: is it true $20 billion on homelessness in three years? >> yeah. it is staggering. you look at the -- it's a human crisis we're seeing in places like san francisco, los

angeles, san diego, sacramento. i've been all over the state and will tell you the homelessness crisis has gotten worse. every californian will tell you that it has reached suburbs and something this state is not addressing in the right way. there is no accountability. in one program in l.a. alone, they spent $800,000 to build a unit of housing to house one homeless person. that tells you there is a problem in california. there is a lack of accountability. nobody is serving as a watchdog and that's what the state controller, the position i'm running for is a watchdog position and why it's so important. >> bill: the way i understand it you will get into the finances run by the state, correct? and that carries a lot of clout all the way to the energy policies in california. your candidacy is no joke. the "l. a. times" endorsed you, san jose mercury news endorsed you. go ahead. >> we've been endorsed by every single newspaper that has looked at this race in the

general election in the state of california. the hometown paper of my opponent. l.a., san jose, san francisco, san diego, a clean sweept. it is a clean sweep because people in the state and media elites in the state recognize something isn't going right and something needs to change and we need accountability. >> your opponent is a 44-year-old woman named malia cowen. her campaign is about equity and parity. how do you counter that and will you get on a debate stage together? >> she has refused to debate. i think part of the reason she refuses is because she has a record of failure. she is a personal financial failure having not paid her taxes, having had business licenses revoked by the state of california, having been foreclosed on and the worst attendance record when she was a san francisco county supervisors but gave herself several pay increases. the reason she doesn't want to

debate and focusing her campaign largely on issues that are beyond the scope of the controllers office is she recognizes her record, her background and experience simply the choice is very, very clear in this election. that's why all these newspapers have endorsed me and why we think we'll win. >> bill: i look at the budget in california. always a topic. gas prices, etc. i didn't understand this about the job. you can audit government agencies, you would sit on 70 state boards and commissions including the state pension fund, franchise tax board, coastal commission and lands commission and help regulate energy in the state. this job is significant in california. you could change the state if you were to win. do you believe that? >> i believe we can make this state more accountable and make it run better and spend smarter. let me say this. gas prices are a perfect example. the controller can audit the gas tax. we have some of the highest gas taxes in the country. where does the money go and

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>> julie: the fentanyl epidemic

continues to poison our communities and rip apart families. gwen is no stranger to addiction. her partner, paul, died from a fentanyl poisoning in may of 2021 and she joins me now this morning. good morning to you. i'm so sorry for your loss and i do appreciate truly you coming on and talking about this because you can make a difference. duffy can, too, until his death apparently he was encouraging people to seek treatment while he was struggling with his own addiction. tell me about that struggle >> yes, thank you for having me here today. duffy was very passionate about his job, his heart was in it and all his struggles with addiction gave him the ability to connect with those who were struggling and give them incentive to get treatment and somebody else was doing that. he had a lot of depression that

he was going through and he wasn't reaching out. he wasn't sticking with his recovery program the way that he needed to be. and it just turned into a downward spiral. eventually -- >> julie: continue, i didn't mean to cut you off. >> that's okay. eventually if you are not working your program, if you are not staying connected to people in recovery and you are struggling with those things, substances are what most of us return to. >> julie: you lost your partner, the father to your child. why do you believe duffy didn't seek help? >> definitely the stigma played a part. he was afraid of what other people would think, even being in this community, he had built a good reputation and didn't want anybody to look down on him. and he didn't want to let the

people in his life down and he also didn't want to lose his job. so -- that's also the insanity of addiction. it is part of it, too. you think you have it under control and fentanyl has really changed that. people don't have a chance to get help because just a few specks with kill you, it is poison. quickly they end up dying. >> julie: if you look at the fentanyl deaths in america from 2021, 2022, really starting to ramp up in 2020, spanning the year 2018 to 2021 a steady rise in the numbers especially since the pandemic. in 2020 a huge jump to 60,000 and 72,000 in 2021. the stigma that you talked about just now that duffy struggled with is to blame for so many of these deaths. i understand that you are now fighting to end that stigma. tell us how.

>> well, i actually started a tiktok account wanting to make some videos of duffy and i and they were extremely well received and i have grown a large following at this point. i'm taking it as an opportunity to show people that addiction is not what you might think it looks like. the stigma is improving but there are still a lot of people who think they know what a drug addict looks like. the truth is it's all of us. your mom, your dad, your sister, brother, next door neighbor. it doesn't have a face, it doesn't discriminate. i really hope to shed light on that every opportunity that i can because if we can talk about this openly, it will prevent people from passing from fentanyl. it is now laced into i'm sure you guys have covered it a lot. it's pills and everything. it's in everything. >> julie: so dangerous. i think awareness is key. what is your tiktok account for

people to check out? >> it's gwenviere1123. >> julie: personal account from somebody. you think fentanyl and you think strung out drug addicts living on the street homeless. you look at duffy looking like a perfectly normal, healthy, happy father, american, partner, you name it. you would never think or suspect that he was struggling the way he was. i think that's something that is very eye opening for a lot of people who have loved ones suffering the same tragedy. thank you so much for talking to us. i really appreciate it. good luck to you. >> thank you for having me. >> bill: going through a tough time. britain needs a new prime minister after liz truss will resign after six weeks in office. the shortest tenure in british history. that says a lot. alex hogan. the fallout in london today.

>> they will have a new prime minister by next week. the big question is who will snag that seat? so far the top candidates are rishi one of the top contenders. he was the former finance minister. recently was in the election leadership contest but lost to liz truss. another penny mordon has gathered support and formerly served as defense secretary. lastly former prime minister boris johnson ousted just months ago after handling sexual allegations in his administration and the parties held at downing street during the height of the pandemic. still after six weeks in the role, liz truss is leaving as the shortest sitting prime minister in u.k. history. the only one to comes close is one who died on the job.

truss's economic policies tanked the economy leading the u.k. with the highest inflation since 1982. since her resignation announcement the british pound is up. so far as far as who replaces her, contenders will need the backing of 100 of the 357 conservative party lawmakers. if one candidate hits that mark they could become the next prime minister as early as monday. but if multiple candidates manage to get that backing, it will go to an online vote among the members of that party. of course, we'll see in the days to come, this will be a quick race, a lot riding not only just on today but over the weekend as well. >> bill: a bit of a stunner. alex hogan live in london. thank you. >> julie: children in ukraine are deeply traumatized by the violence all around them. how one group is working to help young ukrainians cope with russia's invasion.

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>> harris: what happened. republicans hold the widest lead in new national polling since the summer. democrats may be ignoring voters' top concerns at their own political peril. and a big gaffe from president biden on the campaign before he heads home for more vacation days. plus congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, the aoc danced in the faces of angry constituents when a town hall went awry, flew off the rails. "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> julie: nearly eight months of war is taking a toll on the children of ukraine. families have been separated, lives torn apart, the nonprofit novi is on a mission to help young ukrainians cope with the horrors of war. trey yingst is live in kyiv,

ukraine with more. good morning, trey. >> good morning. the war in ukraine has forced 2/3 of children to flee their homes according to the united nations, the stress and trauma they experience of major concern to those trying to help. >> 6-year-old an dreek works on a self-portrait in a village outside of kyiv. he is for ukraine, the young boy says and protecting us. he is among dozens of children participating in a program to help them identify and manage their emotions amid the war. the images they draw provide insight into what they've seen and experienced over the last eight months. i remember i was sleeping and there were two helicopters flying over me she recalls. mom was reading the news and told us the war is starting. >> now we'll start drawing the inside of the body. >> the nonprofit organized the activities to allow the kids to recognize what emotions they're feeling, where the feelings

take place and who helps them to feel better. >> it bridges the gap between a child who is failing to understand ordeal with the feelings that they are having, and the parents who may also be struggling in their own ways because of the war. >> a parent and one of 7 million ukrainians internally misplaced by the war. i see it helps a lot more my child to open up because of the stressful situation. children are closing up and don't know how to express what they are feeling inside. >> what about these hands? >> i see that when i'm sad it is good to have friends and talk to them. sophia says. that girl wants to be an interpreter when she grows up. now she wants to speak with her friends like so many here, her childhood has been ripped away by this unnecessary conflict. >> julie: thank you, bill. >> bill: back at home twitter

bracing for big changes under elon musk. the billionaire reportedly planning to splash the company's workforce by nearly 75%? should his take over bid go through, that's the plan. is that real, 75%? >> right. that's a big slash, bill. folks inside are concerned. one source is sharing with me that employees are spiraling. another that job postings are openly being passed around right now. folks are also telling me those who staunchly support twitter's content moderation approach believe it could destroy the platform that lets folks moderate what exposes users to hacks, lies and offensive material. in texts released during the trial musk agreed that twitter had too many employees for the amount of revenue it was bringing in and taking on at least 12 1/2 billion of debt to finance the deal. slashing staff would help ease

the burden. just because he may fire folks, it doesn't mean he won't hire people. he has already shared his intent to bring in more effective workers that fit with his new vision and people in the company are up in arms as the post merger owner you want a loyal staff with you. there are more headaches. the biden administration is talking about national security reviews. it would review the foreign investors he has brought on board including a saudi prince, analysts are sharing with us that likely wouldn't prevent the deal from happening. always a new challenge. >> bill: what's the timeline on the act situation? >> one week out. the judge gave them until october 28th to reach a deal. we should have a lot of movement in the next week and they're drawing up papers to make it official. >> bill: something to watch, right? could be a whole new ballgame. we'll see. kelly o'grady, nice to see you

in los angeles. so a couple things on my mind. roll this before we go. here. we got an adorable denial that went viral. a toddler's parents said don't eat the blue birthday cupcake. don't do it. this happened. >> you are going to have no blue cake at all? >> no. >> okay. >> that's the answer i would get if i was a kid. mom and dad, i don't know what you are talking about. there is no blue cupcake in my life. i didn't eat it. >> julie: when i was a child deny, deny was my motto. when you are caught in a lie still deny it. >> bill: how he gets around the makeup around his mouth? what's the excuse? cute stuff there. nice to to be with you. have a good weekend. things are changing in new york. fall weather is coming along here and you feel a new season and i will get rest this

weekend and get rid of this bad boy. it's going around. >> julie: you have probably given it to me the last two hours. thank you in advance. >> bill: i believe i'm no longer infectious. i think dana was the victim a couple days ago. we'll see. julie, thank you. all right, "the faulkner focus" follows now. have a great weekend, everybody. catch you on monday as we get the race for the mid-terms. here is harris, bye-bye. >> julie: bye-bye. >> harris: this fox news alert president biden pulling out all the stops to try to save democrats from sinking. biden is about to address the inflation ravaged economy at any moment. new indications right now 18 days out from election day his party should be very worried. i'm harris faulkner and are you in "the faulkner focus". a brand-new national poll asking how voters will cast their ballots shows republicans with a five-point lead. that's the biggest advantage