american dream, jamaica, what do you worry about, death of democracy, which left seems to think is something they need to worry about and campaigning on or what do you worry about, that or the death of the american dream? >> honestly, death of the american dream, i have three children that i don't want to see in worse conditions than i'm in right now, which is where we're headed. >> todd: there is a big election in two weeks, we'll see if that changes. thank you, next hour of "fox and friends first" begins right now. >> carley: it is debate night in pennsylvania, just two weeks from the midterm election, polls show toss-up between john fetterman and dr. mehmet oz and the two senate candidates square off for first and only debate of

the election cycle. you are watching "fox and friends first"s, i'm carley shimkus. >> todd: i'm todd piro. 500,000 people have cast their votes and in 2018, only -- jacky. >> jackie: with just two weeks until the midterm, candidates in three races will square off on the debate stage tonight. in pennsylvania, senate hop hopefuls, john fetterman and mehmet oz will meet in their only debate. polls show john fetterman with a two-point advantage over the republican nominee, democrat team is tempering expectation lgs saying "let's be clear about this match up, dr. oz has been a professional tv personality for two decades. we'll admit this is not john's format, look at the primary earlier this year, oz clearly

comes into tuesday night with a huge built-in advantage. as he's done in recent press interviews after suffering a stroke, fetterman will use clclose captioning and dr. oz believes john fetterman's thoughts do not match with that of the people of pennsylvania. >> his goal would be to release murderers from life in prison without asking families what they think and voting against other members of the parole board does not align with value of pennsylvania, yet that is the position he's taken. >> jackie: governor kathy hochul holds a six-point advantage over republican challenger lee zeldin, but the incumbent lead is narrowing, crime is a major talking point tonight. lee zeldin says governor kathy hochul is just starting to speak about the crime crisis after ducking the issue for months now. >> it is absolutely driven by

politics, she's 15 days out from an election, she was losing her lead in the polls, most recent poll on friday showed we're starting to pull ahead of her. she's decided she wants to save kathy hochul, she will talk about crime, we've been talking about crime and wanting to save the state. >> jackie: michigan polls show within two points of governor whitmer, pointing out how sick and tired on the view on education. >> real people don't like the whitmer-biden agenda, they do not want sex and gender in school, bring back traditional values. republicans are focused on reading, writing and math and getting kids back on track and making sure to have gas tax holiday and have money back in the pockets of people.

>> jackie: races in michigan and new york tighten, democrats are sending big names to pennsylvania, obama and biden will campaign on john fetterman's behalf on november 5. >> carley: thank you, let us bring in pennsylvania candidate jeremy shafer, good morning to you. we want to talk about the race in a moment, first to the debate between fetterman and oz, how do you expect it to go and what would you like to hear the two candidates discuss? >> yeah, first i'm glad they are having this debate, in the first place. there was talk pennsylvania voters would not be able to see this debate. pennsylvania voters are suffering, inflation and crime are rampant and they want to hear solutions. i know dr. oz has been talking about that, looking forward to hearing his ideas here even more.

>> todd: jeremy, your race, there is clear contrast when it comes to crime, will crime out of all the issues important to the american people, specificsly the pennsylvania votesers in the 17th district, will crime be the issue that tips this race in your favor? >> yes, look, i'm proud to be endorsed by local police and so many democrats are seeing people want to defund the police and we are having violence off the chart in pittsburgh and across pennsylvania, voters want solutions to keep their communitieses safe. it is getting voters energized and looking forward to election day to turn things around. >> carley: your district is located in pittsburgh suburb being represented by connor lamb, who is advocating the seat or leading the seat because he tried to run for senate unsuccessfully, fetterman won

the primary, also your district voted for president biden by three points, but your race is considered a toss-up right now, a win that you could get. what are you hearing from voters and why do you think you could flip this seat? >> yes, this is a critical seat that we need to win to flip control of the house. voters in western pennsylvania are frustrated with inflation and gas prices out of control. we enter colder months, people are filling up fuel oil tanks and getting natural gas bills and seeing bills that are in some cases double what they were last winter and this is crushing families, crushing retirees here. cost of living, inflation, are driving this race. we are getting our message out and we are confident on election day we will end on the right side and deliver change to this country it needs.

>> todd: you'll have to convert democrats, that is just the way it will have to be, on the campaign trail and talking to democrats and independents, what do they tell you about why they are crossing the aisle for snu >> i've always been a problem solver, i'm an engineer, my opponent is a lawyer. i talk about the problem and how to solve it. in western pennsylvania, we sit on one of the largest reserves of energy, on the shell, the saudi arabia of natural gas, it is especially frustrating to voters to be paying sky-high energy prices. i talk to voters of all parties and tell them it does not have to be this way, we can safely extract domestic energy and be energy dominant and drive gas prices down from the $4 they are in western pennsylvania, while providing jobs to democrats, independents and republicans in the community. >> todd: democrats want to free

criminals and not energy independent, odd campaign choice, we'll see what happens in two weeks. jeremy shafer, thank you. >> talking about the debates tonight, things got heated when governor ron desantis went head-to-head with charlie charlie crist, watch. >> i am not the governor who attacked walt disney world, you are the most anti-business governor i've ever seen. >> carley: the mayor of florida is here to respond to that next.

>> janice: good morning, everyone. take a look at the temperatures. we have colder air behind a cold front, you can see the delineation of warmer than normal temperatures and colder than normal temperatures behind the system. could see severe weather and snowfalling across the northern plains in the upper midwest. this line could develop and get stronger later on today with day time heating across mississippi river valley and to the southeast and up toward the mid-atlantic on wednesday and thursday. threat mississippi, alabama,

tennessee and kentucky, heavy rain for next couple of days as the system lingers, we could see from one to two, two to four inches over next couple of days and a lot of changes in the forecast for the northwest, several systems from the pacific will bring heavy rain in the forecast as mountain snow. this area has been well above average for weeks, if not months. this is first real cooldown they've had over the last couple of months, dealing with record-setting temperatures for northwest, big changes are underway for this region. get rain on top of the areas that have been plagued with wildfires all season. >> good news there. excellent. thank you. listen to this story, volunteer for marco rubio's campaign attacked while handing out political fliers. marco rubio tweeting shocking

photos and writing last night one of our canvasser wearing one of my t-shirts and hat was brutally attacked by animals in hialeah, florida, suffered internal bleeding and will need reconstructive surgery. mayor of hialeah, florida, esteban bovo, is here now. there are obvious questions over whether or not this attack was politically motivated and the hialeah police department is saying there is no evidence the attack was. as of monday afternoon, there was no indication that is the case. do you think this attack was politically motivated and what do you know that we might not? >> good morning. look, i think first we need to talk about the facts, a gentleman has been politically active in our community, a

council candidate, been out canvassing, something i've done for 30 years and all of a sudden, something that is unusual in my city, he gets jumped and the investigation seems to lead to multiple folks that were involved in this beating and right now i don't think anything could be discarded. we don't want to jump to conclusions, but i believe this is a head-scratcher in a community that normally you don't see this kind of violence. >> carley: the pictures are horrific, the suspect, javier lo lopez, got into trouble at a political rally once, here we are. do you know who this canvasser is and how is he doing this

morning? >> he's in better shape than the day before, i had the opportunity to spook to his dad yesterday and his dad is very concerned. chris has been a political activist in our communities, he's a decent guy as far as i know issue his political views may vary, he ran for city council and he's been basically going door to are doo, we live in a hyper-political era right now and basically as he's going out and going canvassing, we have various candidates doing this in my city, to have this happen and my understanding is that apparently this gentlemen said you can't cross my sidewalk, chris tried to go around or go through the street and before you know it, there is alter altercation, the investigation is looking at others that may have participated.

i've asked my department to be thorough, we've seen people jump to conclusions and folks end with egg on their face. we know the facts, he was wearing a rubio t-shirt, had a desantis hat on, he was canvassing and he was beaten severely. >> carley: esteban bovo, we have to leave it there, thank you for joining us this morning. tragic situation, we appreciate you joining us. >> todd: liz truss stepping up to the podium to deliver fare well thoughts, let's listen to liz truss. >> welcoming exsession of his majesty king charles iii, in a short period, this government acted urgently on the side of hard-working families and businesses and reversed national insurance increase and helped with energy bills and helped thousands of businesses avoid

bankruptcy, we are taking back our energy independence, never again beholden to global market fluxuations or maligned for powers. from my time as prime minister, i'm more convinced than ever, we need to be bold and confront the challenges that we face. as the raymond cynic wrote, not because things are difficult we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. we simply cannot afford to be a low-grade country where the government takes up increasing share of our national wealth and where there are huge divides between different parts of our country. we need to take advantage of our brexit proim to do things differently, delivering more

power to democratic institutions, it means lower accident taxes so people can keep more money they earn and delivering growth that will lead to more job security, higher wages and greater opportunities for our children and grandchildren. democracy must be able to deliver for their own people, we must be able to outcompete autocratic regimes where power lies in the hands of a few. now more than ever must support ukraine in their brave fight against putin aggression. ukraine must prevail and we must continue to strengthen our nation's defenses, that's what i've been striving to achieve and i wish richie every success for the good of our country. i want to thank france's libertiery and my family and

friend for love, friendship and support. i want to thank my protection team. i look forward to spending more time in my constituency and continuing to serve southwest norfolk from the back benches, our country continues to battle through a storm. i believe in britain. i believe in the british people and i know that brighter days lie ahead. thank you. [applause] >> todd: that of course liz truss, outgoing prime minister of great britain, richie sunack is about to take over, he is richer know that the royal family, came in second to truss in had summer's race, now he's in first. >> carley: liz truss resigning after 44 days on the job,

whirlwind few weeks in great britain politically and financially, she is resigning amird political and financial turmoil in great britain. the incoming prime minister is 42 years old and will take up the job and see how he fares, there were questions that boris johnson would try to get the job back, he bowed out of the race and left room for mr. sunack to take the job. >> todd: for a system that derived from the english system, our american system and their system could not be more different when it comes to our leaders. think about that, that would never, could never happen the way it has, the way they elect l leaders is odd to us. rishi sunak now taking over. >> carley: president biden taking hard stance on controversial issue that could

have major implication on it is election. >> do you think states should have the right to ban gender affirming healthcare? >> i don't think anybody has a right to do that as moral question and legal question, i think it is wrong. >> todd: how do parents people about this? we're talking to a concerned mother, she is next. luxury exemplified. innovation electrified. with apple music seamlessly integrated. the all-new, all-electric eqs suv from mercedes-benz.

>> todd: president biden appearing to support transgender procedures for your kids, listen. >> lawmakers feel they can involve themselves in this personal process, do you think stateses should have right to ban gender,a firming healthcare? >> >> president biden: i don't think any state or anybody should have a right to do that, i just think it is wrong. >> todd: a rhode island mom joins us now, nicole, i cannot

believe what joe biden and the left are saying, what is going on here? >> what they want is to give states the right to sterilize children and this is something that we've seen before. we've had states sterilize people back in 1927, when the supreme court said states could sterilize people. now we have the medical aristocracy setting their sights on children and this is why the law should step in and why states do ban therapies that turn out to be inherent and harmful and unscientific. we've done this with gay conversion therapy, banned in 20 states and rightfully so. transgender converg therapy is be banned, it is harmful and scary to think that your own child could be on it is road to

sterilization and it starts in school, where they are brainwashing children to use gender neutral pronoun under the banner of civil right or humane treatment, this is inhumane treatment that should be regulated or banned by states. >> todd: think of laundry list of people under 18, children can't do, they can't drink, they can't smoke or vote, can barely drive for a couple years, can't sign a contract, but can sign a contract to drastically alter their body, why is the left so hell bent on making this happen? >> this is an ideological agenda, they don't care about health and safety of children or they would acknowledge what other countries and europe acknowledged. yesterday england came out and said most kids who say they are transgender are just going

through a phase. they don't care about kids, they can about advancing their lgbtq agenda. parents need to stand up and know if your schooling is doing this secretly, it can have catastrophic consequences. parents need to know if their child is in a suicidal state, school and doctors are not the best to take care of your child in this situation. i encourage parents to investigate their school district issue read policies and lobby for school choice, only way to avoid cateastrophic is t find a school that has values that are yours and will not try to separate your child from you you. >> todd: president biden weighing in on the transgender

bathroom debate. >> president biden: you should have every right including use of your gender identity bathroom for the public. >> todd: he feels strongly, why doesn't he feel strongly about 657 dude going into a bathroom and my two little girls are in there? >> because joe biden and radical gender cultists don't care about women and the safety of women in women's spaces, what they care about is ideological agenda. you can say you are a man and walk into a bathroom. we have seen a girl get raped in loudoun county when a boy walked into the bathroom in a skirt. this is why women and parents again need to object to this, when they go far enough, it is hard to get back our safety. >> todd: thank you. turning to the crime crisis, 50 people shot in chicago this

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prison for attempted robbery, his family says he is a menace, "new york post" reporting they have a sign banning him from their parm complex after he stole money from a cousin. if you see a brown-skinned guy sleeping in the hallway, call the police, he is trespassing. >> carley: 51 people in chicago shot over the weekend, 11 killed and black voters are considering skipping voting in midterms to protest. keith thornton jr. joins me now, a former 911 dispatcher. "wall street journal" is highlighting this issue and say voters are frustrated and they don't feel any politician can fix this crime issue in chicago, rather than vote, they will stay home. do you think that is the sentiment on the ground? >> unfortunately, another bloody

weekend, this is horrible, it is absolutely true. not just speaking about people trying to veer away from this not going to the midterm and election, we are specifically talking about black people just like myself here, young black people, oeltder black people who have seen the bloodshed day in and day out and have been pretty liberal, democratic voting most of their lives, they are fed up now. you have people looking at the candidate pool on both sides saying there is nothing here, there is no viable candidate here and they are tired of it. they think the best recourse is not show up at the polls, which is the worst thing we could do, we will keep them in office. >> carley: it has been one party rule for decades, could you ever see people voting republican for

a candidate that might change things or is that unrealistic? >> i don't think it is unrealistic, getting away from republican versus democratic narrative, it has a lot to do with having right candidate come into office who are not going to be there for office, someone has to be there on the ground. this is not like any other city in the united states, this city goes through turmoil each and everyday. this weekend 50 people shot 182 wounded with gun violence. multiple people shot in a car jacking, we need a candidate we can look at and say they are going to take care of our people and that is how voters and people are, tired of republican versus democrat, they want a good candidate.

>> carley: starting january of next year cash bail in illinois will be eliminated on felonies like second-degree murder and kidnapping, if accused of that, you get processed and immediately back out on the street. when that happens, what will chicago look like as a result? >> like you entered dante's inferno, i'm in st. louis. y look at liberalized cities and how does it look when the safety acts, it is ridiculous, come january, all hell will break loose and not just chicago, it is chicago land, people with no cash bond will be let out in the community and do more destruction. officers are getting written up and suspended for chasing stolen

vehicles. officers are tired of this, this point right now, this is not up until next year, it is interesting which is why i'm saying we need someone who will take the reigns and be very ashgsz aggressive in crime strategies within the city of chicago and stop the nonsense. >> carley: keith thornton jr., thank you for joining us this morning. always a pleasure, take care. >> carley: president biden came up with a new attack line to brand it as republican fault. >> todd: cheryl casone next on that. ake a thing go right♪ ♪it takes two to make it outta sight♪ ♪one, two, get loose now! it takes two to make a-♪ get double rewards points this fall. book now at bestwestern.com.

>> todd: president biden trying to turn the table on republicans. >> carley: cheryl casone from fox business has details, good morning. >> cheryl: president biden attacking republicans while speaking at the dnc in washington, listen. >> president biden: doubling down to benefit the wealthy, republicans are going to crash the economy. >> cheryl: interesting pivot as

the president seems to acknowledge what we're seeing in the polls, 89% of voters are worried about inflation. then the president went on to speak about his student loan bailout. listen. >> president biden: get $10,000 written off, it is in effect. >> cheryl: white house had to clarify his remarks that the president was referring to inflation reduction act which reduced deficit by hundreds of millions of dollars, no republicans voted for the inflation reduction act in the house or senate, where it passed by the vote of president harris. the president created the student loan and it is being challenged in the courts. >> todd: he had specifics to his confusion, passed by vote or two, it wasn'ts a vote.

>> carley: inflation reduction act gave money to student loan stuff, blah, blah, blah. >> cheryl: $10,000 comment was off. >> carley: they had to issue another correction, big mess yesterday. democrats demanding oil from the president, which is interesting in new england. >> cheryl: democrats from different states asking the president for oil release from the strategic petroleum reserve, letter signed by house demes from massachusetts, main enew hampshire and vermont, as they face projected higher heating bills. according to energy department on average 28% for those who rely on natural gas projected to pay that much, net gas is half of u.s. householding, projected to jump by 27%. electricity prices higher by 10%

and seen prices for gas like electricity, utilitys and fuel oil jump double digits. numbers i just showed you are through september. think about that going into the winter months, it was nice weather. >> todd: two weeks before midterm, democrats make this request, i guess they didn't know it got cold in their state prior to the midterm. thank you. family-owned restaurant in south carolina has to close doors after 32 years in business thanks to inflation and labor shortages. sherry is the co-owner of the restaurant in summerville. today is your last day, i'm sorry it has come to this, what was the final straw? >> it was combination of things. between the worker shortages and higher food costs, it was just

impossible to continue to make a profit. it's a mom and pop business and it just doesn't work anymore. >> todd: e.u. been in business for three gen ragszs, bring in beef and bread from philly, what does it say about the american dream on the whole that places like yours are coming to a close? >> it's a sad state. you know, with a mom and pop business can't make it anymore, what can people hope for, you know. it's sad, sad to see that part of the family t tradition and dreams to die. >> todd: you're not alone, 75% of small businesses report inflation has dipped into their profit margin, some of them likely to close, as well. if this white house had gotten control of inflation sooner and

didn't do things to make it worse, would you still be in business tomorrow? >> i think it is very possible we could have been. >> todd: that is sad, based upon policy this administration put forward, small businesses like yours will have to close, what is reaction from customers, cherieshgsz ieshg /* /* >> it has been overwhelming, people have etch radioed out, love and generosity and there is just no words, it is so heartwarming. i'm humbled, totally humbled at the reaction that our decision to close has brought out. it's nice to see that side of people. >> todd: understood. what's next for you?

>> haven't figured that out yet. we've -- the decision was a last-minute one, we haven't had a lot of time to think about it. my son stefan and i were the co-owners and we've talked about a food truck, maybe we'll do a philly food truck. >> todd: looking at your pictures, a food truck sounding like a yummy idea, you have phillies and eagles soaring, that puts a smile on your face. thank you for your time, wish you best of luck, sad to see it has come to this, we wish you the best. >> todd: who is running the country, the president called kamala the president once again, talking with tomi tuesday next. >> carley: good morning, brian. >> brian: 11 minutes until we

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i know we have inflation and skyrocketing costs but other nations have a problem as well. that's not good enough for the american people. and this is what the democrats have to offer. i want voters to listen to this very carefully. the democrats are essentialry telling you because other nations other countries have it worse the best they can offer you is it's also bad here. remember that. another thing i will say about open border this is historic also something the democrats are not changing not looking to solve this problem looking for excuse after excuse after excuse. their policies are an open border policy whether they want to say some cockamamie b.s. on two weeks run on that. you are the open border party. tell the voters what you are for and not for. border enforcement, no. open border, yes. that is the democrat platform. run on it if you are proud of it. >> todd: great point. our economy is better than like el salvador and germany has

tough immigration problems, too. really? we are not a competition. i worry about how we are here in the united states. i quite frankly don't care if they are not cooking great overseas. meantime, tomi, president biden slipsz again and refers to kamala harris as the president again. listen to. this it was also kamala's birthday she turneddable happy birthday president. >> president harris and i stood in the united states capitol. >> todd: we are at a gaffe per day now. another in a long line of these kamala is the president gaffe. how long is the mainstream media going to prop this up. this is bad. other countries in the world need to know who our leader is. >> yeah. i think other nations now are trying to pass off their problems and saying well over in the united states of america, president biden is certainly worse. so, that's probably the excuse that they're using as well. might work for other nations.

listen, i know we are never supposed to talk about somebody's mental state and capabilities. it's come to the point now where this is gaffe after gaffe after gaffe. we talked about tellerrier in the show. it's not just little things like calling vice president the president. time after time getting his own policies wrong. ing i hope the voters are paying attention there is going to be many gaffes to come. important that we have people in office that are fit to serve and clear about their positions and maybe even know what position they hold. wouldn't that be nice. >> carley: interesting poll will your vote be what you think about biden or trump. 30% say their vote is going to be a referendum on joe biden. just 19 peppers say it's going to be referendum on trump. 48 percent said neither. democrats do want to make this election a referendum on trump. majority of people are voting either because of joe biden or the issues. >> yeah, i think a lot of

republicans would be okay if this was a referendum on donald trump because back during the trump administration, things were going well. the economy was going well. gas prices were down. we had a secure border. we were working on law and order in our streets. if democrats want to make this about trump. that's okay. people care about what is going on in their backyard. they care about what is going on kitchen table and pocketbook. a lot of people are its inning donald trump right now. i think even joe biden and the mainstream media you can count them in that list because, without him, they don't have much to talk about. >> todd: tomi, hopefully unlike the you know who your husband is we want to congratulate on getting maryland over the weekend. >> carley: oh, look at the pictures. >> todd: how was it, tomi? >> it was amazing. best day of our lives. here in nashville, tennessee. officially a married many would. thank you so much. we certainly had a great time and i always appreciate your love and support. i can't wait to see new new york one of these days. >> your dress is beautiful and you got great weather, too.

>> we had perfect weather in the beautiful red state of tennessee. i'm telling you if you are looking for a place to have a wedding. this is the place to do it especially in the fall. i couldn't speak highly enough for venue in our state thank you so much. >> todd: tomi lahren, congrats, a lifetime of health and happiness to you and your hubby. building. >> carley: "fox & friends" starts now. >> two weeks from today voters will decide which party takes the house, the senate and governors races. >> candidates in three big races hit the debate stage tonight. >> pennsylvania hopeful john fetterman and dr. oz square off. >> you are the most antibusiness governor i have ever seen. >> contentious debate for florida governor takes place. >> talking about 2024. the only worn out old donkey i am looking put tout pasture in