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admitting their poor messaging are hurting their election chances. >> i'm a loyal democrat but i am not happy. we did not listen to voters in the election. when voters tell you over and over and over again they care mostly about the economy, listen to them. >> john: democrats are not just bickering with each other over canned goods, but also canned lines on the campaign trail. >> no more drilling. there is no more drilling. i haven't formed any new drilling. >> sandra: that happened yesterday. bronxville, new york, the president promising again to put an industry out of business and enraging a senate in his own party. we'll see if the administration will try to walk back the president's remarks as we await the white house briefing this hour. >> john: also, mike roe is here to weigh in how the mixed

messaging is affecting american workers. >> sandra: and newt gingrinch is here with some messages from 1994. >> john: on the ground in one of the senate races that could decide it all, pennsylvania. rich edson in the southeast part of the state. but first bryan llenas is live in montgomery county. what's dr. oz's plan today, brian? >> dr. oz will hold his final campaign rally here in a solidly blue philadelphia suburb. trying to sway swing voters his way. dr. oz just wrapped a grassroots event at a diner in lebanon 90 minutes from here, hammering his three core issues, and that is the crime, the border, and inflation. and this comes after a rally last night in north hampton

county, the need for bipartisanship. >> i'm not a politician, i'm a heart surgeon. problems i fixed had to deal with life and death challenges that some of you may have had. we can fix them because we unite, we bring people together. we are stronger united than divided. >> meanwhile, growing angst over mail-in ballots turned in with incorrect dates or no dates on the outer envelopes. they will not count after a recent court order. the department of state is asking all 67 counties how many undated ballots they have and they are asking counties to contact voters to give them a chance to fix their mistake before it's too late. the acting secretary of state said today these decisions are ultimately up to individual counties and they are preparing for potential legal battles. >> we'll contact that county and discuss what our options are.

as you know, there were three counties that refused to certify in the primary election and we brought litigation against those counties but will review all of our options if that event occurs. >> bottom line, we will not have official total final results tomorrow night in pennsylvania. it will take days to count mail-in ballots and then, of course, a threat of looming litigation. john. >> john: i guess you'll be getting to know pennsylvania very well in the next few days. bryan, thanks so much. >> sandra: fetterman campaign has pivoted its messaging to focus more on the economy. is it too little too late? rich is live on the campaign trail in the steel city of pittsburgh. rich, which group of voters is fetterman trying to turn out there tonight? >> well, tonight, sandra, it's going to be the union vote. that's been a focus for him. john fetterman is returning from western pennsylvania, he has an

event here in pittsburgh. the union vote has been big to this campaign. had a couple of supporters from out of state over the weekend. former president, current president biden were in the state. pittsburgh and philadelphia, try to boost his support ahead of election day. there has been some criticism from democrat their candidates have focused too much on issues other than inflation and the economy. "new york times" report democrats have spent nearly 320 million on ads focused on abortion rights. only 31 million on inflation. that's according to a media tracking firm ad impact. over the weekend the democrats in pennsylvania pushed their economic plans and defended the biden economy. >> unemployment is very low right now because of the actions he took. he's lowered healthcare and

prescription drug costs. he passed an infrastructure bill that will put more folks here in pennsylvania and around the country to work. >> republicans now are looking to cut medicare and social security. not with my vote, not with my vote. >> gop responded that fetterman's campaign is falling apart, and that they are bringing in the relic of barack obama cannot hide from democrat's failures on crime and inflation. a poll just out shows 80% of likely voters call the economy a top issue in the congressional vote. more than three-quarters of that say inflation. republicans are favored by 14 points in the poll to handle the economy. and you look at some of the polling over the summer, john fetterman had a substantial lead in pennsylvania. the general election polls in the last few weeks, the last week or two, show a dead heat in

the margin of error with dr. oz. >> sandra: thank you, john. >> john: bring in newt gingrinch, former speaker of the house and fox news political analyst. great to have your voice with us on election eve. you see some parallels here between this year and your famous year of 1994. you had the contract with america, kevin mccarthy has the commitment to america. how do you expect tomorrow is going to go, are we in for a red win here or a red wave? >> well, just look at what you just had on a few minutes ago. you now have biden saying no more drilling and of course in western pennsylvania the fourth largest energy producer in the united states. it would be massive on employment. and a democrat said gosh, i guess people should buy

boyardee. to say from trump's steak and chicken, to the boyardee economy. i can't understand how they are this clumsy. feels like in 1980 with reagan versus carter, and as people filled their car up with gasoline, went to the grocery store, and the number of people shot in philadelphia over the weekend, all of that hurts fetterman who has been the most critical anti-police candidate in the country. my sense, i just spent a couple days with kevin mccarthy, the republican leader, campaigning in south carolina, florida and texas, and in virginia tonight. my sense going around is there is a tide coming. the question, how big it will be, but that the republicans will have control of both the house and the senate and if they use it wisely they will be able to really substantially get the

country back on the right direction, despite joe biden and the democrats. >> sandra: mr. speaker, great to have you here today, message from democrats just days before election day. you had james clyburn basically suggesting that if you vote republican it could lead to the end of the world, and then made a very controversial comparison that he then doubled down on when challenged by shannon bream on fox news sunday yesterday. >> this country is on track to repeat what happened in germany when it was the greatest democracy going. >> you did say there, it could be the end of the world. >> no, the democracy will be ended. the world will continue to exist. the world was here before hitler, the world was here after hitler. that's what we are saying. >> sandra: maybe not the world is not going to end, but the end of democracy will come if you vote for republicans.

that's the message? >> look, these people are -- i think frankly that the democratic party is rapidly breaking into two swings. there is a weird wing and an insane wing. both of them are out of touch with reality. when you have the kind of comments like that, no normal person believes any of that's true. and you look at the inflation rate. everything the american people care about. higher prices, the price of gasoline, the price of food, the crime rate, the millions of people crossing the southern border, the way in which teachers have been radically brainwashing children. all those things move voters and the democrats cannot talk about any of them. i mean, so the democrats are trying to find ways to either scare us against our own interest, or to decide that everybody should vote only on abortion, and then they take the most extreme possible position

on abortion, including abortion on the last day, paid for by the taxpayer, etc. i've never seen a party lose its mind to the degree that the democrats in the last two years have literally gone off the rails and that's why if you watch the poll numbers, my prediction is if you see a race with a democrat ahead by 1 point, 48, 47, they are actually behind because they are not getting any more votes. 48 is the ceiling and they are going to lose 52-48. >> john: the other day byron york in his column was the campaigns get to the hysterical stage and we are seeing that. i've been wanting to ask you this question a long time, i'm happy you are on today. after your big win in 1994, bill clinton made a decision. he had two choices. either fight with you at every turn and get nothing done, or he could work with you and get parts of his agenda done. he chose to work with you.

do you think biden will follow that model if republicans take control? >> you know, i think we actually don't know, and i would say that because you know, on the surface given biden's cognitive problems, given the degree to which he does not seem to know what's going on, you would think that it would be very hard for him to make a decision. remember, in bill clinton's case, he had to overrule his staff. his staff wanted him to stand firmly for the left wing and fight us every day and he said to them if i do that i'll get defeated. i've got to cooperate with newt or i'm not going to get re-elected and then he comes into the state of the union and says the era of big government is over, he signs welfare reform, the biggest capital gains tax cut in history. pretty hard at that point not to find some common ground. my hope is that kevin mccarthy will send the entire commitment to america, 150 ideas to the white house and say which of these will you sign? i mean, i can't imagine that

biden can turn down every single one of the new positive ideas and maybe there is a common ground. if there isn't, the democratic party will be crushed in 2024. >> sandra: mr. speaker, the president said over the weekend it's a choice, two vastly different visions for america depending who you vote for. >> pennsylvania, this isn't a referendum this year, it's a choice. a choice between two vastly different visions of america. vastly different. >> sandra: mr. speaker, that was his final pitch to voters. >> well, and he's right. i wrote an entire big on defeating big government socialism. look, they are big government socialists and believe in a woke culture, most americans

repudiate. and i saw the interview with the tiktok person going through a sex change over a year, and commenting on it. seems committed to the radical agenda. yesterday saying down close all drilling, and a couple days ago saying they are going to destroy the coal industry, seems committed to the most radical environmental agenda. biden may be committed and may prefer almost like a religious belief, he may prefer to go down fighting in which case, frankly, he'll take the democratic party down with him by 2024. >> john: newt, great to spend time with you. thanks for your insights on 1994. see you soon. fox news alert, waiting for the white house press briefing, what could be the last chance for the biden administration to tweak its message before voters decide which party is going to control congress. we will be watching for that just ahead. >> sandra: john, we'll also see

if the white house again walks back president biden's remarks on fossil fuels after he repeated some of the same claims that enraged a senator of his own party and sent the white house press shop scrambling. mike roe is on deck with what american workers must be thinking when the president can't get some in his own party on board. >> john: and stick with fox as polls close and results come in, bret and martha have all the races covered with expert analysis you'll find only on fox. problem. but as a veteran, you already have a solution. it's your powerful va home loan benefit. it lets you borrow up to a full 100% of your home's value, not just 80%. with home values near record highs, that could mean a lot more cash than you imagined. and at newday, there are no upfront costs to get the cash you need.

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some in nevada and arizona. the two states are the toss-ups, 2 of 4 toss-ups we are watching, particularly watching nevada, cortez masto against laxalt, obviously incredibly close race here. of the four toss-ups talking to our election decision desk, looking more and more like it could be moving in the direction of the republicans, and the key race in arizona, toss-up, both toss-ups of the four, obviously these could determine control for each party in the senate. mark kelly trying to hang on there, blake masters making a run, so razor thin, these, the margins in these races that this is going to be -- what it could come down to election night, closing 9:00 p.m. in arizona, at nevada, 10:00 p.m. john, if i can bring you in here to look at nevada, hospitality is a big one, reno and las

vegas, you go up to reno, washoe county, a split of 11,000 votes in the 2020 presidential election and head down to the southern part of the state, las vegas, clark county, a difference of 90,000 votes there. these are the two counties where the largest populations of votes will come in, and if i do finish off highlighting arizona, one of the toss-ups here, and some of the key counties, home to phoenix, the capital in arizona, maricopa county, 69% of the votes come from there. look how close it was in the 2020 presidential election. john, these are two of the toss-ups. i'll finish off with pennsylvania since mike roe is coming up, you look at the president's comments on the fossil fuels industry, that matters to pennsylvania. 1.2% margin in the presidential election, so many of these counties could be big swings to the republican party based on inflation and crime, john.

>> john: you can almost divide that state in half, maybe a little bit further west than center, and that whole area of the state really depends to a large degree on the economy that is driven by fracking, particularly the pittsburgh area as well, all the gas exploration companies. i traveled extensively throughout that entire area at the height of the fracking boom and folks want to keep fracking and for the president to say no more drilling, that could sway their vote. going back out west again, too, let's start with arizona. because we talk about the governor's race as having coat tails. so when you look at the rcp average, kari lake is ahead, but a new poll ahead by 3, and could that potentially drag blake masters along and counteract the

1% lead that mark kelly has got right now? and to the same degree in nevada as well, as you pointed out, the republicans are doing well in nevada. joe lombardo is over sislak, so with the moment, looking advantage republican in nevada and arizona. >> sandra: when i do focus on some of those counties, obviously with the hospitality industry so key in las vegas, clark county, a big population of the votes coming from there, you see the margin which president biden won in 2020, the hospitality sector was hit so hard during covid and not only dealing with inflation, but the president likes to tout wage growth. that has gotten gobbled up by inflation, we are looking at negative wage growth in the country, and that's tough on a lot of those folks.

>> john: real head winds in the hospitality industry for republicans, the unions there in clark county are so strong and they are basically lock step with democrats and why washoe county is so important in the election. as voters head to the polls, the high prices they are paying at the pump top of mind for many people, especially in nevada. average price there, shy of $5 a gallon, particularly in washoe county. >> sandra: despite the rising prices under biden, promising to block all new domestic oil drill, a comment that echos comments which enraged west virginia democrat joe manchin. let's bring in mike roe. great to have you here today. hard to believe the president

would make that statement days before this election when he knows people are paying these historically high gas prices. >> is it? why not, i mean, give the man credit where it's due. he's been consistent. he's said pretty much repeatedly as best i can tell that this is what he's about, and the keystone pipeline was canceled early in the administration, and his comments yesterday seem to be pretty much consistent with that. so, you know, where is the disconnect? it's weird that we would all have to just wait for the white house to tell us what he meant. why are we even -- why are we even talking about that? where is the mystery or the confusion? who cares what the white house says. the leader of the free world told us what he means and it's 100% consistent. >> sandra: and not the first time he's said it. >> it's not like we are given a choice what's being done and what's said. it lines up perfectly. no confusion.

the issue is is he right, and is it coming from a place where, look, with respect, a lot of people genuinely believe the world is coming to an end in 12 years. a lot of people of good will believe it. i don't have a crystal ball, but if the predictions are correct we better stop doing this and that and the other thing, but if they are not correct, take a breath and say you know, china and india, together, are building a gas fired coal plant every week for the next 30 years. >> john: i think the reason why the white house gets involved so quickly in all of this, mike, the president seems to have a penchant for saying the quiet part out loud. i think that there have been discussions in meetings where people are kicking around ideas and the president says it in public. let's rewind the clock to yesterday and play what he said. >> no more drilling.

there is no more drilling. i have not formed any new drilling. >> john: steve scalise said biden just admitted the anti-american oil and gas agenda, no more drilling, there is no drilling, not even the phony fact checkers can cover for him on this one, it came straight out of his mouth as you pointed out. initiating a transition to renewable energy is a necessity, oil will not last forever but biden seems intent on killing the oil and gas industry on an accelerated schedule and all of those millions that we pointed out in the state of pennsylvania too, whose livelihood relies on the oil and gas industry. >> it's micro and macro. pennsylvania is macro, the night before election, that's top of mind. but it's not like pennsylvania has its own atmosphere, or china

has its own atmosphere. we share all of this, and so to have the conversation and not acknowledge that 3 billion people on the planet are currently relying on dung and wood as their primary sources of energy and creating more harm to the atmosphere than all of the other stuff put together, i mean -- we just can't sweep that under the rug. it's a big giant conversation and i think people will wonder, why in the world should pennsylvania take it in the neck when all around the world we are looking at things that are going to have a much, much larger impact on the bigger question. are we going to be here in 12 years or not? answer that with a straight face and then move down the line of chronological logic. >> sandra: mike, you are so in tune with the everyday hard working american and what folks are doing out there just to survive this inflation crisis, 40-year highs still, and we have been up there for quite some time.

we see it second and third jobs being taken out by some folks. they are living paycheck to paycheck, 60% of the population, a chunk of them are making over $100,000 a year and taking on more credit card debt as they do so. the value of their homes is going down. it's a brutal environment, and that's all real tangible stuff people have been feeling a long time heading up to this election. >> all of that bothers me. but the thing that scares me, i had an economist on my podcast a month or so ago, and i asked him what's freaking you out? and he said 7 million able-bodied men not working between the ages of 19 and 64. >> john: call four number four, what biden said about coal on friday that had joe manchin

freaking out on him, nothing new. 2016, remind folks of what hillary clinton said about west virginia. >> we are going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business. >> john: in the 2008 primary she won west virginia, lost in 2016, 68-26. but nothing new as you point out what biden is saying here. this is orthodoxy in the democratic party. >> identify the enemy of the proximate cause of the thing we rely on, it's going to come back to haunt us. we rely on fossil fuels. maybe not 100 years ago or 50 years from now, but they are our present today and to wage war on it will have some unintended consequences. maybe in an election, maybe in the comfort we are going to experience or the discomfort in the coming winter, winter is coming, last i checked, but no world where fossil fuels can be

our enemy in the present day in my view. >> sandra: mike, thank you for that. we are going to dip not white house, the press briefing is happening right now. karine jean-pierre is pressed on multiple occasions now, a question on messaging by -- by the democratic party. let's dip in here and listen one day from election. >> how democrats will move forward, congressional democrats will move forward in delivering for the american people. when you think about inflation, when you think about what the president has done to lower costs, you think about gas prices taking historical actions to tap into, tapping into the strategic petroleum reserve to bring gas prices down, they have by 1.25 and you think about the inflation reduction act, so important which is going to lower energy costs, going to lower healthcare premiums, republicans, the first thing that the republicans said they are going to do, repeal that. and then cut, you know, medicare and social security. we are saying we are not going

to do that. the president has been very clear, we are going to fight for medicare, fight for people's social security and continue to lower costs. >> last week john kirby was asked if there were efforts to get president xi meeting with president biden next week. is a meeting locked in place? >> as you know, both sides of, our side and president xi's side staff were asked to figure out how we can move forward with a meeting. we don't have anything to share at this time. >> follow up on the russian election interference. but also just the prospect of potential violence. so what are you doing here at the white house or within the biden administration to ensure that there's not a repeat of the violence we saw on january 6th, and to what extent should americans gird for conflict in and around contested, heavily

contested districts. the president has said there are 300 republicans running -- >> sandra: we will continue to monitor this, dip back in as the news warrants. they were talking just then, mike roe is still with us, about exactly our discussion, and that is the white house, why not more has been done, especially before an election, to get these prices down. what can you make of her? >> what strikes me is the petroleum reserve. it seems we have a petroleum reserve, and it's called the united states of america, and all the petroleum that's reserved and around the united states. it's there. and i think a lot of reasonable people on both sides of the aisle can ask morally speaking, why are we bringing in the stuff we need when we live on top of it. >> sandra: what's the answer to that? >> because we want to. everything we do because we want. why do we want to do that, beats me. >> sandra: mike, good to have you here.

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>> sandra: military chief who overseas our nation's nuclear program warning the u.s. is falling behind beijing in developing weapons. the head of strategic command says when it comes to discouraging china "the ship is slowly sinking." jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. in what context did the u.s. admiral issue this surprising warning? >> sandra, the remarks came during off camera remarks at the naval, excuse me, the naval submarine league annual

symposium. the commander of u.s. strategic command who overseas the u.s. nuclear weapons program, admiral richard, said "as i assess our level of deterrence against china, the ship is slowing sinking, it is sinking slowly. they are putting capability in the field faster than we are. it isn't going to matter our good our operating plan is or good our commanders are or forces are. we are not going to have enough of them," he's referring to nuclear weapons, and that is a very near term problem. the u.s. nuclear arsenal, 3,750 weapons based on the new start treaty. china has an estimated 350 nuclear weapons, but intends to

possess 1,000 deliverable warheads by 2030, according to the latest posture review. >> we feel very confident in our capabilities when it comes to china or just generally in the indopacific, and ready to act if needed. >> president xi met with olaf scholz in china, the first g7 leader to visit china since before the covid-19 pandemic. in a joint statement, china called for putin to not use nuclear weapons in ukraine. most direct criticism of russia's war to date. earlier today, china launched over 60 war planes, which flew near taiwan. half crossed the median line. it's clear china is testing taiwan's response time and sending a message to the united states. >> sandra: jennifer, thank you.

>> we all know in our bones that our democracy is at risk. >> democracy as we know it may not survive in arizona, that's not an exaggeration. that is a fact. >> that is what will lead to the destruction of this democracy. >> i know it's not popular to talk about democracy but it's on the line. >> we must speak up for juts and democracy. >> make no mistake, democracy is on the ballot for all of us. >> john: president biden and top democrats ramping up rhetoric ahead of the election warning it's not just democracy on the line, but the world as we know it. >> sandra: messaging comes after president biden has warned the u.s. is in the battle for the soul of the country. will the strategy stick? brit hume, great to see you. saw you last night in election

coverage as well. what do you think about this final pitch that we are hearing from the democrat party? >> it's an old tactic, you choose a sanctified cause, democracy, children, environment to earth and then you attack your opponent for being ready to destroy it. the idea that our democracy will not survive this election seems to me to be kind of absurd on its face. i mean, you may have heard me say this before, democracy is not on the ballot, democracy is the ballot and we will have an exercise in democracy tomorrow and hard for me to see the american people will listen and say wait a minute, we are all about to go vote and if we don't vote they tell us if we vote the wrong way it's going to destroy the democracy, it doesn't work. >> john: and the president, brit, seemed to not have a whole lot of tolerance but a different point of view. listen to what he said when some protestors interrupted him. >> i love the signs when i came

in, socialism. give me a break. what idiots. socialism. [cheering] no one ever doubts at me when i say, sometimes i say all that i mean. >> john: i've seen a lot of presidents deal with protestors and by and large they have some interesting quip with them, but never seen them call protestors idiots. >> the way to deal with something like that is a bit of humor, right, even self-effacing humor. biden used to be able to do that, he has lost his way on that, and calling them idiots, i guess he's defensive about socialism, people are worried about just that. >> sandra: brit friday night on

another network, a question from an anchor traditionally not down the middle or even right leaning, but she challenged the current new york governor, kathy hochul, who is obviously in the fight of her life right now with lee zeldin in the state because crime has become such a big issue, and she was challenged by that host. watch this. >> here is the problem. we don't feel safe. you might be working closely with mayor adams, you may have spent a whole lot of money but i walk into my pharmacy and everything is on lockdown because of shoplifters. i'm not going in the subway. people don't feel safe in this town. you may have done these things but right now we are not feeling good. we are worried we could be san francisco. >> sandra: the governor wanted we are not san francisco, it's a country wide problem, crime is, but what the host just said what so many of us are feeling and you are in new york city right now you don't feel safe walking

down the street in manhattan. >> i've been coming up here half a century from time to time, and i worked up here in the 70s. the city was crime infested at the time, trash in the gutters, trash in the gutters, garbage in the gutters, not to mention something that was not so prominent in the 70s, and the scent of marijuana in the air, all over the place. a certain feeling of lawlessness in the city i remember seeing from many years and i think that's what that woman on msnbc was talking about. she obviously works in new york, so expressing what she's experiencing and kind of no way around that. >> sandra: the person she's talking to governs in new york. >> that's the point. no way around that for her. she needs a better answer than we are not san francisco. >> john: i want to jump ahead to call four number four and circle back brit to what we were talking about in terms of the end of the world is nigh with

tomorrow's election. msnbc provides us with good fodder, and listen to their historian where the country may be headed. >> historian will say what was at stake tonight and this week was the fact, whether we will be a democracy in the future, whether our children will be arrested and conceivably killed, we are on the edge of a brutal authoritarian system and it could be a week away. >> john: byron york observed the midterm elections have entered the hysterical stage, that would seem to be evidenced. >> yes, the hysteria came to my mind when i heard he said that. look, this is a reputeable historian, around for a while. maybe he did not get out enough to think that the if the republicans get control of congress that we are going to enter an authoritarian age, come on, people hear that, they don't buy it, it's absurd. >> sandra: if you could stand by, we will dip into the white

house press briefing. jacqui heinrich is asking -- >> i'm not going to lay out what his day will specifically look like on wednesday but he is going to address the american people and that matters. he's going to be clear about what's on his mind and i'm just not going to get ahead of it from here. >> the president's own warning that democracy is on the ballot, plus this potential for unrest make it that much more important that the president avail himself to the free and open press that he has lauded. >> the president has been very clear when it comes to democracy. you've heard him talk about democracy over and over again. he talked about it last week and how important it is for the american people as they are thinking about the choice in front of them, what's at stake. he's been really clear. he's condemned political violence. this is a president who the

reason why he decided to run for this office was because of what he was seeing. what he talked about, the soul of the nation. i disagree with your premise as if it's something that is not important to him. he has made this an important issue and again, i'm not going to get ahead of it. the american people, which is what matters, specifically is going to hear from the american people. >> press access, not democracy. >> one follow-up, consider our push, request to have a press conference the day after the midterms, i know you've heard from us before. last question about elon musk and twitter on a lighter note. is it an abuse for elon musk and the new twitter ceo to use the platform to tell users to vote for republicans in the midterms. >> i saw that reporting earlier today, right? so you know, look, i'm limited to what i can say about elections from the podium, broadly speaking i can say every

eligible american has the right to make their voices heard in this year's election, that is their right to do and the president has often spoken about the importance of voting and i'm going to leave it there to not get involved in any kind of election conversation. go ahead. >> can you just confirm or -- >> sandra: a lot to dig into there, thanks, brit hume stood by. your response to what you just heard there. the original question from jacqui was about the possibility of the president working with republicans, apparently her initial response was she does not want to jump the gun or ahead of the president. >> apparently he's going to say something, come out. but apparently not a news conference, something the president after midterm elections have done, i remember when bill clinton took a party, his party took a pounding in 1994, i was covering him at the time, it's not necessarily a tradition but president biden has been very hesitant to do, so

interesting to hear what he has to say. it's not clear to me if the party does badly in the midterms what the public will be crying for the next day is more from him. we'll see. >> sandra: fair point. >> john: when you go back to 2010, obama had the famous press conference, we took a real shelacking last night. for this president to not commit to a press conference, to talk to the press about what happened in the election, i mean, i don't want to use the words dereliction of duty but certainly does not conform with what we have seen in the past. >> he will have to communicate, john, some kind of a message, both to his party and the country as to where his party, if it does turn out badly for his party, went wrong and why and what he expects to do differently. you can't just act as if nothing has happened. so one way or another, whether he does it in a news conference or other means, the public is going to expect to hear from him one way or another about what he plans to do differently or

whether he plans to do anything differently. >> john: we had newt gingrinch on earlier talked about 1994, and bill clinton, and bill clinton overruled his advisers saying if i follow your advice i'm going to lose the 1996 election. i have a choice here. i either don't work with the republicans and lose or i do work with them and try to preserve the agenda and win re-election. biden does not seem to be going by that playbook in the least. >> this is something i've taught about a lot john and sandra, i think the worst thing that happened to joe biden was the loss by the republicans to the democrats of those two seats in georgia which gave him a majority in the senate he had not expected to have and many of us did not expect that. suddenly joe biden had visions of historical sugar plums dancing in his head, led to 1.9 trillion in spending, reputeable economists agree has contributed noticeably to

inflation, led him to the left in his agenda because he was going to out obama, obama, and look where it led his party now. so i think, you know, he probably would not have been this kind of president had mitch mcconnell and the republicans controlled the senate. he wouldn't have been able to. and my guess is he would have been the old joe biden in the senate, ready to make a deal and work with the other side. >> sandra: fascinating analysis, and karine jean-pierre was asked about the president's comments of shutting down the coal plants in america, she said his remarks were "twisted," she says he comes from coal country and -- >> his remarks were not twisted, they were reported accurately. >> john: candidates across the states and remember, not just about congress. three dozen governor mansions up for grabs, georgia and brian

kemp and stacey abrams. jonathan live in atlanta. what are the strategies the day before the election, jonathan? >> although trailing in most polls, stacey abrams campaign is expressing optimism over high minority turnout during early voting here in georgia. the campaign has been focused on rallying the democrat base, addressing concerns on things like abortion rights, healthcare and access to the ballot box. abrams supporters say they are knocking on literally tens of thousands of doors to motivate those who have not voted yet to do so tomorrow. >> we are covering the state with gop activities and excitement focusing on our most important voters, turn them out on election day to make sure they know if they have issues at the poll, how to contact help. >> governor brian kemp's campaign is focused on the economy, a message he hopes will resonate beyond just republicans. >> we are targeting every voter

in the state, including the suburbs and other voters that traditionally have not voted republican in the last cycle or two, because we have a good message for all in georgia. no matter what your neighborhood is. >> and today governor kemp is flying around the state touring with other republicans in statewide races. back to you. >> john: all right, jonathan, thank you so much. >> sandra: critics ripping democrats for tone deaf messaging like patrick maloney, advice for families struggling with high prices. just switch over to chef boyardee, he says. >> john: and juan, what do you make of what sean patrick maloney was saying there? >> that's ridiculous. how insulting. i mean, that's ridiculous. you know, the thing about it is when you hear something like that you are immediately dismissive. i think there is a broader theme here which is that the messaging

coming from democrats in these midterms is outpoint of being criticized by democrats because they think that it has not worked and in specific, i would point to suburban women who are going to be critical, 20% of the electorate as you know, john, and what we have seen in wall street journal posts a tremendous swing since the abortion decision when there was response to now, and it has to do with the absence of a message from democrats. >> sandra: they have seized on the moment of poor messaging. >> bad policies, implemented policies whether you try to deal with inflation by spending more money or crime, letting criminals out of jail, the policy has not worked. but if you feel people's pain, bill clinton, i feel your pain, right, you go i'm going to try and fix it. but people forgive you, and

democrats in new york would forgive juan for making a mistake. i get it, i hear you. they have completely ignored where the voter is is the and the post-mortem is going to be difficult not grasping where the voters were at. >> i don't think the republicans have a solution to the nation's inflation, i think they have successfully messaged and said the bad guys in power are to blame, and some point you would think the voters say oh, so what's your idea. >> sandra: what do you mean republicans don't have messaging. >> they don't have a solution. don't say our prescription how we plan to deal with economic -- >> sandra: i think i've heard it, less government spending, and producing more energy. >> why would you believe that, given we have had the highest rise in terms of our deficit under the last president, president trump, a republican,

and that you hear from rick scott, rick scott, oh, yeah, cut social security and medicare, that's going to solve our problems? >> juan, that's garbage. during the pandemic, the economy was shut down, a lot of spending was because of the shut down. and additional 4 trillion from the inflation recovery act to the infrastructure bill to the chips act. massive new spending which is driving inflation. >> here is where i think that goes off the mark, sean. you have a situation where people say infrastructure, we used to have infrastructure week after week. this president actually gets it done. but other people said we will help seniors with the high cost of -- we are going to do it. >> sandra: you want the president to run again? >> i think he's had an exceptional record. i think he should run again. >> most democrats don't want him to run.

>> sandra: john, they went after it without -- >> bring john in sideways. >> sandra: thanks very much, guys. thank you, juan. thanks, sean. >> john: see more of you tomorrow. >> sandra: thanks so much for joining us, it was a jam packed two hours. back here for election day tomorrow. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts, see you for election coverage. what a day it's going to >> martha: good afternoon, everybody. i'm martha maccallum. with me, karl rove, ronna mcdaniel, bret baier, shannon bream, all here in the final hours as we head towards the very big day, which starts tomorrow. all the candidates of course spread out in these races across the country as they pull out their final closing arguments. >> january i'm going to keep feeling better and better. dr. oz will still be a fraud. >> he seems to care more about the criminals than the people