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questions of privilege in this deposition and that is something he might try to invoke. nathan wade is under subpoena. they issued a subpoena to get him to testify today. the u.s. marshals had to go find him. he is here today and going to go for two hours and there are no members of congress in the room. dana. >> dana: all right, chad. i like the marshals, thank you. >> bill: before we go, it is being called the panda express there. you have two giant pandas arriving this morning at dulles and making their way to the smithsonian zoo. >> dana: i bet they have jet lag. >> bill: they are on loan for ten years and they have time to recover. >> dana: "the faulkner focus" is next. >> harris: we begin with this fox news alert. 21 days until election day.
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one group of voters are smack in the middle of a fight for their attention. democrats want them to pay attention. vice president kamala harris has dropped popularity among black men in particular. democrats have plans to win them back. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." coming to you live today from beautiful cumming, georgia, just a short drive north of atlanta. i will tell you more about that in a little bit. the latest "new york times" poll shows the drop-off in black voter support for democrats since 2016 is 14% over those eight years. so what are democrats doing or not doing? and can they do it in 21 days? the numbers are not good for the current administration, biden and harris when it comes to the economy. that same poll finds nearly 80% of black men say it is only fair or poor.
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this is especially significant because the survey also found the economy and inflation are the biggest issues that black men say are important to them. the trump campaign says this paints a pretty grim picture for vice president harris's campaign. >> her campaign is bleeding support from core democratic const constituency. people she should have locked up when she was rammed in there as the nominee 2 1/2 months ago. she should have black voters not the problems she is having. she has had a really hard two or three weeks. the momentum is all with donald trump. there is no mistaking that. >> harris: kamala harris is hoping to claw back the crucial voting block one month until election day. her campaign announced a new push. it is calling the opportunity agenda for black men. that's been out there for a week now. harris's campaign says if plan aims to boost financial and
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career prospects for black men with policies like if giveable loans and education programs. kamala harris also is doing a town hall in detroit with popular syndicated radio host charlamagne tha god tonight. he voiced plenty of criticism for kamala harris during her campaign. >> she needs to, you know, answer questions from everybody. she needs to answer questions from black people but needs to answer questions from everyone. i don't believe democrat excitement alone is going to win this election. she knows that. what will you do for the economy? i was raised in a middle class. >> there is no need for you to be that on script in a conversation. when you hear the narrator say she -- i don't want my taxpayer dollars going to that. they'll be talking to trump and jd vance and things happening right here in america. you go to tim walz and they ask him about geopolitical politics.
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a lot of times it makes him sound very out of touch. to what's actually going on right here in america. >> harris: the "wall street journal" editorial board is asking of kamala harris the pitch to black men, quote, will more pot smoking and forgiveable loans peel them from trump? the argument from them it is good news that ms. harris and democrats are being forced to compete for black voters who look fondly on mr. trump's first term economy. she may need a better pitch. power panel now. live in the great state of georgia jeremy hunt former army intelligence captain and former georgia republican congressional candidate and fred hicks. great to see you both. we have you both in person. now we're together. fred, tell me, why is this so difficult and are 21 days
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enough? >> so this is really something that democrats should have been working on for the last six, seven, eight years. the alarm bells have been ringing for many years now. it is disappointing that it has taken this long for it to happen. however, that being said, even though democrats right now are -- the same numbers we've seen before for the vice president, we haven't shifted towards donald trump so we're still in play. i think this concentrated effort if done right could yield high dividends but has to be rooted in something authentic and genuine and that's what we're looking for as black men. >> harris: we had three years of president trump before the pandemic. some people say he only had a few months. no, january 2017 to march of 2020. so people remember the lowest unemployment for black men, black voters, but particularly black men in 50 years under trump. they remember that. how much does that matter? >> i think it matters in a major
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way. if you look at -- we care about the economy and these issues. we want candidates who respect us. but you have vice president harris, who releases policy proposal. the first thing she does legalize marijuana. she has this caricature of black men in her head that we're california pot heads that are sitting looking for government hand-out. it's disrespectful. how about focus on what are the actual policies. everyone wants to talk about i was born in a middle class family. tell us the details what you do to make life better for a lot of men around this country. it doesn't need to be race based. we want policies that help all people. even men in particular working class men, people who need -- want to see a government that is not just giving them a hand-out but have an opportunity to get ahead. >> harris: we're beyond the 1950s and 60s. now it is the high tide that
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lifts all boats. people of all races and ages and every kind of demographic now is the time for america to show the world why we're so exceptional. we've been practicing it for a couple hundred years now and we're young as a country but have a lot of potential. >> a lot of that is true. when i talk to black men and we've organized a lot of black men over the last few years, one of the things that we hear is that in politics there is a carve-out for every other sub group except black men. >> harris: why is that? why not democrats? >> that's a great question and excited that finally this is happening. i will say this, if i were on her campaign, i would give her a call list of 100 black men in five major cities across america in swing states and have her call personally and let black men know she personally values their vote. >> harris: she can't talk about weed. that's such a marginalization of
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anybody, not just black men. to say that you can pacify somebody with that. >> anyone else, vice president harris saying oh, have to reach out to black men. legalize weed that's all they care about. >> what about people marching in the streets? >> it is ridiculous. she does not understand black men. there is a disconnect there. more so than that she really wants to win the vote she has to be able to project strength. look at foreign policy perspective, weakness, indecision. >> harris: interesting point, though, that strength. and women feel that way about her, too, by the way. women who i am talking to. it is nothing personal. they want her to be an equal on the world stage and they aren't seeing the bone fides for her to do that. >> this is -- she talked about loans. spent a lot of times. >> harris: the first million dollars. >> tax rebate. a lot of things that support small businesses. black men said that's the number
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one issue. >> harris: i have to ask you because it is like black history month. the shortest month of the year and many people, many african-americans say why not do that? can't we have a national american month and celebrate for a year long. a great concept. 21 days is shorter than black history month. >> it is. we're here and i think -- look at it this way. this is part of her closing argument so just like in bail we're -- >> harris: you are not a black man and still struggling. you aren't in that -- you are not the target right now so the heck with you? is that the closing argument? wow. >> we hear from veterans all over the country who are saying wait a minute, what about the issues we care about? the last minute hail mary pitch. democrats do this all the time. >> harris: all right, okay. the presidential election we know is 21 days away and right now it's tighter than it has
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been in most recent contests. the real clear politics average now shows kamala harris up by just 1.4 nationally. trump has a fractional lead. it is close, everybody has to vote. vote your interests. it is important, your right as an american. go to it. compare it to the last two white house races in 2020 fox news polling found october showed biden with a 10-point lead. now they dumped him. trump only narrowly lost that race. in 2016 hillary clinton had a seven point national lead. trump went on to win that race. top harris-walz advisor used colorful language to cast doubt on the numbers. are we bleeping? >> i think kamala harris may surprise at the end of the day with either straight up republicans or independents. we particularly like what we're
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not seeing on the trump data. not an army of -- i can't speak to the public polls. i spend very little time looking at them. i just don't. most of them are [bleep]. when you tell people how little the campaign matters meaning a good campaign won't turn a 54 or 46 loss to a win. impossible. but if you have the best campaign on the ground it can give you half a point or a point. >> harris: kamala harris continues to offer up more servings of word salad. critics say this could be her worst yet. here she is trying to paint trump's comment on blue cities as racist. >> he is singling out cities where there are significant african-americans and that's who he is talking about. black people. >> yes. yes. you know, there is this little -- i talked with somebody once who said if you just look at
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where the stars are in the sky, don't look at them as just random things. if you look at them at points. look at the constellation, what does it show you? you outlined it. what does it show you? that the cities that he picks on in terms of black population or black mayor or both. come on. >> harris: can you decode that? >> simply put, donald trump is not the right choice for the vast majority of african-americans is what she is trying to say. >> too late for vice president harris and getting my haircut at the barber. she is in trouble. i think it will be a very interesting turnout for her come election day. >> harris: you have to code that yourself, get a trademark. great to have you both.
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great discussion. we got into the nitty-gritty. thank you. we're live in cumming, georgia. it is for a very special "the faulkner focus." i will be joined by former president donald trump here in this battleground state of georgia that started early voting today, a few hours ago, for a special all-women town hall. the women will be asking the questions. and donald trump will be on the hot seat. members of that audience will put their questions to the former president and current republican presidential nominee on critical topics, economy, abortion, immigration crisis and more. tune in for that. it airs tomorrow right at this time 11:00 a.m. eastern on "the faulkner focus." some of vice president kamala harris's surrogates are struggling in their efforts to help her against trump. the campaign is even thanking them, some of them, for doing what they are doing. but really? friends like these? lawmakers are demanding answers
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after an afghan person was arrested for plotting an election-day terror attack. >> there are thousands of individuals that were rushed over here because of the harris biden withdrawal and they weren't properly vetted. fortunately the f.b.i. was doing their job. they did it correctly. no one was actually at harm but they caught the individual. how many individuals are out there that we're not paying attention to? >> harris: well, who was responsible for letting the suspected terrorist into our nation in the first place? the blame game continues. former republican congressman doug collins of georgia in "focus" next. ners checked your credit card rates lately? many are over 22%, near 30% if you pay late. why not do what thousands of veteran families have done. call newday and pay off that high rate debt with the lower rate newday 100 va cash out loan. it lets you pay off your credit cards and car loans with one easy monthly payment. get the cash you need
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>> harris: some of vice president kamala harris's surrogates may be giving her campaign a headache. former president bill clinton is getting a lot of attention for words he spoke while campaigning over the weekend for kamala harris. >> she is the only candidate who is actually endorsed a bill that would hold down immigration in any given year to a certain point and then make sure we give people a decent place to live.
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we didn't divide people from their children and we did total vetting before people got in. now, trump killed the bill. you had a case in georgia not very long ago, they made an ad about it. a young woman killed by an immigrant. yeah, well, if they don't properly vet them that probably wouldn't have happened. but if they are properly vetted, that doesn't happen and america is not having enough babies to keep our populations up so we need immigrants that have been vetted to do work. that wouldn't be a problem. and he couldn't keep people all torn up and upset. >> harris: oh my goodness, are they paying the surrogates enough? what is going on. the "new york post" editorial board had this headline. bill clinton got it right. harris and biden's broken border led to lakin riley's murder and
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critics are going after former president barack obama sounding like he was lecturing to black men about not being enthusiastic enough about the vice president's candidacy. one of her campaign advisors was on cleanup duty. >> president obama was talking about again was the stark choice, right? you have donald trump. >> it is very clear that he is suggesting that sexism is at play for why some black men he is concerned aren't going to turn out. >> yeah. he was also very clear there is one candidate in the race who actually has the interests of black men at heart, vice president harris. >> harris: we're live at the white house. >> former president clinton wasn't done making headaches. yesterday he was trying to split hairs over harris was or wasn't the border czar. >> her job was to go to these other countries that were sending a lot of people and trying to get them to enroll
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them in a legal process while they were still in the country. so they wouldn't be illegally trafficked, show up on our border, have to be cared for on one side or the other, and then we run the risk of having people get in here who weren't properly vetted. >> president biden is in philly today for a local fundraiser not related to harris's campaign. ian sams did not refute reports of tensions between team biden and team harris. >> i think first and foremost when you think about tensions between a president and vice president you have to think about january 6th. >> i understand that, ian, to answer my question is there tension now between kamala harris and joe biden? >> well look, i think that when vice president hair ifs is out there on the stump answering voter questions and answering questions from reporters like bret and yourself. >> harris is in detroit today with charlamagne tha god making
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a hard pitch to the young black men and then bret baier in philly tomorrow. one thing that hasn't changed about harris the media, she still has yet to hold a single press conference in more than 80 days. harris. >> harris: well, it will only get tougher if your surrogates are out there. oh my goodness, bill clinton. he had to have done damage by telling the truth about the border crisis, good lord. the border patrol union has given its unanimous endorsement to former president donald trump. one border chief -- one border sheriff explains exactly why that is. >> you have president trump when he was president, he engaged. he worked, prioritized the border and made a difference. vice president harris and president biden have that not. they are the would have, should have on the border. i have found yet one agent come up to me and said sheriff it's working on the border.
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just the opposite. morale is in the dirt and president trump is there hope and they are looking for hope. >> harris: a pew poll found 60% of voters don't think kamala harris has clearly explained her policies on illegal immigration. she said she would do everything joe biden would do. she flipped her stance on multiple border policies and now calling for stronger security, more border agents and an earned pathway to citizenship. however, listen to what she previously said. >> i think there is no question that we've got to critically re-examine ice. this issue is about a vanity project for this president. clear, i won't vote for a wall under any circumstances. i'm in favor of saying we won't treat people who are undocumented and cross the border as criminals. >> harris: a lot of people don't remember she ran for president and that's when she was running and what she said. now she is running again she has something different to say.
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i believe in evolution, we'll see if that's what it was. doug collins from the great state of georgia host of the doug collins podcast and u.s. air force reserve colonel. >> welcome back to georgia. >> harris: my birthplace. why do you think that the surrogate in a former president bill clinton. he was a gifted politician. nobody would argue, what happened? two-term president does that to kamala harris. >> i have think it is because they are going into a position which they don't know how to define her. that's coming from the top. so if you have the leader harris not being able to define herself how are the surrogates supposed to define her. bill clinton spoke the truth. he spoke the truth. if the border had not been open and vetted people properly lakin riley would be with us today. that was right. the most about being said there if you listen to the crowd. the crowd was saying yes. the crowd is saying yes, yes.
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but they are disconnecting that it's the open border policy of biden-harris that caused the death. he spoke the truth. hard to have surrogates speaking in one voice when you have no clear voice from the top. >> harris: also the issue of migrant gangs in cities like aurora, colorado. i know that word migrant gets tossed around. these people are here illegally. they are roaming like a syndicate. republican vice presidential candidate jd vance got into it with abc's martha raddatz over the weekend. >> the incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes and the mayor said our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns. a handful of problems. >> do you hear yourself? only a handful of apartment complexes in america were taken over by venezuelan gangs and donald trump is the problem and not kamala harris's open border? >> harris: look at this.
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one former aurora resident captured this video in her apartment building and now is calling out the media and government officials for down playing the impact of venezuelan gangs in her community. >> i feel like it is a slap in the face. i'm a taxpayer. i pay my rent, i pay my bills, i do what i'm supposed to do. i feel like the media took my videos at face value and didn't do any research of their own. so they immediately said this can't be true or this is only a few apartments. how many is okay? >> harris: doug. >> how many is okay, harris? this has been the most amazing election which media that's thrown -- big media, the giants of journalism have thrown away all cloak of realism. they said we'll go all in. we helped push joe biden out and we've got her installed although we do not want president harris
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in may but now we have to now protect it. a journalist who said only a handful? i can't describe how bad that is. well it's only okay because of somebody else and then you get changing up the answers. people see it and that's the harris campaign problem now. trying to define a fantasy land that doesn't exit to people's very own eyes. >> harris: a handful. it really is just somebody else. that's a migrant apartment building. they are preying on their own people. it is like a syndicate, a mob going in and hustling people who also came over the border, maybe even some of them not legally and putting pressure on families. >> would martha except that in her neighborhood two or three and she lives in a building, two or three apartments or subdivision? if it's only those three houses it's okay? that's how ridiculous she sounded the other day. >> harris: none of us would accept it. former president trump is in
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battleground state georgia today. early voting began a few hours ago on this tuesday. plus reports of mysterious drones surveying united states military bases. i feel like this is the chinese spy balloon all over again raising big concerns about national security and whether we're prepared for high-tech threats. >> it is proof that foreign governments are testing us. they are testing our national defense response. they want to see if they can goth away with it. they just did. this needs to be a wake-up call for this administration.
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>> harris: early voting underway here in the battleground state of georgia as of a few hours ago this morning, one of the seven states which can play an outsized role in electing the next president of the united states. former president trump will be here this evening to deliver his message on the economy. he recently toured the damage done by hurricane helene. in fact, wow, he got there before anybody in the white house. he was accompanied by governor brian kemp of georgia. kemp is firmly in trump's camp despite some things between the two men early on. part of it was over the 2020 election results. the georgia secretary of state promises voters will be able to trust the results this time around. >> at the end of the day the winner will be the winner and the other person will be the person that comes up short and
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we'll try to be as gentle as we share that. we understand how polarizing it is on both sides of the aisle. >> harris: aishah hosni, congressional correspondent, in atlanta now. aishah. >> harris, the state is still seen as a big toss-up. not leaning one way or the other. you remember it went for biden in 2020 and has sent a democrat back to the senate in 2022. voter turnout is the name of the game here in georgia. it is key and critical for the former president and the trump campaign is pushing early voting hard. i am told that will be part of the message tonight from the speakers we'll see on the stage at this big rally. you mentioned governor brian kemp. trump is benefiting greatly from former senator leffler's group focused on reaching out to minority voters, and since 2021, listen to this. she has registered single
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handedly more than 40,000 new conservative voters. it is a really big deal in georgia where it could be decided by a couple thousand votes. trump is in chicago today. got a live shot of his remarks at the economic club of chicago. the economy could be the way that he swings georgia. also breaking this morning, harris, i have to tell you about this. fulton county superior court judge in georgia has ruled that certifying the election results in georgia is mandatory for election officials. so basically that means that election officials if they suspect any voter fraud, they can flag it but as far as taking legal action, suing, that will be up to both the harris and trump campaigns. they have to certify the vote count. back to you. >> harris: wow, those are late breaking details that now that they are early voting heading into the next 21 days are particularly in focus and important. serious new questions about the nation's national security and
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who exactly has their eyes on our skies? new reports that mysterious drones are swarming a u.s. military base and did so for 17 days in december of last year. wow. new reports of something that happened in december that breached our national security? the pentagon says it is stumbled with no idea who was behind it. the incident recalls the chinese spy balloon, remember? i said it is reminiscent of that. remember it floated across the country and hovered over secret sites for days before the military shot it down? jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. i'm worried about the fact they didn't know. i can accept they don't tell us but they didn't know? >> they knew but didn't know who was behind it. a well reported scoop from our colleagues at the "wall street journal" and confirmed to us by pentagon officials early this morning. in december 2023, u.s. air force commanders at langley air force
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base in southern virginia, home to the f22 raptors noticed over a period of 17 days dozens of unidentified drones would begin flying over the base shortly after dusk each night. the air force by federal law was not allowed to shoot the mystery drones out of the sky. the white house reportedly called for national security meetings to discuss how to address drones possibly sent by a foreign adversary. there were concerns about using electronic warfare or jamming systems for fear of interfering with commercial air travel over the holidays. three months earlier drones were spotted flying over a nuclear facility in nevada. not clear whether the incidents were related. here are some of the police reports from virginia near languagely air force base. december 6th at 10:00 p.m. multiple drones tracked over langley air force base and descending in the area of marshall street or hope park. the drone is not a langley
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aforce base drone. langley is reporting 125 feet off the ground having landed. myself and the other agent will be at 201 drum beyonds at the horse pasture in the field. adding to the mystery a chinese international student studying at university of minnesota was found trying to fish a drone out of a tree in newport news, virginia. images taken by the drone showed aerial photos of the huntington facility that builds nuclear submarine for the military and aircraft carriers. he was arrested 13 days later in san francisco with a one-way ticket back to china and given a six-month sentence. the drone mystery remains unsolved but it has the attention of pentagon brass. >> harris: i would hope so. drones are used in wartime. we have had two attempted assassinations on a past
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president. things flying in the sky and a drone can hover and go low, too, and blow up. we need to know who is doing it. jennifer, thank you, great report. breaking news now. we're looking live and we'll take that picture. beirut, lebanon. talking about war. flames and smoke rising as israel continues to hammer hezbollah terror targets there. a number of senior figures from hezbollah's terror group have been targeted in that area including the leader nasrallah who was killed on september 27th. israel our top middle east ally has been fighting those terrorists since last october 8th, the day after the horrific hamas terrorist attack on israel october 7th. they engaged in concert, if you will, with hamas terrorists. we will monitor all of this and bring you the latest information as we get it. some voters are now moving away
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from the democratic party. and that could mean a boost for former president trump in key battleground states. there is a twist, though. plus women's college volleyball players say enough is enough. a host of them are choosing to forfeit games rather than play against a member who has a biological man. transgender issues and protecting women's sports and now election issues leading up to the big election day. lisa boothe is in "focus" next. one hundred republicans who worked in national security for presidents reagan, both bushes, and for president trump. now endorsing harris for president. she came up as a prosecutor, an attorney general, into the senate.
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she has the kind of character that's going to be necessary in the presidency. vice president harris is standing in the breach at a critical moment in our nation's history. we have a shared commitment as americans to do what's right for this country. this year, i am proudly casting my vote for vice president kamala harris. former generals, secretaries of defense, secretaries of the army, navy, and air force, cia directors and national security council leaders under democratic and republican presidents, republican members of congress, and even former trump administration officials agree: there's only one candidate fit to lead our nation, and that's kamala harris. i'm kamala harris and i approve this message. they get it. they know how it works. and most importantly, it works for them. i don't have any anxiety about money anymore. i don't have to worry about a mortgage payment every month. it allowed me to live in my home and not have to make payments.
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>> harris: a new poll finds catholic voters are moving toward former president trump. that could have some critical effect in swing states t. "washington examiner" is reporting, quote, catholics swing away from democrats. give trump boost in battlegrounds. pew research center found 20% of all voters in 2020 identified as catholic. trump won half of them. bill mcgurn titles his new column kamala harris's pennsylvania catholic problem. he argues her san francisco progressive persona isn't a good fit for joe biden's native state. another recent survey suggests a lot of people say they're not happy with either candidate. it finds just more than half of those who identify as christians are actually not going to vote. that's 104 million people who
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may not end up going to the polls which includes 41 million born again christians and 32 million other christian churchgoers. 14 million self-described evangelicals. in fact, i just spoke with a round table of evangelical leaders about this very thing. what moves them to vote? >> it is important that we vote. the leaders we elect determine the policies we follow and the policies we follow determine the moral and spiritual direction of our entire country. >> when we think about our faith, this is an election where we really can't say our faith is on the ballot and we have to do everything we can to make sure that our values and morality that we believe in are at the center of everything we do. >> i just want to point out to everyone listening that trump lost by thousands in several of these states. evangelicals are the most impactful voting block of the christians. they need to turn out. look at their bible, look at what god is calling you to do.
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we cannot be passive. >> harris: lisa boothe, fox news political analyst. your thoughts on this, lisa. >> hi. i am reminded working on campaigns in the past at this point in an election cycle and these campaigns are so exhausting. i remember working on a senate race in wisconsin drinking five hour energy drinks to get out of bed. they're fighting for every inch. you look at the religious voters you are talking about and catholic voters are interesting. they've been swing voters in the past. look at how they supported barack obama in 2008 and 2012 and went to donald trump in 2016 and 2020. even trump edging out biden. you look at recent survey looking at the seven battleground states has donald trump up by 5% with catholic voters. it could matter when you look at
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states like pennsylvania, wisconsin, nevada where almost a quarter of those residents are catholic. we're talking about the inches here and the margins. >> harris: great point. the university of nevada women's volleyball team chose to forfeit its game against san jose state because one of their players may be a biological man. nevada is the fifth team to do that same thing. the school says in a statement quote the university intends to move forward with the match as scheduled and players my choose not to participate in that match but the team says we refuse to participate in any match that advances injustice against female athletes. san jose state teammate of the alleged transgender player is suing the ncaa for title ix violations. >> i support every school that is deciding to find the courage to take the stand to not play
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against us. so many people above you as a young woman telling you do what you are told in sports. put your head down, work hard, that's it, don't complain. i think it's amazing to see that there are these young women finally deciding to use their voice and take a stand. >> harris: the "wall street journal" editorial board calls transgender sports a 2024 sleeper issue. louisiana senator john kennedy weighed in on "the faulkner focus" yesterday. >> it's a big issue. way beyond the election. you can curse god or nature or anything you believe in. the truth of the matter is that starting in the womb, women and men have physical and physiological differences that give men an advantage in physical sports and women can get hurt if they compete against men. that's just a natural fact. i think most americans
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understand that. >> harris: lisa, i'm doing a town hall, all women here in cumming, georgia. that will air on "the faulkner focus" tomorrow. this will come up, i guarantee it. >> it is a big issue. look at the majority of americans, they don't believe in men competing in women's sports. it is common sense. it is unfair. so we are seeing that play out in some of these races across the country as well. but also on issue of safety. we have seen a field hockey player in massachusetts, her teeth got knocked out by a male athlete. you look at a volleyball player as well severely injured at the hands of a male athlete. my question is where are the adults? why is it up to students to lead this fight of fairness, of common sense, of logic? it shouldn't be up to them. it is a shame -- important
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conversation to have but i think it is a shame we're talking about something so nonsensical. how did this end up being common place in america? >> harris: lisa boothe. always great to have you in "focus." thank you very much. thank you everybody for watching "the faulkner focus" live from cumming, georgia, as i prepare to do the town hall of all women with former president donald trump. "outnumbered" after the break.
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