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the election now 17 days away. early voting well underway. former president donald trump stumping in the battleground, pennsylvania, while vice president kamala harris rolls out the red carpet for lizzo and usher to join her in detroit and atlanta. will it actually be the battle of the billionaires between mark cuban and elon musk? it's, well, jump ball. georgia's secretary of state is here on the record number of people turning the out, and how about our record debt? it got higher, hit ooh another record -- hit another record with either candidate so far showing no signs of reining in that sky-high spending. hear from bank of america ceo brian moynihan, and iowa governor kim reynolds who says there is a way to do this. plus, pressure growing on israel to wrap things up. is that the pressure premature? general david petraeus and former defense secretary william cohen coming up.

and all a of it coming on the anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash, this day almost three decades ago the dow lost a quarter of its value. and as we enter the third year of a bull market, a look back at the lessons then and the market's resilience since. welcome, everybody, i'm neil cavuto. talk about a jam-packed show. we're talking politic first and donald trump and what he's planning to do today. madeleine rivera has more on that. hey, madeleine. >> reporter: good morning, neil. former president trump is set to hold a rally at the arnold palmer regional airport two weeks after he visited butler, the site of his first asaws naval nation attempt. yesterday he was in michigan where polls show he and vice president kamala harris are essentially tied. in an effort to get an edge, trump is looking to court arab a-american voters who are angry with the biden administers if's handling of the israel-hamas war with. he met with a major that has a large arab-american population are, the city's democratic leader endorsed trump, a backing

trump called an honor. >> we all, ultimately, want one thing, we want peace in the middle east. we're going to get it. [applause] >> reporter: trump also held a rally in detroit which he called a developing nation last week. his comment drawing backlash from democrats including the state's governor who cast it as trump's failure to understand the city. trump is promising to bring the city back and boost its manufacturing and auto industries through tax incentives and tariffs. >> kamala because not even pretend to have a plan to save detroit because she knows her agenda will release deuce your -- reduce your future to rubble. she's not going to -- her plan will drive every company, even small businesses, out of our country or out of business. it's a disaster. >> reporter: the former president became visibly frustrated during a rally after an audio failure left him unable to the communicate with the audience for nearly 20 the minutes. i'm sure the campaign is hoping things go more smoothly in pennsylvania today as the former

president will have a guest with him, former steelers' star antonio brown is expected to speak at the rally tonight. neil. neil: thank you for that, madeleine. fair and balanced now on what the harris campaign is up to. alexandria hoff. >> reporter: hi, neil. yeah, the vice president will be here in atlanta later today. she's coming from detroit. and in both cities the campaign is embracing star power to help get out the vote. in detroit today, michigan-born singer lizzo is going to be campaigning with harris. now, today is the city's first day of early voting. the rest of michigan is not going to vote until the the 26th actually. and and tonight usher is going to take part in a harris rally here in atlanta. you can feel the city buzzing over that one. both states do remain in the margin of error with harris hoping to make up ground overall with key demos like young voters, with men, with people of color that have been trending away from democrats. here's what she said in michigan yesterday. >> if you have received your ballot in the mail, please do

not wait. fill it out and return it today. we've got to inner united states and organize -- energize and organize and mobilize and remeaned our neighbors and our friends that the their vote is their voice. >> reporter: early voting here in georgia has so far yielded historic results. it started tuesday, and as of this morning over 1.the million ballots have been accepted. and to boost enthusiasm, a little bit more star power, former president obama has been stumping for hearst. host going to travel to the georgia on thursday to campaign with harris for the first time side by side. here he is in tucson. >> america's ready to turn the page, we're ready for a better story. [cheers and applause] we are ready for a president kamala harris! [cheers and applause] >> reporter: and former first ladymy hell obama, going to join harris side by side op on the trail as well. she are appear with the vice president a week from now in

michigan, neil. neil: alexandria, thank you for that. so as al a sand dray was intimating, in case you're looking at it and we'll be talking to georgia's secretary of state about record voting there, double what it was just four years ago, but the fact of the matter is already at this stage close to 12 million americans have already voted. that, again, nationally where it is happening. and remember more states are going to participate including florida next week. that is double where we were pour years ago. the implications of all of that and how we can kind of read the tea leaves on that with gop fundraiser, carly cooperman back with us as well, democratic pollster. carly, what to do you read into that? i know sometimes we try to glean, all right, how many came from democratic strongholds versus republican strongholds, but that enthusiasm. who's got more of it? >> yeah. i think that we've seen generally that harris has been able to regain the enthusiasm gap that existed when biden was

running where the democratic base really is enthusiastic about voting for her, again, close to the way that you see republicans are for trump. but at the same time, harris is now making this push to try to reach independents and disthe affected republicans who -- disaffected republicans who might be on the fence about trump, and she's using this pitch to push country over party. she's campaigning with some key republicans in swing states. she said that she's going to put a republican on her cabinet if she were elected, and so i think she sees an opportunity here the try to the expand past the base. and if she knows that she needs to do that if she's going to be successful given how close this race is, and especially that that's the case in swing states. neil: noel, a lot of it -- we focus on early voting particularly in some of these battleground states. record numbers in georgia, we were told, record numbers in north carolina, surprising in and of itself after the storm damage and the rest. we'll get a better view next week in florida. but state by state, battleground by battleground, who is this

benefiting? >> you know, i really think that it benefits republicans. and the reason for that is it comes down to one thing, and it's proven records and trust. i mow that a lot of the -- know that a lot of the democrats are energized with kamala harris, but in a sense, she's an unknown entity. we know, republicans know, people know what it was like under a trump the administration. they know that they prospered. they know that regulations were lessened. they know that their taxes were better. so this is a proven record that he's running on, and i think the swing states remember that. kamala harris is still a gamble, and she also has a horrible task of saying what she's going to do better when she was with an administration that people are not very happy with to date with inflation and things of that nature and the border. i mean, you've got border which

is number one, you've got inflation and, economy, and trump has fared better with that. and she's got the task of trying to say that she is going to remedy all these when she has been with the administration that has not involved -- solved this. neil: all right. we'll say it's still early. if things are as bleak as you just portrayed, the polls wouldn't be as tight as they are, but things could change. and that reminds me, ladies, and you can help me with. i do a little bit of research before the show because i know i have smart people like you on, and at this point in 1980, jimmy carter and ronald reagan were separated by 3 points, as amazing as that is. and i'm just wondering, could we see this year what happened in the roughly 17 days before the general election in that year? it was all of a sudden a flood thing of support for ronald reagan. maybe frustration, we had the last debate, the only debate between those two in that

period. i'm wondering if something like that changes. is there anything, carly, when you look at all these polls that shows the potential of a blood gate? either way -- floodgate? if either way? >> honestly, at this point i think it's hard to imagine. what's happened in politics and in the news over the last few months has been so dramatic. it feels like every week something major is happening, and yet -- neil: right, right. >> -- the campaigns are responding and people are moving and trying to reach different audiences, but the polls are so close nationally and state by state. neil: you know, noel, you also follow the money guys and where they're putting their money, and there's a lot of it now that's been helped by, obviously, elon musk giving $75 million in a superpac to donald trump. 23450er9 candidate having difficulty raising the dough. we're told democrats have a lot more of it, you know, en masse. how is that going to play out in these next two and a half weeks? >> i think for the next two and

a half weeks at least i tell a lot of my donors it doesn't really matter. i mean, right now with early voting there's people that have already voted. the last two weeks really is whipped into a frenzy and it's major -- mainly get out the vote. but there's only so much money, neil, you can spend in two weeks. most of the ad buys are already done. most of the things are already in place. two and a half weeks raising money really doesn't do much of anything. and one thing i wanted to tell you, back to the point you with made a minute ago, was the point that trump voters usually underpoll. a lot of them do not if talk about how they're going to vote. so there is that pack a tour -- factor. neil: and that's still a factor? we haven't adjusted for that in the years since? >> yeah. yeah, i think so. i mean, there are a lott of people that -- a lot of people that that say when hay coreporting on polls, they don't say they're voting for trump. we ache that in consideration

because that's what happened with the hillary deal last time. hillary i don't want raised trump, and we ended up -- outraised trump, and we ended up with a landslide. neil: we'll watch it very closely. in the meantime, we are going battleground to battleground. sometimes the other 50 states in the country probably kind of grimace at that, but the other 43 states, wisconsin is perhaps the most closely watched. if you think about it in the last couple of elections, it was decided by about 20,000 votes. 202,000. 20,000. the governor of that fine start, scott walker, former governor there, on what he makes of what's happening in his state right now after this. (vo) at verizon every phone can be the new iphone 16 pro with apple intelligence. wow phones are going to be flying to verizon. switch to verizon and get the new iphone 16 pro, and get a new ipad and apple one, all on us.

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prize catch if you want to win an election here but, boy, the definitely is in the details. and the slight movement you see in votes, that contest over the last couple of presidential elections has been decided by fewer than 20,000 votes. doesn't scott walker know it. they dragged him back in, recounts and everything else, midterm rexes. -- elections. he survived it all and has lived through it all, so he knows what dose on there and what we could be possibly looking at this go around. governor ors it's always great to have you, an honor to have you. what is the climate there now? i look at polls in your fine state, and they look kind of like they did four years ago and the four years before that, dead even. >> yeah, they're absolutely tight. i mean, this is going to be a razor-thin election. donald trump was here three times in eight days. you just had vice president harris in three different cities on thursday, j.d. vance back on sunday, obama and walz back next week. it is incredibly tight.

and it's going to boil down to turnout. the map, much like the country, the map boils down to different parts here, and it really depends on which part turns out the most for the winning candidate. neil: you know, it had to be a very tough state to govern through that because almost as soon as you got many in, they wanted to recall you. you survived that. i remember being with you in that whole period, just the volatility of i. deny of it. but you often hear that the state is so divided, so even that a it's very tough to govern these days. forget about winning and getting the state's electoral votes. is it? because i see a lot of close states dealing with this sort of thing, they move ons but that it paralyzes officials on both sides. >> yeah. it's a really -- well, it's not just tight politically, you're right. like most battleground states, you've got a couple of milwaukee and madison, two big urban areas that are very democrat. neil: right. >> mill withdraw can key's a there traditional blue collar area, donald trump's doing

reasonably well upping the numbers with black and hispanic numbers. madison's a very, very liberal area, almost like berkeley out in california. that area's gone increasingly liberal, that's an area that actually hillary clinton was not liberal enough, still has bernie sanders signs up. you've got suburbs that were once reliably republican but now less so, other parts of the state that have become more republican, particular particularly more pro-trump. the thing to watch, i did well when i won three times, mid-sized industrial city -- cities. it's really a matter of making the case to them. right now the money's on the side of harris and her campaign because they've got bodies all over the state. what's keeping it even is the issues are on donald trump's side. prices, prices, prices. people are upset about that. they're upset about fentanyl coming into the state because of the border crisis, and they're i upset because of the the public safety issues. those are the things making it tight in wisconsin. neil: i also wonder whether we

could have the flip of what we had four years ago, governor, where donald trump leads in the popular vote nationally, maybe scores the popular vote, but loses in the electoral vote. what do you think of that? >> well, it certainly is possible. i mean, you see the numbers running up, although i think there's a reason why we're not only talking about wisconsin, or former president trump's going to be in pennsylvania this week. i think if the map works out the way we thought it would prior to 2020 the election which is georgia, arizona, north carolina go with president trump, then the key is harris has to run the trifecta. she has to win the common, wealth of pennsylvania and the states of michigan and wisconsin. i think right now donald trump's got a compelling case to make in each of those three. that's why i think between now and november 5th you're going to see him, vance and their surrogates here over and over again as you will for the other side. neil: you know, governor, we hear there's talk that donald trump is going to be using nikki haley on the campaign trail.

she has, you know, already expressed her support for him, but he hasn't been used on the stump, to my knowledge, now she will be. what do you think of that? >> i think it's brill if i can't. i think it couldn't come soon enough -- brilliant. there's a lot of voters, particularly in the subs, who would appreciate not only nikki haley, but people like mike pompeo grow. other people that are respected who have said they'd be willing and honored to serve in his administration. i think that's one of his strengths. i always say set aside what you don't like about his tone or posts to social media and just realize the truth no matter who you are that life was better in wisconsin, across the country when donald trump was president. and a key part of that was not just him, it was the people he surrounded himself with. and i think if people saw people like nikki haley, like miami mike pompeo, that other trust trusted experts out there. it's not about changing what he wants to do, but just letting people know he's going to have

some steady hands along with him, it would go a long way particularly in places like the suburbs in wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania. neil: yeah. it's all about changing a few minds, those relatively few who are still undecided. i can't imagine, buts it is what it is. governor, great talk to you again. thank you for coming. >> thanks, neil. good to be with you. neil: all right, in the meantime, want to bring you into the overnight if development that surprised a lot of folks. it's not just israel going after terrorists where they least and when they least expect it, sometimes the terrorists go after the guy leading that campaign. reports right now of a drone strike that was aimed at benjamin netanyahu's vacation home. he's okay, but he says the battle is still on.

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neil: the fact that israel doesn't telegraph these attacks on terrorist outposts and the rest with the biden administration, that it might hold off on any formal response to iran until after the election, what do you read into that, that it's that bad, yet we stand side by side as countries? >> well, i think it's an embarrassment to the united states. i have felt this way, that the prime minister of israel -- whom i have moan for many, many years, more than 40 years -- i think that his disagreement with president biden should have been kept behind closed doors, but i think he has been very open about just waving off president biden. the united states is committed to israel's defense, but i think under the circumstances you want to make sure that you keep that relationship a healthy one. it has become personal, and i think that prime minister netanyahu knows the united states is going to continue to sport him no matter what --

support him no matter what. that's what he knows, that's his leverage. whether kamala harris is elected or whether donald trump comes in, he knows that the united states is going to be with him. the question is whether or not we would still be in a position to persuade him not to enflame the entire region by going and attacking iran in a way that sets the gulf basically on fire. neil: all right, that was bill cohen, of course, who served as, you know, the defense secretary for bill clinton. the fact of the matter is that things are tense, and and that's stating the obvious, between the white house and benjamin netanyahu. but it's a separation between the relationship of our two countries as does kamala harris when asked the very same issue. lucas tomlinson on how this could complicate things as we await israel's formal response to that iranian missile attack a couple of weeks ago. what are you hearing, lucas? >> reporter: well, neil, on this day in 1781 brush general

charles cornwallis vend ed at yorktown, and officials and experts say don't expect a similar surrender from hamas or hezbollah. of here was president biden in berlin yesterday before flying home. >> we think that there's a possibility of working toward a ceasefire in lebanon, and it's going to to be harder in gaza, but we agree that that has to be an outcome. look what happened the day after. >> mr. president, do you have a good understanding right now what israel is going to do in response to iran? the attacks and when they will actually respond? >> yes and yes. >> you tell us? >> no and no. >> reporter: earlier today a drone was launched from lebanon toward meat an ya hue's residence. reports the drone actually hit his house. the prime minister and his wife were not there according to the israelis. now, a senior israeli official tells israel's channel 12 that iran tried do kill the prime minister today. despite the killing of yeah yeah

ya sinwar, mastermind of the october 7th massacre, so far none of the hostages have been released. here was netanyahu earlier. >> two days ago we took out yahya sinwar, the terrorist mastermind whose goons beheaded our men, raped our women, burnt babies alive. we took him out, and we're continuing our battle with iran's other terrorist proxies. we're going to win this war. >> reporter: earlier today iran's supreme leader posting to x, quote, i congratulate the family of yahya sinwar, his comrades and all those on the path of -- and i offer my condolences for this loss. earlier former u.s. ambassador to lebanon and a number of arab countries, ryan crocker, says he thinks hamas and hezbollah will continue to fight and revert to guerrilla warfare. and one arab-american i spoke to earlier says hamas knows only two things, victory and martyrdom, and expects this war

to continue. neil? neil: lucas tomlinson at the white house, thank you. to a former taliban negotiator who knows of what he speaks, going for some reflection on this attempted drone strike on benjamin netanyahu. what do you make of that,s adam, and the fact that they're now targeting his residence just like he has targeted some, you know, other terroristists, hezbollah, hamas, on and on we go, a tit for tat and here we go. >> i mean, at the end of the day what i think is, good luck to them, you know? they tried just like they tried a number of other times, and everyone always says, well, maybe they're not if really trying and maybe the missiles aren't hitting on purpose, etc. the fact of the matter is they don't have that much use sw. i saw the pictures of his residence, bibi's residence. it looked like a tree fell down. so congratulations, and, yeah, i hope they do better next time for them. neil: obviously, they're upping the ante saying, all right, you

want to take out our guys, we can take you your guys, including you, mr. prime minister, but what do you think of where this is going next? >> i actually think the killing of sinwar creates an opening. there are four main if objectives. one is nasrallah and what happened with hezbollah in lebanon. so the elimination of nasrallah and the stunning decapitation of so much of hezbollah, now he's killed sinwar. he needs to get the hostages back, and he needs to attack iran. and he needs to disable their nuclear facilities. and so i think those two actions are what israel will focus on next. neil: all right. now, we have it from benjamin netanyahu that he doesn't want to target the nuclear facilities, that he's not interested in going after oil facilities. now, he could be head faking folks, but what do you think of that? >> i mean, i think at the end of the day he has some similarities to president trump which is president trump says v