>> you know, i'm old enough to remember when we had 20 battle ground states, when jimmy carter and ronald reagan were going at it, and every four years, down to seven battle ground states you've got to win because they account in this particular case, 84 electoral votes crucial to get the 270 you need to be the next president of the united states. one of those north carolina, and that's exactly where you'll find our aishah hasnie getting ready for a trump event about an hour away. aishah: hey, neil, i think that the former president might be expanding the battle ground states, but not only time in north carolina, a rally here and then up three hours north to virginia, a lean blue state that really no one was talking about last year and now they are. he is going to rally there because the campaign says they're on the offense and

he'll come right back to north carolina to rally in greensboro at a pretty large event, 18,000 capacity there. i want to talk about this state, critical to the campaign and one of the key states they feel they have to win. trump won it back in 2016. he held onto it by a thin margin in 2020 and hoping to keep it again this time around. huge record voter turnout so far in early voting. that ends today. in-person early voting ends today. over half the state, more than half of the state's registered voters have cast their ballots, that's a big deal and despite there being more unaffiliated voters and more democratic registered voters more republicans have actually voted so far, that's a good sign for the trump campaign. they're really pleased with their low propensity voting bloc and those are usually the voters that stay at home. they feel like the internal

numbers show he's doing much better in the low propensity voter than harris did, and it's going to come to the voters. rnc chairman, michael whatley who hales from north carolina under a lot of pressure to deliver the state and he believes, he said in the past he thinks this will be one of the states, at least one of three states that trump will be leading in on election night. so, we'll bring you the remarks as soon as the former president gets here, neil. neil: i should thank you for that, aishah, getting the latest read of things in north carolina. mark meredith with the harris folks in atlanta, georgia. >> neil, good morning to you once again. it wasn't that long ago that georgia was considered solid red territory, but since 2020 things have been with a little more in flux and a lot of people are trying to find out, read the tea leaves whether

georgia will stay purple or that was something out of 2020. the rally, feels like a dance club, and the early voting wrapped up. the vice-president has been all over the battle ground states in michigan, nevada, arizona, pennsylvania, she was in wisconsin last night where there are reports that voter turnout in milwaukee is lower compared to the rest of the state. politico is saying that could be a warning sign. and she was asked why the cost of living was so high today. >> well, first of all, let me make it very clear that i intend to earn the vote of everyone and i don't cake anyone's vote for granted and my highest priority as president will be to bring down the costs because to that point, look, i know the cost of groceries is too high still. everyone knows it. >> well, harris has no shortage of endorsements this weekend,

one notable democrat staying away from backing her, that would be michigan congresswoman rashida tlaib, and she was out for the down ballot democrats. and biden, too, is steering clear of the harris campaign, and not sure that we'd see him in the final stretch. however, the first lady, is down south in macon, hour and a half away from here and macon getting attention and donald trump will be there tomorrow. a lot of excitement and curiosity in georgia and i think they're playing your song right now. a sign they're big cavuto fans. ♪ . neil: mark, great job as always. mark meredith following that. i want to go to the g.o.p. fundraiser and a democratic pollster to get their take on what mark reported. carly, i want to report a story in the wall street journal, the harris campaign in the next few days is going to focus almost

exclusively on women saying they're making a bet, quoting here, in the final days of a deadlocked election campaign that turning out women's voters is her best path to the presidency, to virtually every state and city that she visits. what do you make of that? >> i think that's right to a large etent, neil. women voters are habitual voters, historically turn out more than men. there are more women registered to vote than men to vote and for harris to lean into a group she has such strong support with already is critical in the final days as early voting is underway and on election day as well. and what we're seeing in general is that harris' support tends to be with voters who are habitual voters and women are such a part of this coalition that it's really critical for her to get that in terms of bringing up the most support that she can in contrast to trump whose people that he's reaching beyond his base tend

to be low propensity voters. turnout is a critical part in determining who wins that election. neil: now, we're looking, i guess, noel at about 2% of people who are still undecided. i'm always shocked at that, but do you think that's an accurate percentage? >> neil, you know, i really don't. my background is super pac fund raising and that's my concentration on any campaign, but i find it very hard to believe in a race so polarizing like this, that there are still people to this day right now sitting on the fence saying they don't know which way they're going to vote. a lot of times with people that are undecided, at least people that i've spoken with, whatnot, you tell them to hone in on the issues that are important to them, and then vote the issue. the main issue that i am seeing in a lot of these polls is the economy. the second issue is the border,

is there safety? and republicans shine on these two things and the democrats right now are dealing with inflation and an open border. so, these are two issues that the democrats have failed on and republicans can shine on, so, if you're undecided and you look at those two issues, odds are, you're probably going to pull the lever for a republican. neil: on that subject, mark cuban generated a good deal of controversy saying powerful, successful women are never around donald trump. whatever you think of donald trump or the women around donald trump, a lot of them are powerful and successful. did that hurt kamala harris in the campaign to have a vocal backer say something like that? >> i don't think that drums out the message that kamala harris is trying to make in the closing days of her campaign. these trying to make an inclusive message.

she is leaning in on unity. she's making a stark contrast with donald trump rather than talking about revenge on people that he doesn't like. she is reaching across the aisle. she's trying to reach moderates, independents, suburban voters, even disaffected republicans who might be willing to come on board to an idea of somebody where she's trying to build a coalition of people and she's reaching out and i think she's leaning in hard on that and trying to draw the contrast with trump who has a much more negative message and trying to kind of be more disparaging in terms of his comments. neil: but when her campaign is using terms like fascist and, you know, talking about madison square garden event that resembled a 1939 nazi event. i don't know if that applies to any gender that would hear that and just say that's nuts. >> yeah, i don't -- i think

that there are a lot of messages coming out from both the surrogates and the candidates these final days right now, you see the two candidates crisscrossing the states and leaning into battle ground states and trying to get every vote they can and you're hearing multiple messages aimed at different voter groups in the final days, but i think the advantage that the harris campaign has, the voter groups that are more supportive of her and more inclined to vote for her in that historic turnout. neil: noelle, each said can make comments on messages. and donald trump, liz cheney, and was taken out of context, but fixation on her and her father, and the fact they're voting on kamala harris, and sometimes borders on obsessing too much about it and stomps on his good message about the economy and what's happening at

the border. what are your big money folks talk about when they see that play out? >> i can tell you exactly what they talk, they say, they send me texts, stay on message, stay on the issues, stay on the economy, stay on border, stay on, you know, the things that we as republicans believe in and leave the rhetoric by the wayside. i will say looking at, you know, both the campaigns, i will say that the democrats and a lot of the surrogates have stepped up the personal attacks on, you know, republican voters and trump. i feel like if you think that you really are going to win this election, which a lot of the democrats think they're going to-- they're going to win, you wouldn't be using such desperate rhetoric like this attacking personalities and attacking, you know, people. you would mainly tout your record and i think that that shows a little bit of a crack

in the democrats when you go and you stoop to personal attacks. neil: but, noelle, the reason i'm mentioning, it's one thing to go after liz cheney and remarks and she talks tough, but never was into battle. well, he had multiple deferments to avoid fighting in vietnam, what about if you live in a glass house, why does he keep doing that? >> that's donald trump. neil, we've been with donald trump and experienced him as a president as he was first running. we've never experienced politics like when he very first ran back in the day with 16 people running against him in a primary and he took them out one by one by one by one by these personal attacks and that stuff. this is donald trump and who he is. we don't expect it from kamala harris and the democrats, but now it seems like they are starting with the personal attacks, i just don't think it works for them. neil: all right.

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>> all right. early voting results from the state of georgia looking pretty peachy right now. see what i did there, the peach state and record numbers and eclipsed what we saw during covid, of all things, four years ago. the secretary of state, there's a big reason for that, brad raffensperger will be coming up with us shortly and madison, i believe is in macon, georgia. hey, madison. >> hello, neil, from macon,

georgia. four million georgia voters cast their ballots in the early voting shattering records. 55% of active voters here in the peach state have already cast their ballot. we saw lines in multiple locations yesterday with people squeaking in just before the early voting deadline. we were in forsyth county where early voting turnout was over 68%, but today, we are here in bibb county and turnout was well below the statewide numbers. only 45% of voters turned out here early to vote a county where more than half the county is african-american, less than 40% of black voters voted early. we've been speaking to people on the ground and people who we spoke to who said they haven't voted yet plan to vote on tuesday. take a listen. >> a lot of people like myself are waiting until election day to place their vote and i think the numbers will raise up come

tuesday. >> i haven't voted yet, but i plan on voting on election day and plan on voting for donald trump. normally i vote democratically and due to my research i changed my mind, republican moving forward. >> so, both parties are making a run for those still on the sidelines. first lady, jill biden will be here in macon this afternoon and former president donald trump will be here tomorrow night, it's his first time in the area since last year. and despite bibb county's lower level of enthusiasm statewide, enthusiasm is very high and the state is on pace to see the highest record turnout ever for a presidential election come this tuesday, neil. neil: all right. madison, thank you very much. happy to bring this next fellow on with me, he was at the center of the last election, even though that was not something that he volunteered for, once again, in that role four years later. of course, i'm talking about brad raffensperger, the georgia

secretary of state. and he is trying to make the georgia game and i told him he should be focused on the clemson game. anyway, kids go to different schools. good to see you again. >> good to see you, not going to the florida-uga game. and we're focused on elections and even on a saturday. neil: there is that allegiance, so you would have time-- >> absolutely. neil: much later. >> yeah. neil: there you go. secretary, i want today get your take on some developments here because you had said of this, you know, apparent fake video of voter fraud spread by russia, by the very term fake that you don't believe it. but it's out there and there's this crowd that believes there's a-- some rigging going on here. can you update us on that what you make of this video, whatever it purports to show? >> i think you're referring to

the video that shows the haitian gentleman saying that he's been only here for six months and already has two driver's licenses and voted in two different counties. it's made up. we investigated very quickly, as soon as we saw it and two nights ago we got out there on x and said, this is fake. it's come from, you know, foreign sources. next day it was confirmed it was russia who had written this thing up, but none of it is supported by the facts. neil: you can go a lot of ways, georgia and the count, very close election four years ago. you had certified that not once, i believe at least twice that fair was fair, but of course, the trump folks at the time thought it was rigged. do you ever worry-- i know you try to keep the politics out of it, that if it's a close race in your state and donald trump were to lose, you could encounter that all over again? >> well, that's why over 20

months ago i did the first citizenship check of our voter rolls, making sure only american citizens were on the list and what we found about 1600 people who attempted to register, but did not get on the list, our system worked. i just finished up the last one in the summertime well above the 90-day blackout period and found 20 people that were noncitizens that were on the list, they were kicked off, but then that's a felony and we sent that to the local da's, and another 156, whether they're citizens or naturalized, we've done one-on-one conversations have they become americans yet. the end of the day we want people to have confidence that we have a clean list. we have a list for all voting. absentee in georgia, requires a driver's license number which requires you to your i.d., done in minnesota, nebraska, kansas for several years and shores up people's confidence not just relying on signature match because we've been sued by both the democrats and republicans. but then, in spite of all that,

we want to make sure that lines keep on moving, keep those lines shorter than an hour parti particularly on election day and put that in, all lines have to be shorter than one hour. neil: how are the voting, usually day of votes that come in first, and then those other votes. can you explain that process? >> yeah, we've changed that whole narrative, also. the early voting that we've seen and the absentee votes that come in up until saturday. that all has to be tabulated and that will happen on tuesday, the people will be sequestered and they will tabulate that and no later than one hour after the polls close that has to be uploaded. that's about 8 p.m. polls close at 7:00. 65 to 70% of the early voting that we have and then the other ballots, all of those votes that we got from absentee, those over four million ballots are uploaded and have that no later than 8 p.m. and now we

also have working with the counties, they have to do constant updates, every hour, every 45 minutes, we want to see uploads as they continue their work and finished their work. before the end of the night you'll have that done. the only thing we'll be waiting for is the overseas military ballots that come in on friday and any absentee ballots that come into the election office and they hand deliver on tuesday, election day. neil: but the first ballots or assessment we get after 7 p.m. when your polls close, those will be what? those will be the-- no, that's all the early vote that go we've just seen, the four million people already voted all of that is uploaded and you'll see that no later than 8 p.m. we think that's awesome. neil: okay. meanwhile, you have both sides have a lot of lawyers parked at hotels in and around atlanta, as they have been for some time. does that intimidate you? >> no. we fully expected that and

it's-- i'm glad to see that, you said they're both sides have the lawyers, so, you know, that will be a fair fight so they're both coming to fight and represent to make sure that everyone's following the law and that's what we are asking, follow the law, follow the confusion. constitution. and we don't believe in last minute changes. get out and vote, it's going to be record turnout. neil: it's amazing. secretary, thank you very much. brad raffensperger, the georgia secretary of state. so busy he can't follow the georgia bulldogs, why would he? why would he do that? we'll have more.

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>> all right. a lot of attention on the big supporters of the two main candidates for president of the

united states, and lately, it seems to have been a battle of the billionaires. mark cuban weighing in on this election saying some things he had to take back, whether donald trump avoids strong and powerful women. apparently donald trump does not. and elon musk who could play a big role, and hearing from his mom a few minutes ago in a potential trump administration. and weighing in on this, don, the former obama fundraiser and i talk about this, while you're a great fan of barack obama and his ability not only to raise money, but effectivelily reach out to diverse constituencies, kamala harris is not there. why do you say that? >> well, barack obama was an inspiring figure. he had a big penalty, very charismatic, super smart and very disciplined and he represented a dramatic change. harris represents more of the status quo. she is not charismatic.

she is not overly engaging and she can't stay on message. so you have a complete contrast. and also, we've seen what this administration can do over the last three years, seven, eight months. neil: you know, i'm wondering, you don't want to overinterpret stories or link them together, that's always dangerous, but a number of very popular democratic figures are under what i would call polling duress. kamala harris is in the thick of it, a race too close to call, i get that. gavin newsom's numbers have gone down in california and mayor eric adams in new york city, with scandals, and what is going on in the democratic party beneath the surface. >> the voters in the democratic cities have lost patients patience, and african-american men. take a look at the liberal baggion of government,

massachusetts, the average household, 215,000. 11,000 for african-american households, jobs and economic growth are not working, public safety, quality of life. all you have to do is look at the cities and what you see is a diminishing quality of life and we're back to the 1990's and the voters are losing patience across demographics, because people are americans and americans are losing patience with fearful of their safety and walking around their communities. neil: we've been reporting and you can elaborate on the wall street journal story out today, don, that shows the harris campaign zeroing in, like a laser, if you will, on female voters that she has a disproportionate edge over donald trump who enjoys the same with male voters. how do you see that sorting

out? >> one, i don't think that harris' edge is as strong as it says, they've made women uncomfortable saying they're not going to vote for her because she's the second nominee of the democratic party and second chance for president. and men are underpolling for donald trump, and they're lectured to by many in the democratic party not being receptive to women. i think the gap is wider on women and narrower on men. neil: you're a well-connected guy in financial circles and donald trump said today on fox and friends, if he were going to lose, there's going to be a depression. he similarly said if he were to lose, the markets would tank. whatever leanings that you have in this race, do you agree with that? >> no, what i like about donald

trump, his hyperbole, to emphasize and overemphasize, i think his economic policies would be considerably better than harris' economic policies. we don't know enough about harris' proposed economic policies. neil: that's what he was saying what he said, right? that's why he was saying what he said. the markets like what he is proposing even if they might not personally like him and would be very upset, paraphrasing here, if he didn't win. is that true? >> i think that the market would respond negatively if he lost. i think really-- look, if this is a race about policy he's going to win handsdown. if it's a race about personality, and likeable. i see a race that he's winning. neil: thank you, don peebles.

and in the meantime, we're update you on court challenges that seem to be bubbling up. some are big, some not so big, but they are getting attention after this.

>> all right. there are battle ground states and then there are those that are not considered battle grounds and had some of the eye raising going on on reports that donald trump plans to visit virginia today, depending on some of the polls out of

that state. and he is six to 10 points and a strategy that a lot of people say goes against the grain here, but you know, this is again not one of those battle ground states and occurs at a time when 1600 alleged noncitizens were removed from voter rolls in the supreme court defended that action, and madeleine rivera has more from washington. >> we're seeing the election fought not just on the campaign trail, but in the courts as well. republicans and democrats are celebrating victories. in a 6-3 ruling, the supreme court allowed virginia three days ago to remove about 1600 people from voter registration rolls. state officials say the aim is to stop non-citizens from voting. the justice department argued that purging ineligible voters happened too close to election day and violating the law.

and could potentially remove registered voters. and glenn youngkin says they can still vote. >> and we have the fail safe, you can same day register and cast a ballot. everyone a citizen in virginia can vote. that's a win for common sense, and a win for this. >> and provisions were to be counted after they were counted for errors after missing envelopes. and the democratic national committee chair says they're ready for any legal challenges that republicans may present. >> we have millions in the bank ready with lawyers all over the country that are ready in the battle ground states and even in the non-battle ground states to make sure that everybody can exercise their right to vote.

>> also happening in pennsylvania, the erie county board of elections is extending operating hours to make sure that voters who were approved for mail-in ballots didn't get a replacement, after they sued in bucks county. neil: thank you for that. my legal buddy, uc berkeley law, and to your credit when we were getting into the issue of whether the high court gets involved in a lot of campaign issues, it always comes with them kicking and screaming that it comes to that, but it's come to that and it's in one pennsylvania case and god knows, what do you see. >> a series of cases going on, michigan, wisconsin, where the courts are allowing the state to keep rfk on the ballot and

the virginia case, virginia is allowed to keep testing whether people on the voting rolls are citizens and the pennsylvania case, and i think we're going to see a lot more cases out of pennsylvania about provisional ballots versus mail-in ballots. this is why you're right, neil, once again about the role of the supreme court. in each of these cases they look like one favors trump, one might favor harris, but the basic principle throughout, the supreme court is trying to tell the courts stay out of it. let the states run the elections. that's what the constitution actually says, it stays the states run the elections, only subject to if congress wants to pass a law to override and create some kind of national rule on some issue. each of these cases look like they're helping one or the other candidate, what the court is trying to do, federal judges stay out of it, let the state governors, state government officials run the election and see whether we need to get involved after the vote. neil: so, what if you have a state where robert f. kennedy wants to take his name off the ballot and the state isn't

allowing him to do it. it does get bumped up to the supreme court under that situation, you're probably right, they would say the states rule on this, know the us. there's precedence where they could rule on that. and raised the question, if it tipped the election one way or the other in that state. they use just erase the votes of robert f. kennedy? how does it play out? >> i think to a justice, no matter republican or democratic appoi appointed, hoping that none of the elections in the states are close. maybe if rfk, jr. stays on the ballot, but michigan and wisconsin go for harris or trump out of the margin of error, i'm sorry, outside of rfk's vote, that it won't matter and you saw in the pennsylvania case yesterday that your reporter was talking about, three of conservative justices, thomas, gorsuch, alito here, there's an

important difference here, but doesn't make a difference and the courts are saying hopefully we won't need to be involved because the election isn't close. key spite the polling. if it made a difference as in georgia, arizona or pennsylvania, then the justices will have to do things they don't want to do like say, let's segregate and put to one side all the ballots we have questions about and we're going to look specifically at those. that's what justice alito did four years ago in pennsylvania when some people didn't sign their ballots properly or didn't put them in the secrecy envelope. pennsylvania is my home state, i don't know how so many people didn't sign their ballots. i'm sure if they were getting free phillies tickets they'd sign what they want. 10,000 people four years ago didn't sign the ballot. that's what the supreme court could do and then we'll see them have to make up some new law because they haven't decided to intervene decisively

in the ways that might be called upon them in these very tight elections. neil: yeah, phillies tickets would do nothing to me. a philly cheese steak, that would be a different story. [laughter] >> you mentioned the number in the state involved, deciding whether to keep or throw out 15, 1600 ballots in virginia is one thing. 1500 votes in a state like wisconsin or michigan could really move the needle and tip the scale. virginia maybe not so much. does the court weigh that sort of thing? >> yes, first of all, i'm very puzzled why the u.s. justice department brought that suit only talking 1800 ballots and these are people who said in their applications for driver's licenses they weren't citizens, and so it seems to me virginia legally shouldn't be allowing non-citizens to vote nevertheless, the justice department poured a lot of resources into that. 1800 voters out of i think, two

and a half million people voted in virginia. it's not going to make a difference there, but you're right, in a place like wisconsin, georgia, 11,000 votes made the difference four years ago. these kinds of ballots could matter and so what -- you're asking a tough question, neil, because this is all new territory. we don't know what the supreme court would do. just based on what they did in pennsylvania four years ago, keep the ballots separate and then take a closer look at them and maybe have to make new law. neil: wild stuff. john, thank you very much. i feel a feeling you'll have a busy week and i don't want to add months to that, but possibly. john yoo, former assistant attorney general in these united states. and mentioning that one or two of these issues, bill clinton is speaking on behalf of kamala harris later on. we are going to hear from joe biden. alexandria hoff is there with more. alexandria. ♪ >> hey, neil, good to be with you.

yeah, the people who president biden is campaigning for here in scranton today, they are miles away. not just the vice-president, but, likely senator bob casey is locked in a twice race of his own. both have distanced themselves in certain ways. we have more on that coming up. for your family? newday usa can help. veterans have earned a lot of va benefits with their service, but the va home loan benefit is a big one. by using your benefit at newday you can borrow up to 100% of your home's value and take out an average of $70,000. use that money to pay off high rate debt and get back on your feet financially.

>> all right. there are battle ground states and then there's pennsylvania. that is the focus of the kamala harris campaign, actually the trump campaign as well. i can't count the number of times each candidate has visited or even joe biden has visited, this time visiting there, leaving wilmington, delaware a little while ago as he makes his way to scranton, pennsylvania. there are 19 electoral votes there at stake. >> hi, neil, pennsylvania has been the most visited by both campaigns, and you're right

with the 19 electoral votes it's the most of any state. president biden is doing what he knows what to do is visit scanton as the vice-president and even senator bob casey locked in a tight race have distanced themselves in their own ways from the president. last night in philadelphia it was a white house event to tout his administration's work with organized labor. >> considered to be the most pro union president in american history and proud to be the first president to walk a picket line. [applause] >> kamala is proud to have walked the picket line as well. the other guy looks at picket lines to cross. but we always have your back. >> his working class push and campaigning in general is still in the shadow of the comment he made about trump supporters and garbage. he maintains he wasn't talking about all trump voters, just a comedian who made a disparaging comment about puerto rico.

we caught up with the bus tour and on board was representative hyde-smith and she says the gorge comment is echoing at it. >> when we made a stop three or four garbage trucks came by and honking the horn and turned around and looked at that. >> one choice and that happens to be my wife, kamala harris. >> as you saw there, second gentleman doug emhoff gave remarks at a phone bank in chester county and former first lady, michelle obama to hold a rally. and erie county, bucks county and the two most critical counties in the race. and will be spent there. neil: thank you. and also keeping an eye on north carolina, and they're tight as ticks.

and maybe less so virginia. and we'll learn more about what donald trump will say when he addresses the crowd in the next hour, and the unemployment report saying lost 30,000 private sector jobs alone and manufacturing jobs, they're trying to blame the hurricane for the jobs numbers, but it wasn't hurricane helene, it was hurricane kamala. more after this.

>> all right. looking live at north carolina right now, big battle ground state where donald trump is about to take the stage. we know a little about what he's going to be speaking about, but this would be a critical pickup for him if he were to succeed here.

and following it closely, enjoy having alex on. she's wicked smart. [laughter]. neil: we talk about the battle ground states and between the 70, 80 electoral votes and almost evenly split down the line. i can't imagine they stay evenly split right until the end, but maybe they do. >> yeah, the way i'm looking at how this split could go at the very end, since as you mentioned they're all largely a tossup, all seven of them, but i do think that the former president trump's trip to north carolina, he's really doubling down on winning that state. of course, that would be a huge loss for republicans and then we're seeing harris really double down on the blue wall which are where she's polling-- not the best. let's say they're tightest in the blue wall and former president trump has pulled slightly ahead in a state like arizona and nevada and as we know, if she can take pennsylvania, michigan,

wisconsin, she can get to 270, whereas if the president takes georgia or north carolina, then his path to victory after you know, picking up maybe one of the blue wall states is there for him as well. so, i think we're kind of seeing them targeting these places that they feel like they have the best chance in this weekend. neil: so why is donald trump going to be in virginia? >> right. well, that's a big question of, okay, so he is focusing on a state like north carolina, but then, you know, headed to virginia. i mean, the way i'm looking at it, one, he likes to be able to hold big rallies that he can bring a lot of people into virginia's a place that he's able to do that and just rally his base. show an exciting rally in a state he feels confident about and that republicans can feel confident about. and it's also a place that, you know, it's close enough to washington d.c. we saw kamala harris do her big speech at the ellipse.

maybe it has something to do with that and saw him in new mexico. some of the decisions i'm curious about, but he's able to fill a rally in a place like new mexico just like in virginia, just spread his message. neil: anywhere. >> anywhere and talk a lot about immigration in virginia, the state that has been in a focus with governor youngkin's voter rolls. neil: alex, we'll watch that. and a reminder we're back to tomorrow, because it's important to you, important to us. final push on special edition of your world. pete buttigieg will be joining us, billionaire ken fisher will be joining us and surprise guests. he cannot share that with you. and goes the extra mile to do things the right way.

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