it is now a toss-up between seth magaziner and allan fung.ays from election day, this was lean democrat, according to the power rankings, back to late august. as recent as late august, still lean democrat last september and early october things started to change. allan fung started gaining ground in the district, it became a toss-up, and where it is today october 18th. just to give you an idea of where this particular district is in rhode island, looking at these two candidates, and by the way, we'll have allan on in just a moment, the other candidate, seth magaziner we have invited on as well. here is house district 2, and just to give you the significance of this being a toss-up race, 18 days from election day. the counties, part of providence county falls in this district to show you historically just how blue things are. this was the 2020 presidential election results, joe biden won 61% of the vote there. washington county also falls in this district. biden won 58.9% of the votes, donald trump 39.4 and kent county, how solidly blue this a

average them together allan fung has a seven point lead in rhode island. plus 17. not even close when you look at the political composition here. and cost of living has shown up at 42% for the top concerns for those who live in rhode island district two. allan fung is going after that and put out this ad a few days ago. >> they discuss the next commercial on his energy plan. >> let's go ask the people. >> talk to me about the plan to use renewable energy. tell them about your plan to lower gas prices. >> tell them how your plan brings down our heating bills. >> dana: energy is one of the issues fung is focused on trying to flip the house seat. he joins us now. you have a durable lead. you have outspent your opponent by over a million dollars. you have some backing and some grassroots support but also the republican party thinks that you can win this race. what do you feel this morning? >> good morning, dana and bill. yes, we will win this race and we will make history and bring back a republican voice not just in rhode island but a republican voice in all

allan fung, chinese american, former mayor of cranston, the first asian-american mayor-elected in the state and very strong competitor against seth magaziner, and touting the city he led 12 years, and also a pragmatic moderate. >> missing new england republican in the house where we don't have a single republican up there right now, i want to be part of the contingent, a voice not just rhode island but all of new england across the aisle missing a while now. >> magaziner is pro choice, and he aimed to tie fung to conservative party leadership in d.c. >> he said he's going to vote for kevin mccarthy, even though he said he is going to put a national abortion ban into play in the house of representatives. >> surprising tightness of the race, it's gaining a lot of attention. a lot of outside money pouring in. nancy pelosi painting fung as a trump loyalist. and the other side of the aisle, kevin mccarthy, bashing magaziner. >> sandra: we are watching it, mollie line from rhode island. >> john: mercedes and kevin, he is a former biden campaign surrogate. republicans are doing exceedingly w

the most recent poll shows republican allan fung is up by eight points over democrat seth and they faced last night. >> my whole career i have been fighting for people in the state. he spent his career siding with the deep-pocketed donors with the campaign commercials. >> just like president biden, he is out of touch with the realities. we need to cut spending with and it don't make drive these prices down and that's what i'm about. >> carley: joining me in republican rhode island allan fung. allen, good morning to you, sir, how are you feeling after the debate last night? >> feeling great, thank you for having me on, 21 more days and excited, you heard the battle going on last night. and we really took it to him. we will set a record to make sure we take back the seat the first time and 32 plus years and the republicans will be sitting in the second congressional district. we are going to take it to those democrats. >> carley: it is pretty incredible. the district has been held for democrats over 30 years. but is looking like you can flip that seat read to. how are you doing what you ar

joining us now is republican congressional candidate for rhode island's second district, allan fung.ere. you're running against a democrat representative, seth magaziner. it is large ally democrat voters. how do you think your standing is right now? what can you tell us about the race? >> good morning, maria. very excited to be on today and in 14 days we are going to take back this seat and first time in 32 years but it's going to be the rebirth of that new england republican. we don't have a single seat in the house right now and in 14 days we are going to lead this rebirth right here in little rhode island. the epicenter of where we're going to start the red wave across the country. it's critically important. our campaign is out there, listening to people, listening to the sad stories, how they're worried about how they're going to feed their families, how they're going to heat their homes because of the failed policies of our current president and the failed policies that's being doubled down by speaker nancy pelosi and this congress. we've got plans to rein in spending and that's

right now that are now surprisingly toss-ups, like the rhode island second district we just had allan fung a few minutes ago saying he's been able to make that race a toss-up, ok, and a district that has not gone to a republican in 30 years by what? focusing on energy and inflation. it's that simple. >> right. and i'll just expand the conversation a little bit. in oregon, you have a republican leading the governor's race, has not done that in about 40 years. i saw a poll coming in here from, in new york the governor's race, zeldin is within striking distance, up one or down one. he was down by 24 a month ago. taxes are high, number one state to exit from is new york by 15%, 7% over california, people think i might be a democrat or independent but i have to try something different. >> sandra: i have to ask you about this, ok. i'm kind of springing this on you, but we have been watching the developments with pfizer, obviously the cdc unanimously voted 15 of them voted to now say that even though it's still an emergency authorization, the covid vaccine for 12 and under, but this can now be co

allan fung, we'll be watching. thank you so much, sir. the next hour of "mornings with maria" begins right now with breaking news from jetblue, right to cheryl casone with we go. cheryl: the story for earnings per share, maria, it's actually a miss. the stock is getting a slight tick to the upside, not by much, 0.8%. 21-cents on earnings per share. the estimate was 23-cents. revenue came in line, 2.56 billion, but it's really the capacity story that we look at with airlines like jetblue, basically saying passenger miles actually were a lot stronger in the third quarter and as far as load factors, 86.1% versus 79.9% a year ago. so load factors are stronger, passenger miles are higher. and they're also saying they expect fourth quarter capacity, this is the holidays we're going to be talking about, folks, is going to be up 1%. anywhere from 1% to 4% over a year to year basis. so they're saying also they're looking for record revenue for the entire year for 2022. but again, the third quarter for jetblue slight miss on earnings per share comi