paul bunion so study up and you would know what bemidji means. get to the people because that's the reason we are here at the countryside restaurant in bottom midgey. jason, otto, matt and patrick here. jason, you are in manufacturing. >> yes, sir. talk to me about the environment you have seen the last couple years. >> since trump has been elected the phone has been ringing off the hook. everything is going great as far as manufacturing is concerned. we like the idea that trump is bringing jobs back to the united states. and we have seen a lot of new businesses starting up because of it. covid has given us a little bit of a cramp in the manufacturing, but it just exposed even more that manufacturing overseas is difficult and takes a lot of time to receive those parts and components. we need to bring more jobs back to the homeland and i think another four years will really do the trick. pete: real quick, otto, we have a big pick coming up for the president, supreme court pick. probably coming up on saturday. what would you like to seat president

you look like at bemidji, minnesota where people have arrived.n about are they wearing masks, are they not. when he goes different places, he packs the outside spaces and some inside spaces. the trump campaign is seeing movement, but are they seeing enough as they look at the battleground states. >> no, not enough. i think the democrats are really doing a good job of targeting the president on coronavirus, which is the weakest part of his campaign platform. it may be what causes him to lose, if he does lose. i'm not convinced he will lose in november. i think democrats have done an effective job -- i'm not saying they've done a truthful job but effective at claiming the president is responsible for all of the coronavirus deaths if -- most if not all of them. the vice president said he's responsible for all of the deaths. most democrats say that's not the case. he should have acted sooner and more strongly to defeat the virus and taken it seriously. so democrats have done a good job with that. that is a big problem for him. in the key battleground

president trump will be in bemidji, biden in duluth. >> thanks a lot, laura. >>> so fbi director christopher wray told lawmakers russia is still out to disrupt this year's election. >> we certainly have seen very active, very active efforts by the russians to influence our election in 2020 through what i would call more than maligned foreign influence side of things. social media, use of proxies, state media, online journals, et cetera. >> wray appeared before the house homeland security committee yesterday. he said russia's main goal is to denigrate democratic presidential nominee joe biden. wray's remarks come as president trump ramps up the theory china is interfering in the election to get biden in office while downplaying well-founded reports russia is trying to help him get re-elected. >>> so what's left of hurricane sally is still dumping heavy rain in the south, and this morning we're getting a better look at all the damage. newly released satellite images show the before and after pictures from areas in alabama. sally hit as a category two on wednesday, battering alabama and the flo

that event taking place tonight at an airport in the town of bemidji.you're like me and you might be wondering, where is this place. it is let's say, and a remote location some four hours driving time directive minneapolis kevin two hours from north dakota and if you're so inclined to try, northern to say canada. it's about four and half hours south of winnipeg. minnesota is the 18th state that the president has visited since just the first of august. and joe biden, will he's lagging a bit. there he is about a three - one margin. biden is ventured out of o his basement from minneapolis himself today. and president trump's visit to minnesota comes as the toll numbers are hitting a record high for the year. president trump approval rating reaches 53 percent and four points higher if you're wondering and barack obama at the very same point in his presidential reelection campaign. if you are wondering about that as well, being somewhat short of president trump's approval rating, obama went on to win reelection. perhaps that is some sort of indicator perhaps

we can expect the president will go after joe biden tonight in bemidji, a law and order issue, on outsourcingobs, the president has charged the obama-biden administration did to china and other places, the president will pledge he is the one that can bring these back. the president looking to improve his margin in the hispanic communities, about 300,000 hispanics in the state of minnesota. earlier today, the white house and fema announced the single biggest emergency relief grant ever put out there to the island nation of puerto rico, $11.6 billion to rebuild the power, infrastructure as well as improvements to education on the third anniversary of hurricane maria slamming puerto rico. winds literally destroying the island, certainly destroying the electrical grid there, politicians in puerto rico very happy to have this money but some question about the timing, what the president is doing when we are within 50 days of the election. >> the mask matches the tide. we are on standing from the briefing room, the state has not voted for a republican since going back to nixon in 1972. today trump a

> sean, it is interesting to note that the president was about ten minutes in the speech there in bemidjiminnesota up there in the iron range when news of ruth bader ginsberg death came. so the president does probably not yet know what has happened. just moments ago, just as part of his standardoe speech, the president started talking about the issue of the supreme court in terms of the election. saying that he will nominate justices and judges that interpret the constitution as written. says the supreme court is so important the next president will get maybe up to four justices that will be appointed for a long, long time. so the president now has a decision to make. does he as president obama did in 2016 after antonin scalia's passing nominate someone to succeed ruth bader ginsberg or does he hold back? the betting is that the problem will probably make a nomination sometime in the not too distant future because obviously tonigt is a night to pay tribute to the legacy of ruth bader ginsberg a giant on the supreme court. but then will begin the process of replacing her. as you pointed ou

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moments away from president trump arriving in bemidji minnesota, this crowd gathering as i pointed out, a pretty good sized crowd at the airport, he should be landing shortly. vice president joe biden was in duluth, minnesota, today, this was his first trip to the status since 2017. the president has been there four times since taking office, biden went to duluth in the iron range area of minnesota, that is a region that hillary clinton won in 2016. here's what he had to say this afternoon. >> how many people across the iron range -- how many empty chairs? because of his negligence and selfishness. how many lies and lives lost? >> martha: in fact, no republican has won minnesota since 1972. president trump worked hard to win them over, opening up mining projects that were banned by president obama in the area and giving aid at the farmers strapped. now he sees a big turnout in the world boat and he has secured the support of nine democrat mayors in the iron range area. you see air force one landing on the tarmac there. in the suburbs in 2018, there were two trump districts that turned

i'm in bemidji, one of the classic obama/trump counties had been blue but where the president made inroads it looks at all of the state outside of the city of minneapolis and sees a place that looks more like iowa. a place where they performed well in 2016 than it does look like a lot of the big midwestern ones you're seeing ten electoral votes, perhaps enough to offset weaknesses in arizona, other spots on the map that's why they feel they can go on offense here today. try to put joe biden on his back foot in a place that democrats are counting on as part of their coalition to get to 270 electoral votes. >> michael, joe biden said yesterday that his campaign is scranton versus park avenue. why is he going with this divide and conquer approach that's trump's thing what about a message for all americans? i don't live on park avenue, but i live pretty close to it. you know how i got there working my butt off. he doesn't want my vote? >> well, stephanie, joe biden has always bristled at being labeled a populist but that kind of rhetoric sounds populist. you did see the former vice president i

we're here at the countryside restaurant in bemidji, minnesota, this is a big swing state.hink almost everyone here this morning has acknowledged that election day probably won't provide a call for either side, and the big fear, the worry, the anxiety you've been talking about, the uncertainty is how long are the ballots counted, how much is it disputed, how long are the lawyers involved. and that's why i've asked diner after diner this morning, they felt it was imperative that the president nominate someone as soon as possible, get el them confirmed before -- get them confirmed before the election so you don't have a 4-4 court that could possibly continue the uncertainty beyond the disputed election outcome. at least seat someone so you've got a 5-4 decision one way or the other, especially with the little bit of the flakiness of justice roberts lately. you don't want to have that 4-4 split if anxiety continues with a contested election. it's almost baked in, stuart. there's a recognition election night won't be the same. stuart: there were more protests last night, two of

president trump will be 140 miles away in bemidji for a campaign rally tonight. last night both of the candidates going at each other over law and order as well as the coronavirus. the president reaching out to blue collars workers in mosinee, wisconsin, reminding them of his efforts to bring back american jobs, he says the obama administration shipped overseas. listen here. >> president trump: joe biden devoted his entire career to offshoring wisconsin jobs, throwing open your borders, dragging us into endless ridiculous foreign wars and surrendering your children's future to china. >> at a town last night in pennsylvania, biden scorching the president on his response to coronavirus. biden saying he has never seen such a quote irresponsible administration. also again saying that he will do everything he can to insure that people wear masks to combat coronavirus including fining people who don't wear masks on federal property. >> i would like to see the governors enforce mask wearing. i can do it on federal president. we could have a fine for them not doing it. t