it's been 20 years since new york had a republican governor with george pataki, the former governor is here to tell us why new york will go read it again. first the october jobs report shows economy added more jobs last month than expected. the unemployment is higher in wage growth is far from keeping up with the pace of inflation. inflation in the economy remain the number one issue for voters ahead of tuesday's midterm elections. days to go, president biden pivoted away from his attacks on republicans to try to sell what he says is a strong economy. >> economic growth is up, price inflation is down. we'll encompass up, gas prices are down. >> try to be no former white house deputy chief of staff and fox news contributor karl rove. thank you for being here first of all. we saw wall street journal poll that showed 71% of americans think were on the wrong track, particularly on the economy that's really the court of the election. >> at another pull 49% of the people said the economy is bad and only 14% said it was excellent or good. so yes the economy is a centerpiece with president bid

pataki sees the same scenario for zelenskyy on tuesday.ng island congressman has been closing the gap against kathy hochul with the slash issues propelling the republican back to the state house now in play. jamie weinstein is here, jmw strategies, jamie, during that rally the governor was saying that the commentators in the night he was elected were choking on their microphones. look, zeldin was 26 points back. 26 in august and he's apparently closed the gap. what's going on here? what is resonating so much it seems with new york voters? >> look, it would probably be one of the big shocks if not the big shock of the night even on a good republican night if lee zeldin actually pulls this out as it looks like he has a real chance to do and becomes governor of new york. and i think what we are seeing here is, you know, pataki was making a parallel to when he was elected in 1994 but i see a lot of parallels between zeldin's campaign and youngkin's campaign last year in virginia where they are running against kind of democratic opponents that

pataki thank you for joining us, happy thanksgiving. >> thank you.osely followed media story of all-times, elon musk's wild takeover of twitter, but with

my next guest george pataki, not only once, twice, thrice. three terms of republican governor in the blue evident of blue states. back in those days it was even bluer. governor, i distinctly remember that race, covering it at the time. no one gave you a serious chance. earlier on you were trailing mario cuomo who was trying to make it a three-peat. very close to election day he was still up by double digits. you pulled it off, i'm wondering you seem to be the only guy who thought you could. are we missing -- the polls did not appreciate the magnitude whats going on. do you think the same thing is happening now? >> absolutely. i think the polls are way out of line. i'm out there talking to people. as you said, when i won the first term i honestly thought i was going to win. i would be at train stations, grocery stores, standing out front talking to people. i understood the desire to change things. you see that now in new york. not just republicans and independents, democrats overwhelmingly think the state is headed in the wrong direction. when

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george pataki joins us now. he left office 15 years ago. good to see you. >> always good being with you. >> martha: in the days before your race in 1994 against mario cuomo, we see zeldin is a couple points apart. how far were you and cuomo? >> every poll had me losing. there was a poll the sunday before the election, a credible poll. had me losing by 14. when the reporter asked me about the poll, he's apologized. he liked me. he goes i hate to say this but our polls show you losing by 14 points. they were way off. the pollses are so close, anything can happen now. >> martha: so you know this state well. what is your get telling you about whether or not he can get an upset here? >> he can definitely pull off an upset. the big issue is crime. you have to get enough votes out of new york city. you talk to people in the neighborhoods, they don't care about party. they care about being safe. right now new york is failing to keep them safe. that's a direct consequence of the failures of albany. so zeldin is focused on crime. it gives him a credible chance. >> ma

they run up a huge lead in he doesn't have the same political playbook that george pataki did.been tone deaf when it comes to talking about crime and understanding this is a big issue. >> neil: let's look at the race and the aggregate across the country. not only governorships like this but you sense of the senate and the house. i like to pick your brain on where you see momentum. i talked to lee carter a year ago and governor murphy in new jersey seemed to have an insurmountable lead. i wonder if that 15, 20 point lead that he had had more republican potential voters known that it was a horse race and that he would ultimately win by a couple points, many more would have voted. we don't know. your thoughts now. >> look, pennsylvania, georgia and nevada, those are the -- all of these senate battlegrounds are very close. the mood seems to be favoring republicans. you tend to see the late-breaking voters that decide at the last minute, they go against the party in power. the mood is favoring republicans right now. you have lots of money powelling into the battle grounds and they'r

zeldin will change that. >> former new york governor george pataki. i know the hochul side of things, sharply disagrees with some of the things were saying there, but always appreciate your time. thanks very much for joining us. coming up, elon musk lays off thousands of twitter employees, including those who fight misinformation right before the critical midterm election and now, twitter's founder is issuing an apopology. we will tell you all about that cocoming up. mercedes-benz certified pre-owned. translation: the mercedes of your dreams is closer than you think. (driver) conventional thinking would say verizon has the largest and fastest 5g network. but, they don't. they only cover select cits with 5g. d with coverage of over 96% of interstate highway miles, they've got us covered. - [female narrator] they line up by the thousands. each one with a story that breaks your heart. like ravette... every step, brought her pain. their only hope: mercy ships. the largest floating civilian hospital in the world. bringing free surgeries to people who have

. >> it happened be before in 1994 with pataki. there is a blue state.the fact that hochul had a super pac ride to her rescue funded by millions from labor unions and democrats are in meltdown about this race, says it real. martha: i spoke with pataki the other day, i said where you were in polls before, he said i was down by double digits. it goes to -- about whether polls will be real. >> we have a thing in blue states, where they say enough is enough, we live in maryland or massachusetts -- we live in new york let's have a republican governor to bring adu adult supervision. bret: ron desantis won in a tight race in florida, this time he looks to be separating himself from charlie crist, something former president said raised eye brows. >> we have the best poll numbers, where are they, we're winning big in republican party. let's see there it is trump at 71. ron desantis at 10%. >> what about that? >> i think in the focused on 2024. i guess tuesday at mid tied midnight we have to be. to 2018, kemp and ron desantis has been effective governors doing a g

. >> todd: he can do that, he wins it. >> brian: that is what pataki did. >> todd: get to your book,le in paperback, talked when it was in hard cover. quickly, a student of history, what did you learn while researching this book? >> brian: i learned what life was like as a slave, he wrote the book. the thing that made me feel as though this account be done if frederick douglas wrote a biography after escaping freedom and kept building on it. i can wipe out rhetoric and appearance and talk about race in america from perspectiff of a man that was a slave, escaped to freedom, and he would go to -- there are statues of him in ireland and england and germany, he came back to make america better and if you see these two self-made men, lincoln and douglas, come together at the right time, right people at the right time to bring a country fractured back together, unbelievable and inspirational and the message that douglas had when african americans became free in his lifetime, he said, now the work starts, show everyone you are worthy of this freedom. start doing it, the same word from linco

hochul and put lee zeldin in place first time seeing is a republican running new york since george pataki. dagen: i was on west side hudson river in the park there, right near where that woman -- that tourist was raped last week a big emblem when they open park said governor jornl pataki mayor mike bloomberg i thought good old days weren't they? if more democrats spent time in diners talking to very people that brian brenberg talked to they might not be in the position where they are about to get their asses, handed to them by voters but, again, hobnobbing with clintons out of touch with people since 09 pods, joe liz and mark, the next hour of "mornings with maria" begins. maria: good tuesday morning, thanks very much for joining us this morning, i am maria bartiromo. it is tuesday, november 8, top stories right now 8:01 east coast, election day, voters are lining up polling centers across the country, congressional and gubernatorial races hire house of representatives, about a third of the u.s. senate, and 36 governors races across the country on today's ballot joining me this morning al

i talked to george pataki. he was elected in 1994 when the polls showed he was going to lose to mario cuomo. we know what happened. that was a year of big gains anyway for republicans. is there anything like that, a wave that you see going on? >> yeah, it's good to have cautionary notes. all questions about methodology. these are important in many conferences that will numb your mind kind of going through the data on that. i think we've done a good job addressing some things. some still persist. what you put your finger on, polls are a snapshot. it's not a cya statement that we make. when you get a mid-term election and macrotrends like the economy, like inflation a lot of undecided voters in pennsylvania, those fundamentals kick in and you don't pick them up till it's too late. >> neil: it's too late if they have already voted. 20 million have already done so. they're not seeing a fetterman performance in the debate or they're not seeing herschel walker surge or whatever is going on. >> right. >> neil: so for

george pataki toppled mario cuomo. serve two terms but eventually ran and won a third. after that third term, which ended in 2006, no would be republican governor has come within 14 points of a democratic. not even close. but is that going to change this year? recent polls show republican congressman lee zeldin, who did not certify the vote in 2020, is within striking distance of incumbent democrat, kathy hochul. joining me now is new york governor hochul. governor, thank you very much for joining us. i want to start with that question. why is zeldin within single digits? >> well, the year that i've been a governor, we've had enormous challenges but we've met every one of them. i'm really proud of what we've done to get illegal guns off the streets and invest a record amount of money in housing and healthcare and education. so we have a real record to run on. but here's what he's running on. as are republicans across the country. he's working to keep people scared where as i and other democrats are working to keep peop

former governor george pataki was spot on drawing parallels between his rate in the 90s where crime was kept the pressure on governor hochul went on the west side of manhattan, a jogger was attacked yesterday morning and had this. >> we don't want to be told this is just perception, nothing to see here, just look away. with regards to the crime we are hearing about, what happened yesterday, this was nothing about guns. kathy hochul does not want to be here talking about these issues. she wants to send her supporters to make sure we aren't talking about fighting crime. >> reporter: protesters heckling zeldin. hochul is joined by clinton admits there is a crime problem facing new yorker but accuses zeldin of using as a scare tactic. when asked if hochul would repeal the bail reform law, she had this to say. >> always want to look at it again but data is not showing that is the cause of this. that doesn't matter. someone working in the trenches, rolling up sleeves and getting the job done and not just running around the state saying, repeal the bail law and crime will disappear. people are

have not had republican governor in the empire state of new york for 20 years, the last one georgia patakik on fox news saying he believes that we could be headed for a zeldin victory because the issues are the same, because crime is top of voters' mind and that's why you saw lee zeldin reporting on west side where a jogger was attacked an raped before dawn. that race is going to be very close. it's fascinating we are talking about it because literally this summer it was a 15 to 20-point thread, we will see where that goes, but that, of course, is not the only one we are watching. also you have to go out to michigan between gretchen whitmer and dixon. whitmer still ahead where could be where white suburban women playing a role. you can see in detroit, grand rapids, blue areas where we will see women voters and governor's race will make a difference. i want to go back to the map, though, and take you out to the one that's getting the most attention right now and that is between katie hobbk and carrie lake, lake pulling ahead. going to be very fascinating again as we point out in the last el

pataki thank you for joining us, happy thanksgiving. >> thank you. elizabeth: i am. >> it might be most closely followed media story of all-times, elon musk's wild takeover of twitter, but with former president trump potential return the laters are having a meltdown, will elon get the last laugh, i'm tom shillue if for kennedy. you may have noticed that twitter has been in turmoil, this month, musk purchased is for 34 billion and laid off roughly half of the company's 7500 employee, last week ehe issued an ultimatum to his remaining staff, work hardero get lost, many quickly quit, there were room o rumors that the platform could collapse. over the weekend elon held an on-line vote to whether to reinstate trump's account, trump won but so far the former presidents has been coy about getting rejoining. >> a big vote to go back on twitter, i don't see it. socialist taking a place for a lot of people,. >> regardless of whether he does or not, the mere prospect sent liberals to over drive. >> i think it say terrible mistake. >> the danger that is presente

governor, closer in terms that he got more votes than anybody in about 50 years, even more than george patakijob. it was just too hard, you know, abortion also was something that i think kathy hochul managed to utilize and they brought in the big guns. new york should have been safe. they had to bring in the clintons, barack obama, joe biden. it was really a desperate attempt at the end to save the furniture and they manage today managed to doit and he's being n against kathy hochul in 2026 but there's just a feeling that he would be better utilized earlier before 2024. maria: do you think he wants the job of the speaker of the house? >> look, i talked to him, he's very coy about that. he's not going to openly challenge kevin mccarthy who is a very power man, but he -- he just -- i know he's being approached by a number of people. maria: yeah. >> to do that job. maria: really interesting. >> he talks about the other jobs. yeah. maria: miranda, let me switch gears and ask you about the ftx issue. maxine watter dodged a question about ftx and all the money that the founder and ceo has given to

>> two decades ago george pataki.g about this race, a year ago, think of a state you know well, new jersey, right, phil murphy, jack, 7.8% gap between the two so the democrat phil murphy actually 2.8%. and jack nearly pulled off a victory there. >> steve: don't trust the polls. >> don't trust the polls because under estimate the senate by five points and senate six points. it has been both parties underestimate about 16-20, republicans were an estimated. >> steve: is that nefarious? >> i don't think nefarious the last eight years including my vote and republicans on the posters i don't want to be a part of this. >> ainsley: there are a lot of people, emily and if you are a conservative or a democrat and you are going to vote for lee zeldin, you have to keep your mouth shut because if you do come if you tell them you are voting for republican, everyone at the table even with your best friend start a huge argument and you have all these major discussions. some people will keep their mouth shut, go to the polls. i'm not

new york, it is tough, republican governor has in one sense pataki, it's going to be a tough state toly going to be the one that came the closest. >> i'm not sure sean patrick maloney base, the democrat versus michael lawler has been called yet but mr. let them eat chef boyardee when asked how do people tackle inflation and his answer was while you run out of money at the end of the week like my family used to happen and you happen to eat chef boyardee. based on 95% voting he is trailing his republican. >> oh spaghettios. a quick break fox news is projecting a john fetterman victory in the pennsylvania race. we have a lot from the keystone state when we come back. stay with us. ♪ this... is the planning effect. this is how it feels to know you have a wealth plan that covers everything that's important to you. this is what it's like to have a dedicated fidelity advisor looking at your full financial picture. making sure you have the right balance of risk and reward. and helping you plan for future generations. this is "the planning effect" from fidelity. vo: it's a new day. because cov

a republican governor was elected, pataki beat cuomo know in 94 and we haven't seen a republican governorhen. >> brian: republican congresswoman in staten island are tough fight to get another two years there. >> here is nicole mall talks. >> i would say crime is probably the top issue right now. we have a governor who refuses to fix the laws what they are reading with every day. what they are seeing with their own eyes is not real. that's what she is telling them i know the people on staten island are fired up to vote for him. i know the people on long island where lee zeldin currently represents is also fired up. so we just need to make sure that people get out to vote. i talk to democrats, independents and republicans they see there is a desperate need for balance at the state level and federal level. >> it all comes down to motivation. who can motivate their side to get out and vote? and right now if you are angry with the situation on the border and crime, and fiscal responsibility, you are motivated to vote the people out who will currently are in charge. >> ainsley: inflation and c

eastern tonight was special guest karl rove, george pataki, he has a lot to say about the race here in new york and manson money ceo mark matson. we hope you can tune in for, that doesn't for us on "fox business tonight" that week, election week of the year, all week on "fox business tonight" "the evening edit" start right now. >> sprint to the finish, four days left until the midterms, it's a dead heat in some battles that could decide party control in the dreaded elon musk e-mail that 3700 twitter employees received today as he fires half of his staff and hits out woke activist for driving away advertisers. plus the fbi is broken gop jobs a 1000 page report saying the bureau is rotten at its core manipulated stats for political purposes and deliberately downplayed hunter biden allegations. i am jackie deangelis and for elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" start right now. >> good evening and welcome everybody. we began with their money stocks have a four-day losing streak in the nasdaq the worst week since january. the u.s. labor department announcing employers added 261,000 nonfa

meantime, george pataki still is the last republican governor of new york.g aggressively on behalf of lee zeldin that came up close within four or five points, which is unthinking in this blue of blue states. governor, good to have you. however close that race was, some are saying there were some other benefits that didn't immediately pop up like finding out that nearly half a dozen blue congressional seats flipped red. what do you think? >> you know, that's right. the fact that zeldin came so close allowed us to win a lot of close congressional races. we'll have probably four more republicans in the house come january 1 than we do right now. as you look at the narrowness of the likely republican majority in the house, the fact that we did so well in new york really was important for the country. >> neil: so the issues that he championed and much like you when you ran for the first time in 1994, that was a signature year, the year that republicans stormed lu the house and the senate and you got elected against mario cuomo, that this was not that year. what d

by the way, this was the same year that a fellow named george pataki got elected in the bluest of bluetates in new york. there was something in the water in 1994. in case you're waiting a biden-like statement or clinton-like statement from joe biden the day after, we might wait a while. we're getting indications none is planned for the time-being but edward lawrence at the white house with more. edward. reporter: you saw former president bill clinton speaking. he took questions after the statement he made there. that is something the white house is now refusing to confirm that president biden will do. the usual postelection news conference where the president takes questions. he is saying there will be remarks, white house press secretary remarks, but not confirming a news conference. last night that is where president joe biden was in the blue state of maryland, very blue state, making his last minute push. he campaigned for wes moore who is expected to win by 30 points. the president avoided other close races. his message has been the same in the closing weeks, that democracy are at

former new york governor george pataki told cnn the outsized attention that trump's potential 2024 run is drawing has been unhelpful to republican candidates in blue states like zeldin. here it is. >> it's classic trump that it has to be about him. it's not about him. it's about the future of our states, the future of america. and i just cringe when he does whatever he can to get publicity going forward. that's not the point here. it's not about trump. it's about new york. >> first lady jill biden has also been stumping in swing states ahead of the midterms. on saturday, she held a rally in arizona for democratic candidate senator mark kelly. listen to this. >> what you're going today matters, because this race is going to be close. and the only way we can win is by voting. so put voting at the top of your to-do list! >> now, in many states, the first lady is more popular than her husband. and she's using that popularity to get out the vote for democrats. cnn's kate bennett reports. >> first lady jill biden, one of the big names on the campaign trail in the run-up to midterm elections

billionaire, moreover, the winner receives not only money, but also life in the picture as well elsa patakyly discussing this. including russell crowe, so i'm talking about the fact that at one time he was my favorite actor, but something with age. that's with a man who is like a school. yes, and they are talking about silver fox, that is, they are like, uh, silver, foxes only get better over the years, what can you say? unfortunately about russell. well, somehow today you are right here discussing this world of celebrity right here, not indifferent feels. yeah, it's actually great movie world and uh, sunday tickets to the cinema will be a little smaller because they won't go there. ah, football fans. why ask you yes, you don’t know, on november 20, the world cup begins in the frame. yes indeed, there is a lot of innovation intrigue in this world cup. but there is one more event that is expected no less than him, of course, the new year. well, more about him. more precisely about him in the usa , they have already chosen the main christmas tree there, which will decorate the blue living roo

people forget that new york had a republican governor not that long ago and although george pataki -- not much in common, there are similar dna to the two of them. as you've seen these polls get tighter and tighter, there's definitely a lot of panic on democrats about what happens with hochul. >> eddie, one thing that is maddening, i think, to democratic candidates -- like new york city, they'll say if you look at the date, less people are being pushed in front of subway cars now than last year. >> oh, my god. >> they will. i've heard this argument. where those incidents have gone down year over year. and yet if you're watching, you know -- i saw wabc, a guy just running across pushing an elderly gentleman in front of -- down into the train track. and it's sort of like you need to push back on what people are seeing and saying we're going to make the subways safer, but people getting pushed in front of the subway, lower this year than last year. i don't know that that's a strong closing argument that you want to make. >> well, i don't think it's a strong closing argument as well, but

george pataki. twenty two is the last time new york had a republican governor .i'd also keep an eye down here on georgia yet again. you have two great races. does brian kemp get above 50%? does he defeat abrams for the second time in four years? that's something we're watching also. and come back to florida as we conclude this show on ron. the santos is running a good campaign, coming off the hurricane and run against charlie crist, a former republican who was a republican as he was governor in the state of florida. watch the margin on the outcome of this race. they'll tell us a lot about this election next tuesday. and might tell us a lot also about the next election. in twenty four . >> john , back to you. all right, bill hemmer, great analysis. >> it's the hammer board. he can't do it like he can. nobody like he can have a go anyway. bill hemmer, you have a great weekend. all right. joining us now, former speaker of the house fox news contributor newt gingrich. you have been steadfast in terms of predicting that this this environment that republicans are now r

george pataki came out of nowhere and won. right now people are talking about the possibility of that happening in new york state. new york reverse waking up this morning to a "new york post" headline talking about a mother who was shot in front of her child from a guy who can -- a multiple offender that was released. it's an issue in new york state. it's an issue in new york city. i don't know if that is quite going to -- we'll see. we'll see if there's going to be a shock in that race. i still think hoch will probably wins that one. but there are other races out there, aren't there, that people are going to wake up the next morning and go, wow, i can't believe that person lost. >> yeah, look, the one from '94 i always remember. you'll remember the congressman from washington state, who was the speaker of the house. and no one thought -- no one was even paying attention to that race, and they woke up. it's washington state. the media doesn't cover these races out on the far pacific coast. all of a sudden, tom foley swept away

he was hoping he'd have a 1994 george pataki surprising.nd new yorkers rejected it but only rejected by single digits and that should concern the democratic party moving forward, just because if they get another candidate with a little more time, a little more experience, and can have a multifaceted vision that's not singular as far as crime, then they could have a victory some point down the line. >> fernand, ayman, here, quick question for you, there's concern that the narrative that had been discussed among latino voters was becoming a self-fulfilling prophesy. do you feel after tonight, democrats should wake up to concerns out there, that they're losing big swaths of latino voters to the democratic -- to the gop, excuse me? >> oh, i think tonight's result, as we get more data coming in made it clear. the democrats do not have a problem with hispanic voters with the exception of my home state of florida which is a different dynamic. florida is all different with the case of hispanic voters. overall, naturally, even with the state of texa

george pataki defeating mario cuomo, that republican wins that competitive in the new york race.because we're talking about races, where in the margin of error, and then races where people are ahead by seven points, with the could be out. >> and let's keep in mind, in new york state democrats have a 2 to 1 majority voter registration, and new york city alone a 7 to 1 majority. that's widely zeldin coming within striking distance is so incredible. >> i think it's important to talk about the stakes of these gubernatorial races, effect we are talking about folks they will have the ability to certify elections, the fact we are talking him in many cases about stuffed it because of the overturning, a lot of the decisions are now being made at state levels. governors are either fighting the line of defense, or the one office that were completed. >> here's a counter to that argument. we talked to someone who says the dogs may prevail over fetterman in pennsylvania. they talk about that. exit josh shapiro, the democratic attorney general is looking likely to prevail over mastriano. why? w

zeldin, in a state that there hasn't been a democratic -- a republican governor since 2006 with george patakiht. >> to go back quickly and did it at the right time, chris, right at the end of the campaign, to go back to your point about the extremism here, i think it also underscores the people engaged in our political system are the people that are on the most extremes. there are a lot of people who don't vote who don't show up and they are the people that are just turned off by the entire thing and what you're left with is the most extreme on both sides. >> this election night really gets going soon with the first big round of poll closings and results, that includes battleground georgia. we'll go there live next. stay with us. you take the lead on this. you're less intimidating. you don't find me intimidating? no. it's a height thing. hi. -hi. we're from the new york times, i believe you use to worked for harvey wienstein. we have decades of accusations of assault. are you sure this isn't just women who want to sleep with a movie producer to get ahead. wienstein's on his way here. let him