Marisa lagos, and joining from San Franciscos kqed politics and government reporter, guy maserati. Thank you for joining us tonight. Guy, President Trump proved last night th he can displa restraint and offer more of a coherent licy message. It likely to increase votes in his favor late in the game with a week left until econ day . I think the answer to that is hientirely incumbent on campaign ability to take that slightly more coherent policy message we heard in specific areas. And thinking about the energy policy, differences that emerged in the debate between biden and trump. Trump pouncing on thbiden taing away from fossil fus. Also, but issues that are more on voters mines like re. Navirus responseand health marissa, are you expecting the unexpected to occur in the next few days, especially wi President Trump behind in the polls, do you think the two campaigns wibe relatively quiet now . Voting is underway and in record numbers. We have some 15 million ca americans that their ball
If you support joe biden and Kamala Harris, 202 7488000. If you support a Different Party than in 2016, 202 7488002. Atwelcome your texts as well 202 7488003. Make sure to tell us your name and where you are texting from. On twitter we are at cspan wj and we will look for your posts facebook. Com cspan. Plus bya senior, 65 most polling so we will use that as kind of a cutoff and trust your judgment on that. Results the most recent on who turns out at the polls compiled by u. S. News. In terms of the demographic breakout, 18 to 24 turnout was 30 . 25 to 34, 37 . 35 to 44, 40 4 . 45 to 64 65 and for seniors 65 plus, 64 of those registered to vote turned out to vote in the 2018 election. Way itsenerally the been over many years. Heres an opinion piece by a senior in texas. He is a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the governor in texas. The headline is im 82, texas is hellbent on making it harder for me to vote. Texans know how much how much our votes matter. Especially this year when early
As a matter of fact. As it closes it is closing lower, dragged down by renewed weakness today in the big tech stocks. Also energy was weak. So all of that, we will have in detail for you. The dow down about 400 points. Welcome to the show, everybody, im connell mcshane. Melissa wow. That was quite a press conference there. Im Melissa Francis and this is after the bell. The dow and the s p 500 closing down more than 1 after the biggest rally in at least two months. The tech selloff pushing the nasdaq deeper into the red after its largest gain since april. We have a lot of news to get to today. Fox Business Team coverage to cover it. Lauren simonetti following the markets. Blake burman is live at the white house. Hillary vaughn has latest on covid relief package. Kick it off with you, blake where all the action is now. Reporter we saw President Trump here as the closing bell hit and the topic again was tapes and conversations that the president had, 18 conversations, nine hours worth wit
The battle against covid19 . If you were asked for status reports what would you say . A mixed bag. If you look at the numbers, very serious and concerning. We have had 185,000 deaths, 6 million infections. If you look at the country, a large country, there are some areas doing really well right now particularly those early on, in the metropolitan area, at least a month been less than one test positivity. In other parts of the country, what we saw in the Southern States with a big surge when they try to open the economy that brought a baseline number of daily infections up from 20,000 a day to 70,000, we are back between 3040,000 and as though states are starting to level off and come down which is really good sign we are seeing the beginning of surges in places like montana, the dakotas, michigan, minnesota, iowa. It is a mixed bag. Some areas are doing really well and some are still threatening to have surges. It is not an easy situation. If someone say we are rounding the final curv
Workers, it got a lot of exposure. There was a really great piece on healthcare workers, transporters and environmental services, people who do not like doctors and nurses necessarily, i wonder to what degree these narratives are reaching people who are not already aware. I feel very frustrated about a number of people. It is not that i am a show off or want to be a center of attention, but i dont feel a sense of a platform and sense of people interacting with me right now. And there is a way in which. The people in south carolina, to gather the most important purposes. And and early on, the earliest people to strike, amazon retaliated, the cold wave of companies retaliating. And and amazon is one of the most prominent, stamped down on worker organizing. The attorney general getting investigated, he is nationwide, entirely done online. And it is attracting a very interesting diverse mix of workers which amazon has, ages and skin color and Different National backgrounds and everything a