fentanyl. border security. small businesses. inflation. inflation. will: good morning and welcome to fox & friends where we spent the week and the coming days talking to the voters. we re just two days out from the midterm elections. many just a few days, we ll be headed to pennsylvania, wisconsin and florida to continue hearing from you and what s important to you as you cast your ballot in the midterm elections. good morning to you. pete: good morning. one of the best parts of the job, getting paid to go out and meet people as we are on the press precipice of an historical election. between the conversations we ve been having in the break and between the caffeinated water that will cain is consuming this morning, he said i m about to go rogue. will: yeah. pete: so the floor is yours. will: one of the good things about doing diners is we get to eat while we re doing television. we made breakfast nachos here on fox & friends . pete and i then went off the wall. i
announce to you the death of my beloved mother, the queen. i know how deeply you, the entire nation, and i think i may say the whole world sympathize with me in the irreparable loss we ve all suffered. it is the greatest consolation to me to know the sympathy expressed by so many. today buckingham palace announced that queen elizabeth who spent 70 years on the throne will be laid to rest in a state funeral on monday, september 19th. cnn s scott mclean joins me now from windsor. scott, this reunion just studying earlier today between william and harry was very surprising, and it seemed to work pretty well with the crowds there where you are. how did this come about? reporter: yeah, completely unexpected. people knew that they were waiting for a visit, that s what we had been told, but they didn t know exactly who we were waiting for. the press didn t even know who we were waiting for. we figured it was likely will and kate. it turned out it was not just will and kate, but
voters pause. bill: john fetterman giving a disqualifying performance in tuesday night s debate. without that seat the party will have a harder time holding onto the chamber of congress. that now prompting some major damage control from the white house. the president has found him to be impressive, incredibly bright and talented person who is just as capable as always to carry out his office the duties of his office as he is lieutenant governor currently and great ability and heartfelt concern for the people of the commonwealth and that s what the president has observed himself. bill: peter doocy reports from the white house. analysis from matt gorman. bryan llenas from philly and that s where we begin on this thursday morning. good morning. as anxious democrats express concerns lieutenant governor fetterman s tough debate performance appearance was a mistake, the fetterman campaign is doing all it can to shift the focus back to the issue of abortion. fetterman s
independent candidate evan mcmullin as he faces off against incumbent republican mike lee. and tesla is under criminal investigation over claims the company s electric vehicles can drive themselves. we ll get to that. willie? let s begin this hour in georgia, where this morning there is a new allegation against herschel walker. another woman has come forward accusing the candidate of pressuring her into having an abortion. the women appeared anonymously yesterday with her attorney, gloria allred. she claims she became involved with the former football player in 1987 while he was married and became pregnant with his child in 1993. she said walker encouraged her several times to have an abortion and she eventually went to a clinic in dallas to have the procedure but she did not go through with it, which she alleges made walker upset. she claims he then drove her to the clinic and waited outside in the parking lot for hours until she came outside. here s what she said about
53% disapprove. the news gets worse for him and his party. 74% say they have a negative view of the economy. and no doubt all of it is a reflection of the worst inflation in four decades. no surprise that voters say the economy and inflation are by far their top issues. former new jersey governor and presidential candidate chris christie with this. it will hit us in supermarkets all over this country. this is hardly over. that s what these numbers are telling. people are feeling that and they will vote that way and that s not good for the democrats. we better pay heed to history. it will happen again. when you have a bad economy, that s what people vote on. they don t vote on anything else. that s what affects them and their families every day. harris: white house correspondent peter doocy has more from the north lawn. a lot of those not so friendly to the white house statistics are not things we hear about a lot here. so officials, biden officials are hoping to define