This is cnn immigration, the economy, abortion, and masculinity. I m michael smerconish in philadelphia. It s labor day weekend. Usually this marks the start of the final dash toward election day. But of course we haven t stopped sprinting all summer long despite all the effort and expenditures by the candidates and their campaigns, the presidential election is neck and neck several polls were released at the end of this week and they all tell a similar story a new usa today suffolk poll shows vice president harris ahead of former president trump nationally 48, 43 big shifts from hispanic, black, and young voters are helping harris. But the biggest change came from lowerincome voters they supported donald trump over joe biden by three percentage points back in june harris now leading in that demographic, 58 to 35%, casting a 23 point advantage then there s a new wall street journal poll, which also shows harris with a narrow lead over trump 48, 47. That s in a headtohead match up the n
11:00 pm in the east, 8:00 in los angeles and this is america s late news, fox news @ night. Breaking tonight, president trump back in the nation s capital this evening speaking at the annual moms for liberty sub it, standing up for parental rights in their children s schools. It s a group that his opponents campaign calls antieducation extremists. Here s the former president. I m for parental rights all the way. I don t even understand the concept of not being. The parents truly love the kids, okay. Some of the people on the boards, i think they don t like the kids very much, what they are doing. You have to give the rights back to the parents. Kevin: looking pretty relaxed there. Earlier today the former president putting kamala harris on blast in the battleground state of pennsylvania, telling prospective voters there that her first televised interview of the campaign made her look week. Look, people will see who she is. All you have to do is watch yesterday. The that s not a presid
What well garland do. Im Michael Smerconish in philadelphia, Attorney General Merrick Garland may eventually make a singular decision that determines the outcome of the 2024 election, whether the doj will continue to push for donald trump to be tried before election day in the federal case, premised on alleged Election Interference for months. Here, ive delivered commentaries focused on the timing of this particular prosecution because i think its most perilous to trump, and ive often done so with the assistance of elie honig will join me again in a moment. Heres the issue on wednesday, scotus granted cert and announced that the high court will hear Donald Trumps Immunity Defense i dont think the ultimate outcome is in dispute. I think trump loses that claim. In my opinion, its unlikely its illogical that the court will provide Blanket Immunity from criminal prosecution to an american president more important is the process, the timing of the courts Decision Garland told cnns evan pere
latest on all of it. hey, alex. reporter: hey, griff, good to be with you. yeah, this debut re-election rally, this is an appeal to american workers, to union workers in particular. in about an hour, the president will crease this room. this event is hosted by the afl-cio, a powerful collective of about 16 unions, they represent about 12.5 pearl million americans. no surprise that the endorsement went the a democrat as it always has. and while the stage was being set earlier, president biden was actually in the sky surveying the damage of last sunday s deadly tanker crash that led to the closure of i-9 a 5 in northeast philadelphia. the president did provide an update on how his administration will be aiding in that reconstruction effort that has paralyzed one of the most critical roadways. listen. there s no more important project right now in the country as far as i m concerned. i m directing my team, not figuratively but literally, to move heaven and earth to get it do
killing the driver inside. carley: the rest of the east coast is not in the clear. thousands of americans waking up without power. the region is pummelled with rain. todd: you re watching fox and friends first on wednesday morning, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. on the west coast, states like washington facing a bomb cyclone sparking a mass blizzard. senior meteorologist janice dean has the fox weather forecast. janice: get used to it, we are into a storm pattern similar to what we saw this week will happen in the next couple days and behind it another storm rolling in. severe storms. over a dozen tornados from tampa, florida up toward south carolina and then the damage you saw all along the east coast. power outages, 700,000 americans have power outages in their neighborhood. new york, pennsylvania, new jersey and michigan as that area of low pressure moves in toward the great lakes. there is the live radar. the rain component of the storm is over. we l