That this administration won t let go forward. it s so frustrating. yet we re going to beg other countries for more natural gas production. the president is reading the wrong tea leaves here. the border situation, the crime situation, all the things that we know are important. changes are in the air and he needs to make them. neil: we ll watch closely. senator shelly moore capito. you have to wake your granddaughter up now. very good seeing you in the flesh. thanks for having me on. neil: we are not just focused on political storms, but one that was brewing and is now sweeping through florida. could have been a lot worse. nicole is no ian, but still she packed a punch. we re on that after this. e onlyt that comes to mind is. finally? this is financial security. and lincoln financial solutions will help you get there. as you plan, protect and retire.
For that. that s what you want in a leader. of the 50 of us looking out for the rest of us. neil: so no matter what donald trump says about it one of the things that he said, if he were the leading and passing along legislation, he wouldn t pay attention to him. you continue do that, can you? you know what? donald trump is not one of those 50. senator mcconnell has hopefully we ll have 50, hopefully 51. that s his constituency right now. count me in on his team. neil: real quickly, on president biden, he s hat not budged on a lot of issues. he think democrats did better than they feared and he doesn t have to. his attack on coal is pretty still on. i just wanted to get your thoughts on that. for my state that is devastating. we re just now digging out from the obama biden administration in the first two years of this administration has been almost worse in terms of the regulatory no permitting. we have a mountain valley pipeline that is 95% completed
the surge and all that. people took their positions and stayed with them. the independents split 50/50, i think. normally when you have a president that has unpopularity, disapproval ratings, you ll see that middle, that independents swing to the opposing party. it didn t happen in the numbers that we needed it to. so i think that s where we fell short. you know, pennsylvania, i m right next door to pennsylvania in west virginia. pennsylvania is not exactly a red state. hats off to pat toomey for getting elected there. that is a tough state for any republican. and so i m not surprised neil: mehmet oz was that bad of a candidate by someone that performed miserably and didn t matter. and the president making comments that we re going to close the coal pants. pennsylvania is the second largest producer of natural gas and he still won. a lot of the votes winterly before the debate. that s something to look at for
Vladimir putin waging a brutal war on ukraine. the president will meet with president xi jinping. this is a big meeting. the reason it s the first time the two have met since biden tok office. the president says he willconfront president xi about be threats to taiwan. when the president lands back on american soil, he will face inflation, which showed some signs of slowing in october. we ve been reporting it today. according to new numbers this morning from the bureau of labor statistics, inflation .4% from september, the same rate as the prior month. the president put out a statement, that i will work with anyone, democrat or republican on ideas to provide more breathing room for middle class and working families. i will oppose any effort to undo my agenda or make inflation worse. we re on the right path. we need to keep moving forward to build an economy from the bottom up and the middle out. the president in some economic
In maricopa county tuesday, 290,000 people dropped off their early ball lots. these a record. in 2020, a presidential election year, it was 170,000. arizona law requires us to be just as diligent with the ballots that are dropped off on election day as those returned early. we have to signature verify every one of those envelopes. so we have trained staff that take those signatures, look at your signature samples on file to do that comparison. add to all of this, two top of the ticket races. new numbers outside of maricopa just updated. democrat mark kelly expanding his lead over republican blake masters. the numbers do include pima county, which leans denim. that s why in the governor s race, hobbs lead over lake has