or the man president biden picked to protect the homeland is now forced to hear from the victims of the biden border crisis. they are on the hill today. we re in the final day of impeachment hearings against department of homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. house republicans still trying to sit with mayorkas. it won t be today. his team says there was a scheduling conflict. the house gop says mayorkas is playing games with when he will appear. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the storm of humanity at our nation s southern border has been the most disastrous onslaught of illegal immigrants ever. and costs to american lives is what s in focus this hour. republicans called on two moms who lost their children from the biden border crisis. they wanted them to come to capitol hill. watch their powerful testimonies. let s take a moment and think about how kala felt that day, how scared she must have been that day knowing that she was dying. ka
can tell, at least at this point, is by looking at some of the current polling. right now he s at 44% approval rating in the daily tracking polling as you can see there. his all-time high was 45% in the same poll and you kind of tweeted about this, the gallop poll showing at all other presidential approval ratings, the lowest was 67%. that was nixon. trump hasn t made it above 45%. is he vulnerable? any candidate below 50% is vulnerable, but remember this is the only national election we have. it s the presidential election, so the electoral college comes into play and that s a very strategic look at what the path is to victory. so again, we don t elect people on popular vote. i can make a very good case of why we should without getting rid of the electoral college but you have to look at the electoral college. trump is going to be vulnerable in states like wisconsin, like michigan, like ohio, like
likable enough. there are these things i think jim is right. there s a narrative to any human activity, human endeavor, and debates tend to confirm, i think, for most people those points. you rarely see a significant break in the tracking polling. but it is these are moments that endure in part because we only see these people about whom the country obsesses together now three or four times in a given year. kathleen, this is sounding a little bit more style and substance. what is it that you think the debates bring to the table here? what should we be looking for? what will we be left with? the press tends to focus on style over substance and tends to ask irrelevant questions, such as who wins the debate or a knockout punch.
on early voting but the president is not anywhere near where he was on early voting before. here is what we know. after this pause it s not really a pause, it s just that the coverage has shifted away to the hurricane. after the pause we ll pick back up and start to get reliable polling and thursday on friday and one of through things would have happen, either romney s momentum will have continued and perhaps accelerated or it will have died and the president will be on his trajectory to sort of drift across the finish line with just enough forward momentum to carry the narrow victory procee projected. we won t know until thursday and friday. in baston and chicago they can wait and be nervous and find out where the heck people will be 72 hours from now. megyn: there is a question of will we really will know. some of these polling outfits like gull open have suspended their daily tracking polling in the wake of sandy. how reliable are the numbers we re get to get at the end ft week, ch
are for public consumption. make no bones about it being a internal tracking document. when you talk to folks privately, as jim and mike did for this story, there is real concern that is not going to be reek flekted in a document like this. it s a result of tracking polling numbers and focus groups and not just the romney campaigns either but a wide swath of conservative groups who all have this polling data this is available and these are very savvy folks who have been walking this universe of this data and watching it pointed in a direction that is not favorable for mitt romney. they are still going for these swing voters, but at a certain point i think this probably will become a game of mobilizing bases. the chatter of late has been that mitt romney has all the money and barack obama has the ground game. if steve s right, i mean, this bump is isolated around the convention perhaps. if steve is right that obama has