starts right now. martha: thank you both very much. i m martha maccallum and this is the story. former president trump about to hold a rally in virginia, a tight race right now. he s trying to become the first republican presidential candidate to win the state in 20 years. biden won by ten points last time around. we will see what he has to say. we expect in any moment and will take you there. clearly he will reflect on last night s debate, which was very consequential in many ways, not grade ways for joe biden. we will talk about that quite a bit. the president also on the campaign trail in north carolina trying to clean up on aisle 5, and he worked hard at that this afternoon to get a bounce back from a very difficult night last night. here s some of the reaction to last night in the media, after the debate. the biggest issue he had to prove to the american people was he had the energy and stamina, and he did not do that. how long do we continue to act like we did not