news alert. far left democrat squad lost a member. scandal-plagued congressman jamaal bowman has cost the new york democratic primary a seat. the left's divide over the israel/hamas war played big at the ballot box in what some call a litmus test for the party. a more moderate democrat then stepped in and took bowman's place. they will retain potentially that seat in the primary at least that's what will happen. we don't know what's happening as we move forward. we'll cover it all. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." jamaal bowman lost to george latimer. we already knew going into the day that it was a wide margin. look how it ended up. the pro-israel advocacy group aipac put in some big money. they wanted bowman out and bowman gave them plenty of help. in september he pulled a house building fire alarm and pleaded guilty, was scensure for it and paid a fine. against a house resolution condemning hamas terrorists and they were voting. he called reports of hamas raping women on october 7th propaganda. he accused israel of genocide and ethnic cleansing after they suffered october 7th a massacre at the hands of hamas monsters. this week bowman led that profanity-laced rally tearing into aipac, jewish hatred on full display and it went viral, as you know. he kind of then sort of apologized after yesterday's vote. >> i want to make an apology, public apology, for, you know, sometimes using foul language. i'm sorry. but -- but i think it is not -- how do i want to say this? we should not be well-adjusted to a sick society. >> harris: i apologize but. we all know you don't mean the part that came before the but and why you said the but. new york republican congresswoman nichole malliotakis is not mincing words. she said bye-bye, bowman, good riddance. original squad member aoc, her district next door to bowman's scored a victory yesterday. she was with him trying to lift up his capitol bowman but she did it in her district. most of the far left group has survived the democratic primary so far. cori bush and minnesota congresswoman ilhan omar are the only two facing challenges in upcoming primaries. eric shawn with more. >> well, the squad is shrinking. now there is one less member of the squad in congress. this after the loss last night of jamaal bowman. [cheers and applause] >> last night democratic voters in westchester county and a slice of the bronx said they're sick of the squad's leftist political views so they dumped incumbent congressman jamaal bowman in favor of a moderate democrat who you see on the left, george latimer. he is the westchester county executive. >> we have to fight to make sure that we do not vilify each other, that we remember we're all americans. and if we think that way, then the problems that we see, the serious problems, climate change is a serious problem, we have issues to deal with immigration, serious issues, but we're bound together about a common future. >> latimer is vowing to defeat former president trump and take back the house from republicans. as for bowman, he has been a harsh critic of israel blaming aipac for his defeat. they spent $14 1/2 million against him supporting latimer. his condemning of israel and cause for ending u.s. military aid to the jewish state followed other squad members, as well as senator bernie sanders, despite his defeat bowman told his supporters the fight is not over. >> put your hands in the air if you stand for humanity. put your hands in the air if you stand for justice. put your hands in the air if you stand for equality. now make a fist if you will continue to fight for justice, freedom, and equality. >> latimer will face a republican in november. she lost to bowman two years ago. >> harris: eric, thank you very much. and we'll go on with this topic a bit more. the "new york post" editorial board has a headline today. hopefully jamaal bowman's defeat is the first against the radical left squad. a bit more, bowman was always an out of touch radical. october 7th exposed him as a bitter anti-semite. he called israel's necessary military response genocide and he said jewish enclaves in new york were segregated. if it leads to the ejection of club and omar. if his loss is a harbinger of things to come, thank heavens for that, end quote. steve hilton, fox news contributor. look, this is one. we cannot forget, at least i can't, what that day looked like, that profanity laced and cease-fire for the palestinians and what my guest yesterday caldwell said the hamas vote. >> exactly. what is interesting about this, harris, is that finally, you know, at long last, we've seen a rebuke, a very clear rebuke to this vile anti-semitism. the apologists for hamas running rampant in the democratic party. the voters delivered the rebuke. it should have come from the leadership of the party months ago. it should have come from biden. it should have come from harris. they should have been in there saying we have to kick these people out. these extremists taking over our party, trying to take over our party. you see it throughout the party. yes, this is a shrinking of the squad right now but this faction, this far left faction, this is the growing faction within the democratic party and the leadership is -- the so-called leadership of the party is doing nothing to fight back against it. thankfully the voters are. >> harris: what is confounding and you talk about that top-down approach all the way to the white house, how in the world will biden get the hamas vote? he has to act on behalf of the majority of american people and that would mean he has to shore up that relationship he has with our best ally in the middle east who now is feeling pressure from a second war front from lebanon. israel. how does he really do it, or can't he? >> he can't. he can't. this goes to one of the issues on display in the debate. the character of these people. that's what people always say in the end it's the character of the candidate that matters because it is not what they say in their election campaigns and all the promises, but how they respond to unpredictable future events. all along i said about joe biden, the problem with him is that he is just a machine politician, 50 years in office has gone one way and the other way, no convictions or principles, just goes with the flow. so when you are tested in a situation like that, that's what he has been doing. so yes, initially his rhetoric was supportive of israel. the minute it caused him political problems he is caving in and now left our ally dangling. it is a total disgrace. >> harris: i want to move to something that divides us in this nation, women on one side. august 1st is when the biden administration's title ix changes take full effect. the update extends discrimination protections to include gender identity. the administration claims it won't affect women's sports but many say it is already happening that way. it is already affecting women. all american collegiate swimmer riley gaines is leading the fight for fairness. >> it seems like we're asking for the bare minimum here, equal opportunity, privacy in areas of undressing, safety in sports. the bare minimum. we have an administration in the white house right now who is actively undermining this who has abolished title ix in its original intent. the most anti-woman, anti-reality pursuit we've seen from this administration thus far. >> harris: simple things are being requested and want the need for respect. privacy in areas of undressing. women in front of biological men in locker rooms. riley gaines and other women's sports activity teas launched a bus tour in an effort to take back title ix. this shows exactly what they are up against. vandals trashed their bus, painted it with vulgar language and hate-filled messages. college football coach lou holtz weighed in. i was happy when title ix came out. now we can't even insure women competing against women. it is crazy. you know the left likes to preach about how it is the bright, shining light on the hill for women. what is this? >> exactly. first of all, it is insane. if you would have told people even five years ago you would be having this conversation, the gender extremism would be mainstream in the democratic party people would have just laughed. it goes to the weakness within the top of the democratic party that they aren't standing up to this insanity, completely ridiculous and exactly as you say, it shows how hollow their promises are. all that language, endless language about women and your body, your choice and all the rest of it. basically the only issue in the general election, abortion, trying to pretend they are the champion of women but actually this shows who is really in charge in the democratic party because the extremists, the gender extremists drown out what the normal vast majority of people, even democrats, would think about this and it shows that they pander to the extremes. they won't stand up to them and in effect what you have got now from the democratic party is a war on women. >> harris: the democrat party did manage to bring a group of women together as far as athletes. navratilova and other lgbt members of that community are saying we're on the women's side. we absolutely see the difference between women in sports and the best in what they did. like at martina. they are part of this movement along with riley gaines right now. it will be interesting to see what happens as we move into really the down stretch the last few days before this presidential election. steve, thank you so very much for being in "focus." former president trump's team is continuing to push to reach out to black voters. the campaign is hoping to make massive gains with the critical voting group while president biden is losing them. plus anticipation is sky high going into tomorrow's cnn presidential debate. >> i think it will be a sand box fight. >> i think mr. trump will do excellent and knock him out of the ballpark. >> i want them to talk about the issues that are at hand. >> harris: yeah, the issues. new reports on the strategies that each of the candidates plans to bring to the stage as polling shows they are pretty much in a dead heat right now. veteran homeowners, have you looked at the interest rates on your credit cards lately? 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"the new york times" average has the two statistically tied. these are averages. so there is no margin of error to be factored in here because it's a number of polls averaged together. so this is an interesting indicator. trump has had the edge over biden in five different elector y'all college projections and one even predicts trump will get more than 300 electoral votes. matt gorman, former tim scott campaign advisor and then jose a democratic press secretary. matt, i will start with you, only a snapshot at this point. it is a lot of polling they averaged together. your reaction. >> absolutely. the state-based polls show a small but consistent lead for trump and they have the last couple of months. you look at the sun belt, arizona, and nevada look pretty good. the upper midwest do, too. i think to your point about biden. interview prep is debate prep. he hasn't been a dynamo, extremely protected. so i know when you go and kind of stay out of sight and don't have the interactions it gets you rusty. i look to see if the rust appears tomorrow night. >> harris: interesting. i have seen a couple of reports, jose, of course we aren't in the room at camp david so there is no way to be there to know exactly what time he gets up in the morning or goes to bed at night but they are working on his biological clock to make sure he can do the mock debates and stay up past 9:00. it is all east coast time. no time zone difference here. >> look, thanks for having me on the show. the president will remember the state of the union biden did well. he spoke for well over an hour and came out with stellar scores. on tomorrow's debate he will talk directly to the american people what he plans to do for the country in the next four years. he has to remind people who trump is. we have to remember trump said he wants to be what he -- he wants to be a dictator on day one. he said it. reality. a fact. trump is out for himself. he doesn't care about the american people. if he does that at the same time tell the american people look, i understand you and working for you, i think he will come out on top tomorrow. >> harris: the idea if he can do that at the same time. you want him to concentrate as reports show he will try to trigger trump. where do the american people fit in first? matt, i want a last quick one. rebuttal to jose and i'll move forward. >> this was hillary clinton's advice and how well it worked out for her. voters know both the candidates very well but say during trump's presidency i could afford gas, groceries, buy a home easier. >> harris: a former biden aide raised the alarm. >> where he is struggling is among younger voters, black voters, latino voters, white voters. people who aren't playing close attention to politics and not tuned in. one of the reasons is they're cynical about politics and frustrated by them. >> harris: voters in pennsylvania are divided on issues like the economy and border crisis. >> this country right now is suffering from a very bad, world leaders, people have have to work two or three jobs to afford everything. >> something is terribly wrong to allow the border to be open like that. it's more than a shame. it's embarrassing. >> every decision he has made has put us in a spot where we can't even live anymore. it is terrible i'm a grown man and going to the welfare office. >> harris: this is what i was talking about. i understand the take it outside that biden said before as a candidate. but how about keeping it inside with the voters and seeing what they need to do inside their homes to make ends meet? he has got to at least acknowledge some failures here. >> well look, he has to know things take time. not only -- >> harris: he had more than 8% inflation shortly after he took over and he inherited 1.4%. that only means that the prices are still going up. they are just going up by twice as much as they should be at 3%. >> things are getting better. nobel winner economists have said trump is a disaster to the economy. it takes time to fix these types of things and the president needs to acknowledge that. i am getting the wordone for the american people. we aren't done just yet. the message he has to deliver tomorrow. >> harris: matt. >> one of the 16 nobel prize economists was janet yellen's husbands. i need a lot of excuses. i listen to david axelrod. when you talk about democracy and these other issues you have a luxury because you aren't wore eft about the economy like so many millions of americans are across the country and he said look, joe biden's pride talking about democracy and those other issues could cost him with the voters wore eft about the economy. >> harris: the trump campaign is dumping down on outreach to black voters. team trump will host a black american business leaders barber shop in atlanta today. he won't be there but the team will be there and they're featuring congressman byron donalds and wesley hunt. they will also host a cognac and cigars event today. >> i think we'll hear that black issues are american issues. what we realize we aren't going to get half the black vote. we have to focus on is getting 20 to 25% of the total black vote. it's mathematically impossible for democrats to win and that's what we'll discuss today. >> harris: charlamagne tha god has had infamous moments with president biden said this directly to black democrat voters. this is charlamagne tha god. >> we are not what propaganda has made us seem to be to the world. i think that we should be able to criticize the democratic party, right? without people labeling us, you know, anything else. we will not get any real change, we will not get the things that we want if we don't push them and if we don't criticize them. >> harris: it's fascinating. at one point it sounded like there was a suggestion to replace biden on the ticket if he can't get past this debate, matt. >> there is a long time between now and next one in september. i wouldn't be surprised one way or another. tim scott tried to ramp up the african-american vote and he is right. 20% is the hinge point. above that starts unlocking states like georgia, pennsylvania and makes it tough for biden to win. >> harris: that's an interesting point. jose? >> i will say democrats cannot take the black vote for granted or the latino vote for granted. they shouldn't. i don't think they are. they have to continue speaking to the group of voters. look, i do agree with matt. tomorrow is a make or break moment for joe biden. he has to do well. i think he will do just fine but he has to do well tomorrow. >> harris: and if he doesn't who would wait in the wings? jose? >> well, i don't think there is a replacement. i think we'll stick to our candidate. i don't believe in the rumors. i know republicans wa