Go until election day heading to florida and North Carolina. The two battlegrounds showing a tight race between him and joe biden. Good morning, everyone, im trace gallagher. Julie, good morning. Julie im julie banderas. Sandra smith is off. The polling average has joe biden leading the president by less than 2 points in florida and less than 1 point in North Carolina. Florida meantime is worth 29 electoral votes, North Carolina has 15. President trump talking up the economy at a labor day News Conference and warning a Biden Harris Administration would be a win for china and destroy our country. Biden firing back saying President Trump is on track to end his first term with fewer american jobs than in january of 2017. President trump biden and his very liberal running mate the most liberal person in congress, by the way, not a Competent Person in my opinion, would destroy this country and would destroy this economy. If joe biden becomes president china will own the United States and every other country will be smiling. We know it has been great for his rich friends but hasnt been so great for the rest of us. This president is on track to be the only president in modern history to end up with fewer jobs at the end of his term than existed in america when he began his term. Julie chief White House Correspondent john roberts starts off the hour for us. Live on the north lawn. Will the back and forth of the economy continue today as the president goes to North Carolina and florida. Absolutely. The reason why is joe biden is trying to hit the president on his strongest turf. The president still leads on the issue of the economy. One of the issues he continues to lead. The way joebld is attacking him on the economy by wrapping it around coronavirus. Joe biden continues to try to sew doubt among america how President Trump responded to coronavirus and the Economic Impact what biden calls the president failures. The president is blaming Democratic Leaders for lag in recovery. New york city must stop the shutdown now. Governor and mayor are destroying the place. In a News Conference outside of the north portico, the president said the economy in roaring back. President trump the u. S. Economy added 1. 4 million jobs last month. Weve added a recordsetting 10. 6 million jobs since may. 10. 6 million jobs since may. Thats a record that is not even close. Second place is a long ways away. The president trying to keep the focus on law and order. An issue on which he thinks he can make inroads on joe biden. Tweeting this morning blm protestors horribly harass elderly pittsburgh diners scaring them and taking food off their plate. These an arc consists are biden voters. He has no control and nothing to say. Disgraceful. Thugs. Because of weak and pathetic leadership must shut them down fast. Biden and kamala wont even talk about it. They wont utter the words law and order. Thats a message that the president is going to take to jupiter island, florida. The polls in the states in florida and North Carolina are close. The president is narrowing the gap substantially in florida and neckandneck in florida. A lot can change between now and november. Julie thank you so much. Trace. Trace lets bring in fox news Political Editor chris style walt. Great to see you. I want to start where john roberts left off. The polls are tightening. You have now trump 46 to july you have 42 to 48, down by six points. Now 4647. Very close. Now to North Carolina and you have now very close 47. 2 to 47. 8. In july a threepoint lead for joe biden. It has to be encouraging for the Trump Administration. Yeah, certainly in florida. One word of caution. These state averages, there is not enough good polling down there to get to be talking about points of points of points. A lot of those averages will end up more gristle than meat. But florida we have a quinnipiac poll in florida trump closing nine points coming up substantially. So what weve seen across the country and we would expect to see in florida is that the base is coming home for donald trump. Here i dont mean his traditional base, White Working Class and older voters. The traditional republican base. Suburbanites, men, people who prefer lower taxes, we have seen that gathering together since before the convention and thats why we know we knew all along florida would be close but what we have to remember is donald trump cant win reelection without florida. It will be for all of the marbles. Trace why was the base away and why is the base now coming back specifically . Well, im sure the president would say its about talking about crime and all of that stuff and it does when he goes to North Carolina we had our Halftime Report list come out, the counties that well watch very closely over this time and places like some places of North Carolina where a lot of poor people. People hit hard by the coronavirus but a place where donald trump did better than previous republicans have. There you have a test. On the one side youve got lingering concerns about the coronavirus and the economy, a big meat packing plant and stuff like that. On the other hand you have a lot of white voters very concerned about lawlessness and unrest. So those are the kind of places i think where trump is really trying to reach out to where he is talking to those working class folks in places in North Carolina to say im the law and order president. Culture wars work. Trace i want to move on to this New York Times reporting that there is a bit of a cash crunch with the Trump Campaign right now saying the campaign has spent 800 million of the dl 1. 1 billion war chest. The Biden Campaign spent 35. 9 million and trump spending 4. 8 million and this quote from ed rollins who says if you spend 800 million and 10 points behind i think you have to answer the question what was the game plan . A lot of money was spent when voters were not paying attention. What do you make of all this, chris . Not even jeb bush could have wasted this much money. I believe the phrase is enough money to burn a wet elephant and its been amazing to see. They spent money they never should have. They paid all these salaries. They do all this stuff and like a woot chipper where you have donald trump revolutionized republican fundraising. He gets so many small dollar donations but puts them into the wood chipper. He was. Brad parscale used to be the campaign manager. Now his new one is following more traditional guidelines. The hundreds of millions of dollars they burned through from the small dollar donors is jaw dropping. Trace amazing. You talk about Brad Parscale and step yen. Parscale said we had to spend this money in the spring and early summer to counteract what was happening with the pandemic. This was necessary, he says, chris, to keep the president very competitive during that time. Final thoughts. One concern i have had all along for trump this cycle is that he did well in 2016 without a campaign basically. They were caddie. They tried to keep up with him and doing what he was tweeting and he just ran it himself by the seat of his pants. This time theyve built this huge, gigantic billion Dollar Campaign and so far i cant see how it is helping him do that much better than he did when he was just freelancing. Trace Chris Stirewalt, great stuff. Thank you, appreciate it. You bet. [shouting] julie hundreds of demonstrators on the streets of rochester, new york. Prude died of asphyxiation in march after police put they call a spit hood over his head and took him into custody while naked in the street. Last nights demonstration was largely peaceful, however. Despite a few tense moments between protestors and officers in riot gear. Trace sheriffs deputies firing tear gas and rubber bullets near the sheriffs station in south los angeles. A black man was shot and killed by deputies last week. We dont know if any arrests were made. Some people complained the l. A. County Sheriffs Department has been using harsh tactics against black lives matter protestors. [shouting] julie the scene in seattle molotov cocktails thrown at police who formed a human barricade outside their headquarters. Salem, oregon, there was a confrontation between the protrump crowd and group of protestors where we have dan springer joining us live in seattle. Hi, dan. There was no break if you were wearing a badge this Holiday Weekend. Police in the Pacific Northwest had to work hard. In seattle yesterday as you mentioned cops were protecting their union office telling protestors who were all dressed in black, many of them carrying umbrellas to back up when this happened. Someone threw a molotov cocktail at officers feet on bikes approaching the crowd. No one was hurt. It shows the escalation in the violence directed at the police. We saw a protestor in portland, over the weekend mistakenly light his clothes on fire with a molotov cocktail. Protestors surrounded an officer last night and pushed him to the ground. Police made 22 arrests. Earlier in the day a Different Group of protestors held a rally demanding that the city council override the veto of the legislation that cuts the Police Budget by several million and 100 Police Officers. In salem, oregon, Police Arrested two people but they were supporters of President Trump who had gathered for a rally at the State Capitol. Among the trump backers were armed members of the proud boys, a right wing group that clashed in antifa in portland. Some charged counter protestors knocking some to the ground and assaulting at least one person. In portland on saturday night police made the most arrests since the protests began more than 100 days ago, 59 people were arrested during a night that saw fires set, police assaulted, and tier gas fired. Over the weekend the paper of record in the state finally said in its editorial the nightly protests should stop. This as one City Council Member in portland refused to sign a letter that said that they were condemning the violence that is happening almost every night in portland. Julie trace. Trace a massive rescue effort underway now to save dozens trapped by the creek fire in northern california. The National Guard sent a military helicopter in last night but it had to turn around because of heavy smoke. More than 200 campers were airlifted to safety by a helicopter over the weekend. Officials calling the creek fire an unprecedented disaster. It has grown to more than 135,000 acres since it began friday and has zero containment. Julie a deadly Holiday Weekend in chicago. I seen the little girl on the ground and to people on the other side of the car. Julie an 8yearold girl shot and killed last night while she was sitting in a car at a stoplight. What police are saying about the investigation. Plus just three weeks until President Trump and joe bidens first debate. Were all waiting. Will a Strong Performance by either candidate, though, change the shape of this race . Marc thiessen joins me next. D do you see me . Though hidden, i am here waiting for the rest of my life to unfold. Soon i will arrive. music or will i . Its really not up to me. Be my campion in the fight for my life. heart beat techand your car. , were committed to taking care of you tech well fix it right with nocontact service you can trust. Tech so if you have auto glass damage, stay safe with safelite. Singers safelite repair, safelite replace. Trace senators are returning to capitol hill today with stimulus relief topping their agenda. The president says nothing will get done because democrats wont agree on a package that will boost his chances in november. President trump they dont want the make a deal because they know its good for the economy. If they make a deal thats good for the economy and good for me for the election on november 3. Therefore, they arent going to make a deal. Trace house lawmakers come back next week giving them two weeks to reach an agreement before they leave town again to focus on the election. Julie it is just about three weeks away from the first president ial debate. We cant wait to watch that. A lot of speculation as to who can win. A new poll 47 believe trump will win the debate with 41 for joe biden. Pew Research Center have come up with numbers that say that most voters may have already made up their minds in this race before the debates. Marc thiessen is a former speech writer for president george w. Bush and Fox News Contributor. Thank you for coming on this morning. We all look forward to these debates but a lot of people question do they make that much of a difference. According to polls most people already have their minds made up. Few make their minds up after the debates. The question then remains will a Strong Performance by the president at the debates be enough do you think to sway undecided voters at this point . I think youre right. A small number of people who make up their minds in the debates but theyre critical. As Chris Stirewalt pointed out earlier the base is coming home for donald trump. Bidens base is less energized about him than they are about beating trump. There are 10 of the electorate that is undecided or persuadeable. The debates will be decisive in persuading those people one way or another. They take out an outside importance in this election because joe biden is the oldest person ever to carry his partys nomination into the november election. He is 77 years old. If he elected he will be older on the day he takes office than reagan was on the day he left office. Voters will see if he can string sentences together and perform well and means the Vice President ial debates will take on an outsized importance. A rasmussen poll say that 59 of americans believe that joe biden if elected wont finish his first term in office, 49 of democrats. That means Kamala Harris has a big burden on her shoulders in the Vice President ial debate. A lot of americans think that she may be president before joe bidens first term would be over. Julie when you talk about this debate and the gaffes you are referring to with joe biden. He has been doing prerecorded video calls and a lot of people that would love for him to come and visit them but hasnt been there and theyre sick of video calls. They want live and ask question and to be unrehearsed and unscripted. How much is that going to hurt biden . His campaigning right now is sort of paleing in comparison to the president s. Julie he will have to withstand an hour of half of unscripted president from the president and tough questions hopefully from moderators that havent been prewritten or prescripted or selectively chosen by his campaign. Now the problem both an opportunity and a problem for trump because trump always talks about his mental capacity and makes fun of him. That lowers the bar for biden. Biden doesnt have to have a knockout performance. If he strings a couple of sentences together he wins. The president should not be lowering the bar for joe biden by questioning his mental capacity. What he should be saying is joe biden has been a politician for 47 years, been through tons of debates, experienced debating and raising the bar. Julie Chris Wallace wont let either of these guys off easily. Maybe live appearances might be a nice warmup. The percentage of undecided voters who said the debates played a pivotal roll in 2016 is 10 . If only 10 of those who voted in 2016 said the debates helped them make up their minds during or just after gives you some perspective how much weight falls on these upcoming debates. Who do you think has more to lose . The president does because he is behind right now. Joe biden, he has the danger of having some catastrophic slipup that makes it clear to americans that he is not capable of handling the job of president. But President Trump has a job to do as well, as we mentioned. The debate [inaudible] win over those persuadeable voters tuning in and deciding whether to vote for him. Polls show there are 10 to 15 of voters who support Donald Trumps economic policies but dont approve of him. Those are gettable voters. They know its in their selfinterest to reelect the president but need permission to cast that vote in their own selfinterest. Donald trump has to do that in the debates. Julie 47 of voters believe that donald trump will win the debates compared to 41 who believe that joe biden will be winning the debates. 11 are undecided and 1 refused. I dont know why i had to read that. I thought it was a funny number. The debate calendar. September 29th you have cleveland. Then you have the Vice President ial debate on october 7 in salt lake city. Then in october as well on the 15th in miami, october 22nd in nashville. When you think about these debates i think everybody is