after the house speaker s husband was violently assaulted during a home invasion, we re told. what we know about his condition and the man maybe behind that assault. welcome, even, i m neil cavuto and yet another busy weekend as we get closer to the midterms. but growing questions as to how the speaker of the house s husband could get so brutal brutally attacked in his own home. she was, of course, in washington. she s with him now in san francisco. mark meredith has more. reporter: investigators have yet to say what they believe motivated the attack, but police believe the break hip and the assault inside the speaker s california home was intentional. police say it was around 2:30 friday morning when 42-year-old david depape allegedly broke into the speaker s san francisco home through a back door. he was reportedly shouting where s nancy, but the speaker, as you said, was not there. she was in d.c. it was her husband that was in the house. investors believe 82-year-old pa
Listen. seems to me he s a celebrity who wants to be a politician. and we ve seen how that goes. and if a candidate s main qualification is that he s going to be loyal to donald trump, it means that he s not really going to be thinking about you and your needs. and you deserve better. [cheers and applause] georgia deserves better! you deserve somebody who s independent and who s going to go work every day and fight for you! reporter: yeah, and so democrats are hoping the former president s strong showing will energize their base and hopefully translate into votes particularly among black voters who have felt the chilling effects of high pyrety issues like priority issues like inflation and rising crime urn the biden administration. democrats have been weak on those issues this election cycle and walker, for example, has been someone who has used that as an opportunity on the campaign trail. listen. have y all seen the crime in
Sides. it s going to be a purple year, and they are sending barack obama, the big gun, to where he can to help that. races to watch, pennsylvania always. i m excited about wisconsin. mandela barnes is running a great campaign, and i imagine obama will go there. but regardless of whether or not barnes wins, i m looking at wisconsin as a really good indicator of how the whole country is leaning. this race will be studied when all things are done. but, of course, georgia will keep us on our toes. and we saw obama there this week. democrat rafael warnock and republican he shell walker herschel walker or, it s going to be a real test of the republican strategy to put up less than ideal candidates neil: we ll see, sara. we don t know that. you were quite with right to mention barack obama, he is a rock star in the party. yeah, of course. neil: unfortunate unfortunately, he s not on the ballot. we, of course, remember the 40 seats that he lost in his first
One looks pretty close, the other so far not. what s the latest there, charles? reporter: yeah, hey, good morning, neil. raphael warnock and stacy antibiotic racks are back out on the campaign trail after a big assist from former president barack obama at a friday night rally here in metro georgia, metro atlanta, rather. mr. obama made his case for the two candidates in front of thousands of excited democrats, telling the crowd that warnock and abrams are the type of leaders who are not only hard working, but also have values. mr. obama s appearance on the campaign trail came as new polling showed abrams trailing incumbent republican governor brian kemp and incumbent senator warnock losing ground to his republican challenger, herschel walker. speaking of their respective opponents, mr. obama was particularly sharp in his criticism of walker who he called suspect as he questioned walker s desire to actually help people.