Welcome to the Journal Editorial Report im Paul Gigot as heads into the final stretch a new cnn shows they are in a tight race in six Battle Ground states with Vice President Kamala Harris leading among michigan and former Donald Trump ahead in arizona. Two are nearly even in Georgia And Nevada and dead heat in all important State Of Pennsylvania where the candidates are set to meet next week in a high Stakes Debate that could set the tone for the final eight weeks of the campaign. So what should we expect when the two face off on tuesday in philadelphia . Lets ask Wall Street Journal Columnist Fox News contributor karl rove. Karl, welcome good to see you as always. So we have the big Harris Surge for several weeks after she got in. A lot of talk now that maybe that momentum has stopped. And maybe trump has stopped her surge and it is now pretty even. What do you think . Where are we . First of all it is not a very big bump historically because this race is remains tight. It looks like
before the election. the results are mixed. bill: 261,000 jobs added. it s good but a hot number. we ll explain. we expect 200,000. slightly better than expected. unemployment rising. dana: the bump in unemployment days ahead of an election where 80% of voters say the economy is the most important issue. david spunt is live at the white house. a long day for you as well between now and tuesday. it really is. we re waiting to see what the white house has to say about the 261,000 jobs added to see what they will say just days before the election. after all, this is the final jobs report before the mid-term election, which is telling if you look at it. white house officials and bill don t want to use the word recession or focus too much on the economy, but it is hard to escape the president talked about the economy last night in san diego. listen. president biden: important to remind ourselves of the detail. the fact of the matter is we re 6.4% unemployment when i came t
not cooling down which means the fed will continue to raise rates. your analysis of how you see it today, larry. well, i think you re right on that point. by the way, i wish that wouldn t target the economy. the fed should target the inflation rate. normally, you know, good, solid economic growth is not inflationary. i want to make that point as a supply cider. if we had enough production of oil and gas, if we had enough pro pro pro product this is a decent jobs number at 261. household employment from which the overall unemployment rate comes, households did fall by over 300,000. so that s a bit odd. the unemployment rate crept up slightly, okay, participation
if you are going to have the tariff policy, aim it at the countries enemies like china and russia. and that s pretty much where donald trump has ended up. robert? what worries me about larry kudlow, honestly, is he s a supply cider beyond even the normal range of reasonable supply siders. larry has not seen a tax he doesn t want to cut. and tax cut predicts a windfall. he has predicted over the past 25 years. you and i know, on his show and debated this, always me against the two of you. and he s always been wrong. wait a minute. and wants to cut taxes. wait a minute. we are out of time. i d like to say i hope larry will come on guys. i m having dinner tonight with larry. i m going to tell him you both said hello. i hope you tell him to come on, to come on and answer all these questions.
we re super lucky. i ll just waiting for ben to clear his throat again because when i m going to agree with you guys, but here is the thing. i believe in supply side economics and ben will say there s no empirical evidence at work so we ll get that for a few minutes but here is the one neil: even say empirical. it s zero, but here is the thing. i m not sure the president agrees with this. he s busy holding hands with nancy and chuck now and he s looking to cut deals. neil: pelosi and charles schumer. but he calls them nancy and chuck. neil: doesn t mean you should [laughter] i call him neil, charles and that s how close. gerri: i m gerri. hello. i m sorry but he calls them nancy and chuck for a reason because he s finding common ground. neil: so you re real concerned on that and what could be telegraphed? donald trump has never a supply cider. he s always a democrat until steve bannon came around and turned him in. neil: but this could be part of the deal.