Vice President On Defense Over Disaster Response, Liberal Record
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I'm Stuart Vonney. I'm Martha McCallum. I'm Jason Chaffetz. And this is the Fox News Rundown. Monday, October 14th, 2024. I'm Mike Emanuel. Polling suggests the race for the White House is likely to be a nail biter.

But some Republicans suggest Vice President Kamala Harris is not articulating what she would do if elected. On the one hand, she's running away from Biden's horrific record on the economy, on the border, and on foreign affairs. But on the other hand, she's never made it clear what she's running towards.

And Lisa Brady. In English, Fox News already has a strong following with Hispanic viewers, but they're about to have new options in Spanish. You know, sometimes you hear people say, you know, build it and they'll come. In the case of Fox, people came, Hispanics came, and so Fox decided we better build it. We speak with Fox's Rachel Campos-Stuffy. And I'm Arnon Mishkin. I've got the final word on the Fox News Rundown. ♪

California is a deep blue state with Democrats in charge. But that didn't stop former President Trump from campaigning in Coachella, California, laying out his vision on the economy. We're going to knock the hell out of inflation. We're going to use a thing that we have more of than anybody else. It's called liquid gold, oil and gas.

And we're going to make America affordable again. Vice President Kamala Harris was in Battleground, Arizona, laying out how she will govern if elected in November. I love good ideas, wherever they come from. I love good ideas. And so part of what I intend to do, Mayor, and put some structure around is creating a bipartisan council of advisers.

who can then give feedback on policy as we go forward. Harris has brought in some big names to campaign for her and former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Mr. Obama is appealing to black men to vote for Harris, with some polling suggesting some are considering sitting out this election. Part of it makes me think, I'm speaking to men directly,

Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren't feeling the idea of having a woman as president. In politics, there are frequently unexpected events late in a campaign that could be characterized as an October surprise. In this race, the Biden-Harris administration will likely be graded by voters in battleground states for its response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is trying to inspire folks in communities that were hit particularly hard by Milton. It's not easy to do. People are rising to the occasion. We got a lot of work left to do, but we will absolutely get through this. As federal authorities are still trying to get a handle on what states in the southeast will need to clean up and move forward. This is years of leadership. Going back to Jeb Bush, who sustained four

hurricanes in just a few months. Congressman Mike Waltz is a Florida Republican. Rick Scott, governor, now senator, and of course, Governor DeSantis. So our state, our county, our local are prepared. The state was hardened. That doesn't mean we didn't take a big hit, but we will recover. And on my district on the East Coast, it's really a one-two hit. You get the flooding as the storm comes from the West and then the

storm surge as it goes off into the Atlantic Ocean as the wind whips around. But again, we'll recover. What we need right now actually is help for our farmers. Agriculture is Florida's second largest industry. It is 30 percent of the nation's food supply in the winter with our ports. And we need the Department of Agriculture to release funding, get it down to the state and local level so we can help our farmers out.

Congress is out of session until after the 2024 election. Government's functioning on a continuing resolution. The speaker has said that you will return after the election once a final price tag is known. I know it's early, but what kind of damages are you looking at across Florida? Well, that's yet to be determined. It's really a bottoms-up process at the local, to the state, and then back up to the federal level, and that's been the speaker's point. It takes

some time to assess all the damage, to put a price tag on it. We can't just recklessly throw money. But I can tell you for the emergency aspect of this, FEMA is funded. Congress passed $22 billion just before the end of the recess or the beginning of the recess. And we're absolutely confident from everything we're seeing that FEMA has plenty

to push down for emergency services now in the longer term, they also are on the hook to reimburse our locals. Our local small counties don't have big budgets. They empty their bank accounts to handle the emergency services. And then FEMA often is very bureaucratic in how it backfills, and that will be an important role for Congress going forward.

How would you assess the Biden administration's handling of both of these hurricanes? And what do you think of the seeming disconnect between the administration and folks on the ground saying they're not getting what they need? Well, I think the results speak for themselves. I mean, you know, Florida is prepared for these storms.

every year, unfortunately. And we have our systems in place. But places like rural, mountainous North Carolina, I don't think FEMA, I don't think the Defense Department has pushed what they need as fast as they need it. And frankly, a lot of that rests on North Carolina's Governor Cooper in terms of

what he has requested. So I think we've had a breakdown at every level in North Carolina, and that's evidenced by the people who are absolutely desperately in need, feeling isolated, feeling left behind. And I think, again, the results speak for themselves there.

Looking toward Election Day, it seems Vice President Harris got a large bump. A lot of Republicans were wondering when her honeymoon was going to end when she entered the race. And now it appears that has worn off. She's trying to calm her messaging and present a more bipartisan, moderate image. Do you think that works at winning over voters or is it too late? I think the polling is showing it's not working because.

because of the mixed messaging. On the one hand, she's running away from Biden's horrific record on the economy, on the border, and on foreign affairs. But on the other hand, she's never made it clear what she's running towards. She was very clear in the 2019-2020 campaign when it came to getting rid of employer-provided insurance, decriminalizing illegal aliens, defunding

the police and a whole list of progressive policies. Now she flip-flopped on them, but then avoided the media, but is running away from Biden's record. It's been a mess and voters are confused. And I think that's showing, look, there's a lot of people out there that may not like President Trump, but they liked his policies. And at the end of the day, set the tweets aside,

Economy was better. Border was better. The country was safer. And it's those policies that are going to matter on voting day. Former President Trump has been out on the trail making his own case to voters on the economy and immigration, among other things. What do you think he needs to do to close the deal? Just keep talking about it. You know, the old adage in politics, you got to say something six, seven, eight times.

before it really sinks in. I don't know how many voters remember, but they certainly need to be reminded, minority opportunity zones that incentivized investment in minority communities that were truly changing lives. The fact that he was the first president to put historically, or to put permanent funding behind historically Black communities

colleges, uh, the conservation that he put in place for much of our environment, uh, including even things that very few people remember, like, uh, banning drilling off the shore of, uh, Florida, but yet, uh,

absolutely getting behind fracking when it comes to releasing America's energy reserves, the pivot on China, how tough he was on Russia, getting out of the Intermediate Missile Treaty, the INF Treaty, getting out of the Open Skies Treaty because they were cheating. The fact that Iran was broke, ISIS was defeated, and again, we had the Abraham Accords being signed. So just

I think consistently, steadily reminding people of his policies that worked, what he got done despite everything being thrown at him. And, you know, you're seeing more and more of an aha moment. I want to go back to that with voters. The former president campaigned in California over the weekend. He has a planned rally at Madison Square Garden in New York at the end of the month. Two states he is not favored to win.

But do you think his campaigning in those places may help some of your Republican colleagues in those deep blue states? Oh, we know it will.

He the president drives enthusiasm and he drives turnout. And it's a lot of the effect in New York that Lee Zeldin and his excellent campaign had. Unfortunately, he came up a little bit short across a very blue state. But in a lot of our lean Republicans, lean Republican areas, he drove turnout. The president's going to drive turnout and that is going to be instrumental in us keeping the House.

In your view, how does the balance of power shake out on Capitol Hill? Are you confident that you can secure both chambers?

Well, I'm incredibly confident that we have the Senate. I think we're looking good in the House, and I think the House and the White House move together. The president is going to drive enthusiasm, drive turnout, and persuade some voters that absolutely can still be persuaded, and kind of a rising tide lifts all boats. We continue to do that at the top of the ticket. I think it's going to pull down ballot up with him.

And so I think we wake up on November 6th, 7th. We get those votes counted quickly. We'll have them counted in Florida on election night. And we will have Republicans with the House, with the Senate, and with the White House. And we'll get back to conservative policies, small government, empowered individuals, empowered families, and a strong national defense that we know works.

Now onto your book, Hard Truths, Think and Lead Like a Green Beret. It comes out on the 22nd of this month. What inspired you to write this book and what do you hope people will take away from it?

Well, thanks for raising it. And by the way, proceeds will go to veterans charities. I think veterans need to tell their story. In my case, it's a bit unique in that the lessons I learned in combat in terms of resilience, discipline, restraint, oftentimes were incredibly instrumental to me. And then how I've then applied those hard truths that I learned in some of the hardest places in the world, in Africa, Afghanistan, the Middle East,

as a Green Beret leading my special operations forces in combat. How have I applied that to D.C.? And believe me, Mike, there are some days I think the tribes of Afghanistan are tougher than the tribes of Washington, D.C. But many of those lessons learned absolutely apply. If I can build a coalition of militias

of warlords, which Green Berets specialize in guerrilla warfare that would soon kill me and my men as much as they would the bad guys if we crossed them or they feel like we did.

then I can build coalitions in Congress and we can build coalitions across the interagency with defense and state and USAID and CIA to move the ball forward. And often what you learn, the difference with the Green Berets, the SEALs, the Rangers, the SEALs and the Rangers are the best of the world at doing what we did to Osama bin Laden, to al-Baghdadi, putting bullets on foreheads in the middle of the night on the other side of the world.

Green Berets are different. We have to learn local cultures. We have to learn multiple languages. We embed in local societies and blend in and what we call by, with, and through, influence them in the direction that America needs them to go in line with our mutual interests. That sounds a lot like what we have to do in terms of those influence operations with our allies and with coalitions in Washington.

Do you think Congress would be a much better place if it had more Green Berets, SEALs, and Rangers? Absolutely. And we're in a competition with our SEALs. I'm the first Green Beret to be elected, but we've got more coming. I just tell the SEALs it takes five of them to equal one of us. But in all seriousness, in the 70s, we had a record number of veterans. Seventy-five percent of the House and the Senate were vets, had SEALs.

been willing to die for this country. By 2018, when I ran, it was at a record low of 15%. And I don't think that explains everything in terms of the dysfunction, but I think it explains a lot.

It's not that we agree on all issues, but we are willing to do whatever it takes to move the country forward. And we bring that leadership, discipline, followership, teamwork, and that objective mindset to get things done. If you don't accomplish your objective in combat and in business, for that matter, really bad things happen. So those are the types of things that I lay out in the book. And again, the proceeds are going to veterans charities. And thanks for bringing it up.

Hard truths. Think and lead like a green beret. I look forward to reading it. Congressman Mike Walz, thank you so much for your time. Have a wonderful week. Okay. Thank you.

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Just over three weeks to Election Day, there's new outreach to the Hispanic community, which is already being courted by the candidates. We need to elect Kamala and Tim so we could get ahead and not just get by. Emmy-winning actress Liza Colon-Zayas from The Bear at a Pennsylvania rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in September.

Former President Trump also has celebrity support in the Puerto Rican community. A lot of Latinos, we stand strong next to President Trump. Singer Jason Quiles at a Trump rally in August. Also in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state with a significant Latino population. Let's make America great again. Let's go.

But the new outreach doesn't come from the campaigns. It's a new resource for the Spanish-speaking community from Fox News. Rachel Campos Duffy, Fox & Friends weekend co-host, will host Fox Noticias, a daily one-hour Spanish-language program, weekdays at 4 p.m. Eastern, beginning tomorrow on Fox Deportes, our Spanish-language sports network.

I would have liked it to have been done years ago. I think this community is growing, but I think it was the right time

for the company in terms of all the other things that they're doing. And we're just excited to launch. I mean, now is the beginning, I think, of a lot of great things that can happen in this space. A new Spanish-language version of the Fox News website has also launched that'll be machine-translated. What kind of feedback do you hear from the Spanish-speaking community about their access to news and information in general? Well,

First of all, everyone's so excited. All I keep getting is messages from people who are Hispanic saying it's about time. This needed to happen. We've been waiting. The left is in a little bit of a panic mode. I'm seeing stuff already on Twitter.

on social media that, you know, people are on that side are not happy because they only want one point of view out there. And the fact that we're doing it in Spanish is opening this information up to the kind of information Fox News delivers to a whole new demographic. And I think that's a threat to anyone who wants to control the media message. So I'm excited about that. Listen, Fox ended the last order.

with more Hispanic viewers on our Fox English channel than any of our competitors at CNN or MSNBC. And so with this represents somebody else said this, but I think it's absolutely right that, you know, sometimes you hear people say, you know, build it and they'll come. In the case of Fox, people came, Hispanics came, and so Fox decided we better build it. And I think that's what's happening.

It's interesting. Some networks do have, you know, Spanish language channels already. But actually, listeners may not realize even before Fox News, there was Fox Deportes, right? The first and now longest running Spanish language sports network in the country since 1993. So do you see this as really building on that effort, that longstanding effort to serve this community? Yeah.

Absolutely. And this show, Fox Noticias, is going to air on Fox Deportes at 4 p.m. every single day. And I think that's also exciting because we're going to be hitting a demographic that's not normally exposed to a lot of politics. And, you know, they're turning on Fox Deportes. Maybe I'm going to get a lot of soccer fans mad at me, but they're going to be getting the news in that Fox style and so in that Fox brand. So we're excited about introducing Fox

that viewership to this Fox News show. So what will the format of Fox Noticias be like? Well, you know, I think it'll be like a lot of our primetime shows. So if you watch Jesse, if you watch Laura Ingram, it's that sort of format where we're, you know, introducing a story, you

giving, you know, the host POV on that, introducing guests then to further discuss it. There will be a sports segment because we are on Fox Deportes. We'll be breaking in with weather occasionally when weather makes the news. So we're just trying to give as much as we can in that one hour. What kind of issues do you plan to focus on? Well, you know, look, we're launching a few weeks before one of the most important elections in

you know, my lifetime. So we're hitting a lot of politics right now because that's what everyone's talking about. It's funny. We've already introduced, we've already interviewed the president of Panama, which will be airing that in this coming week. And I asked him if they were

following the American elections, you know, here in the United States. And they said his answer was, who is it? What happens here in the United States has an impact on Latin America. We're going to be covering that. For example, we're not only interviewing the president of Panama, we're also interviewing the minister of the environment in Panama because there's been such a huge impact on the Darien Gap, this once pristine land

you know, jungle area in Panama has been in many ways destroyed. Maybe even permanently, we don't know, but because of that's where people are launching in their quest to get to the United States of America because of our open borders, the numbers have just, as we've been covering on Fox News, absolutely grown astronomically and it's had an impact on Latin America. So we're going to be covering,

the news here in the United States, but everything that happens here, our election, our policies are having an impact on our neighbors to the south. And so I suspect that we're not, although we're catering this show for our Hispanic American audience, I suspect we're going to have a huge Latin American audience because what happens here impacts them. Yeah, it sounds like you'll be able to sort of take things that are already being reported on, but then look at them from

Another angle, a different perspective, and also in terms of the impacts, like you say, I've heard you and others make the point that the Hispanic community is not monolithic. They have diverse lives and nuanced opinions, just like everybody else. So will Fox Noticias be a reflection of that?

Absolutely, 100 percent. It's been interesting in this election in particular. You're seeing record numbers of Hispanics moving towards the Republican ticket, towards Donald Trump in particular. And it's been fascinating to see how other networks are covering this shift, this move. What you're seeing in particular with this movement towards Donald Trump is that it's all about the economy. And it's not that they're wanting to be white. It's that they're

that they're sharing the same economic anxiety as other working class Americans, whether they're white, black, or Hispanic. And so that multicultural alliance of the working class, realizing that Bidenomics and the system that is in place with this particular administration, economic system and policies aren't serving them, is a threat to people who want business as usual. So that just shows you that Hispanics

have the same concerns as other Americans. They want to feel safe. They want to know they can send their kids to a university. Their daughters can go for a jog on campus and not get killed. These are the same concerns that they have, that their neighbors have. Democrats always point out

And comments that the former president has made about immigrants, you know, when he talks about the mass deportations, but also when he talks about who's coming into the country right from the beginning with his first campaign, when he said, you know, they're not sending their best. And then he goes on from there and they say that he's demonizing migrants.

How does that sit with the Hispanic community? I mean, do you hear some people getting offended by that, even though there's a contrast between those who have come here legally and those who have not? I think at the heart of the attacks on Donald Trump is his very frank and sort of unvarnished language around racism.

illegal immigration is that he's a racist. That was the original attack back in 2016. He's a racist. He doesn't like you. And then he was elected and people's lives got better. And then Joe Biden became president after Donald Trump and people's lives got worse.

And what's interesting is I've actually gone into these Hispanic communities and interviewed them specifically about immigration. Famously, I went down to the border, but I also went into the Bronx. You know, we've been saying at Fox News that every city is a border city because so many of the people who come across our border are now being flown there.

or taken in buses to cities across America. And so you look at the Bronx, a very heavily Hispanic area, people there don't feel safe anymore. I think we're in this really interesting time because these things aren't theoretical. People could see what their lives were like during Donald Trump's years, and they can contrast that with how their lives are

and their feelings of safety and security are under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. And so we just heard Kamala Harris say, very frankly, on The View, I don't disagree with Joe Biden on anything. I can't find one policy that I disagreed with him on that I contrast with him on. And so we're looking at people comparing the Donald Trump years to the Kamala Harris, Joe Biden years. And that's, I think, what the decision is going to be in November.

what are you most looking forward to about this new role with Fox? Look, I think I'm excited about that. We're going to be able to reach a whole new audience. And by the way, it's not just like only Spanish speakers. There's going to be lots of people who are bilingual, just as I am, who just want to get their news in Spanish or from, you know, from that people who live in their communities. And so look,

on Fox and Friends, we cover the Hispanic boat, the Hispanic experience a lot. But this is going to be an interesting way for people to get a one-hour dose of the news in Spanish from their perspective. I'll tell you one thing that's been really fun since this has been announced. Everywhere I go in the building since the announcement came out,

So many of my colleagues are like, they greet me in Spanish. Hola, Rachel. Como estas, Rachel? Como va el show, Rachel? You know, Dana Perino, everybody else, you know, Jimmy Fela, Todd Pyro. It's been really fun to see how many of my colleagues actually know Spanish, even a little bit. Say they're going to start watching because they want to improve their Spanish. And everyone's really in the building is really excited about this show.

Well, congratulations. It launches tomorrow. The new show is Fox Noticias airing weekdays, 4 p.m. on Fox Deportes, also streaming on Fox Nation and as a podcast. Rachel Campos Duffy, congratulations and thank you for your time. So glad to be here. Thanks for covering it.

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What's on your mind? As we start the final month of the presidential campaign, the race appears to remain very close. The latest Fox News national poll shows a two-point race in the national popular vote, with Harris slightly ahead of Trump, 50% to 48%. And each of the seven key battleground states similarly showing the candidates within the margin of error from each other.

Now, if you want to drop into the weeds, and I guess that's why they pay me, I think there remain five key numbers that will indicate which candidate has the momentum in the race and tell you which campaign is closer to achieving its goal. I'd argue that the key weeds that count, if you will, are Trump's number, Trump's support amongst minorities, especially Hispanic and African-American voters,

and Harris's support amongst Republicans who don't describe themselves as MAGA, and Harris and Walz's support amongst voters in rural America. Trump's number is the number I've looked at all year. It's his share of the popular vote. And all year, it's hovered around 48% in all the most respected public polls. So all year, I focused on Trump's share of the vote. It isn't going to change dramatically, but small swings may indicate strength or emerging weaknesses.

The arc of Harris's campaign, she quickly consolidated support amongst the bulk of the voters who had told pollsters from 2023 until July that they were undecided. They weren't undecided. They were voters who didn't like Trump but were lukewarm about Biden. And now the bulk of them are in the Harris column.

But what about the rest? There are still some undecided voters. And when I look at that number, and it's remarkably small, I think there may be some hidden Trump vote there. For example, Trump is at about 47% in the better polls in Florida and hovering around 50% in Texas in similarly respected polls. That's below the 52% he got in Texas in both 2016 and 2020 and the 51% he got in Florida in 2020.

He will almost certainly win both states, which suggests that some of the folks telling pollsters they're undecided will in the end choose Trump. On the other hand, maybe it's a sign of some weakness amongst Trump voters. I don't know, but it's the number to look at. The voter groups where Trump is doing surprisingly strongly are his support amongst minorities. Prior to dropping out of the race, President Biden was doing remarkably poorly amongst both Hispanic Americans and African-Americans.

Trump had gotten less than 10% of the African-American vote in 2020 and had gotten 35% of the Hispanic vote. But in the latest Fox News national poll from September, Trump is getting over 40% of the Hispanic vote, a significant number.

and almost 30% of the black vote, an almost unbelievable jump from where he was in 2020. Looking at those numbers is key. If Trump can continue to run strong amongst Hispanic voters, he'll likely win Arizona and Nevada. If Harris can recapture some of the 2020 Biden strength amongst African Americans, she'll be able to win Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and maybe even Georgia.

Conversely, the Harris numbers to look at are her support amongst rural voters, the focus of Trump's base, and her support amongst Republicans who say they're not part of the MAGA movement, the Make America Great Again group. Now, one of the reasons Harris picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was to try to make inroads amongst rural voters.

They didn't want to win the rural vote. They just want to lose it by less. Remember that these numbers are small and that they're subject to a significant margin of error. They may wind up showing evidence of a shift or just statistical noise, but they are the key numbers to watch in the coming weeks. This is Arnon Mishkin, the head of the Fox News decision team.

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