and he came out tarnished from that because that just wasn t who ed gillespie was and voters could sense the inauthenticity. i m struck by at least three themes that seem to be consistent in every one of the elections we ve held thus far this year. volatility, turnout and trump. yeah. talk about the trump and volatility factor, too, in arizona. looks like, and it is, mcsally won resoundingly. show the numbers again and add you t up the other votes, close to 50%. we ll tally and see how close they come. mystery around the question, why was joe arpaio in his race in the first place? 86 years old. just pardoned last year. 47%, add it up, still a considerable amount to come in. some indications arpaio might have gotten in the race, folks around him who were on that trump side of the party who were disgruntled with kelly ward.
if you have been to a republican event, you have heard i want somebody to take down the clinton machine, i want somebody to take on the media. you have heard sentiments on immigration that sound a lot like trump s platform. and, hey, why don t we have the same kind of celebrities the democrats do. add it up and what does it add up to? it sounds like the trump presidency. i don t think he created the situations. i think he took advantage of that. tax cuts, deregulation, strong funded military, judges, they have been core principles of the republican party for a long time. it happens now to be the view of the standard bearer. there is a departure. it looks like standard republican stuff. what about the family values stuff? how do you feel about cheating on his wife with a playy bunny and cheating on a playboy bunny with a por actress and paying them off with hush money and the republican
right. there s a reason that we know how the economy is doing. we got the gdp report out, and we re looking at growth of about 3 percent. we re talking about 4 percent growth possible for 2018. earnings for the s&p 500 are expected to be up 20 percent in 2018. wages, which we ve been waiting to move for years, are up about 2.5 percent year over year. we re seeing things that are moving in the right direction, and these things are measurable. you cannot, you know, put on rose-colored glasses about something that s actual, measurable, and we can actually, you know, look at it, add it up and know what kind of growth and economic backdrop we re talking about. so you re in a safer place when you do your show. i think so. .than a lot of people. okay. maria is also in a more in-touch place because the press s tendency is to so overplayan to scanl-laden news that they ve exhausted the public, but the public cares so much more about their daily lives, their pocketbook. okay, okay.
right. there s a reason that we know how the economy is doing. we got the gdp report out, and we re looking at growth of about 3 percent. we re talking about 4 percent growth possible for 2018. earnings for the s&p 500 are expected to be up 20 percent in 2018. wages, which we ve been waiting to move for years, are up about 2.5 percent year over year. we re seeing things that are moving in the right direction, and these things are measurable. you cannot, you know, put on rose-colored glasses about something that s actual, measurable, and we can actually, you know, look at it, add it up and know what kind of growth and economic backdrop we re talking about. so you re in a safer place when you do your show. i think so. .than a lot of people. okay. maria is also in a more in-touch place because the press s tendency is to so overplay and go to scandal-laden news that they ve exhausted the public, but the public cares so much more about their daily lives, their pocketbook. okay
good news started interest rates backing up here. interest rates are still very low in the scheme of things. but it s that trends, the direction that has folks rattled. keep in mind, the more expensive it is to borrow money, the more it costs uncle sam money. carrying debt is more expensive. so add it up, they were drilling stocks down. how bad does this get? let s ask charles payne and brian. brian, let s start with you. is this overdone or to be expected? this start great news. wall street is throwing a tantrum here. they don t like the fact that interest rates are going to go up a little bit faster than they thought. but look, this is a good news story for main street. wall street will catch up. they re going to get this out of their system. the market will go back up because we re talking about potentially more than 5%