election by crime and bill: polls are open in 40 states. voters wasting no time making their voices heard. states in three of the country s high stakes races, pennsylvania, georgia and florida in the south. dana: the president has remained bullish on democrat chances. last night there appeared to be a crack in that facade. watch here. president biden: i m optimistic. i m always optimistic. will democrats win the house? president biden: i think it will be tough and i think we ll win the senate. the house is tougher. bill: kellyanne conway, brit hume, shannon bream, martha maccallum and mike rowe with analysis coming up shortly. dana: look at this here. we have karl rove, lucas tomlinson and kelly o grady. let s get to pennsylvania right away. more than a million people have already voted. bryan llenas is outside of philadelphia. all eyes on pennsylvania tonight. no doubt about it. happy election day. good morning. dr. mehmet oz voted just after 8:00 a.m. in h
the white house chief of staff can clean it up on twitter today. so i think they ve put themselves in a terrible position not just for joe biden as an ineffective messenger but a message the democrats, juan, don t have a communication problem. they have a fact problem. they passed policies america rejacketed. i don t think that s true. the american people are supportive of things like lowering the cost of prescription drugs for seniors and dealing with climate change. infrastructure. we used to have, dana and i used to spoke about infrastructure, he gets it done. that s not the issue. i think the issue is, this comes back to messaging, kellyanne. right now republicans have had great success in this cycle with messaging. i think if you want to put it they pushed the fear button on crime and inflation. you have obama out there scolding that things will fall apart. those are issues that spur turnout in the democratic.
president trump hits the fear button again and again and again and in his most recent rally for example he threatened about the false specter of illegal voting, said drugs are pouring into the country, referred to democrats as the america hating left who are trying to destroy your way of life. that s typical rhetoric from the president. so should the press be doing something to combat those techniques? one of my favorite authors, barry glassner, is out with his best selling book, the culture of fear. this is a really influential book for me about the media s role in perpetuating fears that don t really add up. he s been updating the book and his latest update involves trump. his theory is while americans feel more fearful, it s really just perception. crime levels for example have been going down for many years. i was asking gles nassne glassns and he told me the president is the fear monger in chief.
you re basically implying something very sinister that needs to be taken care of. jesse: 11, do you agree with that? existential threat to the country? juan: no. i think biden is right, trump pushes the fear button, divides us, stigmatizes people. to me, the key thing about the story, jesse, is that clearly biden is in trump s head. 23 people running on the democratic side. the only one, the only one trump talks about continuously as joe biden. katie: he s the front runner. juan: if you look at the numbers, especially the state members wisconsin, you know, michigan, pennsylvania you can see there s a reason that he s worried about joe biden. joe biden is beating him in all those places. joe biden is the democrat right now who is clearly out liking donald trump if this was a general election. jesse: it s a year and a half before the election. juan: i agree. i m telling you what s clear is
you bob woodward, widely respected. he said he pushes the fear button at every opportunity. greg: okay, wait. there are two things going on right now. yes, the consensus media is after trump. i remember, i am old enough to remember how ronald reagan was treated and george w. bush. they were demonized too. it s no longer right versus left. it s the resistance versus anyone else. they have demonized. they have expanded the target of demonization so it s not just trump. it s the voter parodies people who don t join the resistance. they have damned an entire population because that is the profit model. cnn, the washington post, social platforms, they see division of the way to make money. cnn, this is their second go around. they did this with law enforcement for five or six