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That is a big statement. Why would you do that . Because the oil industry pollutes. Paul joining the panowall street journal is an Editorial Page Editor Dan Henninger and Kimberly Strassel and william mcgurn. Dan debates tend to change a campaign only when they change perceptions about the candidates are offering new information. Any moments in this debate strike you as maybe being that kind of a change . I wouldnt go so far as the same moments change the debate but if you are going to talk about perception yes, i do think so. I do not feel that joe biden he did fine come he did okay but he didnt do great and i dont think joe biden despite the fact that he is ahead in the polls really looks like he has much momentum going into the sprint for the end of the election. By the end of the debate i thought President Trump clearly looked like the sharper stronger candidate. Joe biden was running out of steam. This is an election of intangible because of the coronavirus thats hard to predict and the poll polls showed joe biden ahead and many of the battleground states. The president is in the margin of error such as with wisconsin or caroline our pennsylvania. Think its going to be closer than people might guess end of my mind one of the most important metrics out there that i cannot explain is that people feel better than they did four years ago by a margin of 50 to 56 and yet somehow President Trump is supposed to be behind by eight points in the election. That doesnt add up, paul and the performance the president did in the debate the other night gave him more momentum going into the end that joe biden. Paul cam if there was a moment that jumped out to me on an issue it was joe biden saying, admitting essentially that hes going to transition the economy to out of fossil fuels and i think the campaign understood it made a mistake later because joe backtracked and said oh no not doing away with oil and gas. How important was that . It was important because joe biden was on it and he had to clean up that honesty but the president you saw jumped all over that saying are you hearing this in taxes . This is really important because these races are won or lost in battlegrounds. You have joe biden and the president spending a lot of time on the final stretch in places like pennsylvania where you have these fracking workers, oiling gases immensely important in states like pennsylvania the upper midwest in ohio and you can see the bear will be campaign ads from the Trump Administration straight out on this and joe biden, this could be i think a real moment of the campaign. Paul bill the president tone is very different as dan suggested that joe biden hitting it again and again his character versus President Trump sent divisiveness. Im a uniter not a divider. It seems to be working for him again and again. That is the main claim. People vote for joe biden they think its a vote for peace and so forth but i thought President Trump did a pretty good job of countering that with this is a career politician and im a doer. I get it done. To build on dans point i agree with everything the dance at the Going Forward down the stretch joe biden says things that you point out on oil claims not to have ever said he was for a ban on fracking or use the word that debate gave the trump team more stuff to use down the stretch their raise questions. Paul dan one of the things i found most interesting and surprising was the section on race. Usually you expect that to be putting donald trump on defense. I thought he made a strong argument about his record when it comes to actually helping africanamericans. What do you think . E, i think thats right and that section was aps with a lot of what joe biden did. Hes engaging in a fair amount of demagoguery calling trump nothing but a large racist dog whistle complaining that hes responsible for all 220,000 deaths from coronavirus. And widen campaign, the biden strategy is looking to me as though we are heading into a dark winter. This campaign has a darkness to it, paul. Theres nothing particularly positive about it and you are right in his reply to those race issues donald trump did cite a number of substantial things that he is done on prison reform, criminal reform, opportunity zones hes created with senator kim scott so oddly enough by the end of it i thought President Trump was looking as though he was presenting a more positive outlook and vision towards the United States then joe biden who pitched entirely on representing the u. S. Under trump is a dark winter. Paul bill quickly is this going to change do you think the outlook for the election . I dont think it was a knockout but i think President Trump closing in the polls is narrowing ever so slightly. I think this helps that. Especially in pennsylvania if you look at fracking and oil i think this may help the president in the last few days before the election. Paul thank you all. When we come back is joe biden trying to put carrots front and center and the Vice President s son and what joe biden new about his business dealings. coughing hi susan honey . Yeah . I respect that. But that cough looks pretty bad. Try this new robitussin honey severe. The real honey you love. Plus, the powerful cough relief you need. Mind if i root through your trash . New robitussin honey severe. Strong relief for your severe symptoms. Strong relief keeping your oysters growing while keeping your business growing has you swamped. you need to hire i need indeed indeed you do. The moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a shortlist of quality candidates from a resume data base so you can start hiring right away. Claim your seventyfivedollar credit when you post your first job at indeed. Com promo the emails, the horrible emails and the kind of money you were raking in you and your family and joe uber Vice President once, this was happening. Should have never happen and i think you owe an explanation to the american people. I have not taken a penny from any foreign source ever in my life. Paul President Trump pressing joe biden to answer questions about his sons business dealings and what role the former Vice President may have played under bidens former Business Partner Tony Bobulinski claiming joe biden knew about and was involved in his unplanned deal with the Chinese Energy firm. Mr. Biden calling it a lastditch effort to smear his family. All right cam you have looked into all these texts and emails and metadata. What is the essence of the story . Wealthy essence of the story is first of all it happened. This is important because youve seen this effort by democrats and some in the media to suppress or to claim that this is russian disinformation but now we have a laptop that belonged to hunter supposedly. We have seen those emails and we now have mr. Tony bobulinski. His emails corroborate this deal actually happen and what it shows is hunter biden was actively out there attempting to cash in and he actually says as much in these texts. This raises important questions about again joe bidens involvement. He can say that he never took a penny but mr. Tony bobulinski said he was involved in the talks about his judgment and his son and what that means under biden presidency. Paul do we know anything at all about whether or not joe biden was an active shareholder . As you heard him say ive never taken a penny and you heard his campaign say look at his tax records but heres the important thing, two important things. One is that these documents show when this was being done that it was going to be hunter that was going to hold some of the equity in joes name according to the parties involved. There was always an attempt to keep this hidden. I think that is the most important part about it. Paul okay and bill . Some of our friends in the media have been saying now for 10 days or so when the New York Post came up with the first batch, because Tony Bobulinski came forward because he was mentioned in that first email story. They are saying this isnt really news, dont pay any attention to this. Its not worth it. What do you make of that argument . I think its part of the seed no evil, hear no evil speak no evil or did staggering people dont want to look at it. There are a lot of incriminating tax to joe biden allowing his family. We want to know if thats true and what i didnt hear last night, didnt hear the Vice President say these emails and texts are phony and the laptop is not hunters and frankly i didnt hear mask that question. This is all fake and we didnt get that. I think that texts speak for themselves but clearly they require further investigation. You have google, not google, facebook and twitter suppressing the story. Its just incredible. Paul what do you make of that joe bidens responses in the debate. He denied he received any money from any entity but he said youre just promoting what is russian disinformation. I have to say i am openminded about this. Where is the russian hand in all of this . The seems to me a lot of these critics are going back to four years ago, lets play the russia card. E well you know the director of National Intelligence John Radcliffe is said straight out that its not russian disinformation as has the fbi and so its a little odd that joe biden is trying to claim its all russian disinformation. It looks more solid than that but you know paulette set aside whether joe biden was actively involved in this or not. He in fact is running for the presidency of the United States and what we do know is true that he was Vice President his son was trading with burisma the Ukrainian Gas Company and two years later he is doing deals with the Chinese Investment company linked to china an adversary of the United States. At the very least this shows terrible judgment on the part of joe biden. When he was Vice President and candidate for United States he pulled out of public life life altogether and i guess hes entitled to do whatever he wants with his reputation but this just looks like the judgment of a person that you have dealt about trying to put them back into the oval office. Paul bill, where its as go from here do you think . I dont know. A lot depends on the next couple of days whether we find more emails. Kim has written about the new witness mr. Tony bobulinski so we will have to see what he says. The interesting thing is so far the more evidence we have seen it the more incriminating it is. We are seeing exonerating evidence here so i think people want to see the evidence. I do think it would put the former Vice President on the defensive over the next couple of days. Paul when. Paul will become back Key Senate Race is tight with just a week ago before the election. 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Paul as election day day approaches the battle for the United States senate is heating up with races that could determine control of the chamber tightening could the gop holds a narrow 5347 majority in the senate right now but republicans with 23 seats compared to 12 for the democrats so its a little over a week to go. Can republicans maintain their Senate Majority and what is at stake if democrats take control . Lets ask David Mcintosh president of the club for growth. David its good to see you and thanks for coming in. How big of a risk is that for the republicans losing control . I think they will pick up the alabama seat, lets stipulate that and that gets you to 54 but a lot of others are vulnerable. Why do you take us through those. Will do in the way we look at it there a nine republican seats that are vulnerable and one additional pickup in michigan. Those odds are not good. The good news is some of those states were ahead in the polls and the general environment is closing in favor of the republicans. Trumps numbers are coming up and starting with montana where we have been advertising 5 million worth of gains and others are too. He is ahead in the polls by three or four points almost outside the margin of error. I think that will close with a victory there. The other places that i think you can put down as leaning republican are georgias seats with senator perdue, South Carolina with Lindsey Graham and then you get to some close ones. Iowa and North Carolina and i think that is going to be the battleground to determine the majority with this other one in george, ii seat Kelly Loefflers senate seat. There were three that are going to be tough. The democrats have strong leads outside the margin of air in maine colorado and arizona. In maine Susan Collins is a tough candidate in an institution of her own but i wouldnt write her off. I think those three states are going to be tough. If we hold the line they are republicans will keep the majority even if we lose the white house. Paul you say that the polls have been closing some for donald trump. Is that an example of a rising trump tied lifts all senate votes because i mean, in other words is the senates fate links to donald trump . I think whether they keep the majority republicans have you have this be a close race at the president ial level. The democrats have a blowout then you are right it affects its on all the down ticket races. We have seen that consistently for six months now and the polling we do and a lot of these races. Our guys will go up when the president s numbers improve and then it narrows and it becomes a closer race when his numbers go down. Paul so the trend that is continuing with fewer ticket splitters where people just write one for the top of the ticket and one for the down ticket. Strategically if you are Senate Candidate in the state and you see that trump is underwater can you start to pivot and make an argument saying you know what, we need a Republican Senate as a counter to potential president biden. There are obviously risk with that because it suggested trump voters that youre cutting the president lives but as thats where we are going to be headed here in the last week . I dont think that will happen paul for a couple of reasons. One trumps debate reformists last night in the trent lott in the last week of him closing in on biden means its going to be close enough race that it wouldnt be worth doing that for the republican Senate Candidate. It would kick off the tough voter for one. Second a lot of these races are battleground states for the presidency. North carolina, arizona, iowa and so you are going to see a lot of parallel movement and those. Those senators and those candidates want the president to do well so they are going to be carrying that load as well as their own. Paul there has been some reports that in states you would expect to be contention are and thats the open seat for example the alaska cd van and Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. I hear that senator grahams support has gone up in the last week or so particularly linked to the judiciary hearings for judge barrett but i mean whats going on here and is it linked in part to the overwhelming abundance of money and the edge of money that democrats have nationwide . Money is a huge factor in most of our races where we are engaged we are seeing either a 50 or a 21 advantage for the democrats and he keeps piling in. Its like this huge green wave. Ive seen it referred to that. That said money is important in these elections but at some point it hits the saturation level and i have always believed