This the Ingraham Angle thanks for being with us tonight. On the skids. Thats the focus of tonights angle. Advantage on which party is better at handling the economy. , the economy remains the top concern in every poll out there for the american people. Will do any of you really think that biden has any clue as to how much political troubling he is in right now . Or that anyone is really telling him inside the white house how bad things are across the country . Folks, not say true our Economic Vision is working, creating jobs, building wealth, providing communities with a sense of dignity. Laura oh, yeah. Thats all happenings. But, for most of us, we cant unsee or unfeel the truth. And the truth is on most of the big issues, democrats under biden have gotten their way. Pretty much everything they wanted on the economy, the energy sector, the border, schools, urban policy. Its all the way they want it. All of it. And under democrat control, all that was happening, well, america is in a death spiral. In chicago, a violent attack and the mugging of a man just minding his business in an alleyway. [bleep] what the [bleep] get the [bleep]. [shouting] in new york, a couple was robbed by a dozen teens. And in l. A. , a 13yearold is assaulted by a grown woman. According to cassidy and her mom, cassidy was with a couple of classmates when she stopped off at mcdonalds in harbor city on her walk home from school september 6th. [screams] before she could get home safely, an unidentified woman cornered her in the Fast Food Restaurant and began attacking her. Cassidy says the attack was unprovoked. These are senseless acts of depraved, hideous violence. Its engaging and also breaks your heart at the same time. These brazen criminals are beating their victims senseless almost for fun. No fear of the Justice System not at all. Why . Because in democrat run states the Justice System mainly exists to handcuff the police and also make progressives feel better about themselves. Were going to promote Public Safety and respect through the evolution of neighborhood policing. And on the federal level, we all know the Justice System exists mainly to get biden reelected. Thats why the cartels, they are not afraid of the fbi. And the smugglers arent afraid of customs and Border Protection as well. And the runofthemill thugs . Come on, they are not afraid of police. Again, there are zero consequences. But, the real world consequences of democrat policies, they are piling up. The loss by retailers from theft last year alone reached 112 billion. And by the way its not just the luxury outlets like louis vitton, its Department Stores and smaller outlets and, of course, the bigger stores, nordstroms, macys and apple. Of course, the left calls this consumer reparations, yeah. Or describes the thefts as a Desperate Cry For Help from the oppressed and marginalized, thats one much my favorites. In fact, businesses deserve, they think, to lose money because, lets face it, they are probably racist anyway. So goes the left wing argument. But you, in the real world, businesses are not in the business to lose money. But to make it. And now, target is announcing that its closing nine stores in major american cities. Now, this broke just a day or so before cvs announced it was Closing Stores as well, a lot of them, 900 by the end of 2024. Now, though the Pharmacy Chain cited increases in Online Shopping as the major factor. I dont believe that crime has got to be a major factor as well. Again, they are not in the business of losing money. And hardworking americans, they dont expect to go backwards, either. But thats how most of us feel after living in the biden economy. The white house treated the failure of bidenomics, remember, a couple months ago, as a p. R. Problem. They just needed to sell it differently. But, we know its not about the messaging. Its about the policies that make things worse in every way. If you want to know by the way where gas prices are really headed . Check out what is happening at the pump in california. 10gallon. Every day you come and its higher. Yeah. I dont know what were going to do. Its too much. Not much i can do about it. Frustrating . Yeah, man. A little higher than i want. Thats for sure. Laura every day it seems that the Biden Administration is taking more federal lands as well off the books for drilling and exploration. We know what that is going to do to the price of oil and gas. But no wonder oil by the way is predicted to be headed to 150 a barrel. High energy costs we know this isnt othisis one of the biggesn the family budget. Connected to everything we buy and travel. This connects to the fact that real median Household Incomes are down as well. At this point, now, think about this for a minute. Its almost a certainty that next year when americans vote, their real Median Household Income will be lower than it was in 2019. Thats bidenomics. But dont worry, intrepid democrats, the country may be in a flat spin, but bidens handlers believe they know how to keep his prospects for reelection strong. Sneakers. Axios is reporting that staff is extremely concerned that biden could fall on his face again, given his past tumbles, lets face it. Making sure he doesnt trip is what they are calling their critical project. Forget the border. Forget getting the economy going. But how to keep the Chief Executive chiefly upright. Well, they have him working with a therapis physical therapist tn his balance which i guess has been going on for two years. My favorite part, is he wearing sneakers to prevent him from slipping. But Operation Tennis Shoes may not be working so well because biden ran to michigan today to meet with a striking uaw workers before trump arrived there tomorrow. Instead of stealing trumps thunder. Biden almost fell again while exiting air force one. Even when he went on those shorter stairs. But, of course, bidens fragile state, the countrys dire straits, that doesnt matter to the plut Toe Democrats on the bay area who are ponying up big time later this week at a pair of fundraisers for biden. Now, why do you think the uber rich from a dying city want to keep biden in office . I will tell you why. Because they want to see wages, what, go up for working beam . Of course not limitless illegal immigration bringing in an endless pool of cheap workers to the United States and, of course, more job outsourcing to asia. Playing nice with their pals in china. Thats why they are supporting joe biden for more years of joe, four more years that crime is going to increase. More jobs overseas, millions of more illegals declining academic skills. War in ukraine, gas prices klein. Fewer people owning cars, inflation high. No end in site for high interest rates. Of course a china bailout. You know thats coming now, three years ago, there was the possibility it was remote, but it was there, that biden would embrace this role as a caretaker to help americans get back to normal and to restart the economy post pandemic. I think millions of americans actually believed thats what joe biden would do. You can feel it the country is teetering on the edge. We are on life support. But bidens big donors and those who actually write what is on his little note cards he brings into the oval . Their primary goal is to permanently and radically change america and theyre on their way and is he their best tool for accomplishing that. But, fortunately the voters who have seen this carnage up close and personal, will have the chance to, you know, turn this death spiral around and turn us back towards the life of freedom and greater prosperity that we all love. And thats the angle. All right, joining me now and im delighted he is with us, 2024 republican president ial candidate Governor Ron Desantis from the great state of florida. Governor, i cant see your shoes, but are you wearing sneakers like our current president . How is your balance today, governor . How are you doing there . No. Were balanced just fine and part of the reason of that is, you know, in florida, were defying the national mood. Were number one in economy, education, our crime rate is at 50 year low because we are basically doing the opposite of what joe biden is doing. We have rejected bidenomics and we support our men and women in law enforcement. We have done more as a coastal state to help secure our border than joe biden has done as the president of the United States we have sent people to help in texas. We have interdicted illegals in the sea coming into florida would have helped to support marthas vineyard. We are getting results. Laura governor, the latest cbs poll out of New Hampshire shows you are in second, albeit a distant second behind trump. You are at 13 . Is he at 50 . Similar numbers. You have more like 21 , i think, in iowa. How do you go from number 2 to number 1 given trumps huge lead in the polls . Well, laura, this is our time for choosing. We are not going to get a mulligan on the 2024 election. We have had three straight election cycles in a row where democrats have a playbook to beat republicans. And if we repeat that same playbook in 24, we are going to lose. We are supposed to have a big red wave in 2022. I thought your monologue was excellent outlining the problems. All those problems were there in november of 2022. Republicans have should have Capital Litzed on that by winning a huge red wave. And this did not happen. Voters chose democrats over some of our candidates in florida redelivered historic reelection victory. Thats because we delivered on our promises. As you look forward, the time for talking is over, i look at the border situation i look at the budget situation, these are issues that the republicans have been talking about for decades, and, yet, they still persist. Im the only guy running that can say everything i promised my voters i would do, i delivered on 100 percent of the promises. So, yes, i will beat biden. Even more importantly than that, im the guy that will actually deliver 100 percent of the results that we need to turn this country around. Laura governor, how do you, on the economy, for instance, you know, trump did preside over almost historic increase from Household Income from the beginning of his administration to right before covid. Several thousand dollars for the average family. Thats a real track record. I know you have a track record in florida, obviously, its a phenomenal state. But why will you or how will you deliver better economic results than the guy who did deliver great economic results the first time around . Well, i mean, you kind of just acted like covid doesnt matter. He made the decision to turn the country over to anthony fauci. Those decisions, i think, were bad. They were mistaken decisions. But that led to the borrowing and printing of trillions of dollars. They did 4. 2 trillion just in 2020 before biden even took office. Of course, biden added gas to the fire but that is why peoples prices have gone up. Its because of what washington did to inflate the currency and inflate the prices but heres the thing about this, laura. But he says he says that he did everything right. He said he wouldnt do anything different. In florida, you know, we were listening to them and then after a few weeks im like this is not right and we went in our own direction. Our Median Income is still going up, even through covid because we chose freedom over faucism. So i think our economic track record where we have actually paid down almost 25 of our states debt since i have been governor, we have run big budget surpluses, done big tax cuts and have the number one state for new business formations. Thats the track record we need to bring to washington and i will be able to get the job done. Laura well, if you if you were on stage with president trump. If he was at the debate, how would you go at him . You know, because i understand what you are saying about fauci. I was one of the biggest fauci detractors in the spring i think before when you still had the state shut down in florida, i was hitting fauci every day. I agree with your assessment on that. But, it hasnt bridged that gap for you on the National Polls or even the state polls as maybe powerful as it is. So, donald trump standing next to you on that stage, imagine he was. How would you go at him in order to kind of, again, shrink that gap from two to one . Well, i think its interesting that he is not willing to stand on that stage. I think he owes it to all the voters to show up, defend his record, articulate what he would do going forward, what he might do differently. And he is not wig to do that. I think voters have the right to hear from all the candidates. He has not been willing to step up and do it. He should step up to the plate and then we will do it. I think we can talk about a lot of the things. He is running in 2024 on a lot of the same promises he ran on in 2016 and didnt deliver on. He said he was going to drain the swamp. They didnt drain the swamp at all. He still defends hires christopher wray. He didnt fire wray. He didnt fire fauci. He said mexico woe was going to pay for the border wall. They started the wall. We have a lot more to do to finish the wall. He said he was going to eliminate the national debt. They added almost 8 trillion to the debt in four years. Remember, he promised to appoint a Special Counsel for hillary clinton, then after the election, two weeks later, he is like oh, no, forget about it. Thats what you say before the election. Its not what you say after. Now he is saying he is going to do one for biden but he had promised to do that in 2016. I think its about you have got to deliver on these things. If we do the same thing and we dont deliver on 100 percent, were not going to turn the country around. Nows the time to deliver results. Were going to be the reagans library. He said it was a time for choosing. It was our rendezvous with destiny. This election is for our generation we are less free and prosperous than the one we inherited. It. Governor really quickly the person closest to you in the most of the polls is nikki haley from South Carolina former governor there, former ambassador to the u. N. She is more of a, you know, she is more of a bush republican, i think. And people like john dan forth, mitt romney says the Republican Party has to go back to that Republican Party. Not the Populist Party that you and vivek and trump really represent, which is about 84 of the electorate right now if the polls are accurate. How do you respond to the Cheney Crowd Corporatism is a dead end for republicans. Are you for people working hard every day or some of the fat cats. Not a good place to be politically. Also as a matter of policy. Thats a perversion of free market principles. We very seen corporations go very woke. Nikki attacked me for standing up for the kids much florida. She sided with disney when we had the big fight over parents rights and education. We took the position that you shouldnt sexualize curriculum in elementary school. Disney fought us. They tried to stop the bill. Then they tried to get the bill repealed afterwards. And we stood strong against the most powerful company in our state. I think she has indicated she would have bent the knee in that situation, i think thats been more indicative of her approach. That asproch a dead end. I took all the flack from the media for so long and here we are, our kids are protected. Disney doesnt have any more special tax breaks and we are just humming along doing great. It shows you if you are willing to stand strong and hold your ground, you can win these fights. Ill be the only guy on that stage tomorrow night who has actually dug, in fought these big fights and delivered big victories. Laura and, governor, are you scared that we have, gavin newsom is going to be in the audience getting ready for the date with him moderated by my colleague sean hannity . Is that making you nervous . I think its great. California is a symptom of american decline. Florida shows the pathway for american revival. Lets have that debate. Can i tell you, laura, i know we are winning between the two states because i have so many california License Plates showing up in my state that never happened when i was a kid growing up and now all of a sudden we see them. And we are down in Southern California now for the debate. I can tell you as someone who did navy duty in coronado, some of the bes weather in the world. Place to be. They have done so poorly on crime, homelessness, the woke iideology and lockdowns that people are fleeing. Laura all right, governor. We look forward tomorrow night. We look forward to your debate with newsom as well. Thank you so much for joining us. Disturbing new details about what happened after two teens allegedly mowed down that retired police chief who was riding his bike and foxs jeff paul is live in our west coast newsroom with all of that, jeffer . Yeah, laura, as someone who has heard the 911 call obtained by tmz. Its tough to listen to knowing that the man later died. The call was made by his apple watch that that cyclist was wearing. Retired police chief Andreas Probst as you can see in this video was riding his bike when he was hit from behind. Shortly after his apple watch recognized that he had taken a hard fall and was unresponsive and automatically dialed 911 to get to his location. During the call you can also hear what sounds like in the saying police and medical need to be called. Also another 911 call made by a different cyclist who police say was hit by the same car. This car just ran me over on my bike. He got behind me. I was watching in my Rear View Mirror on my bicycle. Im going oh [bleep]. I got as far as to the right up against the curb as i could.