edge. a president sliding and now big backers bolting. what charlie gasparino is hearing. and the big election before the election at issue. whether virginia goes red and whether a republican governor can survive the fight of his life in mississippi. whether a democratic one in kentucky can get, well, re-elected in a usually ruby red state. all this day when the entire new jersey state senate is up for grabs and constitutional abortion measures in ohio are on the ballot. big day, big issues, big show. it all starts now. welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. so much to get to on this "your world." they say that money talks, but if you are one joe biden, what if the money walks? charlie gasparino on the falling poll wipeout in just a moment. first to jacqui heinrich at the white house and whether anybody there is freaking out at the moment. jacqui? >> well, maybe not freaking out. at least they're not letting on if they are. we do know that the president has apparently seen these polls. we'll play that sound for you in just a second. there's a batch over the weekend that obviously caused some concern within democratic circles. you had the president losing in hypothetical matchups to former president trump in five swing states. that was a "new york times" poll. then you had an abc poll shows 3/4 americans think the country is going in the wrong direction. officials here won't weigh-in on specifics. they did suggest that the president has had his eyeballs on these. take a listen. >> president biden has seen them? >> we have all seen the polls. i'm just saying that we have to take them as a general rule. we should take these polling with a grain of salt. >> some other news out of the briefing. the press secretary karine jean-pierre was asked about pro palestinian protesters tearing down posters of hostages that are being held by hamas in gaza and whether the white house thinks that that is appropriate or will condemn it. her initial answer was pretty weak. she said i'm not going to get in to specifics on that kind of thing. the reporter that asked said, well, can you take that question back in and see if you can get a better answer for us because it's caused a lot of divide in the country. sounds like she got a different answer. she just tweet add clarification to her earlier answer. it says as a result of the hamas terrorist attacks, communities and families are grieving. the past month the families of those taken hostage are in agony. tearing down the pictures of those being held hostage is wrong and hurtful. this sat least the second instance where karine has had to clarify an answer she gave in a briefing that didn't adequately defend israel or jewish people. the first being a couple weeks ago. she was asked about rising anti-semitism. she pivoted to an answer about islamophobia and issued a clarification. meantime, there's been 40 attacks on u.s. troops in iraq and syria since october 17. 46 service members now reporting injuries, traumatic brain injuries for some of them. we asked the why house whether the president's warning to the ayatollah that the iranian backed proxies have to stop hitting u.s. troops was sufficient. they said it was. but he might take another action. take a look at what john kirby told me a few minutes ago. >> had there been any additional warnings from the president since the last time we responded that this needs to stop? clearly the attacks on our troops didn't stop. >> i will not get into the decision making process or options before the commander-in-chief. i would tell you that we will continue to take the action that we believe is appropriate to protect our troops and facilities. >> not ruling out the possibility of some future response from the u.s. in his answer, he said the president felt that the u.s. taking out those facilities in an attack a couple weeks ago, retaliatory attack was sufficient and did have an impact because it took out some weapons storage facilities, neil. >> neil: thanks, jacqui. i appreciate it. meantime, it's one thing for the president to be losing support among some of his probably most friendly backers, but when they include donors and they have thick wallets and they're not opening them for you or potentially could close them for you, that bears watching. charlie gasparino with more on that side. charlie? >> neil, these are executives on wall street, full disclosures, those are my sources that have an open ear. they have the white house's ear, the top people in the democratic national committee. these are very powerful people and quite frankly they are in freak-out mode from what i understand. they are really worried that joe biden will not be able to beat donald trump. donald trump to them is the second coming of satan, if you ask them. this is the last thing that they want, last person they want as president. they don't believe joe biden has the wherewithal to do it. if joe biden is the nominee, obviously you'll see them support him. i don't know how much money they'll throw at him, but they will be support from these same donors. they are making it very clear to the democratic party leadership, to their sources in the white house that they don't think joe biden has the mental fitness and its mostly the mental fitness. they don't think he's up to the job of beating trump. they also believe just quite frankly when they tell this to the -- from what i understand, when the conversations go on, trump is a existential threat. they have a problem with him in terms of what he might pose given what happened on january 6. i'm not saying i agree with you on this, but this is the argument that they make to the white house. fall on your sword, uncle joe. get someone else in there that could beat donald trump. they also see the polls that show that. everybody else does kind of -- if you start sort of stacking up the other potential candidates, that i do better than biden against trump. so that's where we are right now. there's a lot of media ink spilled on the disarray in the republican party, the infighting that's going on. there's a lot of concern right now from the donor class in particular. that's my sources, not necessarily the white house. >> neil: that would have more impact if it turns out they're withholding giving money the campaign or as the months ensue following that up with more money. then the issue becomes, you got a year to go here. that's not a lot of time given deadlines in key states and filing for another candidate to take advantage of that unless it's kamala harris. many of them are not keen on her. >> yeah, she's not the answer obviously. they all know that. >> neil: are they saying that to you, charlie? she's not the backup we want? >> yes, she's not the backup. >> neil: so if they have their druthers who do they want? >> gretchen whitmire. gavin newsome. anybody that they think -- anybody of that stature could probably beat trump they believe. they do believe that trump is the likely nominee. now, a lot of them talk about nikki haley. you know, it's interesting. some of these moderate wall street dems wouldn't mind getting behind nikki haley. those are the conversations i hear. they're impressed by her foreign policy chops. at this point, it's anybody but trump. they don't think that biden can beat trump. you point out, it's a year from now. a lot can happen. donald trump hasn't really -- >> neil: that's a small pool of folks. we look at wall street generally as a republican bastion. >> neil, look at it this way. a lot can happen in a year. you think joe biden is going to be more mentally fit a year from now than he is today? that is what they are saying. that's the point. he's only going to get worse. you know, in the middle of the campaign, if he's really worse, that could all but doom his presidency. that's it. he could lose the race. the american people are not going to vote for somebody that appears mentally unsound or senile. that's what we're getting at here. that's the points they're making. i'm not saying he's is. i'm not a shrink. i don't know. as crazy as donald trump sounds, joe biden's mental instability, his weakness they feel is even a bigger impairment and could really hurt them. it's a vulnerability that -- >> neil: i got you. given their decisions in the past, i can question their mental soundness and sometimes -- look at you and me. it's in the eye of the beholder. >> i agree. . >> neil: thanks. this is election day. the biggest before the big one next year. about the same time to the day. a couple of key races we're focusing on. probably most importantly, what's going on as we speak in virginia where they hope to do something that they have not seen in the better part of a decade. rich edson has more from stafford, virginia. hi, rich. >> good afternoon. governor youngkin is a campaigning across the state. we caught up with him a couple miles here at another polling location. he said that virginia voters are going to the polls to determine the issues that are setting up a national conversation to go right in to the presidential election in less than a year. he's highlighting inflation, environmental regulation, stiff penalties for fentanyl users and education. he's confident that republicans will take control of the full legislature here. >> these are tight. we feel good, but these races will be decided by hundreds of votes in large turnouts. get out and vote. >> it's divided government in government. if the gop flips the senate, they plan to limit abortions after 15 weeks in the state. that's what the democrats have highlighted. former president obama has reported a robo call playing in virginia. he also posted progress in virginia is at stake in this election and there's no time to waste. every seat in the virginia general assembly will be on the ballot. president biden, vice president harris, they have endorsed nearly two dozen democrats in the closest races in this state saying whether it means protecting a woman's right to make her own healthcare decisions, defending voting rights or standing up for common sense gun safety laws, electing these candidates will protect our fundamental freedoming and keep virginia and our country moving forward. this is a state that governor youngkin, the republican, won by less than two percentage points. a year before that, two years ago in 2020, president biden won by 10 percentage points. neil? >> neil: thanks, rich edson in virginia. tanna joins us from "the washington examiner." let's say they succeed and the republicans have a full run of the table in the house of delegates there, the senate and the governor's mansion. what do they do with that? what message do they send to the rest of the country with that? >> primarily youngkin ran and won in 2021 by focusing on the schools. that's is what he got the northern virginia margin that is incredibly blue around youngkin was able to win 25% of the vote. he's able to build almost 10 points on top of donald trump's margin from 2020 because of the schools. youngkin has been able to use that executive power to codify some different things related to how you teach race in school, do you teach critical race theory, teacher mandates. codifying that with the legislature in order to make it last into a next administration, that needs to be done with both the house and the senate. yes, we have -- the gop has not had the governor's mansion, the state house and the state senate in ten years at this point. a key with youngkin is that he's not just aggressively campaigning for the general. but during the primary, he hand selected a lot of the candidates that go in these crucial purple districts. he wanted to make sure that he could get people that could cross the finish line and win over independent voters, win over democratic voters that are not happy under the covid regime and not happy during the school shutdowns. so it will all come down to turnout. also will this candidate quality be able to overcome that abortion message that really pushed back on the sensible red wave that was supposed to materialize last year. >> neil: even with the abortion message you alluded to, the fact of the matter is virginia is trying to find this middle ground that wouldn't tick off either side. 15 weeks is the trigger here. that seems to be acceptable. he has criticized other states that have gone and cut it off at six weeks or what have you. i'm wondering besides the way he played that, the way he played and kept his distance, not judging or saying anything bad about donald trump when he ran for governor a lot of people think since he can't run for re-election in virginia, you can't serve a second term concurrently, there might be other possibilities for him down the road. i don't know if it's too late to enter the race now. what are you hearing on that front? >> so youngkin is passing the filing deadlines to get in to any of these primaries. i think the myth that there will be a brokered convention to have youngkin save the republicans is more of a fantasy, even though he's clearly done -- clearly laid out a good road map for republicans in other states that they should follow. virginia will have a national senate election that he's eligible to sit for. with that being said, when you compare what the national gop has done over the last six years to what governor youngkin has been able to do in the last two, i could see someone like governor youngkin trying to run the rnc and do better than what we've gotten. staying out of the trump mania, the trump twister is always a good strategy. you can afford to do it on a state level. >> neil: he's doing it. we'll watch closely and see how things turn out tonight. so many contests that the world is watching, including in new jersey where republicans think they have a good shot of taking over the overall house to say nothing of the senate there. something that we have not seen in 20 years. we're following that. also following this death of an elderly jewish man at a pro palestinian rally in california. i'd say they're still looking into that death because to them, it's looking more and more like a homicide. after this. i have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. thanks to skyrizi, i'm on my way with clearer skin. 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months. and skyrizi is just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or a lower ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine, or plan to. nothing on my skin means everything! ♪ nothing is everything ♪ ask your dermatologist about skyrizi. learn how abbvie could help you save. 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>> neil: mike, when you talk to israelis and they talk about a palestinian protest going on in new york, countless of them around the region, you know, you're reporting from, do they get frustrated? do they not like this motion that somehow it's hamas winning the p.r. war with this global push for a cease fire? or cessation in activity? >> very frustrated. they feel like the world is out to get them. anti-semitism is on