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Everyone. there's a need for affordable housing and medicaid needs to be expanded. you'll see a sharper distinction between her and kemp on those issues. the closing message is the economy. i think you'll see probably more talk about abortion. there wasn't as much discussion of abortion in the last debate. and i think probably she is going to hit that harder in this debate. because that is such a clear difference between those two candidates. >> that was something that really animated many voters, especially in the democratic party and independents. that's in the summer. the hope amongst democ...

The president claiming his administration is making progress in the fight against inflation and worrying republicans will make the economy worse if they regain control of the house and senate. will voters buy his closing message? we will ask karl rove. when a president -- any candidate changes the argument in the last couple weeks, what does that tell you about the way the campaign is and particularly the economic message? >> a dose of reality hit the white house staff, they have to talk about the issues on top of everybody's minds. the problem is they decided to take a self-congratulatory ton...

The mood or doesn't match with how people are feeling. the president and vice president will be in pennsylvania to campaign for john fetterman. will it energize undecided voters? >> that's -- of course, that's the big question. you're seeing this bifurcated message. as we're seeing president biden pivot very strongly towards the economy, we keep saying consistently the democrats want that to be the closing message. if there's one guy in the democratic party who can actually focus on, you know, the sanctity of elections, the rule of law and women's reproductive rights, it's going to be barack o...

Crime is now central to the closing message for republicans in this midterm cycle. nationally the gop has portrayed the city of angels as nothing less than a hellscape. >> every day there are stabbings, rapes, murders, and violent assaults of every kind imaginable. >> we talk about the rising crime rates nationally, but in california, specifically in l.a. >> this is literally what i would call woke justice, and i'm tired of it and people are tired of it. >> hyperbolic? alarmist? perhaps. but crime and homelessness are real problems in los angeles. homicide there is up almost 17% from two years...

That the economy is in a better shape than i think a lot of market participants had expected, now has real data to point to. it gives you a little bit of a sense or at least a better sense that maybe there's a better shot at what we call a softer landing in terms of what the federal reserve is doing. so definitely a good thing for the economy today, and perhaps when you think about the politics of it all, a good thing for the democrats this morning. >> so, andrew, actually stand by, because we also want to follow up with you on a few other business stories including kanye west showing up at sk...