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Today we'll be talking about the special election in California

and Joe Biden's steady national lead with his front porch slash basement campaign.

What is Obamacate? And then we'll turn to coronavirus and the future of social distancing

with a little from Anthony Fauci's Senate testimony yesterday.

And don't worry, I make sure Jonah gets to rant on, quote, coronavirus machismo.

Let's dive right in.

I

want to start with a headline out of CNN that Biden's lead is the steadiest lead on record for a really

long time. So basically he's leading in polls by an average of six points.

Not only is he up by six points in the last month or so, but the average of polls since the

beginning of the year has him ahead by six points. More overseeing and reports. All the polls

taken since the beginning of 2019 have him up six points. This is the steadiest

advantage running against an incumbent since 1944.

I don't want to get into who's winning in November. I think there's too much that can change

between now and then. But we had an election last night in a few states. But the one that I think

we should focus on is this Mike Garcia who looks like he will be elected in this California,

this very blue California congressional district. It's been held by Democrats since 1998.

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