Trump and Biden gaff all over each other as the polls tighten.

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Don't let others track what you do. Keep yourself safe at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. Well, I will say that this campaign, it's beginning to tighten. The polls are showing that it's beginning to tighten just a little bit. There are several polls out in the last week that showed that President Trump is within national striking distance of Joe Biden, which is good news because you would assume that Trump is probably going to lose the popular vote. He could lose the popular vote by up to four points and still win the election if the votes happen in the wrong places for Joe Biden, if they all happen in California or Massachusetts or New York or Washington, D.C. In the swing states, Joe Biden still has a pretty solid lead in a lot of these various states, but he is not very far above where Hillary Clinton was in many of these states.

Florida, he's pretty well ahead of the pace set by Hillary Clinton, but he's well behind Hillary Clinton where she was in Pennsylvania.

He's well behind where she was at this time in places like Michigan, which suggests that this election ain't quite over yet.

Now, we are being deprived of the full glory and majesty of the clash of intellectual titans that is going on between President Trump and Joe Biden right now. And it would be astonishing to watch them both on the campaign trail, a man who probably cannot stay awake for more than about 37 minutes at a time versus a man who cannot stay focused for more than about 47 seconds at a time. And it is amusing to watch the two of them go at it. I'm looking forward to the debates. I've said before that the debates I think probably will happen. They won't happen with a crowd, which is a pity because that's President Trump's wheelhouse. When President Trump has a crowd, he plays to the crowd in ways that no one outside of the comic community would do. I saw a clip of Shane Gillis, the comedian back from March, talking about debates with Trump. And he said Trump is basically a stand-of-comedian and he would just bury you on stage. Like all these comedians who go out there and they say things like, he's a bad orange man, he's so bad. Trump would bury them if you were next on stage because that really is his specialty, is being a jerk in public to people. So that would be a disadvantage for Joe Biden, but we still have the somewhat muted pleasure of watching these two candidates just gaff regularly. Now, the difference between how the media treat the gaffs, that's what's truly astonishing. So Trump right now is making a lot of gaffes that don't go to substance. He's making a lot of gaffes that are kind of funny to look at, but don't really mean anything

in the long run.

So he saw the other day, he said about Yosemite, like the National Park.

He called it Yosemite.

And everybody went nuts because that's hilarious.

I mean, it is.

It's what I say to my fellow Jews, right as we are arriving at Shul, we're walking into, we're walking into synagogue.

I'm like, yo, semi, like, yeah, what's up with you? But, you know, is that like a gaff with content? Usually what a gaffe is, it's a revealing moment where you know something more about the candidate than you otherwise would. A gaffir something that is revealing, it's not just a malaprop. And right now, most of the gaffes that Trump is making are malaprops.

Most of the gaffes that Trump is making

are malaprops. Most of the gaffes that Joe Biden is making go to two things. One, the fact that he is increasingly senile. And two, the fact that he's kind of a little bit racist. He keeps making these weird gaffes with black Americans where he just says stuff that if Republicans said it, they'd be toast, they'd be trashed.

You remember that just a few weeks back,

he said to a black commentator, it was Charlemagne the God, he said, you ain't black if you don't vote for Joe Biden, which is patently crazy. Like Joe Biden being the adjudicator of blackness is pretty insane. That's a real white dude. That's a real white dude who used to hang out with segregationists and do legislation with them. So that's kind of strange. And the media just kind of, it was a story for a moment and then sort of got glossed over. Well, Joe Biden is making exactly those kind of gaffs pretty much every day. And the media are just glossing over them. The difference in media treatment truly is amazing. So let's begin with some of Trump's gaffes. These are the ones

that are taking top headline. And they really are taking top headline in a pretty serious way.

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