President Trump's communications team can't set the record straight on the president's health.

Trump takes an ill-advised ride around the hospital, and Democrats try to conceal their glee as they

politically maneuver. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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It looks like he's going to be totally okay.

You know, we will watch. right now. Okay, so first, let's start with the state of the race because thank God it looks like the president is going to be fine. It looks like he's going to be totally okay. We'll watch the health as it progresses over the course of the next week. We'll get to his health condition in just a moment because it turns out that it's really more about the sort of topsy-turvy comms of it all, the communications of it all over the weekend rather than the president's actual health. But the state of the race

seems to be breaking very strongly in Joe Biden's direction. That is not a great shock after President

Trump's very bizarre debate performance last week. And then after his COVID diagnosis,

he would expect that the polls would begin to open a fair amount. And as you see from the new

Wall Street Journal NBC News poll, this is exactly what you see. Joe Biden now leads the president 53 to 39 among registered voters in the new poll.

Now, registered voters isn't really what you're looking for. Really you're looking for likely

voters. That is a large lead, however, for Biden. He has increased the lead from an eight-point

advantage last month to a 14-point lead today that came just before Trump tested positive

for COVID, which of course was bad news for Trump. The survey actually found that the individual

news event, the debate was having a material effect on Trump's political standing, at least for the

moment. One of the reasons, again, was because Trump sort of reinforced the fact that he was at the

center of the

race. As I have literally been saying for years at this point, if this race is a referendum on Trump,

he's going to lose. If this race is a referendum on Biden and the radicalism of the Democrats,

then maybe the Democrats lose. But there are certain areas where Trump is really starting to trail

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