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The Ben Shapiro show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Protect your online privacy today at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. All right, we have a lot to get to today. We'll get to everything involved in the Amy Coney-Barrant hearings. We'll also get to Joe Biden, who continues to stumble over himself. But it turns out that that doesn't matter because in the end, he is making this single referendum on Trump. We'll get to all that in just

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that the Democrats have no line of attack against Amy Coney Barrett. Now, the truth was they had no

line of attack against Brett Kavanaugh either. He was a very well-qualified jurist, and not only was

he well-qualified, but he had not really ruled on anything particularly controversial.

Connie Barrett has not really ruled on anything particularly controversial.

She's made some statements in her law review articles about how originalism ought to be

interpreted.

And those statements are well in line with traditional originalist philosophy.

So Democrats really don't have a great line of attack.

And therefore, they've come up with two lines of attack on Amy Coney Barrett.

One is that she's something out of the handmaid's Tale. Michael Moore yesterday tweeted out a miscolorized photo of Amy Coney Bear. She was

wearing what looked like a purple slash pink outfit yesterday, and he retouched it up so that she was

wearing red. And then he tweeted out that she was a member of the Handmaid's Tale, because as it turns out, every woman who has ever worn red is a member of the sex cult in the Handmaid's Tale. Right? It's great. So that means Elizabeth Warren, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Obama, all of whom have worn red at one point or another. The only reason that a woman would ever wear red is because she's a member of a cult from the Margaret Atwood novel. The other possibility, of course, is that it has not, I mean, first of all, you had to miscolorize the photo, but second of all, like, it turns out this is just stupid. So one attack on Connie Barrett is that she's religious, and all religious people are bigots and all bigots ought to be kept off the court. And that line of attack is very dangerous for Democrats. They've been shying away from that one a little bit. The other one is that it is just illegitimate for Republicans to fill the seat. Republicans should never under any circumstances fill the seat because Republicans did not fill the Merrick Garland seat. They didn't vote on Merrick Garland. Well, the reason they didn't vote on Merrick Garland is because Merrick Garland didn't have the votes. It turns out that they didn't have 51 votes for Merrick Garland. They do have 51 votes, as it turns out, for Amy Coney Barrett. So they were left with pretty much nothing except screaming and mulling and whining and yelling at the moon. Now, one of the questions here is how this is going to affect

the presidential race. A lot of people, including me, speculated that if Democrats went overboard

here, it would hurt Joe Biden in the same way that going overboard against Brett Kavanaugh and calling

him a gang rapist hurt Democrats for a brief moment in time before Trump redirected the nation's

attention toward the caravan, the illegal immigrant caravan moving up through Central Latin America, Central Latin America. Now, the Democrats have been careful not to do that. They've been careful to avoid that particular issue. Also, it turns out, I don't think the Amy Coney-Barrant hearings are going to have much to do with the election on a presidential level. On a Senate level, they could have something to do with it. And I know everybody in the world, I've been saying this for now a week. I know everybody in the world wants to focus in on the presidential race. Here are the facts about the presidential race right now. It is not a close race. That is the simple fact of the matter right now. By polling data, it is not a particularly close race. Joe Biden has been up consistently in double digits for at least three weeks.

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