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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 1817 - It’s FIGHT NIGHT #2

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Republican candidates go at each other to see who’s up for the challenge of taking on Donald Trump; Trump’s fraud ruling could be the most damaging blow to his candidacy yet; and a mass crime spree engulfs the nation.  Click here to join the member exclusive portion of my show: https://utm.io/ueSEj   Ep.1817   - - -     DailyWire+:   Watch Episodes 1-6 of Convicting a Murderer here: https://bit.ly/3RbWBPL   Become a DailyWire+ member to gain access to movies, shows, documentaries, and more: https://bit.ly/3lfVtwK   Get your Ben Shapiro merch here: https://bit.ly/3TAu2cw    - - -    Today’s Sponsors:   ExpressVPN - Get 3 Months FREE of ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/ben   PureTalk - Switch to PureTalk and get 50% off your first month! https://www.puretalkusa.com/landing/shapiro    Boll & Branch - Get 15% off your order with promo code Shapiro at https://www.bollandbranch.com/   PrizePicks - Use code "BEN" to receive a 100% instant deposit match up to $100: https://prizepicks.com/Ben    Balance of Nature - Start your journey to better health! For a limited time, get 35% off your first order as a preferred customer. Use promo code SHAPIRO at checkout: https://www.balanceofnature.com/     Grand Canyon University - Find your purpose at Grand Canyon University: https://www.gcu.edu/   - - -   Socials:   Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3cXUn53   Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QtuibJ   Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3TTirqd   Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPyBiB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Republican candidates go right at each other to see who's up for the challenge of taking on Donald

0:04.0

Trump. Trump's fraud ruling could be the most damaging glowed to his candidacy yet and amassed

0:08.0

crimes free engulfs the nation. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show. Today's show's

0:17.3

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0:39.1

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0:43.9

Okay, so last night was the second big Republican debate.

0:47.1

By big, I mean, Donald Trump wasn't part of it.

0:49.1

And of course, there's no way to talk about the debate without talking about the fact that the frontrunner by 30 points

0:54.2

in the national average right now was not part of the debate. And when the frontrunner isn't there,

1:00.1

it turns into a bit of a crab pot, meaning everybody's just pulling each other down. There's no way

1:04.7

to avoid that sort of optic. The question is, is anyone going to emerge from that crab pot

1:10.6

to actually challenge Donald Trump?

1:12.6

Now, here's the reality. Believe it or not how, we're still pretty early in this race.

1:16.6

It is only September 28th. At this point in the 2008 race, which is sort of the last open primary

1:22.1

race that we had before Trump stepped onto the scene. In 2008, at this point, there was a running

1:27.2

gun battle between Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee for the Republican nomination.

1:32.2

In fact, even in the 2016 Republican primary polls, Donald Trump was leading at this point, but he wasn't like way out ahead.

1:40.0

It was still pretty competitive at this point. In other words, some things can still happen.

1:44.3

Now, is that likely?

1:45.4

Is that the most likely thing to happen?

1:47.0

It's not the most likely thing to happen.

1:49.0

However, it is pretty obvious that Donald Trump has some vulnerabilities in places like

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