Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis runs up against a media eager to charge him with racism.

The Democratic Socialists are on the march, and Cynthia Nixon goes mono-i-mano with Andrew Cuomo.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben-Shapiro show.

So I just want to clarify something. The phrase mono-imano doesn't actually mean man versus man.

It means hand-to-hand. Okay, so that wasn't a sexist comment that they went mono imano. That's actually what it means. So if you idiots start saying that was a sexist comment, it's just because you're stupid and you don't know anything about foreign languages. So there's a lot to talk about today. But before we do any of that, let's talk about your credit card debt, the fact that you're racking up those credit card charges, but you still need to spend money. Well, the reality is you don't need to be racking up these big credit card charges that have the giant interest rates on the back end. Instead, you need to go visit my friends over at Lending Club. With Lending Club, you can consolidate your debt or pay off credit cards with one fixed monthly payment. Since 2007, Lending Club has helped millions of people regain control of their finances with affordable fixed rate personal loans,. No trips to a bank, no high-interest credit cards. Just go to Lendingclub.com. Tell them about yourself how much you want to borrow. Pick the terms that are right for you. And if you're approved, your loan is automatically deposited into the bank account in as little as a few days. It's the number one peer-to-peer lending platform with over $35 billion in loans issued. So go to Lendingclub.com slash spend right now.

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tweeted something crazy out this morning. I don't know what Pope Francis thinks he is doing.

I don't know what he thinks his job is. And listen, I'm not a Catholic. So there are legitimately

a billion people who know more about Catholicism than I do on planet Earth. Maybe more

than a billion people who know more about Catholicism than I do.

But the basic information, as it has been conveyed to me, is that the Pope is supposed to be

communicating God's word on Earth, and he is the vicar of Christ. Is this correct? I think this is

the general idea. Well, this does not sound so vicarish, shall we say. Here's what he tweeted out

today. We Christians are not selling a product. We are

communicating a lifestyle. I didn't realize he was actually a guest starring on Mad Men this week,

but when Pope Francis says things like, we Christians are not selling a product, we are communicating

a lifestyle, he might want to think a little bit about the lifestyle that he and the church have

been communicating in the last few weeks. You know, the lifestyle that

says that a Catholic cardinal, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick can basically run around Stubbing

Seminarians, and he's not going to do anything about it, that Cardinal McCarrick can molest

children, and apparently that means that he should be put back in a position of public importance,

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