Nancy Pelosi is sworn in as the new Speaker of the House. The far left makes its policy pitch,

and the shutdown continues. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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I mean, if you look at how the new Democratic Congress, all the Democrats are sworn in. And it's a beginning of a new

dawn. I mean, if you look at how the media portrayed this, it was fresh faces galore. Diversity.

Beautiful diversity. Diversity of the radical left, because it turns out that all the Democrats

had to do when they took office was not be completely insane, and they just

couldn't do it. It's truly amazing. If you look back at the last days of the 2018 campaign,

the key question in the 2018 campaign was going to be, who were voters going to focus on?

Were they going to focus on the foibles of the Republicans, or are they going to focus

on the myriad stupidities of the Democrats? In the aftermath of the Judge Kavanaugh hearings, where Democrats proved themselves to care nothing

about due process or decency, Republicans skyrocketed in the polls because all the focus

was on how terrible the Democrats were. And then President Trump shifted the topic from Judge

Kavanaugh to the caravan and to his border policies. And suddenly, the focus was

on Republicans and people decided they didn't like the Republicans. And they ran screaming from

the Republicans. And Republicans ended up losing the popular vote in the House by 8.6 percentage

points. The same thing happened in 2016. The question was, is the focus on Hillary or is the

focus on Trump? When the focus was on Trump, Trump went down in the polls.

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