Joe Biden jumps into the race. House Democrats seek more investigations and the 2020

Democratic candidates desperately seek attention. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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Now, the Joe Biden campaign is apparently going to be run on the basis that Joe Biden is a return to normalcy. I know.

It's weird. Joe Biden, under any definition, would not be a return to normalcy. He's a gaff machine

who says dumb things all the time. He's a very controversial figure, historically speaking. He has a long record as a senator and his vice president of the United States. And if the focus is on Joe Biden, he doesn't look nearly as good as when the focus is not on Joe Biden. And so Joe Biden is going to run a campaign that looks kind of like Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2016. Namely, he's going to put all the focus on Donald Trump. The entire focus is going to be on Donald Trump. Now, it didn't work for Hillary. The reason that it didn't work for Hillary Clinton is because Hillary herself was a widely hated figure. She was much more hated than Joe Biden ever has been, mainly because Joe Biden has been a political afterthought for most of his career.

Even when he was vice president, Joe Biden was never considered a political force.

He was considered a career political guy who had failed a couple of times at running for president,

completely blew up in 2008 on platform.

So, you know, the idea that Joe Biden is as threatening as Hillary Clinton is simply not true.

So the question is, can Hillary Clinton's campaign win without Hillary Clinton?

That's really the question.

And after several years of President Trump being president, is the American public finally going to engage in a referendum on Trump?

Or will this become a referendum on Joe Biden?

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