Old Joe makes his comeback. Kamala Harris gets whittled down to size and Barack Obama has a rotten evening.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

Oh man, what a debate last night. The spills, the thrills, the chills, the radicalism. I know. It was actually incredibly boring, but when you break it all down, it's not quite as boring as it seems. And the good news for you is that if you missed the entire debate, you saved yourself three hours and now you're going to get everything you need to know in the next 45 minutes or so. It's just going to be great. You're going to love it. Okay, so let's just jump right in. The big themes of the night, right off the top top Barack Obama is a loser it's not according to

Republicans this is according to Democrats Barack Obama must have been sitting home going what me

why me what what he is the most popular Democrat in America he has been for well over a decade

and the Democrats on stage except for Joe Biden because they were attacking Joe Biden decided it

was necessary

to take Barack Obama and then drive over him with a bus, and then put the bus in reverse,

and then drive over him in reverse. It was really amazing. So the Democrats, because they have to

differentiate themselves from the past and they have to look forward to the future, they've

decided that Barack Obama has to be left behind. That was theme of the night number one.

Theme of the night number two, all Joe Biden has to do is survive. Now, that is a difficult task for him. He was stumbling a little bit last night. He looked more energetic. He looked better than he had in the past. But he didn't look as energetic as he did even five or 10 years ago, obviously. He looks old up there that's going to be a problem against Donald Trump. But all he had to do was not make a big boo-boo and acquit himself fairly decently. He did that last night. So that means that Biden looks a lot more durable today than he did yesterday because he is the most electable Democrat out there. Everybody knows this. It is true from the national polling. It is true from the state polling. Joe Biden's positions are closer to the mainstream than any of the other Democrats on that stage. And also, it turns out that his old boss, Barack Obama, still kind of a popular dude. So Joe Biden, all he had to do was survive. He did. And then the third theme of the night was that Kamala Harris had a giant fail. Now, Kamala Harris was always a bit of a paper tiger, meaning she is good on the attack,

but she has no defense.

As a boxer, she lets her hands down way too much.

And because she does not actually have any core principles in which she believes,

that means that she makes herself vulnerable to anybody who does have core principles. She moves around a lot. In Nate Silver, the pollster over at 538, he has suggested

in the past that Kamala Harris looks a lot like Mitt Romney did for the Republicans, where she's sort of

shifting on her positions. On paper, she looks pretty good, but in reality not nearly as good as a

candidate. Kamala Harris was exposed last night. She was exposed in a very bad way, and this means that this race looks like

more and more, it's going to boil down to a two-person race between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren.

If it boils down to Joe Biden versus Elizabeth Warren, Biden is the nominee, and we get a Trump

Biden race, because that dynamic looks a lot like Hillary versus Bernie

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