Elizabeth Warren gains in the polls. Democrats struggle with their own radicalism and President Trump's

Afghanistan policy collapses into chaos. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

There's nothing like re-emerging from a beautiful weekend to come back into a studio where it

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Text Ben, my name, to 47-47-47. Okay. So we begin this week, which is a big debate week,

right, because later this week is the first

debate in which Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden will share a stage. Bernie Sanders will be there too.

In all likelihood, this turns into a gang attack on Joe Biden by Bernie Sanders and by Elizabeth

Warren and by Kamala Harris and by Cory Booker. And that's because the dynamics of the race

have shifted somewhat. Right now, if you are Kamala Harris or Cory Booker. And that's because the dynamics of the race have shifted somewhat. Right now,

if you are Kamala Harris or Cory Booker, what you are figuring is that Elizabeth Warren looks

like she is taking a huge chunk of Joe Biden's white support. And if Joe Biden should collapse,

is the black support that Joe Biden currently has? Is that support going to shift over to

Elizabeth Warren? Or is it more likely that it shifts

over to somebody like a Kamala Harris or to somebody like a Cory Booker, which is why they're

still in the race? Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders is still clinging to the hope that he is the great

progressive alternative to Joe Biden, not Elizabeth Warren. And that hope is not completely

unsupportable. The fact is that there are several polls that show that Bernie Sanders on a national level out polls Elizabeth Warren. But Elizabeth Warren is doing really well in a lot of these early states and it's still extremely early. And Joe Biden continues to gaff and gaff and gaff and gaff. He's an extraordinarily weak frontrunner. As I've been saying, four months, Joe Biden's best day would be his first day,

and that has been obviously true. Over the weekend, Joe Biden stumbled some more. He was in Manchester,

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