President Trump tests out his 2020 message in a crucial North Carolina special election bellwether.

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

All right, well, today is a big election in North Carolina's ninth congressional district.

Now, why do special elections like this matter?

Well, typically people say that they are a bellwether.

Ooh, a bellwether.

We're going to find out whether this is a microcosm of the American electorate at large.

And very often, these cases don't end up actually being bellwethers.

We saw a few of them.

In the last election cycle, people thought that what happened in Georgia, they had a congressional special election,

John Ossuff, narrowly lost that seat. We saw a couple of other very narrow congressional elections

in special election districts, and people saw it on the right as a bellwether for Trump,

and on the left as a bellwether anti-Trump. We saw this in 2011 as well in the lead up to 2020 in the lead up to 2012. There were a couple of special elections. One was in New York City. Anthony Wiener lost his seat. He was replaced by a Republican Bob Turner. In Nevada, there was a special election where a Republican replaced a Democrat. And Republicans sort of convinced themselves that that

was indicative of a wave, a Republican wave in 2012. Well, the Republican wave never arrived in 2012.

It sort of crashed several miles offshore. Democrats are seeing the same possibility in North Carolina.

So it's easy to overread the effect of these sort of special elections a year and a half out.

We don't even have a Democratic nominee for president as of yet. However, it is indicative of at least a

warning sign for Republicans if Democrats were to win this North Carolina district tonight. Why?

Well, because this particular district was won by President Trump, not by two points, not by four points,

not by eight. This was won by 12 points in the by two points, not by four points, not by eight.

This was won by 12 points in the last election cycle, last presidential election cycle for

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