Beto O'Rourke drops out of the race. Mayor Pete declares himself a top contender, and Elizabeth Warren's

dishonesty keeps coming back to Biter. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro show.

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slash Shapiro. Again, that's expressvPN.com slash Shapiro. All righty. So we have a lot to get here today, too, here today on the Ben Shapiro show. Forgive me if I'm slightly foggy, got off a 16-hour flight with my children back from Israel to Los Angeles. That is a long flight with small children. And then my kids decided it would be great to have like sort of a midnight

festivities. They got up at 12 midnight and we're up from 12 to 3. It's been a bit of a party.

But let's jump into the news of the day. So the news of the day, their latest news polls that show

that President Trump is lagging behind Joe Biden. So this is the great story of the Democratic campaign thus far. The candidates who are most likely to beat President Trump are the ones who are also the most likely to be sidelined by the Democratic electorate. So all the people in the primaries who are doing the worst are the people who are most likely to do pretty well against President Trump, with the exception of Beto O'Rourke,

whom we'll get to in just one second because we have to bid a fond farewell to Beto. You can go back to smoking dope and eating Arizona dirt and all the things that make Beto, Beto. We'll get to Beto in that skateboard around. We'll get to Beto in a second. But there's a new poll out from Fox News, and it shows that in a hypothetical matchup,

Joe Biden continues to top President Trump nationally by 12 points. According to Fox News,

Democratic primary voters increasingly feel the need to nominate a candidate who can beat President

Trump in 2020, and more think Joe Biden can do that than any of the other top Democratic hopefuls.

In addition, while most Democratic primary voters are satisfied with their field, more than a quarter which they had other options, which is why there is a new snap poll showing that Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, if Hillary were in the race, would be running similarly at the top of the ticket, meaning that Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden would be running very similarly nationally in the Democratic primaries, which is why I've said Hillary's a fool to stay out.

I mean, what is she risking her here? Her incredible reputation for victory? Like, what's the worst that happens? She runs, she loses, and then she becomes a nine-time loser as opposed to an A-time loser. Like, what exactly does she have to lose here? Biden leads the nomination race with the backing of 31% of Democratic primary voters, according to this new Fox News poll.

Followed by Elizabeth Warren all the way down at 21%, Bernie at 19. the nomination race with the backing of 31% of Democratic primary voters, according to this new Fox News poll,

followed by Elizabeth Warren all the way down at 21%, Bernie at 19, and Pete Buttigieg all the way down

at 7%. In early October, Biden was at 32, Warren, Warren, 22, Sanders 17, Buttigieg, 4. Kamala Harrison,

Andrew Yang, are each at 3% followed by Cory Booker, Tulsi Gabbard, and Amy Klobuchar. Now, as I say, Klavichar would probably do better against Trump. Gabbard would probably do better against Trump. Maybe even Booker would do better against Trump than somebody like Elizabeth Warren. Biden would do best against Trump among all of these nominees. And he is the person who is apparently fading in these early contests.

And if you look at the polls in Iowa, if you look at the polls in New Hampshire, what you see

is that Joe Biden is fading in a lot of these state polls, even though he's doing well national.

He's actually up over the past few weeks in the national polls. He actually increased his lead

over Elizabeth Warren. In the national polling, he currently has an 8.8% lead in the real clear politics poll average, which is kind of shocking, because if you were to just follow the polls for the last month, you would have thought, okay, this thing has really narrowed for Joe Biden, but it hasn't narrowed for Joe Biden. In fact, precisely the opposite. As of a couple of weeks ago, Joe Biden was up only five points on Elizabeth Warren. He's now up eight points on Elizabeth Warren.

There was a point in this race where he was up at 28% in the real-clear politics poll average and choose it like 23.

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