Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast to date is Thursday August 1st, 2019.

I'm John Pajor. It's the editor of commentary magazine, the 70-odd year-old monthly event

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Greenwald High Abe. Hi, John. Associate editor No Rothman. Hi, Noah. Hi, John. And in

Washington senior writer Christine Rosen, high Christine. Hi, John. Okay, so debate.

The two debates. So I'm going to give you my top line that by next week, the

middle of next week, Joe Biden will be approaching 40% in the in the

Democratic primary polling that I think that is probably nationally, nationally,

that is probably the main result. We can go into, you know, deep detail on why or

what happened or what happened. But he was not knocked off his pedestal. He's

rising. He's been rising. And I don't see any reason to think that that rise is

going to stop particularly as almost every other minor candidate took a big

hit. And I think Kamala Harris took the biggest hit of all. So that's my take.

That's my big overview take. Christine, do you have a big overview take? Not quite

that big, but I do think what's what's been interesting, particularly after last

last night's debate is just how strained the media reaction to Biden's

performance has been. It's almost like the Trump has so shifted the goalpost for

what is appropriate, a political demeanor that Joe Biden actually being a

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