quite early and january will show whether or not he can really pull it out and he very well may, but overall, he s ahead of trump. shannon: well, from the washington post, they say joe biden, the anemic front runner in his piece by paul waldman, says his candidacy has essentially been a series of small controversies over old positions and new misstatements with a type of debate performance are two types thrown in. the democratic primary contest is being led by someone who may not particularly enjoy running for president and is plainly not very good at it. chris, ethan talked about the fact that it s about beating president trump and it s essentially the answer that he sort of ended up with when he was asked about this, is that going to be enough? and that s i think the problem. ethan is right. joe biden i think would give democrats a good chance in the general election according to mike assuming the economy doesn t stay where it is, just because he is the more moderate of the can
shannon: counting down to 2020 while senator elizabeth warren writes the momentum from big crowd sizes and growing phone numbers all the way to next week s debate, some are questioning vice president joe biden s momentum. from the new york times mark lubavitch on certain days, 20 can feel more like a beautiful slob in the last part of a happy warrior. so let s analyze it with a host of left coast news, ethan berman and g.o.p. poster chris wilson. welcome to you both, gentlemen. pick a happy labor day, shannon. shannon: nt was well. that article goes on to use words like obligation responsibility to talk about why he was running and when he was asked why he really sort of stumbled all over that question and that didn t inspire confidence for a lot of the folks involved in the democratic primary. it really didn t. it was kind of is ted kennedy moment. if the one thing that everybody who works for the campaign knows that the candidate has to have an answer for, why he wants to b
to run for president. just because you want to beat the incumbent, doesn t make you a candidate who can articulate why voters should choose you. and i think it s a real challenge. i think ethan chooses or points out about biden what his strengths are. right now if you give their best general election opportunity, but in a primary, that s really not enough when you ve got a lot of the primary voters were looking for red meat socialism he s just not serving that up in a way that makes them happy. shannon: was put up a pole and, this is the average of real clear politics polling and when look at this, the numbers that sanders and warren they have a lot of similar positions, have together, that does beat biden. if one of them eventually drops out, is forced out of the race, ethan, do you think the further left coalesces behind at least one candidate in a way that will get him a real challenge, quickly? well, i mean that s the problem, i think bernie s expiration date was 2016 and i d
threats of violence. the hope is there will be consequences for canceling conservatives. shannon: thank you very much. is a real problem on campus or not? let s bring in ethan berman and charlie kirk. welcome to both of you. i want to play a little more of what the president had to say about why he signed this order today. under the guise of speech codes, safe space and trigger warnings these universities have tried to restrict free thought, impose total conformity and shutdown the voices of great young americans like those here today, all of that changes starting right now. shannon: why not require colleges that get federal funding into the billions to actually certify they are going to make sure regardless of
you keep ethan berman is a good talking with you reshape your insights come back and talk with us again on the day thank you. thank you so much well in all fifty us states and in washington d.c. students are walking out of classes today it is part of the national school walkout and is a protest of what students say is political resistance to enact tougher gun laws the walkout is being staged today to mark the ninety then a verse or three of the colombine high school massacre shooting and as the horror and the outrage from the february parklane shooting begins to fade students are facing yet again a congress and a white house that have taken no significant steps regarding gun control. was there a message couldn t be clearer i had. just a handful of the tens of thousands of students to have donned their books to demand