hampshire thursday. let s take a listen. elizabeth warren, i did the pocahontas thing. i hit her really hard. and it looked like she was down and out. but that was too long ago. i should have waited but don t worry, we will revive it. it can be revived. it can be right? is this tough talk a sign that the president views warren as a threat? s warren is a threat. warren is a threat because biden s popularity is largely a result of this nostalgia that the democratic party has for the obama years. but joe biden has indicated during the campaign that he s really not as sharp as elizabeth warren. she is very much the policy wonk. she s quick with the details, and she always has an answer for
i need to take you out. i want what you have. some people are saying it s personal. whatever. he had a plan. want at him for being shallow on policy, wrong about this. he had done his research and said beto o rourke hadn t. it got castro a splash. what did it do to beto? i think it fulfilled a prophesy, when it comes down to policy wonk, he is not there. he was bumped up by the media during his texas senate race. came into this campaign with a lot of positive energy from the media. lf all of a sudden you start looking is it just a mask? once you dig deep, there s not a lot there. i think that was the stereotype going in about beto o rourke. tonight he did in no way dis. he is a shallow candidate. is buttigieg in the beto position tomorrow night in the biden debate to have as many as i could fit into one sentence? as someone who has
veneer, but the media kind of perpetuates narratives that it wants to be true. so you had vogue recently calling pete buttigieg the sexy guy who is also a policy wonk. i don t remember at any point reading a really definitive piece on pete buttigieg s policy. he does the opposite. he said i m not going with policy details right now. i m introducing myself. tomorrow night is the night for buttigieg that tonight was for o rourke. buttigieg is another guy who had his apple polish by the media. hes that to break through that veneer and show. because there will be some sort of castro on the stage tomorrow i imagine trying to break that facade and veneer the way he did for o rourke. while i do appreciate the subtlety of intelligence especially when it comes to the reckoning of the left. but at the end of the day, it s a scrap. that s what the debate, especially when you have a dozen people up there on the stage. what is the test for biden tomorrow?
socialism narrative that president trump has sought to create from the very beginning of this year. you would imagine that, you know, on the debate stage this week, remember that elizabeth warren will not be there. interestingly right next to bernie sanders. i think joe is right that she sort of set the tone in that, you know, everybody needs to be a policy wonk now. but it s going to be joe biden and bernie sanders sitting next to each other. so i think that s an interesting dynamic to watch. i m curious how much joe biden is actually going to is he going to directly come out and critique the sort of socialism narrative of some of his rival candidates? is he going to stay away from it? is he going to try to remain above the fray? and so in that sense, we haven t really heard from biden yet what his response is to this large number, very ambitious but also aspirational plans from some of his rivals. i want to talk about what
he s not a policy wonk but he could put some poe sal some prot there, fix obamacare, he could talk about how he wants to finalize the china deal if it s not done by then. of course, he kind of walks into the trap there, well, why weren t you able to get china deal done. paul: the other theme, kyle, the president really struck me with, he s saying to the voters democrats are going to take you off the cliff, they re so extreme now. socialists and so on, that you just can t afford to go there. but that s a risk because it means you have to have a candidate who l validate valida. bernie sanders would do that. maybe elizabeth warren would do that but maybe not joe biden. it s understandable why the president is pitching his message that way right now because he doesn t have an opponent. next week we re going to get the first democratic debate, 20 democrats up on the stage and so