Democrats tried on the first night of the Democratic National Convention to see a united front between the party’s progressive and moderate wings, but presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden proved to be a “complete emphasis,” Ben Shapiro said Tuesday.
“It was a very, very weird first night at the DNC,” he told listeners on “The Ben Shapiro Show.” “Basically, it was a really bad Zoom session that lasted hours and hours and hours. It had extraordinarily bizarre moments and as always, Joe Biden was a complete afterthought because Biden is an afterthought for this campaign.”
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He added, “The only reason [why] Joe Biden is even the nominee for the Democrats is because they literally looked at every other person and they went, ‘OK, we’ll take the dead man.’ “
Shapiro said the speeches – most of which were attacks aimed at President Trump and his administration – “sounded like a eulogy to Joe Biden,” which turned out to be “completely irrelevant to these procedures.”
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“It sounded like everyone had messages they wanted from their breasts about the state of America and all these messages are conflict … but there was one common theme: President Trump is super evil and Joe Biden literally disagrees here … .,” he said.
The main takeaway of the evening’s commentator: “Joe Biden is a complete nonentity and this whole election is about Trump for the Democrats.
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“They do not like Joe Biden …,” Shapiro claimed, comparing the presumptive nominee to an “empty ship station for all anti-Trump feelings.”
“That’s all he is. He’s like this bizarre kind of mannequin that they sit in the corner and give strange smiles to people.”