>> Steve: LET'S TALK POLITICS. IT'S NOT YOU IT'S BIDEN. POLITICO COMING OUT WITH AN ARTICLE HEADLINING WHY DEMOCRATS THINK BIDEN'S PROBLEM IS BIDEN. IN IT ONE STRATEGIST SAYS QUOTE DEMOCRATS ARE ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT TRYING TO WIN THE SENATE AND TRYING TO WIN THE HOUSE AND THEY'RE NOT ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT JOE BIDEN'S REELECTION. PERIOD. HERE WITH REACTION IS FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE NEWT GINGRICH. NEWT GOOD MORNING TO YOU. >> GOOD MORNING. >> Steve: WE'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE WHERE THE DOWN-BALLOT PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY MORE POPULAR THAN THE PEOPLE AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET BECAUSE THERE'S NOT A LOT TO BE ENTHUSED ABOUT, RIGHT? >> SURE. I MEAN, IN 1948 TRUMAN ACTUALLY WAS REELECTED IN PART BECAUSE SIX DEMOCRATIC SENATE CANDIDATES RAN ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND VOTES AHEAD IN THOSE STATES AND THEY GAVE HIM A COAT TAIL RATHER THAN HIM GIVING THEM A COAT TAIL. WE'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE. IN BIDEN'S CASE I THINK HE HAS THREE VERY DIFFERENT PROBLEMS. ONE WHICH YOU WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT IN TERMS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS THAT HE HAS POLICIES THAT AREN'T WORKING. PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO HAVE BIDEN'S ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS RAPING AND KILLING AMERICANS. PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO GO TO THE GROCERY STORE AND NOT BE ABLE TO AFFORD ANYTHING. THEY LOOK AGAIN AND AGAIN AND THE BIDEN PROGRAM JUST DOESN'T WORK. SECOND, HE APPOINTS PEOPLE WHO HAVE WEIRD VALUES AND YOU GET INTO ALL SORTS OF ARGUMENTS OVER THINGS LIKE, YOU KNOW, THIRD GRADE KIDS WITH TRANSGENDERISM OR MALES COMPETING IN WOMEN'S SPORTS, ET CETERA. AND THEN THIRD, IF YOU WATCH HIM OVER TIME, HE CLEARLY HAS HUGE COGNITIVE PROBLEMS. THE WHITE HOUSE CAN SPIN IT ANY WAY THEY WANT TO, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT CASE AFTER CASE, WHETHER IT'S THE ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER BRINGING HIM BACK INTO THE GROUP OR IT IS PRESIDENT OBAMA HELPING HIM GET OFF STAGE, OR IT'S, YOU KNOW, BIDEN JUST STANDING AT THE JUNETEENTH FESTIVAL AT THE WHITE HOUSE AND REALLY LOOKING CAT TONIC, JUST FROZEN FOR ABOUT A MINUTE. AND I THINK PARTICULARLY FOR YOUNGER AMERICANS, IT'S LIKE THEY'RE LOOKING NOT AT THEIR GRANDFATHER, THEY'RE LOOKING AT THEIR GREAT GRANDFATHER AND THEY'RE SAYING, GEE, CAN HE REALLY BE PRESIDENT? >> Steve: RIGHT. GREAT POINT. LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MARIST DID SOME POLLING REGARDING DIFFERENT STATE RACES AND AS YOU LOOK RIGHT HERE, SCREEN LEFT IS THE STATE OF OHIO. THE CURRENT SENATOR, A DEMOCRAT, BROWN, IS FIVE POINTS OVER HIS REPUBLICAN CHALLENGER, BUT TRUMP IS SEVEN POINTS OVER BIDEN. IN THE MIDDLE, IN PENNSYLVANIA, THE CURRENT SENATOR, BOB CASEY IS SIX POINTS OVER HIS CHALLENGER, MEANWHILE JOE IS TRAILING TRUMP BY TWO AND IN WISCONSIN THE CURRENT DEMOCRAT SENATOR TAMMY BALDWIN IS NINE POINTS OVER HER REPUBLICAN COUNTER PART. MEANWHILE JOE BIDEN IS ONLY TWO AHEAD OF TRUMP. AS YOU CAN SEE RIGHT THERE. YOU KNOW, SO MUCH IS ON THE LINE REGARDING THE DEBATE ON NEXT THURSDAY NIGHT. IF JOE BIDEN HAS A BAD NIGHT AND HE DOES ONE OF THE -- A FREEZE ACT LIKE YOU JUST ALLUDED TO, IS HIS GOOSE COOKED? >> WELL, YOU KNOW, LOOK, THIS IS A DEBATE. THIS IS LIKE ARGUING OVER THE CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS IN JUNE. I MEAN, THIS DEBATE IS SO EARLY, ANYBODY COULD RECOVER FROM ANYTHING. THE PROBLEM FOR BIDEN IS THAT HE HAS A HUGE UPHILL CLIMB. THE MORNING AFTER THIS DEBATE, AMERICANS ARE GOING TO GO BACK TO THE GROCERY STORE, THEY'RE GOING TO BE REMINDED HOW EXPENSIVE EVERYTHING IS. WITHIN TWO OR THREE DAYS OF THE DEBATE, SOME ILLEGAL MIGRANT'S GOING TO COMMIT A CRIME THAT MAKES NATIONAL NEWS. YOU GO DOWN THE LIST. SO BIDEN'S PROBLEM IS, CAN HE DO SO WELL IN THE DEBATE THAT HE OFFSETS REALITY. TRUMP'S PROBLEM'S TOTALLY DIFFERENT. ALL TRUMP HAS TO DO IS BE CALM. MAYBE ASK BIDEN SOME QUESTIONS LIKE, DID YOU REALLY KNOW VLADIMIR PUTIN WHEN HE WAS A LIEUTENANT COLONEL IN THE KGB IN EAST GERMANY WHICH BIDEN CLAIMED HE DID OR DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE YOUR UNCLE WAS EATEN BY CAN BALANCES. MY ADVICE TO TRUMP WOULD BE DEAL WITH BIDEN WITH HUMOR NOT WITH ANGER. BECAUSE BIDEN IS PATHETIC. YOU KNOW, HE'S SO DISHONEST THAT YOU CAT TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY AND YOU JUST HAVE TO SAY, YOU KNOW, JOE, DID YOU REALIZE YOU WERE LYING ABOUT CHINA THE LAST TIME WE DEBATED? DID YOU REALIZE YOU WERE LYING ABOUT HUNTER'S LAPTOP THE LAST TIME WE DEBATED. BUT I WOULD USE MY TIME IF I WERE TRUMP ASKING BIDEN QUESTIONS AND GETTING BIDEN ROLLING. >> Steve: GIVEN WHAT A NUMBER OF PEOPLE HAVE SAID OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, YOU KNOW, THE BAR IS VERY LOW FOR JOE BIDEN. I THINK IF HE SIMPLY DOES NOT FALL ASLEEP ON THE STAGE, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SAY, HEY, THAT'S A WIN. >> LOOK, YOU KNOW THE NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST HAVE ALREADY WRITTEN THE HEADLINE. JOE BIDEN DOES MAGNIFICENTLY BETTER THAN EXPECTED. THAT'S SITTING ON THE CAN, NO MATTER HOW HE DOES THEY'RE GOING TO RUN WITH THAT HEADLINE. AND CNN -- BY THE WAY IT WILL BE A 4-1 DEBATE. EVERYBODY ON THAT STAGE WILL BE OPPOSED TO TRUMP SO HE'S NOT JUST DEBATING BIDEN HE'S
