Joe Biden, Democrats have every reason to be jubilant after second Republican debate

President Biden went to sleep after the second Republican debate on Wednesday night knowing that the big event in Simi Valley, California, left the GOP no closer to consolidating around a candidate against Donald Trump. The former president remains the likely nominee. 

Co-moderator Dana Perino put it bluntly when she pointed out that with this number of candidates vying for the Republican nomination it’s impossible to defeat Trump unless they winnow the field. Still, all the candidates on stage in California declined to vote their rivals off the island.

In the two-hour debate, Bidenomics came out mostly unscathed. The seven Republican candidates were again uncomfortable talking about the economy and quickly fell back into discussing immigration, crime, Donald Trump or virtually anything other than economic policy.