BIDEN THUMPS BERNIE AT ONE-ON-ONE DEBATE, BUT CREATES PROBLEMS FOR LATER:

In effect, Biden was calling for nationalized health care — but just in dealing with the virus. No one, he said, should have to pay for coronavirus treatment.

Biden moved toward Sanders’ radical views several times during the debate, which was an interesting choice, since his relatively significant lead in delegates and enthusiasm might have suggested it was time for Biden to pivot ­toward the center.

Instead, he said he would institute a 100-day ban on deportations if he became president and would not insist that local police turn over arrested illegals to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

When it came to energy policy, Biden said he would ban “all new fracking.” And here we have an example of the long-term trouble he might have caused himself.

That stance is a more moderate position, perhaps, than Sanders’ vow to end all hydraulic fracturing immediately. But Biden ­expressing deep antipathy toward the innovations that have brought new life to the economy in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania, just to take the most potent example among many others, is a giant substantive gift to Trump in the general election.

As is this: Biden Goes Extreme: Give Oil Industry ‘No Ability’ To ‘Continue To Drill’, Take ‘Millions’ Of Cars Off The Road.