 right it's really hard to say right now we don't even know the full effect of biden's debate performance on a lot of these house races because the polling is so infrequent in house race it's so infrequent and you're working at a really micro level and so we do know that for the whole cycle biden has been a drag on house democrats he's been pretty consistently underperforming them across polls and republican polling democratic polling nonpartisan polling that has been clear from the beginning of the cycle the question now is how much of a drag is he