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Forget for now about winners and losers of the two-night Democratic presidential debate, and consider all the weirdness.

On Night One, Julian Castro tripped on his virtue-signaling by advocating for reproductive rights, including abortions, for trans women — who are unlikely to pregnant without scientific intervention.

The lowest light was likely Mayor de Blasio’s revival of his anecdote about “the talk” warning son Dante about how young black men must behave with cops to avoid being the target of police violence: About the time the mayor was again slurring the NYPD, a Bronx cop committed suicide at his home.

(That said, Cory Booker’s expression was priceless when Blas boasted of being the only candidate with a black son.) The most consequential oddities will likely be Joe Biden’s senior moments. He quit his sad effort to fend off Kamala Harris’ attack by announcing, “My time is up, I’m sorry.” And he answered the question about his first action he’d take as president by saying it would be “defeat Donald Trump.”

But the prize goes to Marianne Williamson, who vowed to “harness love for political purposes” and offered to meet President Trump on a train where “love will win.”

The vows to provide free health care to illegal immigrants almost come off as one of the debates’ less loony moments.

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