It's the Brian Marrishow on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. In the presidential race,

we have Biden news on who's calling for him to leave the race now and who's not. At least one of those, I think,

will surprise you. And we have Trump news. The Republican platform was approved yesterday with its top

item using language, widely considered racist. Item number one was seal the border and stop the migrant

invasion. Now, it's widely considered racist to call it an invasion because we're

talking overwhelmingly about people coming from very troubled countries to seek a better life for

themselves, right? But the anti-immigrant nativist hard right has taken to equating them with, let's

say, the hostile army of a foreign country coming to take us over

by calling their arrival in large numbers an invasion.

Item number two, continuing the vibe from the R&C platform, carry out the largest deportation

operation in American history.

Continuing on, item number eight implies surrendering Ukrainian

territory to Vladimir Putin when it says euphemistically, prevent World War III, restore peace in Europe.

You get the idea. It also makes more universally popular promises, but with little mention

of how to accomplish

those hard things. And we'll talk about this in this segment, like end inflation and no cuts

to Social Security and Medicare. It doesn't say how to close the impending gaps. And the

Republicans are proposing no tax on tips. Interesting, aiming at restaurant

and other tip-based workers. We'll talk about the platform in more detail coming up. But on the

Democratic side of the presidential race, the divide continues over whether President Biden should

quit the race, and it may surprise you who some of the people are on each side.

In the New York City congressional delegation, for example, NBC News reports that the dean of

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