You're going to use. It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone and here we are again

with just one day gone by since yesterday's show and another unexpected turn in the presidential

race.

If we thought the Democrats were settling in now to President Biden being their nominee

after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

Well, that lasted for four days.

So there was the most prominent Democrat yet going public yesterday,

California Congressman Adam Schiff, calling for Biden to drop out and with the new

reporting that Chuck Schumer had explicitly asked the president to drop out in

private last Saturday.

Hakim Jeffries also had a frank conversation with him and the New York Times reporting

now that Biden is more open to considering ending his campaign than he had been.

Oh and Biden has COVID around. his campaign than he had been.

Oh, and Biden has COVID, around 6 PM yesterday.

That came out, but they say his symptoms are mild.

I also want to play what to me has been the most interesting moment so far at the Republican

Convention. One of the themes they're promoting is that people who have

previously criticized Donald Trump have now come to support him.

Nicky Haley, J.D. Vance.

But then there's the speaker who you wouldn't think would even consider the

Republican nominee, any Republican nominee, who showed up to express an open mind. Maybe it was just

theater, but it was Teamsters Union President Sean O'Brien.

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