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,

Hakeem 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 6 p.m. 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,

Nikki 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. Listen. Several months ago,

I asked the RNC and the DNC for the opportunity to speak, to be frank, when President Trump invited me to speak at this convention,

there was political unrest.

On the left and on the right.

How'd to believe?

Anti-union groups demanded the President rescind his invitation.

The left called me a traitor.

And this is precisely why it's so important for me to be here today.

Teamsters president, Sean O'Brien at the Republican Convention.

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