from WNYC studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Tuesday, July 9th.

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 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

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