GET OUT: Senior congressional Democrat Adam Schiff, a candidate for the Senate from California, called on Joe Biden to quit his bid for re-election. As Biden struggles to make headlines opposite the Republican Convention and Donald Trump’s near assassination, his campaign is being dragged down from within his own party.

  Now the White House reports that Biden has tested positive for Covid and will self-isolate. He also has Covid of the campaign.

  Schiff said, “A second Trump presidency will undermine the very foundation of our democracy, and I have serious concerns about whether the president can defeat Donald Trump in November.”  Schiff expressed fear that not only will Biden lose, he will take with him candidates down the ballot.

  Biden says he still believes he’s the best candidate to beat Trump. He said in an interview with BET that he would drop out only if diagnosed with a medical condition.

  During a phone call with congressional Democrats, Biden is reported to have lashed out at Jason Crow of Colorado, who said voters have doubts about the President’s vigor and strength. Biden is said to have snapped, “I don’t want to hear that crap!” 

  With questions and doubts surrounding the President, the Democratic National Committee is pushing back by a week its plans to nominate Biden for re-election in a virtual roll call that was to have started next week. Nearly two-thirds of Democrats want Biden to quit the race, according to a survey released by The Associated Press.

CONVENTIONAL: Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the inheritor of the MAGA future, accepted the nomination for vice president last night in a speech that toed the Trump line on everything from crime to immigration the economy and dealing with China.

  He told his bootstrap story about having a drug addicted mother and being raised in “a small town where people spoke their minds, built with their hands, and loved their God, their family, their community and their country with their whole hearts.” He spoke for the Midwest, which both Trump and Biden need to win the election.

  “President Trump represents America’s last best hope to restore what — if lost — may never be found again,” Vance said. 

  The convention put on a long and effective tribute to the 13 military members killed in the bombing at Kabul airport during the US exit from Afghanistan. The families have claimed that President Biden was to blame for what looked like a hurried and insecure retreat. 

  This is a matter that does serious damage to Biden’s candidacy, particularly after he said in his June debate that no members of the military have died on his watch. The Kabul airport deaths are not the only ones. 

  The families said in a memorial video, and live on stage, that Biden has been unsympathetic to the families of the dead and has never mentioned their names. They point out that during the repatriation of the bodies, Biden looked at his watch several times as though he was impatient to get out of there.

  Donald Trump Jr. extolled the wonders of his father, and so did junior’s daughter, Kai. Junior repeated the lies that the economy is bad and crime is rampant.

  In its love affair with the lawless, the Republican Convention also entertained a speech by former Trump adviser Peter Navarro only hours after he finished a four-month stint in prison for defying a subpoena by the House January 6^th investigating committee. Of course, the party’s presidential nominee is a convicted felon.

  Navarro, claiming righteousness said, “If they can come for me, if they can come for Donald Trump, careful, they can come for you.”

THE ATTEMPT: At least one local police officer fired his gun at the young man who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump last Saturday, according to the local district attorney. There are conflicting reports as to whether the cop was a sniper or a regular patrol officer.

  It is also undetermined how much time elapsed between when the officer fired and Matthew Crooks opened up on the former President.

  The Secret Service also says that while the gunman was crawling on the roof of a warehouse 500 feet from Trump, three local law enforcement snipers were inside the same complex of buildings. Again, there are conflicting versions of which building those officers were in.

  Reports also say that Crooks had been identified as a suspicious person 10 or 20 minutes before the shooting.

ON APPEAL: Special counsel Jack Smith filed notice of appeal to the decision by federal judge Aileen Cannon to throw out the classified documents case against Donald Trump. It looks like this, too, could be headed for the Supreme Court, which would delay the trial for at least a year.

  Cannon threw out the case saying Smith was not properly named the special counsel under the appointments clause of the Constitution. Her decision ignored the Supreme Court’s unanimous finding in the Watergate era US vs. Nixon that found Congress gave the attorney general “the power to appoint subordinate officers to assist him in the discharge of his duties.” 

  Cannon’s shock ruling would be reviewed by judges from the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, which has previously overruled her. 

THE SPIN RACK: New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez is reported to have told allies he is considering resignation following his corruption conviction in federal court. — The mayor of Paris took a swim in the Seine River to show that it’s safe for Olympic events. We’ll see whether she lives to the opening of the games on July 26^th.

BELOW THE FOLD: It’s Christina again. HGTV television star Christina Hall, who introduces her bathroom remodel ad on cable television with, “Hi, it’s Christina again,” announced that she is divorcing … again. This is the end of marriage #3 for Hall who is expert at remodeling  homes and marriages. 

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