MAKE OR BREAK: ABC News airs a pre-recorded interview with President Biden in prime time tonight in what could be an event that determines whether Biden can continue in the race for president. He’ll have to be sharp, demonstrating that he has memory, comprehension, and the ability to respond in the moment. In an interview expected to last only 15 to 25 minutes, Biden will have to be everything that he was not in last week’s debate with Donald Trump.

  Biden told a meeting of Democratic governors that he needs to get more sleep and do less work at night. The President spent the better part of this week battling calls for him to back out of the race, at times attempting to do it with humor. When Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii, a doctor, asked about Biden’s health he replied, “It’s just my brain.” 

  A day after the that meeting, California’s Gavin Newsom, a frequently mentioned replacement candidate, said, “That was the Joe Biden I remember from two weeks ago. That was the Joe Biden that I remember from two years ago.”

  Even so, Biden was reported to have committed some verbal fumbles and stumbles in 4^th of July appearances. The NY Times reports that major Democratic donors are trying to raise a $100 million fund to support a candidate who would replace Biden. Abigail Disney an heir to the Disney company fortune, told the Times in an email exchange that the Biden campaign and committees supporting it “will not receive another dime from me until they bite the bullet and replace Biden at the top of the ticket.” 

  Massachusetts Gov. Governor Maura Healey is reported to have called Biden’s political position “irretrievable.”

  Peter Baker points out for The NY Times that while the Democrats are in a spin over their candidate, the Republicans are doing nothing about theirs, “a presidential candidate who is a convicted felon, adjudicated sexual abuser, business fraudster and self-described aspiring dictator for a day. And also really old.”

BRITS TO THE LEFT: Britain’s Labour Party appears to have won a smashing victory, ending 14 years of rule by the Conservative Party and the brief reign of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who may even be ousted as his party’s leader.

  The Labour Party won 410 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons, the Conservatives only 131. The party’s leader Keir Starmer, a competent politician who is said to connect with voters, has already taken office as prime minister. He promises a fiscally responsible, center-left government “in the service of working people.”

  Starmer is a human rights lawyer who once called for the monarchy to be abolished.

CATEGORY 4: Hurricane Beryl brushed by Jamaica, downing trees, causing road blockages, and ripping the roof off some homes. The storm is now a category 2 headed for the Yucatan Peninsula.

THE SPIN RACK: Three people were killed yesterday in New York’s lower East Side when a drunk driver plowed into a party. The pickup truck was on top of four people when first responders arrived. — An unidentified person with a gun was shot dead by rangers in Yellowstone Park. A ranger was wounded in the exchange. — Scientists have found the remains of an 8-foot salamander-like creature with fangs that roamed the swamps of Namibia 280 million years ago. It’s been dubbed “Swamp Thing.”

BELOW THE FOLD: In the absence of 16-time champion Joey Chestnut, Patrick Bertoletti of Chicago, the #9 ranked speed-eater in the world, won the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Contest cramming down 58 dogs in 10 minutes. Chestnut set the record of 76 in 2021.