Good morning. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We begin this morning with major developments unfolding on both sides of the president ial race. Pressure is mounting on President Biden this morning to exit the race for the White House in favor of a democratic candidate who can beat Donald Trump in november. A senior biden official told me things are looking bleak inside the campaign after reports surfaced that top democratic lawmakers are leaning on the president to step beside a separate Source Close to the president , told me biden is quote, listening that the source added, the president feels like he is legally the nominee of the party after winning the primaries. Still another top Dnc Official said it feels more and more like a change could happen on the ticket at this hour, the president is recovering at his Delaware Beach Home after Testing Positive for covid, this new Health Challenge forces the 81yearold President off the Campaign Trail at a critica
Where this Evenings Convention Program is already in full swing at 8 00 p. M. Eastern here, delegates anticipating Donald Trumps expected return to the Arena Tonight with his running mate, senator Jd Vance of ohio. Were watching it all from our Anchor Position above the Convention Hall. This is cnn special live Convention Coverage Jake tapper, along with my Friend And Colleague Anderson Cooper and anderson and former Trump Rival Nikki Haley is among the most highly anticipated speakers as even without a doubt, she was trumps lie asked the most bitter primary opponent and took her time before finally supporting him. Were told shell make the case to uncertain voters. Though, why shes now voting for trump republicans United Front offering a stark, perhaps intentional contrast, and the democrats frayed public divisions over President Bidens candidacy. Right now jake, before haleys remarks, there are some closure we watched teachers coming up, of course, in this hour as well i understand we
Tapper for a country that bills itself as the worlds oldest democracy, we sure do love a strongman, and from Teddy Roosevelt All The Way up to our Reality Tv President , nowhere produces more of them than the empire state. And i get it. In an age where Congress Approval Rating hovers somewhere around sewer rats, we wanna vote for the politician who can finally just get things done. That was Eliot Spitzer to a t. But when New Yorkers sent the sheriff of Wall Street to the governors mansion, we all learned The Hard Way that white knights can have dark secrets. Spitzer was caught breaking his own Sex Work laws, a level of hypocrisy we could never forget. Eliot spitzer blazed a trail through New York that had him in Spitting Distance of the White House, right up until the moment he set himself on fire. This will sound like a setup for a bad joke, but bear with me. [cheering] the change you seek, the New York you dream of begins tonight. [cheering] so theres this honest politician named Eli
Them are, theyre all but two the first served in the early 19th century and left note likenesses behind. The second is it spitzer in 2009, south Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was a republican rockstar his reputation as a budget slashing Deficit Hawk Family man had the gop betting on him to beat obama in 2012 until he became a missing person The Search for sanford through his office into chaos and turned up a secret Love Affair and a bizarre set of lies that coined the phrase two hike, the Appalachian Trail. But it also revealed something deeper. How even the most tightly controlled political persona can mask the messy, imperfect reality of a human Being And Counterintuiti vely, when the world was crashing down around him bearing at all might have been the savviest political move of Mark Sanford is career its monday night. Do you know where your governor is . Thats what the citizens have South Carolina are wondering where in the world is our governor of Mystery Tonight in South Carolin
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