00:00Good evening. The U.S. president has tested positive for COVID. It is another blow for
00:05Joe Biden, who is already fighting off Democrat detractors. A new critic registered concerns
00:11today. Further splintering support on the left, while on the right, Republicans are
00:16aligned on a big night at their convention.
00:18CTV's Joy Melvin starts us off.
00:20Battled President Joe Biden on the campaign trail in another crucial swing state, Nevada.
00:28Fighting to keep his job and his party united, now another blow. The president tested positive
00:34for COVID-19. Vaccinated and boosted, Biden is experiencing mild symptoms.
00:40How do you feel?
00:43A runny nose, cough, no fever. And the president was given a dose of Paxlovid. The White House
00:48says he's returning home to Delaware, where he will self-isolate and continue to carry
00:53out his duties fully during that time.
00:56He can't win.
00:57The president was already struggling, as a drip, drip, drip of Democrats called for
01:02him to drop out of the race, saying he's too old, too weak to take on Donald Trump.
01:07Still trying to salvage his candidacy after that disastrous debate, yet another prominent
01:13Democrat, Adam Schiff, fearing a Democratic wipeout, called on Biden to pass the torch.
01:19I think if he's the nominee, we will lose.
01:23In a new interview, Biden was asked what would make him change his mind.
01:26If there was some medical condition that emerged. If somebody, if doctors came to me
01:30and said, you got this problem, that problem.
01:32A letter circulating among party members urges the Democratic National Committee to delay
01:37a virtual roll call that would finalize Biden as the nominee as early as next week. Calls
01:43for him to go had calmed down after former President Donald Trump was nearly killed by
01:48a would-be assassin's bullet. But the campaign ads are back up and running on abortion, branding
01:54Trump and his vice presidential pick, J.D. Vance, as extremists.
01:59J.D. Vance. Trump looked for someone he knew would be a rubber stamp for his extreme agenda.
02:06And make no mistake, J.D. Vance will be loyal only to Trump, not to our country.
02:12As Democrats feel more divided, the Republicans have united, a party falling in line after
02:18nearly a decade of infighting over Trump's polarizing politics.
02:23His political rivals all vanquished on the convention floor. It's a bit of a love-in
02:28for the man and his message.
02:30This is our last chance to make America great again.
02:37Trump's brush with death resonating with Republicans confident the race has shifted
02:42in their favor.
02:43It's time to put that flag on your front porch, that red hat on your head. Because we don't
02:51cave and we don't cower and we do not capitulate.
02:55Trump now the great unifier. He and his family will be here tomorrow night, his children,
03:00grandkids, his wife Melania, when he formally accepts the Republican nomination, making
03:05his first public remarks after surviving that assassination attempt.
03:11Morella, Jordan, Milwaukee.
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