21 Jul 2024

Mitch McCann: A week in US politics

From Sunday Morning, 8:10 am on 21 July 2024
US former President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, a bandage on his ear after being wounded in an assassination attempt, departs at the conclusion of the second day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 16, 2024. Days after he survived an assassination attempt Donald Trump won formal nomination as the Republican presidential candidate and picked right-wing loyalist J.D. Vance for running mate, kicking off a triumphalist party convention in the wake of last weekend's failed assassination attempt. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

Photo: AFP / ANGELA WEISS

The world is waiting to see if US President Joe Biden will abandon his attempt to win a second term in the White House.

This was supposed to be the weekend he throws in the towel, according to one report.

Sources say he's being urged to quit at a high level inside the Democrat Party, let alone the opposition to him expressed at the Republican National Convention this past week.

Correspondent Mitch McCann speaks to Jim from New York.