It's hard to even imagine next week talking about the RNC with this drama still playing out in the background, right?

Oh, is Trump going to pick a VP? Huh. Interesting. That's like a one day story? Like what?

Right, I'm getting on a plane to Milwaukee on Sunday being like,

actually the only story in the world is still Joe Biden. Hello and the 538 politics podcast I'm Galen Daruk and the purgatory continues. The number of lawmakers saying that

President Biden should not run for re-election or at least expressing concern

about him running for re-election continues to tick up while Biden's answer

that he's staying in the race remains the same. Today we're going to take a look

at some of the most recent data we have on both who the

lawmakers calling on Biden to step aside are and how this is all shaping the race

for the White House in this moment. And then in the background of all of this

Republicans are gearing up for their big show in Milwaukee next week

the Republican National Convention

and by the way I'll just say for a housekeeping note here

that I will be in Milwaukee all next week and

we'll be doing nightly podcasts from the convention.

That means that the podcasts are going to be coming out quite a bit later in the evening or

maybe even early morning, but you will get four episodes next week in exchange.

In any case, the RNC released its proposed platform this week, and we've got a good or bad use of polling example that will help us better

understand if Trump's policies are popular and Biden's policies as well for that matter.

So here with me to discuss it all is senior elections analyst

Jeffrey Skelly. Hey, Gailen. And also here with us is senior researcher Mary Radcliffe.

Welcome. Hi Gailen, great to be here.

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