Two polls taken since the assassination attempt on Donald Trump last week show him opening up a 4-point lead over Joe Biden.

An Emerson College poll has Trump on 46 percent and Biden on 42 percent.

In a statement the pollsters said:

Recent polling shows Biden losing support more significantly than Trump gaining it since the attempted assassination.

This raises questions about whether Biden’s decline is still influenced by the debate or if Trump has reached his support ceil

Another poll by Morning Conuslt also had Trump on 46 percent and Biden on 42 percent.

It is Trump’s biggest lead in that poll since February.

Chris Coons, the senator from Delaware, and a close ally of Joe Biden, criticized leaks of conversations about the president’s future.

He told the New York Times:

The president deserves the respect of conversations about our path forward, constructively and privately, and in a way that allows us as a Democratic caucus to come together and support our nominee, who I believe will be Joe Biden.

To work all this out in the press, I think, is not constructive.”

It came after a report in the Washington Post that Barack Obama had told allies Biden should seriously consider whether or not to run.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

President Joe Biden still has ‘mild upper respiratory symptoms’ but no fever as he battles COVID, the White House said on Thursday.

The president is continuing to take Paxlovid, his physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, said in a letter released by the White House press.

‘The president is still experiencing mild upper respiratory symptoms associated with his recent COVID-19 infection. He continues to receive Paxlovid,’ O’Connor wrote.

‘He does not have a fever and his vital signs remaind normal.’

The president is isolating at his home in Rehoboth Beach.

Donald Trump’s former White House press secretary Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has words of advice for President Biden’s top spokesperson as Democrats enter ‘total meltdown’ mode.

It’s been a hectic three weeks since Biden and Trump’s first debate, during which the 81-year-old president had a self-proclaimed ‘bad night’ filled with gaffes and stumbles.

Over 20 elected Democrats have since turned on Joe, publicly urging him to exit the 2024 race and allow a fresh candidate at the top of the ticket. Even former President Barack Obama reportedly told allies Biden should ‘seriously consider’ whether he should stay in the race, raising speculation he could drop out in a matter of days.

Eric Trump teased the convention speech his father will deliver in prime time, saying it will be a ‘positive’ America First speech and says parts of it are ‘beautiful.’

‘People don’t stand a chance in this country right now. And again, you don’t have somebody fighting. You don’t have somebody trying to fix these problems,’ he told DailyMail.com and a gaggle of reporters outside the Fiserv arena.

‘We desperately need a fighter’ in office he said. ‘Our country deserves a lot better and our country deserves frankly the person who will stand up after getting shot in the face, blood running down his face, stand up and say “fight, fight, fight,’ he added – in the latest indication the campaign will use the assassination attempt to argue for Trump.

Of Joe Biden, who is getting pressure from Democrats to get out, he said: ‘I do think that Biden’s legacy is going to be largely marred by the fact that he was forced out by his own party, that he had to drop out. He had to drop out based on incompetency,’ he said.

Donald Trump’s lawyer and senior adviser Alina Habba did a runthrough ahead of her remarks to the Republican Convention Thursday evening.

At the podium in Fiserv Forum, Habba had some fun with her mic check:

I’m Alina Habba and I have the privilege of being the most bad ass mother effer.

It’s customary for those checking the mic and doing walkthroughs to read off the teleprompter the Gettysburg Address so audio can get good levels.

Habba put her own twist at the end of the first sentence of the remarks:

‘Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal’ – unless you are a Republican in this America.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) weighed-in on whether he thinks Kai Trump has a future in politics and if it matters who ends up being the Democratic candidate in 2024.

Of Donald Trump’s daughter, the Florida senator told DailyMail.com:

She’s a very impressive young lady, but I’m telling you, that girl can golf. So she’s probably gonna go make a bunch of money at that first and she can play.

She did great. She almost upstaged her dad.

Rubio also said he doesn’t see a scenario where the Democratic nominee isn’t either President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris.

I don’t know how they bypass the vice president, right? Because Vice President Harris – they picked her, they put her there. And if you put her there, you’re telling people she’s qualified and good enough to be president. If you picked someone for vice president and you vote for them it’s because you think they can be president. So how can they remove her now? I mean, she’s the person that I believe that they will have to nominate and run. And they have no one to blame but themselves.

They knew Joe Biden – I don’t mean this to be cruel, okay – but they knew the condition that he was in, and they deliberately hid it from the world.

Barack Obama has told alles Biden, 81, should seriously consider whether to pursue a second term.

The shock revelation by the Washington Post is the most serious threat yet to Biden’s continued candidacy.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Kai Trump’s speech at the Republican Convention on Wednesday is leading to speculation from MAGA fanatics that she may have a future in politics.

The 17-year-old is the oldest grandchild of former President Donald Trump and the first to make a major step onto the national political stage with her remarks in Milwaukee on the third night of the Convention.

President Joe Biden could drop out of the presidential race as soon as this weekend, according to a bombshell new report.

Several top Democrats told Axios that Biden, 81, is resigned to the impossibility of continuing his campaign.

Despite the the avalanche of calls for him to step aside the President has publicly maintained he will go on.

However, privately he is starting to realize that might be untenable, the report said.

Polling shows him losing to former President Donald Trump amid widespread concerns over his age and health, the report said.

The man who shot Donald Trump on Saturday was in the ‘perfect location’ to kill the former president, a security expert revealed, highlighting how ‘massive’ the Secret Service’s failure is.

Twenty-year-old Thomas Crooks fired multiple rounds aimed at Trump’s head from a building nearly 165 yards from the stage the former president was speaking at during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.

A bullet clipped the former president’s ear while two others were critically wounded and former firefighter, Corey Comperatore, tragically lost his life while heroically defending his family from the incoming fire.

Darin Gaub, a retired Army Lt. Col. and operator of a private security company, exclusively told DailyMail.com that he is astonished the Secret Service did not secure the building from which Crooks was perched.

He simply called it the best possible place to kill the former president – something Secret Service should have known.

Hulk Hogan will speak on the final night of the Republican National Convention tonight as Donald Trump formally accepts the party’s presidential nomination.

The WWE legend is among the speakers lined up to addres to the crowd before Trump.

The wrestler and Trump have known each other for decades.

Dana White, chief executive of Ultimate Fighting Championship, will introduce Trump.

It means the President will not be making any public appearances today.

He arrived at his home in Delaware last night.

Several fraternity brothers from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill who defied pro-Gaza protestors by banding together to keep the U.S. flag from touching the ground received a loud and warm welcome from RNC attendees Wednesday.

When the group took the stage at the RNC Wednesday one could have believed a battalion of war heroes had just returned from service overseas, but that reception was not for the military but for the fraternity brother’s militant defending of the flag.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) sent an F-35 aircraft to intercept an undidentified aircraft.

The mystery plane breached a temporary flight restriction area southwest of Milwaukee, where the Republican convention is being held.

At 3:30 pm on Wednesday radar data picked up the plane inside the restricted airspace at 4,400ft.

It was escirted out of the area and there were no further immediate details.

At the Faith and Freedom breakfast in Milwaukee, Senator J.D. Vance reveals he was ‘crying backstage’ during his wife Usha’s introductory speech.

He says his ‘beautiful’ wife ‘has this just incredible relatability’ and joked he wasn’t ‘in the right mind’ to follow her remarks.

Then ‘I realized it was my idea,’ he said to laughter.

Vance also spoke of his journey in faith. Vance credits finding a wife and love as what brought him back to Christ.

At the breakfast, the senator pushed back on questions over whether the Republican party of the future will be welcoming to social conservatives.

‘Social conservatives have a seat at this table, and they always will, so long as I have any influence in this party,’ Vance said.

Donald Truimp will formally accept the Republican nommination tonight at the party’s convention in Milwaukee.

It will be his first speech since he survived an assaintion attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.

Truimp has said it will be a ‘unity speech’ in which he will call for Americans to join together.