Revisiting my last column on July 19, there’s good news and bad news. So let’s start with the bad — Joe Biden had quit his re-election bid in the face of mounting opposition from Democratic lawmakers and influencers across the nation who fear a Donald Trump victory in November.

Trump got a double bounce in the polls last month, first from the assassination attempt that nicked his ear and drew enough blood to produce some dramatic photos at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. That fist-pump call for “Fight, fight!” was like red meat to the MAGA crowd who swooned in equal horror at the injury and delight at the prospect of a landslide election.

Biden and Trump called for national unity and toning down campaign rhetoric. For Trump, that lasted about a week when Biden announced he was dropping out and endorsing his vice president, Kamala Harris.

Gone was Trump’s chance for another debate debacle by Biden, whom he called “sleepy” and “crooked.” That pipe dream was crushed when polls showed Harris actually leading in one nation poll and closing the gap in others.

Harris’ campaign collected about $300 million in the first two weeks of her candidacy and signed up more than 170,000 volunteers to block walk and work phone banks ahead of the election. The tide has definitely shifted and Trump is rightfully worried.

On top of that, his vice president pick, J.D. Vance, continues to underperform on the campaign trail. Trump had to know that all those negative comments that Vance said against Trump two years ago would surface in the campaign. But what he didn’t see was Vance alienating millions of voters with a comment that Democratic policies are being set by ”childless women who are cat ladies.”

Wow! It takes a special genius to make hurtful comments about women who are unable to conceive but would love to have children. And don’t forget the millions of cat owners who take offense at that remark.

Now it’s the Democrats’ turn to take center stage at their national convention. Harris announced her vice president nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, on Tuesday, and the Democratic ticket will get the bounce in the polls that usually follow a convention.

The big question is whether she can maintain that momentum, but it’s clear already that Democrats have coalesced behind her candidacy with few reservations.

Now the good news. In that column, I urged readers to educate themselves about the dangers of Project 2025, the draconian plan designed as a blueprint for Trump’s second term in office. And apparently the word is out that the 900-page document is a disaster waiting to happen.

Multiple news outlets have denounced the document, and MSNBC spent several hours exposing the inner workings of the project on national television. Now even Trump is trying to disassociate himself from the project produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation, according to an internet story in Meidas Touch News by Ron Filipkowski.

The story reported that the project director, Paul Dans, has resigned from the Heritage Foundation since Trump came out and surprisingly and forcefully condemned Project 2025. Trump even claimed that he didn’t know any of the people behind it despite the fact that they are his former appointees and some of his closest advisors.

“Since the details of Project 2025 were reported on, a large percentage of the public has recoiled in horror at the details in the extremist right-wing agenda to radically transform the federal government,” the story noted.

“Trump has said that he thinks many of the things in Project 2025 are terrible, but has refused to say specifically what those things were. It’s a good bet that, since Trump doesn’t read, he hasn’t actually read either Project 2025 or Agenda 47 (his administration plans if elected), but it is equally assured that his advisors and potential appointees have and intend to implement it with glee,” the story concluded.