News Wrap: New poll shows decline in voter confidence in Biden after debate

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• John Yang:

  Good evening, I'm John Yang. A new post-debate poll out this morning shows a 10 percentage point jump in the proportion of registered voters who say President Biden should not be running for reelection from 63 percent in February to 72 percent on Friday and Saturday.

  Most of the registered voters questioned the CBS News poll say Mr. Biden doesn't have the mental and cognitive health to be president. About 30 percent said neither he nor Donald Trump does.

  Three days after the president's unsteady debate performance his backers are still publicly trying to reassure alarm Democrats while former President Trump's supporters are highlighting the night.

  Rep. James Clyburn (D) South Carolina: Yes, it was a bad performance. I've been around these things. I've been a part of debate preparation before. And I know what — when I see what I call preparation overload. And that's exactly what was going on the other night.

  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) South Carolina: This idea that Biden had a bad night. That's not the story. He's had a bad presidency, had a disastrous debate. And if you want to look at past performance to judge what's going to happen in the future, God help us all if Joe Biden gets reelected.

• John Yang:

  Today, the Atlanta Journal Constitution editorial page called for Mr. Biden to drop out. The New York Times took that same position on Friday.

  There's extreme weather from the Caribbean to the desert West in the Atlantic barrel quickly intensified to become the earliest category four hurricane on record. The National Hurricane Center expects the storm to pass just south of Barbados early Monday with St. Vincent and Grenada at the highest risk of the life threatening combination of winds storm surge and waves.

  And in Scottsdale, Arizona northeast of Phoenix officials are warning residents to be ready to evacuate. A wildfire there has charged 4m000 acres to forecast calls for wind gusts and temperatures of up to 110 degrees.

  The immigrant family of a 13-year-old boys demanding accountability after the team was killed by Utica, New York police. Police say they stopped two teens on Friday to ask them about a robbery that led to a foot chase with one of them. Police released edited body camera video showing a chaotic scene as an officer in the team wrestled on the ground. The video freezes and a gunshot is heard.

  Police say they thought the team pointed a weapon at them it turned out to be a BB or pellet gun. The officers on leave while the Utica police in New York State Attorney General's Office investigate.

  And in France early results in today's first round election pointed to a big win for the country's far-right National Rally party. Voter turnout was very high in the snap election called by President Emmanuel Macron who centrist party suffered a harsh review.

  If the National Rally Party continues to make gains that would be a big shift in French politics. The first far-right government since Nazi occupation during World War II. The second round of voting is set for Friday.

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