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

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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In our news wrap Sunday, a new post-debate poll shows a jump in voters who say Biden should not be running for re-election, Hurricane Beryl strengthened to a Category 4 storm in the Atlantic, the family of a 13-year-old boy is demanding accountability after police killed the teen in upstate New York, and early first-round election results point to a big win for France's far-right party. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

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 re-election, from 63% in February to 72% on Friday and Saturday.

0:19.0

Most of the registered voters question the CBS News poll say Mr. Biden doesn't have the mental

0:24.8

and cognitive health to be president. About 30% said neither he nor Donald Trump

0:29.9

does. Three days after the president's unsteady debate performance, his backers are still publicly trying to reassure

0:36.3

Alarm Democrats, while former President Trump supporters are highlighting the night.

0:45.0

Yes, it was a bad performance. I've been around these things.

0:47.0

I've been a part of debate preparation before and I know when I see what I call preparation overload.

0:55.0

And that's exactly what was going on the other night.

0:58.0

This idea that Biden had a bad night,

1:00.0

that's not the story.

1:02.0

He's had a bad presidency, had a disastrous debate.

1:05.0

And if you want to look at past performance to judge what's going to happen in the future,

1:09.0

God help us all if Joe Biden gets reelected.

1:12.0

Today, the Atlanta Journal Constitution editorial page called for Mr. Biden to drop out.

1:18.0

The New York Times took that same position on Friday.

1:21.0

There's extreme weather from the Caribbean to the desert west in the Atlantic barrel

1:25.9

quickly intensified to become the earliest category 4 hurricane on record. The National

1:31.2

Hurricane Center expects the storm to pass just south of Barbados early Monday with St. Vincent and Grenada at the

1:37.7

Tias risk of the life-threatening combination of winds, storm surge, and waves.

1:43.2

And in Scottsdale, Arizona, northeast of Phoenix, officials are warning residents to be

1:47.0

ready to evacuate.

1:48.7

A wildfire there has charred 4,000 acres.

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