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More crushing polls for Biden shows Trump pulling ahead

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Donald Trump has widened his lead in the presidential race against Joe Biden after the president’s disastrous debate performance, according to a new poll from The New York Times and Siena College.

Trump now leads Biden by 49 percent to 43 percent among likely voters nationally, a three-point swing toward Trump from a week earlier. Notably, it is the biggest lead Trump has recorded in a Times/Siena poll since 2015 and will do nothing to ease pressure on Biden to pull out of the race.

The gap is even wider among registered voters with Trump at 49 percent compared with Biden’s 41 percent.

The poll identified voters’ growing concern that the 81-year-old president is too old to govern effectively, a majority view across every demographic, geographic and ideological group in the poll, including Black voters and even those who say they will still vote for him.

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A total of 74 percent of voters view him as too old for the job, up five percentage points since the debate. Those concerns have jumped eight percentage points among Democrats since the debate to 59 percent. Even more alarming for Biden is that independent voters who said they felt that way rose to 79 percent, nearly matching the Republican view of the president.

Despite calls from Democrats for Biden to step down gaining steam on Tuesday, the poll found more voters believe he should remain the Democratic nominee but that was likely because Republicans now want him to be Trump’s opponent.

There is no doubt that Biden’s woeful debate performance is responsible for the devastating poll results. Those who said they watched the debate said Trump outperformed Biden, 60 percent to 22 percent, while only 16 percent of voters said Biden did well, and a paltry 3 percent said he did very well.

In a statement to The Daily Beast, Biden campaign pollster Moly Murphy said, “Both internal and outside polling confirm that the race remains incredibly tight and I agree with the Times that today’s polling doesn’t fundamentally change the course of the race.”

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“The work our campaign is doing on the ground will be critical to win over voters in a low trust and divided political environment. Trump’s team is doing virtually none of that work, while also being saddled with the baggage of a toxic agenda to undecided voters. President Biden has work to do, but will be running on mobilizing issues that we are confident will bring him to victory this November.”

A Wall Street Journal poll, also released Wednesday, similarly shows Trump with a six-point lead over Biden among voters, with 80 percent of Americans saying that the president is too old to run for a second term.

Trump now has a 48 percent lead over Biden’s 42 percent, according to the Journal poll.

It comes a day after a similar CNN poll also showed Biden trailing Trump by six points.

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That poll found that 75 percent of voters surveyed said the Democrats would have a better chance if someone other than Biden was the nominee.

Biden’s approval rating hit in the CNN poll showed him at a dangerously low figure of 36 percent following the debate. However, a match-up between Kamala Harris and Trump showed the vice president only two points behind, recording 45 percent support compared with Trump’s 47 percent.

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Peru’s president nose surgery under scrutiny as prosecutors investigate

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Peruvian President, Dina Boluarte, appeared before prosecutors on Monday to explain a two-week absence for plastic surgery on her nose that she insists was medical, not cosmetic.

Boluarte, 62, did not appoint a caretaker president for the period of her absence in July 2023 and stands accused of abandoning her post.

She appeared before prosecutors investigating the case for four hours Monday and left without speaking to reporters waiting outside.

Some lawmakers have called for Boluarte to be removed from office. She had not informed the public or delegated her powers to Congress, as determined by law.

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But her team said she had carried out her duties virtually while recovering at a clinic in Lima from rhinoplasty for “breathing problems.”

Boluarte has been embroiled in controversy for months.

Prosecutors also accuse her of accepting bribes in the form of Rolex watches and jewellery, and she is being investigated over the deaths of more than 50 protesters during a crackdown on demonstrations against her presidency in 2022.

Boluarte took office in December of that year, replacing left-wing president Pedro Castillo after he was impeached and imprisoned for unsuccessfully trying to dissolve Congress.

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She had been his vice president.

Boluarte does not have her own party in Congress and has a disapproval rating of nearly 95 per cent. Her term ends in July 2026.

Peru suffers from chronic political instability and has had six presidents in the past eight years.

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Former Child Actor Among 16 Killed In Los Angeles Wildfire

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Sixteen people have been killed in the Los Angeles wildfire. An amputee and his son with cerebral palsy were among those killed. The father was found at his son’s bedside.

One victim told a relative that he did not want to evacuate. He died trying to fight the blaze that consumed his home of more than 50 years.

Another victim, an 85-year-old woman, refused to leave her home as the fast-moving Palisades Fire approached, preferring instead to stay behind with her beloved pets.

A former child star from Australia also was among those who died, as well as a Malibu resident and surfer who was called a “magnet for people.”

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According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, five of the 16 deaths appear related to the Palisades Fire near the Southern California coast. Another 11 deaths have been attributed to the Eaton Fire, which raged east of Los Angeles.

The complete death toll won’t be clear until it’s safe for investigators to enter neighborhoods where there are downed power lines, gas leaks and other hazards, according to authorities.

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Death toll rises as California wildfires rage into fifth day

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The Death toll from the devastating California wildfires has risen to eleven, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner said Friday.

According to Fox News, the number of persons confirmed dead is expected to rise as the incident moved into a fifth consecutive day on Saturday.

It was gathered that over 12,300 homes and buildings have gone up in flames since the incident started early in the week

Fresh evacuations were ordered Friday night in some of the affected parts, including Mandeville Canyon.

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A company that monitors electrical activity, Whisker Labs, says faults along the Los Angeles power grid skyrocketed in the same areas where three of the major wildfires are currently raging.

The chief executive of the company, Bob Marshall told Fox News Digital that the company recorded sharp increases in faults in the hours prior to the Eaton, Palisades and Hurst Fires.

“Faults are caused by tree limbs touching wires or wires blowing in the wind and touching.

“That creates a spark in a fault, and we detect all of those things,” Marshall explained, adding that he can’t definitively say whether one of those faults caused a fire.

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