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Katherine Firkin: US Correspondent on the mood in the Democrats after the Biden-Trump debate · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Specific interest to us, this dreadful case of the keeping woman.
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  Speaker 1: What can you tell us in California.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is truly just such a distressing story, Mike. Sadly,
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  Speaker 2: it appears to be simply a case of a wrong place,
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  Speaker 2: wrong time. The sixty nine year old woman was simply
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  Speaker 2: standing outside a bookstore with her husband in Newport, California,
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  Speaker 2: when she was approached by at least three armed men
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  Speaker 2: who robbed her. They then ran over her in their
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  Speaker 2: getaway car, all while opening fire on bystanders. It is
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  Speaker 2: just a shocking, shocking act. It all happened, you know,
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  Speaker 2: only a matter of minutes. It happened in broad daylight
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  Speaker 2: around three point thirty pm this attack occurred. Police say.
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  Speaker 2: The suspects continued to fire their weapons as they drove away.
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  Speaker 2: The attack initiated a police pursuit where speeds reached nearly
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty kilometers an hour. Finally, those men
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  Speaker 2: were arrested. I do want to point out, Mike that
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  Speaker 2: authorities keep insisting this type of thing doesn't happen in
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  Speaker 2: places like Newport, California, But the fact is we are
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  Speaker 2: hearing more and more of these awful armed robbery type
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  Speaker 2: crimes happening right out of the country. Certainly California appears
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  Speaker 2: to be a hot spot for this sort of crime.
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  Speaker 2: And really, this is just an awful incident that sadly
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  Speaker 2: has claimed the life of this New Zealand woman.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. I'm hearing a lot of ed reports about Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles these days, Washington, Biden, how much pressure.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we're talking of bad reports. The news is just
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  Speaker 2: getting worse and worse for the Democrats and Joe Biden
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  Speaker 2: in particular. Of course, we've had so much talk about
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  Speaker 2: that disastrous debate against Donald Trump, but things now finally
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  Speaker 2: seem to be getting serious. Texas Representative Lloyd Doggett has
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  Speaker 2: become the first Democrat to break ranks and publicly call
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  Speaker 2: for Biden to step aside. And this comes after with
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  Speaker 2: her just NonStop persistent rumors of panic amongst the Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: talk of private meetings between high ranking party members all
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  Speaker 2: desperate to work out what to do about their Biden problem.
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  Speaker 2: We have just heard today that part of their renewed
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  Speaker 2: effort to calm the public is that Biden has agreed
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  Speaker 2: to an interview with ABC News tomorrow night. To be honest, Mike,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to see what that's going to do. At
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  Speaker 2: this point. He's also set Yeah, he's also set to
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  Speaker 2: meet Democratic governors in Washington next week in person. They
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  Speaker 2: have demanded an in person meeting. But this is all
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  Speaker 2: happening is We've got new polls out today showing Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump taking a three point edge over Biden in battleground states,
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  Speaker 2: a two point edge nationally. That's not actually a huge
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  Speaker 2: shift in terms of the numbers, But what is interesting
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  Speaker 2: is that we're now hearing from that poll that Democrat
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  Speaker 2: voters feel less motivated to actually go out and vote
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  Speaker 2: as a result of Biden's disastrous debate, And of course
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  Speaker 2: voting is not compulsory thing it so that is a
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  Speaker 2: massive problem for the Democrats and as at this stage,
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  Speaker 2: it's just really hard to see this ending well for
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  Speaker 2: Biden or the party.
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  Speaker 1: Well one a's a pleasure, Catherine, ketchup next week. Appreciate
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  Speaker 1: it very much. Catherine Ferken out of the States for US.
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