work in the coming hours for the first time since joe biden s debate disaster. and with calls growing from within his own party for the president in, his reelection campaign. and in france, a shock result from a snap election voters deliver a win for the left and a stinging rebuke for the far right we re live in paris with the latest developments, plus beryl s strengthens to a hurricane once again, as it approaches the texas coast we re tracking the storm as it prepares to make landfall died for a gland this is cnn newsroom with rosemarie have you without smaller handful of house democrats are joining the growing chorus, calling on u.s. president joe biden to abandon the 2024 presidential race his poor debate performance against donald trump lawmakers will be returning to work in the coming hours after they likely heard from constituents over the holiday weekend about whether the president should stay in the race there s deep concern over having joe biden at the top of the
three-to-one, three-to-one today debate performance was concerning and it wasn t the joe biden that i know. it s highly likely you re using what public pressure on in this week they re france, the culture is left-wing alliance. let s go out on top of the second round of parliamentary elections water temperatures over this part of the gulf of mexico are running abnormally high that is like jet fuel for strengthening hurricanes and tropical systems hello, and a warm welcome, our viewers joining us from the united states and all around the world it is monday, july the eight, if i max foster reporting live today from paris where the left-wing coalition has defeated the far right in, let s say, surprising election results and i m rosemary church and cnn world headquarters here in atlanta. we will of course, dive deeper into the french election results in just a few minutes. but we begin this hour with us politics and a growing number of house democrats who were joining the cho
hello, and welcome to paris i m christian fraser. quite i m christian fraser. the result tonight. polls have closed after the second and decisive round of france s parliamentary elections and the projected results are in. they point to a left wing coalition the new popular front winning the most seats in the national assembly. it s forecast to win between 172 and 192 seats in total. it s a surprise turnaround from the first round last week, which saw the far right national rally party win the biggest share of the vote. national rally is projected to have between 132 and 152 mps a likely third place behind president macron s centrist alliance, together . it s predicted to win between 150 and 170 seats. if confirmed in the full count, france will have a hung parliament. these were the scenes at place de la republic when the projected results came in. speaking to his supporters, the leader of the french left party, france unbowed, jean luc melenchon, hailed the proj
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