 In news from around the region, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut is standing behind President Biden as some fellow Democratic lawmakers are urging him to end his reelection campaign, as you just heard. Now, they say Biden performed poorly in the first debate with a presumptive Republican nominee, former President Trump. Biden told Democrats in Congress yesterday that he's standing firm, saying the party has one job, which is to defeat Trump in November. Blumenthal calls Biden the clear choice.