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US president pledges to remain in White House race, but pressure is building
Last weekend’s attempted assassination has electrified the former president’s base and rallied party rivals. As he extends his lead in the polls, the clock ticks on Joe Biden as pressure to quit the race increases
Jack Horgan-Jones watched the Trump speech. In this annotated, edited transcript he picks out the key moments and messages
Former president invokes God as he accepts Republican nomination in Milwaukee
There had been whispers that the shooting had changed Trump, as near death experiences often do
Secret Service under mounting pressure over security arrangements as it emerges police had spotted Thomas Crooks an hour before the shooting
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Vance realises that class divides are becoming chasms that people no longer cross with ease
High-profile Democrat Adam Schiff calls on US president to end his re-election bid
Republican Party policy document calls for resumption of Trump’s ban on the entry to the US of citizens from certain Muslim countries
Republican National Convention sees marked shift within the former president’s family playing out in public
Haley urges Trump vote ‘for the sake of our nation’, as Biden says he is ‘all in’ in defiance of calls to drop out
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Independent presidential candidate told he could do something to support the Trump campaign
Hatred of politicians deters good people from the job, which makes the government worse, which makes voters hate politicians more
Decision by US district judge Aileen Cannon handed former president another major legal victory
Attack underscored nation’s fractured political landscape ahead of US presidential election
Not many people get to call out Donald Trump out for an idiot and enjoy his good graces afterwards
Evan Vucci of Associated Press, Doug Mills of the New York Times and Anna Moneymaker of Getty Images among those praised for work in Butler
The political calculus has changed after last weekend. Facing a newly revitalised Trump with a visibly and increasingly enfeebled Biden now seems even more likely to end in catastrophe for the Democrats
Republican presidential candidate Trump welcomed the dismissal of the pending classified documents case against him
Former critic of Republican candidate has since become one of his biggest supporters
‘He has done actions that are a match for actions in criminal statutes described as crimes so he should be locked up’
Judge’s ruling on classified documents charges come days after would-be assassin’s bullet grazed his ear
Results offer another boost to ex-president days after he survived attempted assassination
Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon says Jack Smith did not have the authority to bring the case
Thomas Matthew Crooks (20) left few clues about who he was or why he decided to drive to western Pennsylvania and try to kill the former US president
Millions of ‘never Trump’ voters are unlikely to become ‘Yes Trumpers’, however appalled they are by the vile attempted murder
Failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump puts agency under political pressure
It’s starting to dawn on Democrats and Republicans that heightened, embittered language may have contributed to this latest appalling moment in US politics
That Trump became a victim of the very violence he has done so much to validate will not provoke either him or his fans to think again. It will merely serve to fortify a mindset in which America is already at war with itself
Dead suspect identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks (20) while questions asked over US secret service after attack on former president
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