US elections

Attendees at the RNC were delighted with the pick of Trump loyalist JD Vance for vice president, but there’s a carefully crafted strategy behind it too.

We spoke to the pollster Frank Luntz, and started by asking him whether Trump’s choice for vice president was a good pick.

Donald Trump’s defiant fist in the air has already become the symbol of his election campaign, endlessly echoed by attendees in Milwaukee.

We were joined by Mick Mulvaney, a former White House chief of Staff for Donald Trump and by Democrat strategist, Julie Roginsky.

We were joined by Hilario Deleon, Chairman of the Milwaukee County Republican Party.

America is no stranger to political violence. While Saturday’s assassination attempt was the first on a current or former President for more than 40 years, there have been attacks on politicians of all stripes recently, not least the storming of the US Capitol in 2021. 

Saturday’s shooting may have thrown the political establishment into disarray, but one thing has stayed exactly the same – there is no question that Donald Trump is the king of the Republican party. 

The family of Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was among millions of voters profiled by Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign

We were joined by the American author and political commentator Eddie Glaude, who’s a professor at Princeton University.

Whit Ayres is a Republican pollster and the founder and president of North Star Opinion Research.

The United States is no stranger to presidential assassinations. Four sitting presidents have been killed, as well as several presidential candidates.

We spoke to Ben Joelson, who’s head of security risk at the Chertoff Group advisory firm. We began by asking for his reaction to what happened.

British journalist Tom Newton Dunn was at the rally when the shooting broke out.

Donald Trump has urged Americans to “stand united” and remain “defiant in the face of wickedness” after the assassination attempt against him.

We’re joined by Peter Loge, who was a senior advisor in the Obama administration and is now a professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University.