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We spoke to Susan Platt – who was Joe Biden’s former chief of staff in the senate.

America will go to the polls to choose the next President in just over a hundred days.

She’s spent four years battling lacklustre approval ratings and even some ridicule. But Kamala Harris will almost certainly become the Democrats’ nominee to take on Donald Trump in November. 

We spoke to Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump – a psychologist and author who’s written a book about the family.

He is, he said, only here by the Grace of God. And the Republican faithful lapped up Donald Trump’s address to their National Convention last night – his first speech since a gunman came breathtakingly close to taking his life. 

We spoke to Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump – a psychologist and author who’s written a book about the family.

Flanked by the secret service and circled by police officers, law enforcement was meant to keep Donald Trump safe at his rally in Butler Pennsylvania on 13 July. But somehow, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks came within centimetres of assassinating him. Director of the Secret Service Kimberley Cheatle has told ABC News the shooting was ‘unacceptable’.…

An assassination attempt, J.D. Vance – a relatively unknown Ohio Senator – picked as Donald Trump’s Vice President, and current President Joe Biden desperately clinging on to his own nomination – it’s been another huge week in American politics and there’s still one day left at the Republican National Convention where Donald Trump is due to speak – so what will happen next?

Four days after he tried to assassinate Donald Trump, Thomas Crooks’ motive remains a mystery.

The Republican National Convention began with much talk of unity after the attempt on Donald Trump’s life.

Party political get-togethers like the Republican National Convention are an opportunity for the faithful to hang out and to celebrate their brand and their man.

If the 39-year-old is elected with Trump, he’ll be one of America’s youngest vice presidents, and he’ll be in a strong position to run for president in 2028.

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.