Donald Trump Appears At Republican National Convention

Donald Trump has been seen for the first time since surviving an assassination attempt at the weekend. The ex-president is in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention - he entered the hall to rapturous applause with a heavily bandaged ear. The leading Republican candidate became the party's official nominee earlier today, after a formal counting of the delegates at the convention.
Amid calls for unity during the convention, Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said that Democrats and their policies represented a “clear and present danger to America, to our institutions, our values and our people”.
A Johnson staffer later told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that the senator did not intend to read the line during the speech and said it was from an old version that was inadvertently loaded into the teleprompter.
Meanwhile, Trump has picked as his running mate JD Vance, the young Ohio senator and author of a best-selling memoir about his experience of rural poverty, in a choice aimed at winning blue-collar voters across the swing states of the industrial Midwest.
His announcement of Vance as running mate ended months of speculation and completed the Republican party’s 2024 ticket with less than four months to go until November’s election. Trump leads US President Joe Biden, his Democratic rival, in most national and swing state polls.