How to make sense of not one but two assassination attempts in as many months on a former president? Donald Trump says it's all down to the language that Kamala Harris and the Democrats are using. JD Vance has just called her 'the most fraudulent person to run for president'.

Is it language? Guns? Or an impossible to police golf course perimeter? The first voting by post began in Pennsylvania this week. What does the attack bode for the November election and beyond?

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The Presidential debate on Tuesday night was everything that team Harris were praying it would be. Trap after trap laid for Donald Trump which he appeared to walk into.

His areas of strength - the economy and immigration - didn’t really get off the ground. She baited him on his rallies and his racism. And he got very cross.

Moments after the debate ended the Democratic nominee won the support of arguably the most powerful woman alive - Taylor Swift. How will this shift the electoral race?

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Trump has been having what our grandmother's mght once have called 'a funny turn'. He keeps saying things out loud he then regrets. He admitted this week he had both lost the last election and tried to interfere with the result. Then he argued against the 6 week abortion ban in Florida - saying it was TOO SHORT. And then offered America free IVF. None of which he'd agreed as policy with his VP.

If this makes you think Kamala has the election in the bag, well, pause there: she doesn't. The polls are tightening but the election is still looking neck and neck. She's managed to avoid any real accountability by doing a soft soap interview. But what's going to happen come the TV debate next week? We have finally seen they have the power to change a presidential race...

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The rules of the last TV debate were set by Joe Biden. And that didn’t go so well for him...Jon has an incredible story of the hours leading up to that debate and who knew what. But right now those debate rules are being re- litigated by Kamala’s team, who now say they want the mics left live. Will it happen?

Later, why is Trump now talking about women’s reproductive rights? And what does the suspension of RFKs presidential campaign actually mean for him, for Trump, and for Harris?

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Star quality doesn’t come much higher than an Obama. And last night at the DNC there were two. Michelle preceded her husband, the 44th US president, as they told the crowd to “Do Something “ to get Kamala Harris elected.

This convention, these speeches, are all about the power of women. And there’s a reason that’s playing so strongly in this particular election. What will Trumps response be to what’s happening on stage in Chicago?

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Since Kamala Harris took over the 2024 Democratic race Trump has been visibly suffering. He can’t work out her name, how to attack her, or even whether she reminds him of his own wife.

Trump has barely been out on the campaign stump since his attempted assassination. Has he got PTSD or has he just lost his mojo? And what will happen to the democrats when he gets it back?

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What does Kamala Harris see in Tim Walz that has propelled him to be her VP pick? And what lines of attack will Trump and Vance use against the pairing now?

Walz is little known in much of America - the Minnesota governor, former veteran and school coach has got progressive left policies but he is a gun owner with a love of hunting and fishing. Can he win over the men who once voted Trump?

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Kamala Harris has challenged Trump to a debate in the most ‘brat‘ way possible. She’s also introduced a new vibe into the Democrat campaign which involves calling the former president ‘a bit weird’. Is it unsettling Trump? Is it emasculating him? And what form will his response take? Later we discuss the potential VP picks - Kamala Harris will pick her running mate by this time next week. And an update on Donald Trump’s marriage to Melania.

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