An election campaign that was mostly static before the presidential debate has transformed into one of the most volatile and consequential in more than 50 years.
As someone who'll be heavily involved in the ABC 's coverage of the US presidential election in November, I was tasked to head over there to do a series of interviews and reports for News Breakfast and other ABC platforms, tapping into the political mood just months before Americans cast their votes.I flew into Washington DC as the Democrat ic Party was rupturing over whether Joe Biden was fit enough to seek another term in the White House .
Then, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, armed with an assault rifle, climbed onto the roof of a shed at a Republican Party rally in Pennsylvania and took aim at Donald Trump.The pictures of Trump surrounded by Secret Service agents with blood running down his face defiantly raising his fist with a large US flag fluttering overhead will be among the most enduring images of this campaign, if not American political history.
Donald Trump launched himself into a Republican National Convention defined by displays of unity and a successful hard launch of his running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance. The president, determined to show nervous party members he still had it, embarked on a two-day swing through key battleground state Nevada to rally supporters and sell his message, particularly to that state's large Latino population.Towards the end of the trip, news broke that Mr Biden had come down with COVID-19, a diagnosis that brought this attempted political comeback to a screeching halt.
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