Traces of cyanide have been found in cups and a teapot in the room of a luxury Bangkok hotel where the bodies of six people were discovered in a suspected deliberate poisoning.
Police in Thailand said poisoning by cyanide - a rapidly-acting, deadly chemical - was the likely cause of death of the three men and three women.
The four Vietnamese nationals and two Vietnamese Americans were found by a hotel staff member in the room, which was locked from the inside.
Food ordered by room service was found untouched inside the room - but drinks had been consumed.
Image:Uneaten meals were found on a table in the hotel room. Pic: Royal Thai Police via AP
Four of the bodies were in the living room and two in the bedroom.
Hotel records showed there were no other visitors to the room.
Police Lieutenant General Trairong Phiwpan, head of the Thai police force's forensic division, told a news conference on Wednesday one of the six is the one who committed the murders at the Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel.
"After staff brought teacups and two hot water bottles, milk and teapots... one of the six introduced cyanide," he said.
Image:The six bodies were found at the Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. Pic: Reuters
Interviews with relatives of the dead revealed there had been a dispute over debt, police said.
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Officers said the investigation - aided by the FBI - also revealed a possible motive could be a conflict among the six victims regarding multi-million Baht investments.
The three dead women have been named as 46-year-old Nguyen Thi Phuong, Sherine Chong, aged 56, and Nguyen Thi Phuong Lan, also 46.
The male victims are Tran Dinh Phu, aged 37, Dang Hung Van, 55, and 49-year-old Hong Thanh Pham.
Image:Some of the victims pictured on CCTV entering the hotel. Pic: Royal Thai Police
The six were last seen alive when the meal was delivered to the room on Monday afternoon.
The initial results of a post-mortem are expected on Thursday.
Image:A police graphic of the crime scene showing where the bodies were discovered. Pic: Reuters
The Vietnamese government said its embassy in Bangkok was working with Thai authorities on the case, while the US State Department said it was monitoring the situation.
The deaths were initially reported by some Thai media as a shooting.
The hotel, operated by Erawan Group, has over 350 rooms and is located in a popular tourist area in the Thai capital known for luxury shopping and restaurants.
Image:Police officers speak to staff at the hotel. Pic: AP
Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin had yesterday called for a swift investigation into the deaths to limit the impact on Thailand's vital tourism sector.
When asked if the deaths would affect a meeting with the Russian energy minister at the hotel later today, the prime minister said it was unlikely.
"This wasn't an act of terrorism or a breach in security, everything is fine," he said.
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We're wrapping up our live coverage for the night here at day two of the Republican convention in Milwaukee.
We saw a bevy of major Republicans lining up to heap praise on Donald Trump.
The two biggest names paying tribute were Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, who spoke one after the other. Mere months ago, both hoped this week would mark their own coronation as Republican presidential nominee.
But today they threw their support behind Donald Trump, who never entered a debate against his rivals on his way to securing the nomination.
We also heard from Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who tried to take on Trump in the 2016 race to be Republican nominee, and fell short.
Today the message from the party was clear: they are mobilised behind their candidate, and they seem confident.
We also saw more of JD Vance, who walked through the main arena at the convention in preparation for his big speech tomorrow.
Elsewhere in US politics, President Joe Biden appeared in Nevada at an event for the NAACP. He gave an energised speech that hit out against Trump's policies and character.
But he also had another blow to his own election campaign.
A Democratic campaign operative told the BBC that there were some who wanted to push for the party high command to take action, for example, by calling a vote of no confidence in the president.
As has become the norm in US politics, tomorrow is another busy day. And we'll be back to bring you the latest updates as they happen.
See you then.
Until then, we leave you with our wrap of Tuesday's action.
Kayla Epstein Reporting from the convention
Donald Trump Jr had hoped his father would choose JD Vance as his running mate, he shared during an interview earlier today at an event held by media outlet Axios.
"Honestly I think he's just an American Dream story," he said of Vance, citing the senator's book Hillbilly Elegy.
Trump Jr approved of the work Vance had done in the US Senate, where he has emerged as a proponent of a more internet-savvy brand of conservatism.
"I see his actions in the Senate," Trump Jr said. "I've gotten to know him over the last few years".
He also believed Vance possessed "the youth, the vigour his ability to really prosecute the case" for Donald Trump's candidacy.
Tomorrow is a big day for Vance, when he will deliver his first speech to the party since he was picked to be Trump's running mate.
Earlier in the night, the Republican convention heard from the mother of a US Army veteran and father-of-three who was killed in the New York neighbourhood of Harlem in 2018.
The speech brought the RNC crowd to their feet as she rained rhetorical fire and brimstone on “soft-on-crime prosecutors”, who she said had turned US cities into “war zones”.
Four siblings were initially charged with murder and gang assault in the fatal stabbing of Madeline Brame's son, Hason Correa.
Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg reduced the severity of the case, sparing the four maximum sentences.
Bragg is the same district attorney that charged Trump with business fraud, this year securing the first criminal conviction of a former president.
Brame told the RNC: “The Democratic party that poor minorities have been loyal to for decades, including myself, right, they betrayed us, they stabbed us in the back!"
“But mine eyes have been opened!” she added, a line laden with religious overtones that electrified the Republican crowd.
Railing against Bragg, she said of Trump: “He’s been a victim of the same corrupt system that I have been and my family has been.”
Mike Wendling Reporting from the convention
Lara Trump made a “heart” gesture towards the former president after a very personal speech, peppered with anecdotes about family life and her own experiences and recollections.
Her intended audience was wider than those in the room - as she tried to appeal to voters who are on the fence or haven’t voted for her father-in-law in the past.
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Lara Trump, wife of the nominee's son, Eric Trump, says she had a different speech prepared until she saw Saturday's shooting.
"Nothing prepares you for a moment like that," she says. "Our family has faced our fair share of death threats, mysterious powders sent to our homes, tasteless and violent comments directed towards us on social media.
“But none of that prepares you, as a daughter-in-law, to watch in real time someone try to kill a person you love.
"None of that prepares you, as a mother, to quickly reach for the remote and turn your young children away from the screen so they're not witness to something that scars the memory of their grandpa for the rest of their lives."
Brandon Livesay Reporting from the convention
We've heard from a long list of speakers here at day two of the Republican Convention in Milwaukee
Inside the arena they are having a prayer to finish the night. Trump is standing alongside his running mate, JD Vance.
Attention now turns to tomorrow, when Vance will have his moment in the party's spotlight and deliver his own speech.
Kayla Epstein Reporting from the convention
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Several photos captured Trump with a bloodied ear, raising his fist after an attempted assassination on Saturday.
His team is certainly aware of how potent an image that instantly became.
Lara Trump reminds the crowd that after Trump came "millimeters from death" on Saturday, he raised his fist in the air. She then raises her arm and makes a fist - an invitation for the crowd to follow her lead.
They do. Several delegates raise their fists and chant "Fight! Fight! Fight!"
The chant had already happened spontaneously last night when Trump first appeared, but now it seems to have caught on. Ron DeSantis used the same chant earlier in his speech.
Mike Wendling reporting from the convention
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The mood on the floor tonight is definitely less intense than last night.
Trump’s former rivals trooped to the stage and despite a few scattered boos seemed to be able to connect with the Maga base.
A stretch of speeches by families of crime victims whipped up anger at crime, but Trump loyalists Sarah Sanders, Ben Carson and Marco Rubio lifted the mood.
In the VIP box, Trump and his guests appear a little more relaxed after last night’s emotion.
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Lara Trump, Trump’s daughter-in-law who was elected co-chair of the Republican National Committee earlier this year, is up now.
“I don’t feel like I have to ask this question, but is anyone in this room ready to send Donald Trump back to 1600 Pennsylvania avenue,” she says, pumping up the crowd.
“Our family has faced death threats… but none of that as a daughter-in-law can prepare watching someone try to kill someone you love,” she says.
She then thanks supporters for “their prayers and well wishes over the last 72-hours”.
Lara is one of two Trump loyalists to take up top leadership roles within the RNC recently. The other is the new chair Michael Whatley, a former party general counsel who championed Trump’s unsubstantiated allegations of election fraud in the 2020 election.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who was floated as a contender to be Trump’s running mate - and shares a thorny history with the former president, is speaking glowingly of Trump.
He speaks about the attempt on Trump’s life.
“We were brought to the precipice of the abyss, and by the hand of God reminded of what truly matters in our lives and in our country," he says.
“It is our people who should always matter the most in everything we do - by giving voice to everyday Americans, President Trump has not just transformed our party, he has inspired a movement,” he told the cheering crowd.
"There is nothing dangerous or divisive about putting Americans first," he added, as chants of "U-S-A, U-S-A" broke out in the crowd.
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Florida Senator Marco Rubio is one of the final speakers scheduled tonight at the Republican convention.
He's just arrived on stage, wearing a red tie and an American flag pinned to his lapel.
Rubio says the Republican party has been transformed by Trump.
A small throng of Rubio supporters has moved just in front of the stage and chant his name as he starts speaking.
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Just below the stage I ran into Charlie Kirk, the founder of campus group Turning Point.
The Trump campaign hopes this hardcore conservative group can turn out new supporters, and they’re pouring money into get-out-the-vote efforts.
But there’s one big problem - Trump’s voter fraud claims.
If you think elections are rigged, why vote?
“That's an issue,” Kirk admits, but he thinks some states are better than others at securing elections.
“The problems are at the margins,” he says, adding: “I wish we did it like you do it in the UK” with hand-counted paper ballots.
Although Donald Trump has criticised early and postal voting, Kirk says Republicans will have to take advantage of all potential voting methods to win in November.
He points to his t-shirt, which reads: “VOTE EARLY”.
One of the bigger moments of day two here at the Republican convention came moments ago, when former rival Nikki Haley gave her full endorsement to Donald Trump.
You can watch that moment in the video above.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders continues to speak to the crowd here in Milwaukee.
“Not even an assassins bullet could stop him, God Almighty intervened because America is one nation under god, and he is certainly not finished with Donald Trump,” she says.
Sanders had been floated by some as a possible running mate for Trump, however she had also dragged her feet when it came to endorsing his re-election early on.
She’s used her speech so far to humanise Trump, describing him as a great father and grandfather, who has also offered his support to her own family during tough times.
Kayla Epstein Reporting from the convention
Several speakers whose families were the victims of violent crimes have taken the stage at the convention.
One of them, Madeline Brame, spoke about how her son was killed in a homicide.
She accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of not sufficiently prosecuting the crime.
At the mention of Bragg, the convention hall exploded into boos.
Bragg is the prosecutor who secured a conviction against Donald Trump in his New York hush money trial earlier this year. A jury convicted Trump.
The jeers for Bragg are the loudest of the night so far.
Trump's former White House press secretary, and the current Governor of Arkansas, is now on stage speaking about Trump.
The crowd cheers as Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she is "proud" to stand with Trump.
Mike Wendling reporting from the convention
Daniel Willis, 25, is chair of the Delaware young Republicans.
In his elephant hat - the party’s mascot - he tells me that DeSantis and Haley did more than enough “to bridge the gap” with Trump supporters tonight.
“Haley gave strong first-hand examples of her experiences as Donald Trump’s UN secretary," he says.
“And I liked DeSantis’s message that people in power should be there because they deserve to be there, and not through diversity initiatives.”
But for Willis, the real star tonight was Vivek Ramaswamy.
“He’s talking to the younger crowd… he’s definitely the future of the party”.
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Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis - two of the top contenders who took on Trump for the party's nomination during primary elections - have each just spoken at the convention stage.
The former rivals gave their full endorsements to Trump and pushed a message of party unity.
“We need a commander in chief who can lead 24 hours a day and seven days a week,” DeSantis said.
DeSantis had been reluctant to aggressively target Trump during his own campaign for the White House. But he did eventually step up his political attacks, making repeated reference to "porn star hush money payments", a reference to the criminal case Trump lost in New York.
DeSantis ended his remarks saying, "fight, fight, fight" echoed Trump's own words immediately after he was hit in the ear by a would-be assassin's bullet on Saturday. It's become a calling cry for Republicans at this convention.
Haley took a softer tone, after forcefully criticising her former rival on the campaign trail, calling him "toxic" and a man who "lacks moral clarity”.
She appealed across the aisle for all Americans to unify behind Trump.
“We must also expand the party. We are so much better when we are bigger,” she said.
She said Americans did not need to agree with Trump 100% of the time, referencing her own disagreements with the former president.
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As we wait for the next speaker to arrive, a Trump-themed cover of Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" blasts over the jumbotron.
The iconic beat is the same, but the lyrics have been given a Republican rewrite.
"Trump, Trump, baby / America needs saving," goes one sample verse.
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Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis are set to take the stage at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin this evening after a surprise appearance by Donald Trump on Monday evening.
The former president received a hero’s welcome when he arrived at the Fiserv Forum with a bandaged ear on Monday night. A deafening roar erupted from the crowd and chants of “USA” broke out when he arrived.
He did not speak, as he is due to give the event’s keynote address on Thursday, but appeared moved by the reception.
“After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator JD Vance of the Great State of Ohio,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Vance, a military veteran, venture capitalist and author, beat Florida Senator Marco Rubio and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum to the honour.
Former sniper Rep. Cory Mills raised questions about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump as he called for a thorough investigation. Mills spoke to CNN following the rally shooting in Pennsylvania on Saturday (13 July). “The amount of negligence, the amount of mistakes that were made here, I have a very difficult time not leaning myself towards this was intentional as opposed to fecklessness,” Mills told CNN anchor Kate Bolduan on Tuesday (16 July). Appearing shocked, the CNN host pressed Mills further, to which he replied: “I sit here and scratch my head. You don’t want to be the conspiracist. That’s the issue. You walk this fine balance, but you look at it and think ‘How could this have gone so wrong?’.”
Inside the unlikely romance of JD Vance and wife Usha Chilukuri Vance, from Yale Law to a Kentucky wedding
They were paired as writing partners for their first major assignment at Yale Law School – a striking high-achiever daughter of immigrants and a Marine veteran “hillbilly” who could trace his family’s Scots-Irish roots back generations in the Appalachian mountains.
It may sound trite and corny, but Usha Chilukuri and JD Vance truly came from vastly different worlds. And they fell in love in yet another – at an East Coast Ivy League across the country from Usha’s childhood California home and across a gaping cultural divide from her future husband’s Rust Belt hometown.
When JD Vance began law school at Yale, the Rust Belt native encountered total culture shock — but also met his wife, the whipsmart daughter of Indian immigrants who helped him navigate the Ivy League, healthy relationships and his run for Vice President alongside Donald Trump. Sheila Flynn chronicles their romance
Profile: Usha Chilukuri Vance — Who is the wife of Trump’s running mate?
Many will now be acquainted with JD Vance’s journey from the US Marine Corps to Capitol Hill by way of Ohio State University, Yale Law School and a stint in San Francisco as a venture capitalist with Mithril Capital Management, a firm co-founded by the billionaire Peter Thiel.
Perhaps less well-known is the story of Vance’s wife Usha Chilukuri Vance.
Joe Sommerlad takes a look at the story of the woman who could one day be the second lady.
Comment: Trump’s latest move could prove to be a devastating blow for Ukraine
Mary Dejevsky writes:
But there was an exception to the general equanimity over the nomination of Vance. In much of Eastern Europe, but most of all in Ukraine, Trump’s choice would be unwelcome in the extreme.
Trump regularly boasts he would end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of returning to the Oval Office, but offers little detail. By announcing JD Vance as his vice-presidential pick, however, he is indicating his intention to adopt a foreign policy that could be catastrophic for Kyiv, writes Mary Dejevsky
Donald Trump described what it felt like to be shot during a leaked phone call with independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Trump, who was shot in his ear during his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, told RFK Jr: “It felt like the world's largest mosquito.” Before divulging what it felt like to be shot, Trump is heard trying to coax RFK Jr to join his team. He states: “We're going to win, we're way ahead of the guy.” The video clip was first posted by RFK Jr’s son, Robert F. Kennedy III, in a post that has since been deleted.
JD Vance was announced as Donald Trump’s running mate Monday, 15 July, but the Ohio senator has not always been a fan of the former president. In his first interview since the vice president pick announcement, Vance responded to his past criticism of Trump, who he once compared to Hitler. “I was certainly skeptical of Donald Trump in 2016, but President Trump was a great president, and he changed my mind,” Vance said. “I bought into the media’s lies and distortions,” he said. Vance then went on to say he’d been wrong about Trump.
Democrats slam JD Vance pick and Project 2025 after returning to campaign on second day of RNC
Andrew Feinberg reports from Milwaukee:
Days after a gunman came within inches of assassinating former president Donald Trump, Democrats are ditching the temporary pause in campaigning that they instituted after the Saturday shooting.
The party is now going all-in on plans to highlight what spokespeople describe as the extreme proposals favored by the ex-president and his allies.
At a press conference in Milwaukee, just a short walk from where Republicans officially nominated the twice-impeached convicted felon as their party’s standard-bearer for the third consecutive election, President Joe Biden’s deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks told reporters the attempt on Trump’s life wasn’t changing how they are going after the former president and his new running-mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance.
Six people have been found dead in a luxury Bangkok hotel after a suspected deliberate poisoning.
The three men and three women - four Vietnamese nationals and two Vietnamese Americans - were in a room locked from the inside.
There were no signs of a struggle and it's not being treated as a robbery.
Police chief Thiti Sangsawang said room service food was untouched but drinks had been consumed - with "unidentified substances" in the bottom of all six cups.
Four of the bodies were in the living room and two in the bedroom, he added.
They were found by a maid after one failed to check out.
The case is being treated as a likely murder rather than suicide, said Mr Sangsawang.
He said all the victims arrived at the Grand Hyatt Erwan Hotel on 13 and 14 July and were staying in five different rooms.
It's believed they could be related as their surnames are similar.
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Image:The bodies were found at the Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel. Pic: Reuters
"We are tracing every step since they got off the plane," Mr Sangsawang told reporters.
However, one person appears to be unaccounted for as the rooms were initially booked for seven people.
Police are trying to check if that person entered Thailand.
Image:Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin visited the scene. Pic. Reuters
Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin visited the scene and told reporters the victims were found at around 4.30pm local time on Tuesday.
He said it was believed they had been dead for about 24 hours.
"From initial dead body inspection, the cause of dead could be from something they consumed," said Mr Thavisin.
The waiter who delivered the food to the room at around 1pm on Monday is being questioned.
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Police said they were waiting for an embassy representative to go through the group's luggage, which had all been packed and taken to the room where they were found.
The US State Department said it was aware of reports that two of its citizens had died.
The former president received a hero’s welcome at the Fiserv Forum, with a deafening roar erupting from the crowd and chants of “USA” breaking out when he arrived.
He did not speak, as he is due to give the event’s keynote address on Thursday, but appeared moved by the reception.
“After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator JD Vance of the Great State of Ohio,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Vance, a military veteran, venture capitalist and author, beat Florida Senator Marco Rubio and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum to the honour.
DNC issues response to today’s ‘Make America Safe Once Again’ theme at the RNC
DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement regarding today’s Republican National Convention theme — “Make America Safe Once Again”.
Convicted felon Donald Trump represents nothing more than empty words and broken promises when it comes to creating safer communities and securing our border.
The facts speak for themselves: Donald Trump doesn’t care about making America safer – he cares about what helps him politically. He oversaw a murder rate that skyrocketed by nearly 30 percent in a single year, repeatedly proposed defunding law enforcement, and he shamelessly ordered congressional Republicans to tank the toughest, fairest bill to secure the border in decades for his own political gain. Every single congressional Republican voted against President Biden’s funding for more police officers in the ARP. Trump is even promising to pardon violent insurrectionists who stormed our Capitol and attacked law enforcement. Put simply, Trump’s extreme and out-of-touch Project 2025 agenda will leave the American people less safe.
Under President Biden, violent crime has plummeted, as his administration has boosted law enforcement, taken action to improve border security, and delivered the most significant federal bipartisan gun safety legislation in decades. That’s the type of decisive action and leadership the American people demand from their president.
‘Serial killer vibes’: Katie Britt mercilessly mocked for RNC speech after viral SOTU rebuttal
Rather than the content of her speech, it was Britt’s delivery that got social media users talking once again, with many likening it to her “breathy,” intense rebuttal at the State of the Union.
"Make America Great Again": a quote so famous that everybody knows who coined it... Ronald Reagan, of course. But, some others might not be so obvious. So, at the 2024 Republican National Convention, The Independent headed out to ask the country's most loyal party members and Trump supporters: Who said it — Donald Trump or Joe Biden? Both men have been speaking on the record for decades, so this game should be fairly easy, right? Watch to find out how our contestants did.
DNC announces more than $15m in direct investments to battleground state parties
With the Republican National Convention underway in Milwaukee this week, the Democratic National Committee has announced $15m in direct expenditures to battleground state parties – helping fund campaign ground game and infrastructure.
These investments will help allow the Democratic campaign to open more field offices and hire more staffers.
So far, the campaign has 217 field offices across battleground states and employs more than 1,100 staffers with four months still to go before the election.
“As the RNC showcases the extreme Project 2025 agenda of the Trump-Vance ticket, the DNC is focused on reaching voters in battleground states ... Trump’s extreme agenda makes this the most consequential election of our lifetime. That’s why Democrats are leaving nothing to chance, investing heavily on the ground to ensure Joe Biden and Kamala Harris win this election,“ said Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison.
“This election is going to come down to operation and turnout in the battleground states, and that's why we've made the largest-ever investment into battleground state parties at this point in the cycle. We’re going to win this election by engaging voters community-by-community, block-by-block, door-by-door. These investments show that commitment in action.”
Schiff warns of overwhelming losses for Democrats with Biden on top of ticket, report says
California Democrat Rep Adam Schiff — who is running for the state’s vacant Senate seat — warned donors in the Hamptons on Saturday of a wipeout for the party if President Joe Biden remains in the race as the nominee at the top of the ticket, The New York Times reports.
Citing two sources with direct knowledge of Schiff’s remarks, the outlet reports the congressman as saying not only would the party lose the White House, but most likely the Senate and any opportunity to take back the House of Representatives.
“I think if he is our nominee, I think we lose,” Schiff at the fundraiser, a person with access to a transcription of a recording of the event told the Times. “And we may very, very well lose the Senate and lose our chance to take back the House.”
There are private concerns within the Democratic Party about the prospects for down-ballot candidates if Biden remains in the race, but few are voicing their fears in public. There had been a small but growing number of people calling for him to step aside but that has dropped off in the days since the attempt on the life of Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Comment: Trump’s running mate JD Vance has insulted the UK with his racist ignorance
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi writes:
Let’s start with the basics. The UK and the US have a special relationship. They are our most important ally in the world, and they should be our most trusted ally. And that means that when we agree, we do so very publicly, and when we disagree, we do so behind closed doors. Every aspect of our relationship – from our intelligence sharing to our military cooperation, from our political ties to our diplomatic work – should be done in an environment of mutual respect.
What Donald Trump’s appointment of JD Vance as his running mate for vice-president has done is put that special relationship at risk.
Nikki Haley speaks in Washington, May 22, 2024 (AP)
Nikki Haley, Trump’s former primary rival, was a last-minute addition to the schedule.
The former United Nations ambassador and South Carolina governor waited two months after dropping out in March to say she would vote for him. Then last week, she announced she would instruct her convention delegates to vote for Trump but wasn’t planning to attend the convention.
It wasn’t until Sunday — hours after the shooting — that her office reversed itself and said she would speak.
In focus: What Hillbilly Elegy can tell us about JD Vance and his right-wing beliefs
Nick Hilton looks back on what the politician argued in the book, from his criticisms of welfare to his belief that the working classes ‘spend our way into the poorhouse’.
America’s potential future vice president topped bestseller lists with his 2016 memoir, a tale of multi-generational, cyclical poverty in Appalachia. Nick Hilton looks back on what the politician argued in the book, from his criticisms of welfare to his belief that the working classes ‘spend our way into the poorhouse’
