Trump joins crowd at Republican convention hall with bandaged ear, in first public appearance since assassination attempt – as it happened
by Chris Stein in Milwaukee (now); Léonie Chao-Fong from US news | The Guardian on (#6P79V)
Our live coverage of the Republican national convention is over for the day. You can read our latest full news reports here:
- Trump appears with bandaged ear at Republican national convention
- Trump names fierce former critic JD Vance as running mate
President Joe Biden has postponed a planned trip to Texas today, where he was to speak on the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act at the Lyndon B Johnson presidential library.
An NBC News interview between Biden and anchor Lester Holt will now occur at the White House, instead of in Texas, as initially planned, Associated Press reports.
There is no place in America for this kind of violence or for any violence for that matter.
An assassination attempt is contrary to everything we stand for as a nation. Everything. It's not who we are as a nation. It's not America, and we cannot allow this to happen.
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