Welcome to the Trump show: Republican convention to resemble coronation

Speaker after speaker will line up in Milwaukee to pay tribute to their nominee - who they are likely to hail as literally bulletproof after an apparent assassination attempt

The political iconography was instant and indelible. His face bloodied, his fist raised, Donald Trump stood defiant as Secret Service agents scrambled around him against the backdrop of the Stars and Stripes and a brilliant blue sky.

The apparent attempt to assassinate the former president at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday shook the American political kaleidoscope once again. It cast a shadow over the Republican national convention, due to start in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Monday - but potentially handed Trump and his allies a political opportunity.