The BBC’s Gary O’Donoghue: ‘I knew those were gunshots, and then realised Trump had stopped talking’

The broadcaster's senior US correspondent on whether the election will bring more violence, the challenges of being blind in his job, and what he misses about the UK

Born in Norfolk in 1968, and becoming blind by the age of eight, Gary O'Donoghue studied philosophy and modern languages at Oxford University. After graduating he joined the BBC as a junior reporter on the Today programme, later becoming Radio 4's chief political correspondent. Now the BBC's senior North America correspondent, O'Donoghue was in attendance at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania where Donald Trump was hit by a bullet; his interview with eyewitness Greg Smith subsequently revealed astonishing security lapses. With election day on Tuesday and Americans worried there could be more violence to come, O'Donoghue spoke to us from the corporation's Washington DC bureau. He divides his time between Washington DC, London and Yorkshire with his partner and their daughter.

Where will you be when America goes to the polls?
I'll be covering election day and night, and the fallout afterwards, from Mar-a-Lago, Trump HQ.