T. Rump bus trails Donald Trump baffling fans, revelling in absurdity of campaign
It is a genuine Trump campaign bus, or at least it was until it was bought by a pair of artists early on during the primary campaign.
Nick O'Malley is a senior writer and a former US correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
It is a genuine Trump campaign bus, or at least it was until it was bought by a pair of artists early on during the primary campaign.
When Dr Tony Beam sits down before the microphone at 7am to begin his breakfast radio shift in rural South Carolina, he wears a pin in his lapel for the North Greenville University, the Christian college at which he is vice-president for student services, and a semi-automatic pistol on his hip.
Something changed on Wednesday night in Nevada at around the time Donald Trump, in the midst of the third presidential debate, told moderator Chris Wallace that nobody had more respect for women than him.
During the last presidential debate of this long, weird election season at a bar with members of the Mecklenburg Young Republican Party in Charlotte, the largest city in the crucial state of North Carolina, one of the party faithful sidled up to mutter in my ear.
It has long been a dream of Democrats to take the vast state from Republicans, effectively putting the White House out of reach of the GOP.
In recent years American elections have proved to be fertile grounds for new media organisations.
Donald Trump's speech in Charlotte, the capital of North Carolina in heart of the bible belt on Friday night, was, if anything, more incoherent than the already substantially incohesive standard stump speech.
Even if you ignored the allegations of Donald Trump's predatory behaviour – and his boasting about such behaviour – the Republican candidate's campaign this week has veered into dark and uncharted waters.
Trump's overall strategy for victory was fairly standard until it was derailed by revelations of his sexually predatory behaviour.
'The election of Hillary Clinton would lead in my opinion to the almost total destruction of our country as we know it,' he said at one point.
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