Faith, blind faith and Donald Trump

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.

Trump's death march likely to be ugly and destructive

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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.

The debate section that silenced a group of young Republicans

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.

Clinton, emboldened, begins campaigning for Texas, other Republican territories

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.

Suspicions Donald Trump is using campaign to pave way for new TV network

In recent years American elections have proved to be fertile grounds for new media organisations.

Why do women stick with Donald Trump?

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.

Trump's true believers ride the conspiracy train

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.

Donald Trump's new plan to win

Trump's overall strategy for victory was fairly standard until it was derailed by revelations of his sexually predatory behaviour.

Donald Trump speaks of a vast sinister conspiracy to keep him out of the White House

'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.