Opinion
More shots heard around the world
The dignity of the office and its occupant is at stake, not just an election and the fate of the Republic.
James CurranInternational editorThe American presidential campaign has been given a moment of the most brutal, awful clarity. That simmering groundswell of rage and anger which has fuelled so much of the grievance in US politics over recent decades has just been given another time and place.
For Donald Trump, the podium in Pennsylvania could have been his funeral pyre in what looks to have been a genuine attempt on his life.
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