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David Smith

David Smith is the Guardian's Washington DC bureau chief. Click here for David's public key. Twitter @smithinamerica

23 July 2024

  • Donald Trump walks offstage after speaking at an indoor campaign rally at the Van Andel arena on Saturday.

    US politics live with Chris Stein
    Trump team makes complaint about Harris campaign funds – as it happened

  • U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at her Presidential Campaign headquarters in Wilmington, DE, U.S., July 22, 2024

    Full Story
    US election: the prosecutor v the convicted felon – Full Story podcast

21 July 2024

  • side-by-side photo of portrait of a man and back of a man as he walks behind a blue curtain

    Biden’s selfless decision to drop out sets stage for an entirely different election

    The president will be remembered for steering the US to recovery and giving his party a chance to beat Trump again

20 July 2024

  • A movie still of three young, good-looking people - one woman and two men, one Latino and two white - looking in concern out a door.

    ‘It affects everything’: why is Hollywood so scared to tackle the climate crisis?

  • a side-by-side image of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump

    Republicans coalesce as Democrats flail: week that upended US presidential race

19 July 2024

  • Illustration of Donald Trump with a red crown

    The US politics sketch
    ‘Fight! Fight! Fight!’: Trump emerges as an American messiah with swagger

  • US-REPUBLICAN-CONVENTION-PARTIES-ELECTION-POLITICS-VOTE-TRUMP<br>Former US President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accepts his party's nomination on the last day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 18, 2024. Days after he survived an assassination attempt Trump won formal nomination as the Republican presidential candidate and picked Ohio US Senator J.D. Vance for running mate. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

    US politics live with Chris Stein
    Former President threatens ‘largest deportation’ in US history – as it happened

18 July 2024

  • white man wearing blue suit and red tie holds fist up in air

    Trump expected to call for national unity in first speech since assassination attempt

  • President Joe Biden speaks during an economic summit in Las Vegas on 16 July.

    US politics live
    Biden reportedly ‘soul searching’ about re-election bid as doubts grow about his campaign – as it happened

  • JD Vance on stage for his first major speech as Republican vice-presidential candidate.

    US politics live with Chris Stein
    JD Vance tells Republican convention ‘people who govern this country have failed and failed again’ – as it happened

  • a man walks on stage

    Biden faces renewed pressure to step aside as Democrats’ rift widens

17 July 2024

  • Joe Biden boards Air Force One as he departs Las Vegas, Nevada, following a positive Covid test.

    US politics live with Chris Stein
    Joe Biden tests positive for Covid; Chuck Schumer says report he told president to quit race is ‘idle speculation’ – as it happened

    White House says president has mild symptoms after he was forced to cancel Las Vegas speech; spokesperson says Schumer made caucus views known directly to president
  • A middle-aged balding white man wearing a blue and white T-shirt under a blazer waves.

    Former Obama adviser says Biden has not quelled voters’ age concerns

    David Axelrod says ‘it’s a very hard case to make that anyone should be elected US president at the age of 82’
  • woman wearing grey looks up at man wearing blue suit

    Who is Usha Vance, the Indian American lawyer married to JD Vance?

    The lawyer who was once a registered Democrat has been welcomed by Republicans as a sign of generational change

16 July 2024

  • Joe Biden speaks at the 115th NAACP Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, his first public speech since the shooting at Trump’s campaign rally.

    US politics live with Chris Stein
    Biden says ‘time to outlaw’ AR-15 rifle used in Trump assassination attempt – as it happened

    Biden criticizes Trump’s ‘Black job’ comment and rebuts criticism of his age as campaign shifts back into gear

15 July 2024

  • Trump at RNC

    US politics live with Chris Stein
    Trump joins crowd at Republican convention hall with bandaged ear, in first public appearance since assassination attempt – as it happened

    Ex-president emerges to cheers and chants of ‘USA! USA! USA!’ as he appears amid supporters
  • US Republican candidate Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by secret service agents as he is taken off the stage at a campaign event at Butler Farm Show Inc. in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024.

    Today in Focus
    Has the attempt to kill Trump handed him the election? – podcast

    As Republicans meet at their national convention this week, has the shooting of the former president altered the course of US politics? David Smith reports

    • ‘Braveheart of our time’: Trump inspires more awe than ever at Republican conference

    • In JD Vance, Trump has picked a mini-me offering red meat to his Maga base

    • Who will be Trump’s vice-president? A shortlist

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