This year is America’s 60th Presidential election and the stakes are high.
Donald Trump is the lead contender for the Republicans and Joe Biden is the Democrat candidate on the other side. Their respective campaigns have not proved cordial in the past and this year has not indicated any change in tactic.
The shooting on 13 July in Pennsylvania stood as a last ditch attempt by some on the nefarious side of politics to disrupt the ordinary political process.
It’s ironic that its target was Donald Trump who at the time of writing is still under accusation of the same thing. His exhoneration from the classified documents case is beside the point.
He is seen as an enemy and not a friend of the state.
The road ahead is fraught with difficulty. A first Presidential televised debate aside, Trump faces an uphill struggle.
His battle is not against his own party. He faces an onslaught of rebuke and recriminations that stretch back years from not just the Democrats but also their allies in the media.
