Trump falsely claims the US just experienced its highest inflation period ever as he address PA town hall: live

The former first lady has been wrongly described as a helpless woman unable to shape her own destiny, writes Jon Sopel.

A vocal defence of abortion rights in her new memoir shows she can play an important role in the election – but will it be one that Donald wants?

The actor, who most recently took the title role in a budget biopic of Ronald Reagan, spoke up for Trump in Coachella, only to get roasted online by his former fiance, Lea Thompson of Back to the Future fame.

Meanwhile, Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston gave an impassioned speech on behalf of the VP in Phoenix, Arizona.

Greg Evans has this on Cranston.

Kenan Thompson played Steve Harvey hosting a Republicans vs Democrats edition of Family Feud on Saturday’s show, with the great James Austin Johnson and Maya Rudolph returning as Trump and Harris.

Here’s James Liddell on what happened to the Republican’s audience in the aftermath of the latest scare over his safety in California on Saturday.

As details emerge over a possible third assassination attempt against the former president, Stephen Marche, author of The Next Civil War, talks to secret service insiders about living in a country where political violence has crossed such a threshold it is unclear whether it can cross back and if they can stop it.

This was not much more reassuring from the candidate in the same interview.

Josh Marcus takes this one.

Also this weekend, Trump claimed a major threat to America comes from what he termed “the enemy from within”, whom he characterized as “sick people, radical left lunatics”, a term he often applies to Democratic opponents.

The Republican told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures that they – US citizens – “should be easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military”.

John Bowden has this on the vengeance-minded Republican’s latest public flirtation with authoritarianism.

In case you missed this one over the weekend, a medical report on the health of Vice President Kamala Harris was released with less than a month to go before the presidential election finding her to be in “excellent health” and possession of “the physical and mental resiliency” required to serve as president.

Dr Joshua Simmons, a US Army colonel and physician to the VP, wrote that Harris, 59, maintains a healthy, active lifestyle and that her most recent physical last April was “unremarkable.”

She “possesses the physical and mental resiliency required to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency, to include those as Chief Executive, Head of State and Commander in Chief,” he wrote in the two-page letter.

The Harris-Walz campaign hopes the release of the letter will draw a contrast with Trump, 78, who has released only limited information about his health over the years.

Oliver O’Connell reports.

As for the Republican, his remarks in Arizona yesterday included a pledge to hire a further 10,000 Customs and Border Protection agents and an astonishing piece of projection, even by his standards.

He also falsely claimed the western state’s towns are being “invaded and conquered” by migrants (desperate stuff) and took time to proclaim the wonders of Tivo.

A night earlier, in Coachella, he threatened to withhold federal aid from deep blue California and flubbed badly on inflation.

But perhaps his flat-out weirdest moment of the weekend was when he made the bizarre claim that Democrats want to ban cows.

Speaking in Greenville, North Carolina, yesterday, the Democrat invoked Mark Milley, the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, to attack her opponent, also noting his resistence to transparency, suggesting his handlers know he is “weak and unstable” and are trying to keep him from self-inflicted disasters.