Sean Whelan

It always seemed that the greatest risk to human life at the Trump rally at the Butler Farm Show grounds yesterday would come from a roof giving way under the weight of Secret Service agents stationed on them.

In the United States, President Biden has postponed a diplomatic event to mark the centenary of diplomatic relations between Ireland and the United States.

"When did that become OK?" asked Barack Obama. "Why would we go along with that?" he enquired of the audience at a campaign rally in Pittsburgh.

Clare is Trump country. So too are Wexford, Antrim and Roscommon. These rural counties of Michigan voted by two-to-one for Donald Trump over Biden in the 2020 Presidential election.

Joe Biden won Wisconsin by just 22,000 votes in 2020. That's why the Republican Party staged its convention there in July, hoping the attention that

Parts of North Carolina were badly hit by Hurricane Helene, but people there are still determined to cast their votes in what has become the seventh swing state in the presidential election.

Bill Clinton won Georgia for the Democrats in 1992. The next time a Democrat won this state was four years ago, when Joe Biden beat Donald

Nevada is effectively a city state - and that city is Las Vegas. Of the 3.1 million souls that live in this desert land, 2.9 million live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

In Kingman, Arizona, where Route 66 carves its way across the desert of Mohave County, Jack Alexander sells biker gear in his shop Thunder Road.

The US Presidential election is now into the endgame. It will all be over for the campaigns in a matter of days: the votes will have been cast, and the results will follow - though if it is as close as the polls suggest, the definitive results may be some time away.