Hello and welcome to the lead live from the Republican National Convention.

We are in the midst of a pivotal moment in American history that will determine the fate of our nation's future.

Stay right here, we're going to bring you the latest reporting and critical insights to

shed light on these tumultuous times here in Milwaukee in battleground Wisconsin.

Donald Trump is poised to take the stage tonight

addressing the nation for the first time since an assassination attempt on him

during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. We have been told that that brush with death inspired the

former president to throw out his original speech and craft a new one a new one

that might strike a different tone that's what we are being told at any rate. Trump

twice impeached, the man whose refusal to accept electoral defeat resulted in a

deadly attack on the US Capitol, is one of the most divisive and controversial figures in modern politics.

He has seen over his political career to revel in that and in the ire of his opponents,

but we're told that he plans to speak tonight about uniting the United States of America.

That would be a departure from the tone he's generally taken since he entered the political arena

by first pushing the false conspiracy theory that President Obama was born in Africa

or since he descended down that golden escalator in 2015 and entered the 2016 presidential

contest reshaping and remaking the Republican Party in so very many ways.

We are told that that horrific incident last Saturday changed him and I guess we'll see.

In the next hour we will bring you key new reporting on the security

failures in Butler and how we saw this US Secret Service on the convention floor demanding answers for the failures

that put the 45th president of the United States an inch away from death.

Meanwhile events no less momentous are playing out in Delaware

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