These have been amazing days. Donald Trump, wounded in an assassination attempt, recovers and is the supreme hero of the Republican Party, on course to win a return to the presidency. President Joe Biden, against all his personal and political instincts, leaves the field when he finally accepts that he had no path to victory in November.

For Trump, the election is about ensuring that it will always be America First, at home and abroad, in a quest to make America great again. For the Democrats, this election is a replay of 2020: who is the most capable, strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump and save the Republic?

Four years ago, from a field of over a dozen contenders, Democrats landed on Joe Biden as being the most capable to rid the White House of Trump. Over these past three weeks, with Biden incapable of defeating Trump, there was, contrary to all expectations, the stunning realisation that Kamala Harris was best placed to complete the mission.

All the other potential contenders – especially California governor Gavin Newsom and Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer – concluded that it was more important to park their aspirations and unite the party to dispatch Trump once and for all. And they did. It was a shock that has electrified tens of millions across the country.

In the debate that ended his political career, Biden was unable to take down Trump on his extremism and unfitness for office. Harris was immediately on the case: “I was a courtroom prosecutor.........

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