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Watch this clip of Donald Trump suggesting yesterday that gun-rights enthusiasts might kill Hillary Clinton, and tell me, seriously, that you think he is being serious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czvVbdmP0bk Now watch Hillary Clinton in 2011 joking about the death of Gaddafi, and tell me -- honestly -- who is more sinister? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y 'We came, we saw, he died!' LOL! And tell us, Hillary -- what happened after that? Didn't Libya descend into chaos? Didn't the country become a jihadist hellpit, as well as a springboard for the refugee crisis? Yes, it did. How hilarious!

Donald Trump doesn't seem the forgiving type, so it's no surprise he hasn't let Barack Obama's comments yesterday stand. Obama said Trump was 'unfit' to be President - so what did the Republican candidate have to say in response? He answered in the only way he knows how, by flinging mud back at the person who called him out. Here's what he said: 'Well he's a terrible President, he'll probably go down as the worst President in the history of our country. He's been a total disaster, you look at what's happened to the Middle East, what's happened to Syria and his 'line in the sand'.' It's unlikely Obama will go down as America's worst President.

Those who follow Donald Trump on Twitter will be well accustomed to him prefixing every mention of Hillary with the word 'crooked'. But whilst Trump has frequently tried to discredit Clinton by painting her as a liar he has never gone so far as to call her the devil. Until now that it. During a speech last night he suggested that in backing Hillary, Bernie Sanders had made a Faustian pact. Trump said of Hillary: 'She's the devil. He's made a deal with the devil. It's true' It's tempting to say that Trump really has crossed the line this time around. But then the wild applause which greeted his remark at the Republican rally in Pennsylvania is the noisy rebuke that suggests otherwise.

This year’s US presidential election campaign has broken the mould, apparently. Never before have two ‘anti-establishment’ candidates in the shape of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders put up such a challenge, one securing his party’s nomination and the other coming close to doing so. It is all a symptom of the ‘anti-politics’ mood that has swept Western democracies. There is just one thing wrong with this analysis. If Americans are so fed up with the established parties, why is there no credible third party candidate who is going to come within an ace of challenging the two main candidates? It ought to be a golden opportunity for outsiders.

There are certain things about political conventions you only notice when you are watching on TV - like Bill Clinton seeming to fall asleep momentarily during his wife’s speech last night. And there are things you only notice when you go along to conventions and spend your afternoons out on the street, under the hot sun, waiting for something to happen. Any of the journalists working in Cleveland and Philadelphia in the past fortnight had a curious thing to relate: lots of things happened on the streets of Philly, and almost nothing happened in Ohio. Before we leave behind the conventions and head into three months of stage-managed swing state rallies, it's worth asking why that was.

Hillary Clinton can count herself lucky to have Barack Obama cheerleading her bid for the presidency. The outgoing President is ending his time in power with high approval ratings. People still approve of him after all these years; like Hillary's husband Bill, Barack's presidency is ending on a high. And last night, at the Democratic Convention in Phili, he gave an absolute belter of speech supporting her claim to the White House. It was the speech progressives have been aching to hear. Mr Obama addressed the American people directly, when he said: 'Time and again, you've picked me up. I hope, sometimes, I picked you up, too. Tonight, I ask you to do for Hillary Clinton what you did for me. I ask you to carry her the same way you carried me.

You have to admire Bernie Sanders’s chutzpah. For almost the entirety of his over 40-year career in politics, Sanders pointedly abstained from joining the Democratic Party. He is a 'democratic socialist', officially registered as an independent, and has never been elected to office as a Democrat, seeing that party as insufficiently collectivist. Sanders only affiliated himself with the Democrats last year, solely for the purpose of trying to capture the party’s presidential nomination. Now that he’s lost that battle, he will return to the Senate as an independent.

So after the glorious disunity of the Republican convention, now is the chance for the Democrats to pull together and show their rivals what unity is all about. If only. As with so much of politics at the moment, the script is there to be broken and that much was clear when Bernie Sanders was booed as he endorsed his one-time rival Hillary Clinton. To be fair to Sanders, he did try his best to throw his weight behind Hillary. 'Hillary, Hillary, Hillary,' was the chorus of his speech which was intended to draw a line under a fractious primary campaign - and unlike Ted Cruz he could at least bring himself to mention his rival's name.