Donald Trump’s vice-presidential choice takes on added significance

Senator JD Vance, with Donald Trump, is a top contender to be selected as running mate (Jeff Dean/AP)

A defiant Donald Trump, having just survived an attempted assassination, enters the Republican National Convention having not yet announced his vice presidential choice, but he said he would do so on Monday.

It remains unclear whether the shooting on Saturday at his Pennsylvania rally has changed the former president’s thinking about his potential second-in-command.