Republicans unite behind Trump as Democrats fracture over Biden's fitness

In Milwaukee, the Republican Party convened around Donald Trump with a unity rarely seen in modern American politics — a cohesion forged partly by an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania and partly by years of quiet consolidation that had remade the party entirely in one man's image. Where conventions once crackled with internal warfare over the soul of the GOP, this gathering reflected something more complete: a party that had resolved its identity struggle and arrived, transformed, at what it believed was the threshold of victory. The Democrats' visible disarray over President Biden's fitne