The US president is just hours away from giving the prime-time speech at the Republican midterm convention, a desperate attempt at preventing an electoral drubbing.

The president’s latest bright idea: Throw a party for his flailing, failing presidency. Welcome to the clown show.

Republicans will descend on Dallas this week for a two-day convention dreamed up by President Donald Trump to rally his party in this year’s midterm elections

Donald Trump is taking the unusual step of holding a Republican national convention just weeks before the US midterms. The two-day Dallas event aims to energise voters and protect…