MILWAUKEE - For four nights at Donald Trump's nominating convention in Milwaukee, a roster of speakers attempted to give one of the most divisive politicians in recent US history a makeover, describing him as a loving and caring family man whose near-assassination at a rally on Saturday (July 13) had changed him.

Early in his speech on Thursday night, as he accepted his party's presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, it seemed Trump had bought into the carefully orchestrated effort to repackage him as a humbler, unifying figure, more palatable to swing voters who will be crucial to winning the Nov election.

Trump had told the Washington Examiner earlier in the week that he had torn up the original speech he planned to give in favour of one preaching national unity after his near brush with death.

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