Trump heads to rallies in Arizona and Montana after campaign stop-off in Alaska – US politics live

Trump has taken to campaigning in conservative-leaning ​parts of competitive states, rather than in more politically diverse areas Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Donald Trump will attend campaign rallies in Arizona and Montana later today, having spent the past 24 hours in Alaska – a sign of his party’s recent polling woes. In Alaska, Donald Trump repeated his false claim that he had to start his war on Iran because, “they were two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon”.