Donald Trump signalled yesterday he will revert to the more bare-knuckled campaigning that won him the Republican nomination after the party’s most senior elected official abandoned the billionaire’s campaign, in a sign that the final month of the presidential race could be the nastiest yet.
Mr Trump sent out a series of tweets lambasting Paul Ryan, the Republican Speaker, as “weak and ineffective”, and said he was now free to go after Democratic rival Hillary Clinton “unshackled” by party restraint.
“It is so nice the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to,” the Republican nominee declared in a flurry of tweets.