Trump to tell CPAC he is Republican 'presumptive 2024 nominee', report says – live updates
President Biden, meanwhile, will address nation this evening on the American lives lost to the pandemicUS expected to reach 500,000 total death toll within next 24 hoursFauci warns masks may still be required into 2022 Sign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by email 11.29am GMT Donald Trump will reportedly tell the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida this week he is the man to drain the Washington swamp – as Republicans’ “presumptive 2024 nominee”.Trump will address CPAC on Sunday, his subject the future of the Republican party. Citing anonymous sources, the news site Axios has reported his plan to assume the mantle. 11.10am GMT Hours after Georgia elected its first-ever Black and Jewish senators, a mob of white Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol. They set up a gallows on the west side of the building and hunted for lawmakers through the halls of Congress.As he monitored the attack from his home in South Carolina, the local historian Wayne O’Bryant was not surprised. He recognized the 6 January attack as a return to the political playbook of white mob violence that has been actively used in this country for more than a century. Mobs of white Americans unwilling to accept multi-racial democracy have successfully overturned or stolen elections before: in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, in Colfax, Louisiana, in 1873 and New Orleans in 1874, and, in Hamburg, South Carolina, in 1876. Related: 'The past is so present': how white mobs once kill
