Jon Sopel: Lies, PPE and fireworks over a new Trump book ' I'm covering the Republican convention

Go out with friends for dinner on Saturday to our favourite little French restaurant in Georgetown, Chez Billy Sud. It's the first time I've been back there since lockdown, and all the seating is outdoors on their lovely pale-yellow painted terrace, complete with enamel French street signs. When the bill comes I am told that for ease of transactions and to minimise amount of handing things backwards and forwards, the extras have been included ' 18 per cent service (steep, but normal for America), and seven per cent PPE. I now wish I had drunk the hand sanitiser as a digestif. I mean, 'vraiment! How do I say 'you're havin' a laugh' in French'Pennsylvania is a key swing state, and polls suggest Joe Biden is well ahead. But our search for Trump defectors along the Lehigh River is not going well. My impression is that those who loved him in 2016 still do. However, we meet the former mayor of Bangor, Duane Miller, who voted for Trump last time and now says he's a spoilt brat. When I remind him of his earlier support, he laughs and says: 'Don't tell anyone that.' That's the problem, the polls underestimated Trump's support four years ago. A lot of people aren't telling this time either.
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