SANTA BARBARA, California - US President Donald Trump’s Republican Party has taken a step closer to staging a highly unusual party convention to prop him up and sell his message to voters ahead of crucial midterm elections in November. At a meeting in Santa Barbara, California, the Republican National Committee (RNC) voted on Jan 23 to amend party bylaws to clear the way for a planned midterm convention, as polling shows support for the 79-year-old president waning . The midterm elections, historically unfavourable to the party in power, is the key political issue of 2026 for Mr Trump and Republicans,...