A day after Trump blamed the ‘radical left’ for shooting, vowing a crackdown, president says Kirk advocated nonviolence and ‘that’s the way I’d like to see people respond’. Key US politics stories from Thursday 11 September

Donald Trump has urged his supporters to respond peacefully to the killing of rightwing activist Charlie Kirk as the gunman continued to evade a manhunt more than 24 hours after the fatal shooting.

A day after Trump gave an inflammatory address blaming the “radical left” for the killing and pledging a wide-ranging response, the president told reporters on Thursday that Kirk had been “an advocate of nonviolence” and “that’s the way I’d like to see people respond”.