The threat of violence looms over polling day. Donald Trump has already faced two assassination attempts over the course of this campaign. Three ballot boxes have been set alight in Washington and Oregon. The campaign was laced with threatening rhetoric. But the fear among many voters is that the worst is yet to come.
Shops and restaurants around Washington DC have been boarded up as businesses and local authorities expect protests in the days that follow what is likely to be a contested vote. Democrats and Republicans both suspect that the other side will trigger violent confrontations: one poll found 55 per cent of Trump voters in swing states thought Kamala Harris’s supporters would turn violent after the result, with the figure rising to 91 per cent when Harris voters were asked the same question of Trump supporters. “I didn’t know whether to come,” one woman worried about her safety told me at a Harris rally last week in Washington DC.
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