DC journalist, Nana-Séntuo Bonsu, captured multiple stores in Washington, D.C. boarding up their windows and doors with wooden planks in anticipation of Election Day 2024.
Steve Cohen, a Democrat, says 'there may be blood' if Harris beats Trump. FollowAmericans are braced for civil unrest amid scary predictions of 'blood' during Tuesday's knife's-edge presidential election that appears to hinge on the results in just seven swing states, reviving painful memories of recent assassination bids and chaos after the 2020 vote.
Police and guardsmen are on standby for election chaos in Portland, Oregon, with its record of Antifa violence, and where Mayor Ted Wheeler warns of 'uncertainty and tension' during polling. Meanwhile, Harris has called Trump a 'threat' to democracy who must be defeated at the ballot box, while her boss the outgoing President Joe Biden has called the MAGA Republican's supporters 'garbage.'
The election prediction website 538 slightly favors Trump to win the White House, with a 52 percent chance against 48 percent for Harris — but for many commentators the race is more or less a dead heat. City authorities there have warned of a 'fluid, unpredictable security environment' in the days and possibly weeks after the polls close, as many do not expect a clear winner to be declared on Election Day.But he added that this was mostly a precaution in case of social unrest, saying: 'We're not expecting full-fledged pandemonium like we saw after January 6.'
Harris voters are more likely to believe that rioting will take place, while Republicans are split on whether the election will be run fairly. Donald Trump supporters face off with police inside the US Capitol during a protest meant to stop the transfer of power to Joe Biden, on January 6, 2021
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