Trump’s Calls For Poll Watchers Raises Fears About Voter Intimidation

Voters wait in line to cast their ballot at an early voting location in Fairfax, Virginia on September 18, 2020. Growing tensions in the country have some election officials worried about potential violence at polling places.

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Concern is growing over potential confrontations at polling places due to deep partisan divides and baseless claims by President Trump that Democrats will “steal” the election.

In Tuesday night’s debate with Democrat Joe Biden, Trump repeated his attacks on widespread mail-in voting, calling it a “disaster” and saying “this is not going to end well.”

The president also urged his supporters, as he has done before, “to go into the polls and watch very carefully.”