Majority of Voters in swing states fear Violence if Trump loses election, poll finds

'Garbage' Biden clarifies insult

- Robert Tait

A majority of voters in US swing states fear Donald Trump's supporters will turn to violence and do not believe the Republican candidate will accept defeat if he loses the election, a poll suggests, highlighting rising tensions ahead of Tuesday's vote.

The survey conducted by George Mason University and the Washington Post found far fewer voters harbored similar fears about Kamala Harris, Trump's Democratic opponent.

The turbulent campaign for the White House has included two failed assassination attempts against the former president, who has raised the rhetorical temperature by casting his domestic opponents as "the enemy within" and threatened to seek retribution against them.

Harris has increasingly depicted the contest as being about democracy itself, while publicly agreeing with the portrayal by others, including Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly, of her opponent as a fascist.

More than 5,000 voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona - battleground states broadly deemed as crucial to winning the election - participated in the poll in the first two weeks of October as campaigning intensified.