Washington DC will be besieged by rioters whether Donald Trump wins or loses election, fears security chief
WASHINGTON DC will be a no-go zone in the aftermath of the US election, a top security expert warned today.
On Never Mind The Ballots, former intelligence officer Don Bremer claimed the capital city could be engulfed by riots from both the right and left of American politics.
Gates and fences are already being propped up around DC amid fears this election could prove the most divisive, and possibly violent, in decades.
On January 6, 2021, right-wing insurrectionists stormed Capitol Hill in protest at Donald Trump losing to current President Joe Biden.
The agitators falsely claimed the election had been “stolen” from the Republicans and battled riot police for hours before finally being cleared out.
Ahead of November 5, Mr Bremer claimed that extremists on both the left and right could cause similar scenes depending on whether the result swings in their favour.
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The intelligence expert said: “In DC you’re already seeing gates and fences going up around the Capitol grounds.
“Many of those haven’t been taken down since Israeli PM Netanyahu was here, but those will be reinforced.
“A lot of lessons have been learned on what needs to be done so that we don’t have a repeat.
“But I know for many firms and many offices here in Washington, during election week we’ll be working from home.”
Advising against a visit to the Capitol area, Mr Bremer added: “It’s in the best interest to avoid those situations and not put yourself in harms way.”
It comes as Trump is now the punters favourite to win the US Election.
On the Betfair exchange, the Republican chief is on his shortest odds since the end of July.
Harris is now out to 6/4, her biggest odds since accepting the Democrat nomination.
On Never Mind The Ballots, Top Republican Strategist, Erol Morkoc, declared “we’ve got this in the bag”.
More than £145m has been wagered on the Betfair Exchange US Election markets, with over £10m staked in the last seven days.
The majority of cash, £6.6m, is coming in favour of Trump.
Trump is now favourite to win in a number of key swing states, including Pennsylvania, Arizona, North Carolina and Georgia.
And the betting has tightened in Wisconsin, where it’s now neck and neck, and Michigan, where Harris, who is still the favourite, has seen her odds drift.
But the latest ABC poll puts the Democrat candidate ahead of her rival, 49% to 46%.
Puzzling polls - election's still all to play for
Analysis by Political Commentator Adam Boulten
If you back to when Trump won in 2016, both the punters and the polls got it wrong.
If you go back to 2020 both for punters and the polls got it right.
This time around there’s divergence.
If you look at what the punters are saying, they are clearly favouring Donald Trump.
But the latest from the opinion poll market puts the averages for Kamala Harris on about 49% and Donald Trump on 46%.
And what’s interesting about that is Donald Trump seems to be stuck at 46% – he’s got about that in every single election.
Whereas we’re seeing now Kamala Harris getting more than Hillary Clinton from when she lost, but on the other hand less in the polls than what Joe Biden got what he won.
In those swing states, basically, if one side wins, then they win.
But what we got at the moment is a bit of a split in the polls.
In the last couple of hours Harris has been ahead in Michigan, she’s ahead in Pennsylvania, she’s ahead in Wisconsin, she’s ahead in Nevada.
But she is behind in Arizona and Georgia, which Biden won.
She’s also behind in North Carolina.
So that does suggest there is everything to play for.