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Top experts have issued their final predictions with the US election just a day away, as fencing around the White House reflected tensions at a fever pitch.
Heavy-duty metal fencing standing 10 feet tall appeared along the perimeter of the official presidential home on Monday afternoon, USA Today reported. Fencing was also erected around the Naval Observatory, where Vice President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris resides.
‘There will be no tolerance for violence in our city,’ Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith told reporters at a press conference.
‘We will not tolerate the destruction of property, and we will not tolerate threats to public safety as well as this election process.’
The preparations by the Secret Service brought eerie flashbacks to nearly four years ago on January 6, 2021, when then-President Donald Trump’s supporters breached the US Capitol in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying the election for President Joe Biden.
With Harris and Trump neck-and-neck and polls and experts considering the election a toss-up, tensions are the highest that many remember.
‘I feel very sad that this the state of things, to be honest with you,’ Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said at the press conference on Monday.
‘But the way that I deal with anxiety is to work and to make sure that we are as prepared as we can be.’
Here are the latest predictions from three of the top experts tracking the election:
Polling guru
Top analyst and FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver’s Silver Bulletin presidential election forecast on Monday morning had Trump’s win probability at 50.4% versus Harris at 49.2%.
On Sunday morning, Silver had called the election ‘a pure toss-up’.
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