Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

This Won’t Be a Normal Election Day

Rarely has a presidential election concluded with so much dread and foreboding. Blame Donald Trump.

Gonna be a weird one.

Photographer: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

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I’ve written a lot of items about how much I love Election Day and the affirmation of democracy that it represents. But this time around I have to agree with Larry Sabato: “Never in my 60 years around politics have I encountered this many people so tense, so full of dread and foreboding about an election — and what comes afterward. Of course, we’ve never before had a president undermining confidence and predicting fraud & mayhem — if he doesn’t win.”