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As US heads into election day, tensions and hostility play out in streets

Law enforcement authorities are increasingly worried; FBI probe underway

Trump supporters, US protests, US Elections
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Supporters of US President Trump blocked traffic on the Mario M Cuomo Bridge in Tarrytown on Sunday. Photo: New York Times | Getty Images

Rick Rojas, Jennifer Steinhauer & Emma G Fitzsimmons | NYT
Vehicles with Trump flags halted traffic on Sunday on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey and jammed the Mario M Cuomo Bridge between Tarrytown and Nyack, N Y. Another pro-Trump convoy in Virginia ended in a tense shouting match with protesters as it approached a statue of Robert E Lee in Richmond.
 
In Georgia, a rally for Democrats was cancelled shortly before it was scheduled to begin on Sunday, with organisers worried about what they feared would be a “large militia presence” drawn by Trump’s own event nearby. As the nation races toward Election Day, the tensions and acrimony

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