Risk of political violence ‘very real’ ahead of US election

The risk of political violence in the United States is “very real” ahead of November’s presidential election, according to a US national security expert.

Professor Dakota Rudesill is an Associate Professor of Law, specialising in national security, at Ohio State University.

Currently in Ireland for the Kennedy Summer School in Co Wexford, Prof Rudesill spoke to BreakingNews.ie about the risk of political violence ahead of the November 5th US presidential election.

Prof Rudesill feels the risk of political violence in the US is as large as it was four years ago before the January 6th attacks, when supporters of former president Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol in a bid to stop the certificate of Joe Biden as president.

Prof Rudesill explained that “self-organised” political violence is the main risk, rather than “individual vigilantes”.

“I think we’re at a larger point with that probably at any time since the 1960s and the civil rights movement, when there was armed resistance to…

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