On the 23rd of June, angry voters began pounding the glass doors of the Kentucky Exposition Center, Louisville.

Polls for the state primary had shut at 6 p.m. while people were still trying to enter the

building. The doors were opened again after one of the people were

open again after one of the Democrat Senate candidates filed an emergency

injunction to allow voting to continue.

Charles Booker, a Black Lives Matter supporter, had been warning there weren't enough polling sites to cope with a high turnout.

Most of Kentucky's African American voters live in Louisville.

The Expo Center was the only polling place. African American voters live in Louisville.

The Expo Center was the only polling place in a county of 600,000 eligible voters.

The day before the Kentucky primary, President Trump had been on his phone at dawn.

Riged 2020 election, he tweeted in capital letters.

It will be the scandal of our times.

With 59 days to go, this is checks and balance.

I'm John Prido, the Economist's US editor,

and this is a podcast about the 2020 elections.

Each week we take one big theme shaping American politics and explore it in depth.

Today, will the result be trusted?

For perhaps the first time in recent American history, a peaceful transfer of power is in question.

COVID-19 is complicating an election system marred by long-running parties and battles over who's allowed to vote.

The real wild card is the president himself

questioning the validity of the electoral process,

while factions from both sides face off in the streets of some American cities.

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