Europeans including far-right voters want Harris to win, poll shows

Most Europeans want Kamala Harris to win the US election next week and expect there will be violence in the US if Donald Trump loses, according to a YouGov survey.

A survey of voters in the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Denmark found that Harris was preferred with a sizeable majority.

The only exception was Italy, where Harris still came out as preferred to Trump but short of a majority — with 46%.

Harris has the most support in the Nordic country of Denmark, where 81% want the Democrat to become US president.

Support for Harris is naturally high among centrist and left-leaning voters in Europe, reaching 90% among the Greens in Germany and Venstre in Denmark.

In some cases however, Harris is the preferred candidate for far-right voters.

Although the far right in Germany, Spain, the UK and Italy chose Trump, the supporters of the nationalist-populist Sweden Democrats party said they preferred Harris.

In France, voters for the far-right leader Marine Le Pen and her National Rally party said they wanted Harris to win over Trump by 46% to 31%.

Among the far right, Germany’s Alternative for Germany party and Spain’s Vox party were the most in favour of Trump winning, with 50% and 54% voting for him.

Although western and southern European voters may want Harris to win, they are generally less sure of her chances.

Most said Harris would defeat Trump in the election but with smaller majorities — ranging from 43% in Italy to 61% in Germany.

What happens if Trump loses?

Western Europeans expect violence in the US if Trump is defeated by Harris.

In Denmark, those fears are widespread, with 73% thinking there “definitely” or “probably” will be violence if Trump is not elected US president.

In other countries surveyed, 62-67% think the same, except in Italy — where only 47% believe violence is highly likely.

This still, however, outnumbers the amount of Italians (32%) who think violence is “unlikely”.

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Their fears are likely caused by the riots Trump called for at the US Capitol in Washington in 2021 when he claimed he had not lost the election to incumbent President Joe Biden.

Trump, who has also pushed theories of election fraud this election cycle, has since used social media to promote the idea that the Capitol rioters were patriots and political prisoners.