Trump supporters held up Clinton "target practice" posters at a rally in Florida Monday, with a bulls-eye framing her face.
Two days earlier in Virginia Beach, one Trump
backer hoisted a plastic Hillary Clinton head on a stick, while others
waved target signs. And several weeks ago, two armed Trump supporters
protested outside the congressional campaign office of a rural Virginia
Democrat, in what they said was a gesture of solidarity with closet
supporters of Trump.
Federal and state law enforcement officials say
such incidents have heightened their concerns about violence in the
final two weeks of the long and bitter Presidential campaign, and well
beyond that if Donald Trump loses and refuses to accept the vote as
legitimate.
"There is a motivated army of 'fingers in their
ears' supporters of his who believe he's giving them license to behave
badly, and license not to except the findings of the 9,000 bipartisan
polling jurisdictions around the country," one senior federal law
enforcement official told NBC News.
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