WASHINGTON (AP) — American voters are moving closer to presidential election with deep unease about what might come next, including the potential for political violence, attempts to overturn election results and their broader implications for democracy, according to a new poll.

The results of the survey, conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, reflect lingering concerns about the fragility of the world’s oldest democracy, nearly four years after the fall of former President Donald Trump . refusal to accept the 2020 election results inspired a crowd of his supporters storm the US Capitol in a violent attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power.

About four in ten registered voters say they are “extremely” or “very” concerned about violent attempts to overturn the results after the November election. A similar share is concerned about legal efforts to achieve this. And about one in three voters say they are “extremely” or “very” concerned about attempts by local or state election officials to prevent results from being finalized.

Relatively few voters – about a third or less – are “not very” or “not at all” concerned about any of this.

Trump has continued to lie on fraud cost him re-election four years ago and predicts again that he can only lose this time if the elections are rigged against him, a strategy he has been deployed since his first application. His allies and Republican National Committeethat he remodeled, have filed a lawsuit across the country which represent potential prelude after the election legal challenges should he lose.

“I thought after January 6, 2021, the Republican Party would have the good sense to reject him as a candidate,” Aostara Kaye, of Downey, Calif., said of Trump. “And when they didn’t, I think it just encouraged him to think that he can do anything, and they’ll always stay with him.”

Trump’s large-scale attempts has reject the will voters and stay in power after his 2020 loss have raised fears he could concede again if he loses to Vice President Kamala Harris.

Nearly 9 in 10 voters said the loser of the presidential election would be forced to concede once each state finishes counting its votes and legal challenges are resolved, including about 8 in 10 Republicans. But only one About a third of voters expect Trump to accept the results and concede if he loses.

Democrats and Republicans have sharply divergent views on the issue: About two-thirds of Republican voters think Trump would concede, compared to only about 1 in 10 Democrats.

The same concern does not apply to Harris. Nearly eight in 10 voters said Harris would accept the results and concede if she lost the election, including a solid majority of Republican voters.

Members of both parties are widely concerned about the future of American democracy depending on the outcome of the November election.

Overall, about half of voters think Trump would weaken democracy in the United States “a lot” or “somewhat” if he won, while about four in ten thought the same of Harris.

It’s no surprise that Americans are deeply divided along ideological lines. About 8 in 10 Republicans said another Trump term would strengthen democracy “a lot” or “a little,” while a similar share of Democrats said the same about a Harris presidency.

About 9 in 10 voters in each party said the opposing party’s candidate would be likely to weaken democracy at least “somewhat” if elected.

Kaye, a retired health care worker, called Trump “an existential threat to the Constitution.” One prospect she says scares her is that if Trump wins, he likely won’t have the safeguards in his new administration that were in place under the previous one.

Republican voter Debra Apodaca, 60, of Tucson, Arizona, said it was Harris who posed the greatest threat to democracy. She said President Joe Biden’s administration has placed too high a priority on foreign aid and demonstrated a lack of concern for its own people.

“We send our tax money everywhere. He’s not staying here. Why don’t we take care of America? she said. “Why should we pay taxes if we’re just sending them back?” »

That lack of concern also includes the border, she said, adding that a Harris victory would mean “the end of the Border Patrol.”

Part of what divides voters over their view of American democracy is the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and the question of who is responsible. Democrats and independents are much more likely than Republican voters to attribute “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of responsibility to Trump.

Susan Ohde, an independent voter from Chicago and a financial industry retiree, said she fears “crazy people will buy into the misinformation they’re given,” leading to another such attack.