ASHEVILLE, North Carolina — For weeks, concerns of a second Jan. 6 have percolated – and been encouraged – as election day gets nearer. 

Vice President Kamala Harris has leaned heavily into Jan. 6, not least with her speech at the Ellipse in Washington D.C. earlier this week, the same spot former president Donald Trump spoke to his supporters before they marched up to the Capitol and all hell broke loose. She and her allies have repeatedly suggested that should Trump lose the election again, or if there is any type of delay in counting the vote, he and his supporters could try to seize power. She has accused him of growing increasingly “unhinged” and warned that there is a team of Democratic lawyers ready to challenge him should he declare victory prematurely like he did in 2020.