With Joe Biden out of the race, the presidential candidates are Vice President Kamala Harris (Democratic) and former President Donald Trump (Republican). There is little time before the election. But neither Harris nor Trump have a decisive edge. And a nervous calm has settled over Washington. The calm comes not from knowing who shall win, but rather from the realisation that there is little anyone can do about it. There are two reasons why this calm has settled in.
Letter from pre-election Washington: nervous stability and eerie calm
Jeremy Shapiro, director of research at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), explains whether it is possible to predict the results of the US elections and why the situation now looks especially difficult
