Amy Coney Barrett refused to be drawn yesterday on whether Donald Trump should commit in public to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election in three weeks time. She described that as “a political controversy right now [and] as a judge I want to stay out of it.”

That very question is the subject of our award-winning Today in Focus podcast today – what if Donald Trump refuses to concede?

A reminder that we’ve got a live online discussion of the US election coming up on Tuesday 20 October at 2pm ET featuring a panel of our leading journalists. If like me you’ll be watching in the UK, that’s at 7pm BST over here.

Senior political reporter Daniel Strauss, political correspondent Lauren Gambino and columnist Richard Wolffe will be chaired by our columnist and Politics Weekly Extra podcast presenter Jonathan Freedland.

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