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Reporting from Florida

Arriving in West Palm Beach ahead of Tuesday’s vote brings a sense of – and pardon the cliché – the calm before the storm. A tropical storm is headed toward Cuba, just 90 miles (144 kilometers) off the Florida coast, and could cause some pretty inclement weather on voting day and Wednesday.

Still, millions of Trump’s staunch supporters in Florida will turn out, rain, wind or shine, to try to deliver him the state’s 30 crucial electoral college votes and, they hope, the White House in the process.

Since Donald Trump became a candidate in 2016, Latinos have played an important role in Florida’s steady advance from a swing state to a firmly conservative one. Especially in West Palm Beach, where former President Trump has his luxury residence and complex, Mar-a-Lago.

The area around Mar-a-Lago is already under tight security, especially after the arrest of a gunman in September who had hidden in the bushes around Trump’s International Golf Club while playing golf nearby.

That moment and the violence in Butler, Pennsylvania, have made this a tumultuous election, unlike any in living memory in the United States.

Now, the storm that is Donald Trump’s campaign will also rumble through the city on Monday before the former president casts his own vote Tuesday morning and a viewing party at the Palm Beach County Convention Center that evening.

There are only two days left after weeks and months of incessant campaigning. Trump supporters in West Palm Beach remain optimistic and confident, while Harris supporters are hoping to ruin his parade.