Their chief concern about Trump was not policy. They objected most strongly to his behaviour, to his attitudes toward women, and to his disparagement of Muslims, Hispanics and African-Americans.

“I think Trump is disgusting and awful and everything about him makes me sick,” said Stefani Bohm, 43, a psychotherapist.

“Clinton, because Trump’s a lunatic,” said Miranda Sarwer, 44, who works in the pharmaceutical industry. “He’s a bigot, he’s a racist.”

Five Republicans or Republican-leaning independents said they were unwilling to vote for him or could not yet commit to doing so.

“I feel like this election is like — like they’re kidding us,” said nurse Wendy Stark, 53, who usually votes Republican and now leans to Trump only reluctantly. “It seems like every now and then he gets on the news and you’ll say, ‘Are you kidding? Did you just say that?’ Sometimes we’re thinking it, but he’s gotta control his mouth a little bit.”